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Make Your Mobile Checkout Forms Dead Simple to Complete
On your e-commerce sites, it’s bad enough if potential customers abandon their carts simply because filling out forms becomes too tedious or confusing. Maybe you’ve streamlined each form in your...
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Selling Your Premium WordPress Plugin: Videos to Watch
Updated Oct 24, 2013 If you’re actively selling premium WordPress plugins or looking to get into the plugin business, check out these videos of business owners sharing their advice. So far most are...
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Selling Your Premium WordPress Plugin: Podcast Interviews
Updated Oct 24, 2013 If you search around you’ll find plenty of podcast interviews with successful WordPress plugin founders. Many get into nitty-gritty of the plugin business and share what works and...
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Selling Your Premium WordPress Plugin: Helpful Posts on Commercializing
Want to learn how to market WordPress plugins from experienced product founders? These are some of the more helpful posts I’ve come across for inspiration and takeaways to apply to my own plugin...
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4 Business Models for Profitable WordPress Plugins
If you’re in the business of making money from WordPress plugins, there’s not just one way to go about it. If you’ve gone through any videos, podcast interviews and posts on selling premium plugins...
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Setting Your WordPress Plugin Prices
This is a response to Chris Lema’s recent post WordPress Plugin Prices Are Too Low. There are several important issues that Chris points out about the current state of WordPress premium plugin prices....
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How I Grew Plugin Sales By 21% By Increasing Prices
Recently there’s been a lot of discussion on how to price your premium WordPress plugin. Chris Lema started it with WordPress Plugin Prices Are Too Low, and many comments followed. I followed up with...
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Optimizing Your WordPress.org Plugin Landing Page
When you create a free plugin and submit it to the WordPress.org plugin repository, you get the privilege of creating a landing page for that plugin. Technically it’s not the same as creating a landing...
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Gumroad for WordPress
For a while now I’ve been intrigued by the simple e-commerce service provided by Gumroad. They’ve made setting up products to sell on your own site very quick and painless whether or not you’re using...
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Adding Software Licensing and Automatic Updates to a Premium WordPress Plugin
While developing a commercial WordPress plugin one element you’ll probably want to add is automatic updates for your customers. They’re used to it from free plugins in the WordPress.org repository, so...
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Pinterest Widgets WordPress Plugin
When folks want to integrate Pinterest with their WordPress site, usually it’s a focus on the “Pin It” button, which is why I created the Pinterest “Pin It” button WordPress plugin in the first place....
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Stripe Checkout for WordPress
If you haven’t used Stripe for accepting payments online yet, you’re missing out on the best. Hands down. They take care of payment processing with minimal headaches and extensive developer resources....
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Google Calendar Events Version 2 Update
GCE Version 2.0 to be Released late August 2014 Update 9/2/2014: 2.0.0-beta1 is ready for testing! Yes, it includes the Event Display Builder, and it would be helpful if you could beta test it. Click...
View ArticleDeveloping a Simple WordPress Plugin from Scratch
Recently I walked folks through building a simple WordPress plugin from scratch at the WordPress Developers meetup in Fresno (my home town). We went through how to build a plugin for taking donations,...
View ArticleLessons Learned Building a WordPress Plugin Business to $10k/month (MicroConf...
Here are the slides from an attendee talk I did at MicroConf Vegas 2015. Resources Easy Digital Downloads (starter package with 30% discount, affiliate link) WP Engine (managed hosting, affiliate link)...
View ArticleBitwise Demo Day 3/31/16
It was a pleasure to do a short talk on who I am and what I do for my hometown Fresno peeps at Bitwise South Stadium. For those that attended thanks for coming out! Slides below. The post Bitwise Demo...
View ArticleWordPress + Stripe Resources
At my local WordPress meetup today, I went through an intro to Stripe, a demo of it’s dashboard, then a few ways to integrate Stripe plugins with your WordPress site. Here’s a few resources I touched...
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8 Years to Overnight Success (Startups for the Rest of Us Podcast Interview)
I had the huge pleasure of being interviewed on my favorite podcast, Startups for the Rest of Us. You can listen to the episode here, and by all means, keep them at the top of your feed if you’re at...
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Simple Calendar Acquired by SureSwift Capital
I’m excited to announce that Simple Calendar has been acquired by SureSwift Capital. As a solo founder, why did I choose to make this transition? In a word: Focus. For too long we’ve been trying to...
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2017 Business Year in Review
Wow, 2017 flew by! And seeing as it’s January 11 already, 2018 won’t be going by any slower. Time to reflect on the past year in business and hopefully make this an annual tradition. January 2018 marks...
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