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Selling WordPress Plugins and Themes From Your Website – All Best Practices In 1 Place
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

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…

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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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From Speed Dating To Relationships – My WordCamp US 2018 Recap
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

From Speed Dating To Relationships – My WordCamp US 2018 Recap

There’s a lot that’s been going on lately in the WordPress sphere, but with WordPress, that would be true no matter when we say it. Nonetheless, I think that many…

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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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Winning Credit Card Disputes for WordPress Plugins & Themes
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

Winning Credit Card Disputes for WordPress Plugins & Themes

In the past few months, I’ve stumbled across multiple online discussions among WordPress plugin and theme developers on how hard it is to win Stripe/Credit-Card Disputes. So much so, that…

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Challenges In Growing A WordPress Plugin Business Without Growing A Team
Milan Petrovic by Milan Petrovic

Challenges In Growing A WordPress Plugin Business Without Growing A Team

My name is Milan, and I am the owner of Dev4Press, a company dedicated to WordPress and bbPress plugins development. Dev4Press was created in 2009 as a side project, and…

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How to Create A Video That Easily Drives More Downloads and Sales for Your WordPress Plugin
Dave Kiss by Dave Kiss

How to Create A Video That Easily Drives More Downloads and Sales for Your WordPress Plugin

If you haven’t yet noticed, online video is changing the way that we learn and make our buying decisions. The ability to use video as an interactive storytelling medium makes…

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The Complete Guide to US Small Business Taxes For WordPress Plugin & Theme Developers
Scott DeLuzio by Scott DeLuzio

The Complete Guide to US Small Business Taxes For WordPress Plugin & Theme Developers

As a former accountant who has made the transition into WordPress plugin development, I know how difficult it is to keep track of ever-changing tax laws, especially when you’re a…

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Selling WordPress Plugins & Themes To Enterprises – Is That Possible And How To Do It?
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

Selling WordPress Plugins & Themes To Enterprises – Is That Possible And How To Do It?

According to a study commissioned by WP Engine, 57% of enterprises use WordPress. Is your WordPress plugin or theme business ready for enterprise clients?

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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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Why WordPress Marketplaces Need the Right Products – Mike Stott
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

Why WordPress Marketplaces Need the Right Products – Mike Stott

Today, we’re publishing an interview with another great WordPress entrepreneur, Mike Stott, Founder of Epic Plugins, Epic Themes and co-founder of Zero Bullsh*t CRM.

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How to Sell Your WordPress Product Business
Phil Derksen by Phil Derksen

How to Sell Your WordPress Product Business

If you’ve been following the WordPress products space, it’s hard to ignore all the plugin and theme acquisitions going around. While it’s a common thing, surprisingly, there’s almost no public…

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The Ultimate Guide To Free Trials For Premium WordPress Plugins And Themes
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

The Ultimate Guide To Free Trials For Premium WordPress Plugins And Themes

Trials for software products and SaaS (Software as a Service) has been a standard practice for years and is considered as an excellent way to get a higher reach and…

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Think Big, Learn Fast, and Listen:  My Lessons from Building a WordPress SaaS Product
Jack Slingerland by Jack Slingerland

Think Big, Learn Fast, and Listen: My Lessons from Building a WordPress SaaS Product

A year and a half ago when I started thinking about what my next side project would be, I couldn’t have imagined the success that it would have. While it…

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