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Learning from Success: Interviews & Case Studies

From Side Project to 200K Users: The Bootstrap Success Story That’s Disrupting WordPress Theme
Milos Tanasijevic by Milos Tanasijevic

From Side Project to 200K Users: The Bootstrap Success Story That’s Disrupting WordPress Theme

We’ve had the pleasure of talking with two amazing young guys from the Republic of Moldova, Sergiu and Andrei, the creators of Blocksy and the founders of CreativeThemes. Blocksy started…

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James Farmer, CEO at WPMU DEV’s Shares Their Transformation from Tons o’ Plugins to Premium Agency Solution
Brandon Ernst by Brandon Ernst

James Farmer, CEO at WPMU DEV’s Shares Their Transformation from Tons o’ Plugins to Premium Agency Solution

I recently had a video chat with the founder of WPMU DEV, James Farmer, to ask all about their transition from managing over 100 plugins and themes to focusing on…

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How Aaron Bowie Left His IT Job to Build a Full-Blown WooCommerce Extensions Business
Brandon Ernst by Brandon Ernst

How Aaron Bowie Left His IT Job to Build a Full-Blown WooCommerce Extensions Business

This month, I had the chance to interview Aaron Bowie, a super-chill guy based in the UK who like many of us, made the transition from IT guy to plugin…

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Cryptocurrency Entrepreneur Founds Rapidly Growing WordPress Security Plugin
Brandon Ernst by Brandon Ernst

Cryptocurrency Entrepreneur Founds Rapidly Growing WordPress Security Plugin

This is a truly unique success story about plugin developer Sagar Patil, who created SSL Zen. Sagar is an entrepreneur who successfully started and sold 4 different companies, and this…

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CEO Kim Gjerstad: How MailPoet Became the Email Leader for WordPress
Brandon Ernst by Brandon Ernst

CEO Kim Gjerstad: How MailPoet Became the Email Leader for WordPress

Just as I was leaving the Freemius + WP Engine Makers Meetup last year at WordCamp US in St. Louis, Founder and CEO of MailPoet, Kim Gjerstad, stopped me at…

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Innovating from India: Shilpa Shah of Hummingbird Web Solutions
Brandon Ernst by Brandon Ernst

Innovating from India: Shilpa Shah of Hummingbird Web Solutions

Today, we have the privilege to speak with Shilpa Shah, co-founder of Hummingbird Web Solutions, a WordPress focused company with over 60 employees based out of Pune, India. Hummingbird Web…

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Power Elite Author from Envato Starts Selling Plugins with Freemius
Brandon Ernst by Brandon Ernst

Power Elite Author from Envato Starts Selling Plugins with Freemius

I’m glad to be with Igor Ligay from Stylemix themes today, a developer who can definitely be called “successful” when it comes to the world of selling WordPress themes and…

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Jose Vega’s Story Tripling Plugin Sales Revenue with WP Sheet Editor
Brandon Ernst by Brandon Ernst

Jose Vega’s Story Tripling Plugin Sales Revenue with WP Sheet Editor

Jose Vega is a young entrepreneur from El Salvador and the lead developer of several successful plugins. His featured plugins are WP Sheet Editor and WP Frontend Admin, which he’s…

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A Maturing Page Builder Market – Interview with Raitis Sevelis, Head of Product at Visual Composer
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

A Maturing Page Builder Market – Interview with Raitis Sevelis, Head of Product at Visual Composer

Hello everyone! Today we are interviewing Raitis Sevelis, the Head of Product at Visual Composer. I had the pleasure of meeting Michael Makijenko, Visual Composer CEO, and Raitis at several…

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Divi Sensei: Jan Thielemann’s Story of Traveling the World While Building a Plugin Business
Brandon Ernst by Brandon Ernst

Divi Sensei: Jan Thielemann’s Story of Traveling the World While Building a Plugin Business

Today we’re excited to interview Jan Thielemann – a self-taught Divi module developer who built his WordPress business Divi Sensei and sells a host of other Divi modules and add-ons!…

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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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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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Miriam Schwab: Redefining the WordPress Website Security Arena
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

Miriam Schwab: Redefining the WordPress Website Security Arena

I’m super stoked to finally be interviewing Miriam Schwab, who is the CEO & Founder of Strattic, a serverless security solution for WordPress & Open Source CMSs. She’s also(!) the…

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1 Developer Grew WP Mobile Menu Rapidly With These Tactics
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

1 Developer Grew WP Mobile Menu Rapidly With These Tactics

Rui Guerreiro is the creator of WP Mobile Menu, a user-friendly, dedicated and responsive WordPress menu plugin which has just hit 40k active installs on the official WordPress.org repository, while…

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Nelio WordPres Plugins Are a Hybrid Model Between Products & Services
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

Nelio WordPres Plugins Are a Hybrid Model Between Products & Services

David Aguilera is the Chief Product & Quality Officer at rapidly growing Nelio. We met at the last WordCamp in Paris and, after chatting for a while, I figured it would…

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