So you’ve worked hard at building up your WordPress business. You’ve reached a steady stream of website traffic and new customers, and you have plans in motion for future products and overall business growth. However, you still haven’t taken the full plunge; you’re still hanging on to a part-time job doing something that you never truly enjoyed. WordPress is what you love, and now, you’re wondering if it is time to go full-time with your business. But unfortunately, you don’t know how or where to start. You don’t know if you’ll be able to support yourself, and your family, solely […]

Mobile traffic is taking the Internet marketing world by storm. According to Mobify, in 2013 more than 1.2 billion people accessed the internet from mobile devices, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that 15+% of all traffic can be accounted for by mobiles. Clearly, it’s time to jump on the mobile optimization bandwagon (if you haven’t already). Otherwise, with an unoptimized website and marketing strategy, you could be losing up to 15% of your potential leads! To help you get started with mobile optimization, here’s a list of 4 important elements of your business that are in desperate need of […]

To sell independently or to join a plugin marketplace? Ah, but that is the question. It’s a question that’s stumped many talented WordPress developers over the years, and for good reason: there is no right or wrong answer. Some WordPress developers would do well to sell all the premium plugins they code independently; for others, striking out on their own without the aid of a pre-established marketplace can be a career-killing mistake. There are pros and cons to both sides of the issue. In this post, I’d like to take a look at reasons why a WordPress developer should sell […]

The number of pageviews a website obtains is becoming increasingly more important to webmasters and marketers. Generally, the more pageviews your website gets, the higher the worth of your traffic, and the higher return on investment (ROI) you get on paid sources of traffic. Consequently, many different tools and WordPress plugins have stepped up to help satisfy this need for more pageviews. But no pageview-boosting plugin type is more popular than related content plugins. Related content plugins display links to related posts at the end of each post (or, in some cases, throughout the post). It encourages further browsing by users who came to your site […]