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…
Learning from Success: Interviews & Case Studies
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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!…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Buttonizer’s Sustainable WP Plugin Business Boosts Website Interactions
The following success story comes to us from The Netherlands, where Jeroen and his team are running Buttonizer, a great-looking “floating action button” plugin for WordPress websites with one purpose: to…
How Benjamin Denis’ Plugin Hit 10K+ Active Installs in just 1 Year!
This time we are interviewing an exciting entrepreneur from France. Benjamin Denis is the creator and owner of several WordPress plugins, who focuses (when he’s not working full-time at a…