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How to Use Social Proof to Boost WordPress Plugin and Theme Sales
Brandon Ernst by Brandon Ernst

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…

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The Marketing Handbook for WordPress Plugin and Theme Developers
Matteo Duò by Matteo Duò

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…

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What to Do with A Dying WordPress Plugin or Theme? Ways to Revive or Repurpose It
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

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…

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WordPress Products, Audited: The ‘GS Team Members’ Case-study
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

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…

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Refund Policy Best Practices In The Prism Of Commercial WordPress Plugins And Themes
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

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….

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How Brexit Affect WordPress Plugin and Theme Sellers
Brandon Ernst by Brandon Ernst

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…

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Plugin & Theme Developers: This Is What You Can Learn From Our SDK’s Security Vulnerability
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

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…

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Selling WordPress Plugins and Themes From Your Website – All Best Practices In 1 Place
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

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…

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David Braun and TemplateMonster – From a Web Design Studio to One of The Top WordPress Theme Marketplaces
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

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…

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Creative, Modern Ways To Reach New Relevant Audiences For Your WordPress Product
Stefana Zarić by Stefana Zarić

Creative, Modern Ways To Reach New Relevant Audiences For Your WordPress Product

“Building a WordPress plugin or theme is just the beginning. Without an engaged and relevant audience, it’s tough to justify the time and resources spent on development and maintenance. In…

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Should You Incentivize User Feedback For Your WordPress Plugin/Theme?
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

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…

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Divi Kingdom Started Selling Through Freemius And Immediately Saw A Staggering 57% Increase In Revenue
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

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…

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From Speed Dating To Relationships – My WordCamp US 2018 Recap
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

From Speed Dating To Relationships – My WordCamp US 2018 Recap

There’s a lot that’s been going on lately in the WordPress sphere, but with WordPress, that would be true no matter when we say it. Nonetheless, I think that many…

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WordPress Products, Audited: The Case-study Of ‘Elementor Addons’ by LiveMesh
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

WordPress Products, Audited: The Case-study Of ‘Elementor Addons’ by LiveMesh

Welcome to the first edition of our “WordPress Products, Audited” series. We’re thrilled (yes, thrilled!) to launch this series which will enable us to help WordPress theme and plugin developers…

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Customer Portal, Premium readme.txt, Custom Premium Slug, Free Trials
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

Customer Portal, Premium readme.txt, Custom Premium Slug, Free Trials

Release Notes is our periodic update that highlights 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 April 2018…

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