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Why do you blog? There are a lot of reasons to blog, with marketing being one of the most common. Many of us have a product to sell, whether our personal brand or a physical item of some kind. Whatever the reason for blogging, the goal is usually the same: we want our blog to bring us new business and more attention. But that isn’t the only reason to blog. I am a huge fan of blogging as a marketing tool, but blogging can be just as much for the blogger as it is for the blog reader. I would go so far as […]

Diversification – it’s so important, especially if you’re building a new-ish WordPress business as the first product that you build may not necessarily “hit it out of the park” the very first time. Or, as Gene Hammett shares, there are other opportunities that exist for you to make some addition income with WordPress – just consider adding some more revenue streams with some of his suggestions.

Mike Little, one of the lesser-known founders of WordPress, is getting more and more attention that he rightly deserves with an even public honoring in an upcoming event. And for the WP10 event he joined a few other WordPressers in Manchester, UK with Simon Dickson. Check out this neat interview:

Wait a second, really? Is customizing the WordPress admin going to become the next big marketplace for premium plugins and such? I know that a lot of people are hot and heavy about the admin UI, especially with stuff like the MP6 plugin but the general feel that the WordPress dashboard look and feel symptomatic of a burgeoning marketplace for admin plugins? Now sure, I know there have been a few that have been around for a while but I’ve seen more traffic into our inboxes as of late with new plugins, new looks, new concept work than ever before. In fact, […]

Show Notes Host Patrick O’Keefe can be found online at managingcommunities.com and on Twitter at @iFroggy. How the Patrick got started in WordPress Patrick started developing websites in 1998. He started working for other people. He found that he didn’t like creating things and then them ending. In 2000, he started and registered my first domain name and developing my own sites. What they are sipping? Dre- Corona Brad – Water Patrick – Coca-Cola vanilla Pressing topics  Ghost, the new blogging platform that will attempt to rival other blogging platforms, including WordPress in many ways, has more than reached its […]