Driving Revenue Growth in the WordPress Ecosystem
My Version of the Story Starts in 2016 I left Crowd Favorite at the start of 2016. We'd just had a major health scare where my wife was bleeding internally and we had to rush to an ER (where things ...
Advanced Email Personalization
Every now and then I read an article that I wish I wrote. The other day I read one on email personalization. It's not the words or even the ideas. It's the depth on such an important topic. I have ...
When the reciprocity principle goes wrong
What is the reciprocity principle? If you've never heard of the reciprocity principle, you've surely experienced it. If I say to you, “thank you,” what are you going to say back? If I pay you a compliment, like, “I love ...
Last Week in WooCommerce: Security & Reporting
Always Pay Attention to WooCommerce Security Whether you're a freelancer building WooCommerce stores, a merchant running a WooCommerce store, or an agency helping WooCommerce stores manage their stores – there's nothing that stresses you out as much as when you ...
How do I get free users to subscribe to paid memberships?
How do I get free users to subscribe? It's a question I hear a lot. Just about every time I get into a conversation about membership sites. But before we get into the answer to that, we need to back ...
Why I recommend ConvertKit to Infusionsoft users
Most of my conversations about Infusionsoft end up sounding exactly the same. And it's not the fault of InfusionSoft. Have you ever talked to someone about Infusionsoft? If you're anything like me, you now know that there are only two ...
What are product onramps?
Eighteen months ago I discovered this plugin that was a page builder for WordPress—from a long list of solutions I'd tried. I was writing a comparison post in October of 2014 and frankly, I'd never heard of Beaver Builder. A ...
A drag and drop WordPress Page Builder: Good or Bad?
Some context for the discussion A couple months ago I started work on a website that will soon launch. The reality is that much of the time on the project has been spent on discussion—determining the right solutions to the ...
Why the Ninja Forms bundle makes sense
Here are three reasons that the upcoming Ninja Forms bundle makes perfect sense. For the right customers - it's a no brainer.
Developers: Finding the Perfect Client
In the last of five emails to my team at Crowd Favorite, I cover the concept of the perfect client and how we go about finding them.