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…
Tag: recurring revenues
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…
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,…
The Do’s And Don’ts of Renewals Discount for WordPress Plugins And Themes, Following The WooCommerce Blunder
In 2017, WooCommerce dropped its 50% Renewals Discount and got some backfire from the community due to how it was rolled out. This inspired me to shed some light on…
unConversions: Convince Your Plugin/Theme Users To Do Nothing
You’ve probably read a lot about conversion rate optimization (CRO), the practice of testing user experiences to encourage visitors to take actions that drive value. If you care about your…
This WordPress Agency Turns Its Custom Plugins/Themes Into a Recurring Income
At Freemius, we work closely with our partners, so we get a unique opportunity to encounter some very interesting monetization use cases and business models. Today I’d like to share…
Careful! This Simple Pricing Experiment Cost Us $2,000 in Revenue
This is the most expensive blog post I ever posted – it cost our plugin company over $2,000, and I’m not kidding nor exaggerating.
Why WordPress Plugin Developers Have to Start Thinking SaaS
Is WordPress SaaS like plugins the future? In an interview for WPSchool, Matt Mullenweg mentioned that one of Automattic’s BIG and “silly” mistakes during their first years was not adding automated…