📣 Freemius Launches plugin.fm Season 2 With Rand Fishkin as First Guest 🚀
It’s official — we’ve launched plugin.fm Season 2 and we’re thrilled to share what’s in store 🥳 Season 2 builds on the lessons learned from the previous season and swings…
From College Side Gig to WordPress Entrepreneurship: Ben Sibley’s Success Story With Independent Analytics
Ben Sibley has always had an entrepreneurial spirit, as illustrated by the fact that he’s only had one ‘normal’ job — cashiering at a grocery store during high school. While…
How to Automate Product Review Generation for Software Products
Ever wondered why your competitors have a plethora of reviews or why they seem to be better at generating them? It’s not because their customers love them more or are…
Why Offering Multi-Currency Support & Pricing is Essential for Software Creators
The world is at your fingertips and multi-currency support could be the key to unlocking the global market and introducing your software products to brand-new audiences. But — there’s always…
Sailing the Waves: How Alan Fuller Left Corporate Finance & Found Fulfillment & Success In Plugin Development
The age-old platitude that it’s never too late to learn or start over? It doesn’t get any truer than for Alan Fuller, founder of Fullworks, a successful WordPress plugin company…
The Benefits of Podcasting for Business: What We Learned from Launching plugin.fm
Podcasting 🎧 can be a great way to build a community around your brand and position you as an expert in your field. But the real question is, are you…
Year in Review 2023: Our Highs, Lows, and Goals for the Next Year
Hiring during the economic crisis, keeping the business stable in unstable times, going heavy on content, customer service, redesigning the blog, organizing Makers’ Meetups, hosting our first-ever company retreat, and…
Make It Beta: The Importance of Beta Programs and How to Run Them
Think your software product can’t get any “beta”? 🧐 Think again!
Building in Public: Unveiling the Power of Transparent Creation for Software Founders
Building in public is more than a development approach: it can be an immersive, inspiring experience that weaves together transparency, community, and product innovation. In a landscape where the lines…
They’re Coming for You: Why US Software Sellers Can No Longer Ignore EU VAT In 2024
For software product makers, nothing is certain in life except for (death by) support tickets and taxes 😩 and we’ve got some bad news for those who are lax on…
Epic Tales of Spectacular Fails: Lessons From Leading WordPress Entrepreneurs
We don’t talk about failure nearly enough in the software world ☠️ The mistakes and hard lessons learned from %^&*@!#ing up spectacularly are stepping stones to successful product development, as…
Managing the Risks of Selling on the WooCommerce Marketplace
It’s not what you know, it’s Woo you know… especially if you want to capitalize on using one of the biggest marketplaces in the WordPress space, and one that offers…
How to Build a Thriving Remote Company Culture
From cutting office costs to choosing from an international pool of candidates, remote work offers plenty of perks to founders and their companies. However, one concern looms large in this…
4 Low-Hanging Fruits to Reduce Customer Churn and Increase Subscriptions Renewal Rate
In the ever-evolving realms of WordPress and SaaS, the battle against customer churn is like a high-stakes game of chess. With each move, software product makers must strategize, adapt, and…
From a Baseball Fan’s Website to the Most Popular WordPress Table Plugin – The Success Story of TablePress
Don’t discount your hobbies because there’s always a chance they could lead to greater things. For Tobias Bäthge, the success of TablePress — the top WordPress table plugin — is…