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How We Use Email Marketing Automation to Fill The Gaps for New Subscribers And Bump Up The Blog’s Conversion Rate
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

How We Use Email Marketing Automation to Fill The Gaps for New Subscribers And Bump Up The Blog’s Conversion Rate

We’ve recently decided to take advantage of MailChimp’s (free) email marketing automation feature in order to fill a gap we’ve been unable to manually bridge for our new blog subscribers….

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MooMoo Agency’s Simple Moves Build Strong Ties with WP Plugin Buyers
Alex Castro by Alex Castro

MooMoo Agency’s Simple Moves Build Strong Ties with WP Plugin Buyers

Vitalii Kiiko is a passionate and experienced WordPress plugin and theme developer, who recently provided us some great feedback and kindly agreed to share his story. He is a co-founder…

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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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“WordPress Security Solutions Are Still Inaccessible” – Interviewing French “Mister Security”, Julio Potier
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

“WordPress Security Solutions Are Still Inaccessible” – Interviewing French “Mister Security”, Julio Potier

Julio Potier is a prominent figure in the WordPress security scene. Based in France, he developed SecuPress, a plugin that makes securing WordPress websites easy. He also co-founded WP Media,…

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Themekraft’s Plugins Saved From EU VAT Mess With Freemius Migration
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

Themekraft’s Plugins Saved From EU VAT Mess With Freemius Migration

This success story will focus on Sven Lehnert’s amazing entrepreneurial journey. Sven is a developer and a businessman from Germany who most famously created BuddyForms. He’s also the CEO at…

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You Shouldn’t Put All Your Eggs In The WordPress Basket – Interviewing CreativeMinds CEO, David Rashty
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

You Shouldn’t Put All Your Eggs In The WordPress Basket – Interviewing CreativeMinds CEO, David Rashty

Today we’ll get to pick David Rashty’s brain about WordPress-based product businesses and entrepreneurship. David owns several WordPress-based products, as well as various Magento-based ones. Additionally, he’s a seed investor, actively…

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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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Three Types of WordPress Product Customers You Should Fire (and How to Fire Them)
Zach Skaggs by Zach Skaggs

Three Types of WordPress Product Customers You Should Fire (and How to Fire Them)

It’s inevitable in any business that some users will not be satisfied with what you are able to provide for them, or may become a drain on you or your…

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A Customer Picks Up Your WordPress Plugin Or Theme & Ditches It: How To Handle Cart Abandonment
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

A Customer Picks Up Your WordPress Plugin Or Theme & Ditches It: How To Handle Cart Abandonment

You’ve got your products ready, with a proper checkout in place, and have customers visiting your premium WordPress plugins or themes online shop. They spend time checking out your products, adding…

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After Shifting from Development, Primož Cigler Is The Perfect Technical Marketer for A WordPress Products Business
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

After Shifting from Development, Primož Cigler Is The Perfect Technical Marketer for A WordPress Products Business

I’m finally getting to interview one of my favorite figures in the WordPress community. He’s a dev & CEO at ProteusThemes and also one of the friendliest people I got…

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The Complete (and Free) WordPress Plugin Business Book by Freemius
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

The Complete (and Free) WordPress Plugin Business Book by Freemius

Top selling WordPress plugins make somewhere between 20-80 times more, per year, than an average WordPress plugin! Your plugin’s sales aren’t going to just skyrocket on their own, so as…

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One WordPress Plugin Developer with A Laptop – The Success Story of Joachim Jensen with Content Aware Sidebars
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

One WordPress Plugin Developer with A Laptop – The Success Story of Joachim Jensen with Content Aware Sidebars

Today we’re going to be focusing on a serial WordPress plugins developer, most known for building the very useful “Content Aware Sidebars”, Mr. Joachim Jensen. Joachim is a full-stack software…

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The Do’s And Don’ts of Renewals Discount for WordPress Plugins And Themes, Following The WooCommerce Blunder
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

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…

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WordCamp Europe 2017 – The WordPress Product People’s Perspective
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

WordCamp Europe 2017 – The WordPress Product People’s Perspective

WordCamp Europe 2017 has just ended, taking place in Paris this year (next year at Belgrade, Serbia, in case you haven’t heard yet). While last year, at Vienna, only Stanley…

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Our WordPress Product Launch Had Unusual Results! Here’s How to Replicate It
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

Our WordPress Product Launch Had Unusual Results! Here’s How to Replicate It

If somehow you happened to have missed the successful product launch of Freemius Insights for WordPress Themes from a couple of weeks ago – just read this to get updated….

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