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Chris Lema

Dear Client: Seriously, Show Me the Money

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February 17, 2013

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This is a co-written piece by Chris Lema and Shane Pearlman. Shane is a partner at Modern Tribe Inc. and leads indie teams in UX/UI, web, mobile & product design. In his spare time, Chris coaches startups on new product development. It took Boeing 8 months to pay up the first time I worked with them. eBay took nearly 6 months once and SAP wasn’t far behind that. When you are hustling and trying to make sure that your family is cared for, being a freelancer can be glorious, and it can be a hairball of stress. Since 2001, Chris has been stiffed once […]

WordPress Membership Plugin Decision Tree

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February 6, 2013

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Having trouble deciding which membership plugin you need for your next (or existing) WordPress-powered site? Sick of simply “googling” for some results and getting a bunch of crappy hop-links to plugins that might totally kill your site (or open it to nasty hackers)? Perhaps you need to refer to Chris Lema’s recent decision-tree infographic for membership plugins! Take a look after the jump:

The WordPress Weekend Roundup

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February 2, 2013

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Wow. Another crazy week in the land of WordPress and we’ve been at the very center of some big conversations. It’s been a fantastic experience to see the community pull out all the stops to support each other around licensing and the GPL. With Collis Ta’eed’s response in regards to Envato’s stance as well as a much more clear look at the differences between Automattic and the WordPress Foundation things are starting to settle and we’re starting to get back to business as usual. Actually, let’s be honest – it’s always been business as usual and most of us haven’t lost […]

Pressnomics Track at Every WordCamp?

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January 24, 2013

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The business of WordPress is growing. If you’ve been around these open waters for any amount of time you know very well that creating a sustainable and profitable business is a very real possibility with WordPress – anything from WordPress consulting through design and development to optimization of existing sites and professional services, to copywriting, copyediting, content creation, plugin/theme shops, and more. As a result more and more of us are concerned and interested in learning how to make WordPress as business work, learning the strategies of running a successful company without all the pain and trial of our own idiotic […]

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