WCEU 2019: My First WordCamp Experience with the Freemius Team
While the Freemius CEO Vova Feldman has been networking with cool people at WordCamps for years, there were a lot of “firsts” for me at WCEU 2019. Not only was…
Multi-Currency, Beta Program, Selling Bundles, and more!
Release Notes include our periodic updates that highlight the recent product improvements we’ve made, so you can easily stay up-to-date on what’s new. Here’s what we launched between December 2018…
Support as a Service: Is it Right for Your Plugin or Theme Business?
The goal for all WordPress plugin and theme businesses should be to provide 5-star customer support. From a marketing perspective, this is one of the best ways to build long-term…
How to Use Social Proof to Boost WordPress Plugin and Theme Sales
Social proof leverages positive feedback to boost your sales. Just think about it—when you’re making any (big) purchases, you’re likely to go online and read reviews before making a final…
The Marketing Handbook for WordPress Plugin and Theme Developers
As you might already know, product people—especially developers—usually don’t enjoy doing marketing. Developing plugins, themes, or other types of digital products gets their creative juices flowing, but when it comes…
What to Do with A Dying WordPress Plugin or Theme? Ways to Revive or Repurpose It
For a variety of possible reasons, if you’re a WordPress plugin or theme owner, you may find yourself in a situation where your product is slowly dying out (or can…
WordPress Products, Audited: The ‘GS Team Members’ Case-study
This is the second part of our “WordPress Products, Audited” series, where we try to help WordPress plugin and theme developers optimize their products for more sales & conversions in…
Refund Policy Best Practices In The Prism Of Commercial WordPress Plugins And Themes
Unlike with hardware or consumer products, people who purchase your WordPress software product don’t actually have to go back to your store and physically return it to get a refund….
How Brexit Affect WordPress Plugin and Theme Sellers
The UK’s imminent departure from the EU (European Union) has left businesses across Europe struggling to understand how this change will affect them. For WordPress theme and plugin businesses, it…
Plugin & Theme Developers: This Is What You Can Learn From Our SDK’s Security Vulnerability
This week was pretty intense for our team as we had to deal with a security vulnerability. Security is top priority for us and this is the first major vulnerability…
Selling WordPress Plugins and Themes From Your Website – All Best Practices In 1 Place
Gone are the days in which you could wrap a few PHP functions into a WordPress plugin or even quickly convert a PSD file into a generic WordPress theme and…
David Braun and TemplateMonster – From a Web Design Studio to One of The Top WordPress Theme Marketplaces
Today I’m interviewing David Braun, the CEO & co-founder at TemplateMonster: one of the leading marketplaces in the WordPress products ecosystem. If you have ever considered starting a marketplace for…
Creative, Modern Ways To Reach New Relevant Audiences For Your WordPress Plugin/Theme
Any WordPress plugin or theme without engaged and relevant audiences of users will have a very hard time justifying the resources that are being put into developing & maintaining it….
Should You Incentivize User Feedback For Your WordPress Plugin/Theme?
All WordPress plugin/theme sellers who sell their WordPress products through Freemius are added to a Freemius DEV Slack channel, where discussions about WordPress business best practices, as well as consultation…
Divi Kingdom Started Selling Through Freemius And Immediately Saw A Staggering 57% Increase In Revenue
Today we bring you a very pleasing success story: Abdelfatah Aboelghit created the great WooCommerce Builder for Divi plugin, and had recently migrated it away from WooCommerce and started selling…