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How To Accelerate Your Conversion Process On Your WordPress Site

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March 9, 2018

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You may have an amazing product to sell or a great service to offer but if your website cannot convince web users to stay then it is bound to fail. SEO can bring in traffic but it cannot convert users into potential customers. This article will provide you essential tips to accelerate your conversion process. We will consider WordPress here as this is the most widely used platform for website development and support. It is popular among millions of existing business owners and beginners alike, thanks to its user-friendly guidelines and simple design along with tons of available themes to […]

Should You Ever Work For Free As A WordPress Developer?

Brenda Barron

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October 21, 2016

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When you’re a newly minted WordPress developer, you are met with many challenges, but perhaps most taxing is, where to look for new clients. It can be a challenge of epic and perplexing proportions. So it probably shouldn’t surprise anyone that so many new developers feel compelled to work for free. It happens to a lot of developers in the beginning of their careers, judging from the results for the exact phrase search “should you work for free”: The solution to the “work for free” quandary really boils down to how you answer three simple questions: How do so many […]

Top 5 Finance Apps For WordPress Developers

Brenda Barron

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August 5, 2016

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At some point, your business might outgrow PayPal. You may even be there already. While PayPal is perfectly adequate for part-time WordPress developers, or those who are just starting out. But if you’re serious about your business, it pays to investigate more full-featured solutions that will help you whip your business finances into shape. Solid billing/invoicing systems help improve your business’s cash flow, put more money in your wallet, and achieve your financial goals. We have five finance apps that are perfect for your business. As Erika Napoletano says, “Smart small businesses know that they need a billing, invoicing, and […]

Top 11 Things You Need To Start A Career As A WordPress Professional

Brenda Barron

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May 25, 2016

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If you’re planning to build your future career as a developer on the WordPress platform, you’re making a smart choice. WordPress powers almost 26% of the entire web, and enjoys a 50-60% market share among all CMS platforms. And those numbers aren’t likely to go south any time soon, so it’s safe to say WordPress is only going to increase in popularity from here on out. That’s a lot of potential clients and gigs for developers with the right combination of skills, traits, and tools. And that’s exactly what this article is about: the eleven tools, essential skills, and specific […]

What I’ve Learned From Writing WordPress Proposals For Over 8 Years

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January 21, 2016

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Over the last eight years, I have written hundreds of proposals for WordPress website projects. In the early days, most of them were terrible. Then I started paying attention to what I was putting out and the feedback I was receiving. I started making small incremental changes to my proposals until I found a formula that worked for me. In this article, I’m going to share everything I’ve learned from writing proposals over the last eight years to help you write better proposals for your prospects and win more projects. Disclaimer: my clients are predominantly small to medium-sized businesses. If […]

How Many Companies Has Automattic Acquired? It’s More Than You Think [Infographic]

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December 29, 2015

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Automattic, the parent company behind WordPress and other WordPress products like Akismet, Jetpack, and VaultPress, has grown tremendously since it was founded in 2005. Their success can perhaps be attributed to the balance between its commercial venture and open-source spirit. See all of the Automattic’s acquisitions since 2005 in the infographic below. (Click to enlarge.) Matt Mullenweg, CEO and Founder of Automattic has hinted over the years about extending the company’s reach into global commerce. He showed just how serious he was about this plan earlier this year with the acquisition of WooCommerce, which powers roughly 30% of all online stores. […]

5 Reasons To Start A Plugin Business

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December 8, 2015

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WordPress plugin businesses are incredible. I’ve seen developers code a plugin over a week, launch on the WordPress Plugin Directory for free, create a premium version, and a few months later, have a thriving business making a sizable income. These “mini tech startups” amaze me. So I decided to analyze them a bit and see just why they are the perfect business to launch…and then tell you why it may not be that easy. 1. They Are Lean Startups Eric Ries coined the term “Lean Startup”, borrowed from principles of lean manufacturing. In short, it is a set of principles […]

Nothing Is Foolproof… Even WordPress

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December 3, 2015

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Being a WordPress plugin developer is kind of insane when you think about it. You write code that can be freely modified by anyone and is expected to work with any infinite different collections that make up a unique WordPress site. This is a huge part of why I love what I do, but still, I have to admit, it’s kind of crazy. Developing a plugin or theme that has to be compatible with a range of different WordPress versions, PHP versions, MySQL versions, web servers, and more is a huge undertaking. That doesn’t even include the infinite number of […]

How To Reduce The Abandon Rate Of Your WordPress Plugin

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December 2, 2015

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There are various performance indicators used to determine the success of a WordPress plugin. Most plugin developers tend to focus on distribution — i.e., how to get more installs — but forget to tackle the churn rate. And you know what, no one can blame us! How could we, plugin developers, focus on churn? Until March 2015, the only number WordPress.org exposed was the total number of downloads. A new counter was then added to estimate the number of active installs. How can plugin developers gather any valuable insight from these two numbers alone? It’s quite simple, they can’t. The […]

Read This Before Starting Your WordPress Business Empire

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November 20, 2015

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Looking to start a WordPress business? Not a freelancing business. One that offers a product or service (or even productized services). And that you plan to scale. If that is you, then keep reading. I want to teach you the lessons I’ve learned since starting my business a year ago (you can learn about my business by reading my author bio at the end of the article). Obviously, these lessons apply to the early stages of your company. As you grow, things will change. And parts of these lessons will no longer apply to you. So, let me teach you […]

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