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AppSumo Marketplace & Lifetime Deals: A Smart Play or Risky Move for Your WordPress Products?
Robert Nolte by Robert Nolte

AppSumo Marketplace & Lifetime Deals: A Smart Play or Risky Move for Your WordPress Products?

AppSumo is known for offering great deals, helping digital creators reach an audience eager for discounts. For new WordPress product makers, it’s a great way to gain visibility and grow…

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Creative Market: An Honest Breakdown for WordPress Product Makers
Robert Nolte by Robert Nolte

Creative Market: An Honest Breakdown for WordPress Product Makers

Creative Market is becoming a popular choice for WordPress product makers, offering access to a community of over 10 million creative professionals. It allows sellers to set their own prices,…

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Are WordPress Marketplaces Still Worth It in 2024? A Deep Dive for Software Makers
Robert Nolte by Robert Nolte

Are WordPress Marketplaces Still Worth It in 2024? A Deep Dive for Software Makers

Years ago, charging money for plugins/themes in the WordPress space was frowned upon. But when WordPress began commercializing, developers saw the opportunity to start selling themes and plugins full-time instead…

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Two Years In: The Impact of COVID-19 on WordPress and eCommerce
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

Two Years In: The Impact of COVID-19 on WordPress and eCommerce

After a period of massive growth that saw the majority of markets scramble online to survive, we’re entering a time of deceleration. Growth is slowing, the COVID-19 Stock Market bubble…

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Checkout Enhancements, Improved Management of Licenses/Subscriptions (+ new events), and Increased Visibility on Disputes & Chargebacks
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

Checkout Enhancements, Improved Management of Licenses/Subscriptions (+ new events), and Increased Visibility on Disputes & Chargebacks

This release is packed full of great updates, including Advanced Checkout Tracking to give you the ability to track many aspects of the checkout (like time to complete, coupon usage,…

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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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Announcing Late & Partial Refunds, Improved User Filtering, Affiliate Links in the Developer Dashboard, & Gifts from Freemius!
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

Announcing Late & Partial Refunds, Improved User Filtering, Affiliate Links in the Developer Dashboard, & Gifts from Freemius!

We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy in these wild times 😷 The team has been hard at work (albeit in quarantine) with some awesome new features 🚀 around…

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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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Selling Theme Shop Membership: Why It’s Great For You and Your Customers
Pavel Ciorici by Pavel Ciorici

Selling Theme Shop Membership: Why It’s Great For You and Your Customers

A few months ago WPZOOM marked its 10th birthday, and for those of you who haven’t heard about us before, I will make a quick introduction.

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This WordPress Agency Turns Its Custom Plugins/Themes Into a Recurring Income
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

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…

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Why WordPress Plugin Developers Have to Start Thinking SaaS
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

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…

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