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James Kemp Doubled ‘IconicWP’ Revenues In Less Than A Year By Leveraging Various Freemius Features
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

James Kemp Doubled ‘IconicWP’ Revenues In Less Than A Year By Leveraging Various Freemius Features

A very exciting interview is in store, as this time we get caught up with James Kemp, the founder and owner of IconicWP, a thriving premium WooCommerce plugins store.

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How Barn2media More Than Tripled Their WordPress Plugins Sales Without Spending More Time On Support
Alex Castro by Alex Castro

How Barn2media More Than Tripled Their WordPress Plugins Sales Without Spending More Time On Support

Katie Keith and her husband Andy co-founded Barn2Media in late 2009. Initially dedicated to designing WordPress websites for clients, they envisioned building their business around selling products since early on….

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Niche vs. Mass Market: Choosing the Right Audience for Your WordPress Plugins & Themes
Goran Mirkovic by Goran Mirkovic

Niche vs. Mass Market: Choosing the Right Audience for Your WordPress Plugins & Themes

The WordPress market is overflowing with fantastic products. Competition is fierce in every niche imaginable, so — naturally — trying to enter with a new solution and winning over customers…

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How We Use Email Marketing Automation to Fill The Gaps for New Subscribers And Bump Up The Blog’s Conversion Rate
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

How We Use Email Marketing Automation to Fill The Gaps for New Subscribers And Bump Up The Blog’s Conversion Rate

We’ve recently decided to take advantage of MailChimp’s (free) email marketing automation feature in order to fill a gap we’ve been unable to manually bridge for our new blog subscribers….

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Selling WordPress Product Bundles & Memberships, An Affiliate Platform, Proration, Multisite Network Integration
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

Selling WordPress Product Bundles & Memberships, An Affiliate Platform, Proration, Multisite Network Integration

Release Notes is our monthly 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 August 2017…

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MooMoo Agency’s Simple Moves Build Strong Ties with WP Plugin Buyers
Alex Castro by Alex Castro

MooMoo Agency’s Simple Moves Build Strong Ties with WP Plugin Buyers

Vitalii Kiiko is a passionate and experienced WordPress plugin and theme developer, who recently provided us some great feedback and kindly agreed to share his story. He is a co-founder…

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Should You Sell A Premium WordPress Theme Or A Free WordPress Theme With Paid Add-ons?
Nicolas Lecocq by Nicolas Lecocq

Should You Sell A Premium WordPress Theme Or A Free WordPress Theme With Paid Add-ons?

In this post, I am going to share the benefits and drawbacks I considered, and the lessons I have learned in my journey of selling a free theme with paid…

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“Our Biggest Challenges in Running A WordPress Plugin & Theme Business in 2018” by MotoPress
Alexander Mat by Alexander Mat

“Our Biggest Challenges in Running A WordPress Plugin & Theme Business in 2018” by MotoPress

In this guest post by Alexander Mat, co-founder at MotoPress, he shares and discusses his company’s biggest challenges in today’s saturated and Guten-stirred WordPress business sphere. MotoPress has been financially…

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“WordPress Security Solutions Are Still Inaccessible” – Interviewing French “Mister Security”, Julio Potier
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

“WordPress Security Solutions Are Still Inaccessible” – Interviewing French “Mister Security”, Julio Potier

Julio Potier is a prominent figure in the WordPress security scene. Based in France, he developed SecuPress, a plugin that makes securing WordPress websites easy. He also co-founded WP Media,…

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How GIFs Increase Your Plugin’s Conversion Rate in The WordPress.org Repository
Alex Castro by Alex Castro

How GIFs Increase Your Plugin’s Conversion Rate in The WordPress.org Repository

Plugin marketing pages are the most valuable resource for getting your plugin into the hands of your users. Regardless of which type of business model you follow, the quality of…

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How Black Friday & Cyber Monday Generated Huge Revenue Spikes
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

How Black Friday & Cyber Monday Generated Huge Revenue Spikes

This year (2017), Black Friday was huge for online shopping, and Cyber Monday managed to be even bigger, making Thanksgiving Weekend feel like the calm before the storm. Not surprisingly,…

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Themekraft’s Plugins Saved From EU VAT Mess With Freemius Migration
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

Themekraft’s Plugins Saved From EU VAT Mess With Freemius Migration

This success story will focus on Sven Lehnert’s amazing entrepreneurial journey. Sven is a developer and a businessman from Germany who most famously created BuddyForms. He’s also the CEO at…

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Best Practices for Starting A Profitable WordPress Theme Business in 2018
Michael Hebenstreit by Michael Hebenstreit

Best Practices for Starting A Profitable WordPress Theme Business in 2018

My name is Michael Hebenstreit and I’m the founder & CEO of Array Internet, a media company located in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). With our brand, MH Themes, we’ve been…

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What Gutenberg Means for The Future Of Commercial WordPress Products
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

What Gutenberg Means for The Future Of Commercial WordPress Products

I just returned from two weeks of intense traveling, which started with WordCamp Riga, where I gave the opening keynote – A Crash Course On Building A Sustainable Plugin/Theme Business…

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You Shouldn’t Put All Your Eggs In The WordPress Basket – Interviewing CreativeMinds CEO, David Rashty
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

You Shouldn’t Put All Your Eggs In The WordPress Basket – Interviewing CreativeMinds CEO, David Rashty

Today we’ll get to pick David Rashty’s brain about WordPress-based product businesses and entrepreneurship. David owns several WordPress-based products, as well as various Magento-based ones. Additionally, he’s a seed investor, actively…

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