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Theme Sellers: 15 Things You Must Include on Your Website

Our Theme Pricing article was recently featured as a resource in a Smashing Magazine article by Steven Gliebe, founder of ThemeSorter.com. In his article, "Detailed Comparison of Premium WordPress Theme Clubs", Steven explains... 15 Things Users Want To See Included On Theme Seller Sites In an effort to follow up, Steven encouraged me to simplify his advice into a list of 15 items, making it easier for theme sellers to realize Read More

Seattle WordPress Meetup: Hardening WordPress

With WordCamp Seattle 2011 only 2 days after the meetup, I was surprised to see that this months meetup still pulled in a solid audience of 45 WordPress users, developers, "dev-signers" and more. The topic and speaker may have had a lot to do with it. In the past, we've had speakers cover many topics about how to build and improve your website, but all that is worthless if you Read More

42 WordPress Tutorials: The Ultimate Tips, Tricks & Hacks

In an attempt to connect our community with ultimate resources and guides, I've decided to refer to one of my favorite resources, WPArena. This article can be found here: "The Ultimate Tips, Tricks & Hacks about WordPress". I encourage you to read below and ultimately subscribe to their website as they are a great resource for WordPress users. WordPress Tips, Tricks & Hacks One other huge WordPress advantage that you can get Read More

Why Consistency Is Important To Long-Term SEO

First off, I would suggest you touch base with John Chow (JohnChow.com). He makes $40k+ a month and at he heart of it all, he says consistency is key. His blog makes $500,000 a year in income. Oh, and he does this in only two hours a day. He spreads the word that "you will be successful if you consistently blog 2 hours a day." Read More

WordCamp Seattle – April 16th: Sign Up Today!

WordCamp Seattle 2011 is happening on Saturday, April 16, 2011 at the University of Washington. WordCamp Seattle is a one-day conference about WordPress – the world’s most popular content management system, blogging platform, and website creation tool. Speakers will cover topics including an overview of WordPress, using WordPress, theme creation, plugin development, using WordPress to run your business, blogging, marketing, and SEO. The event will be keynoted Read More

Premium Themes: What’s Wrong With Pricing?

Based on 53 Premium Theme Stores Minimum Pricing Plans... 62% have "No Pricing Pages" 31% have "Pricing" in their Navigation Bar 10% are "Subscription Only" models 33% mentioned "Footer Removal Rules", of which 6 restricted removal! 40% allowed uploading to "Unlimited Domains" 21% included .PSD's (In some cases, getting the .psd meant an increase of $100) 17% didn't offer or didn't define whether or not they offered Support 42% offered "All Theme Packages", though in many cases, there Read More

How To Make Money With Your WordPress Blog (By John Chow)

PowerPoint Presentation By John Chow Last night, at the March 9th Meetup, we had guest speaker John Chow and brought in nearly 100 RSVP's. John has provided me with the power point presentation used for the evening. Many of you have asked for it, so here you go: How To Make Money with Your WordPress Blog By: John Chow Details: In this action packed Seattle WordPress meetup, John Chow will show you a method to make money from your Read More

ThemeSorter: Premium Theme Sorting With YOU In Mind!

Finding a professional-quality theme for WordPress is not always an easy task. I tried putting together my own list, but users want more! There are many companies and independent designers that produce and sell premium themes. Looking through their different websites takes more time than most people have. A new website, ThemeSorter, was launched last month with the purpose of solving this problem. Its creator, Steven Read More

Food For Thought: Correlation Between “Social Friends” and “Website Traffic”?

The weekend is about to start and I figured It'd be nice to leave you all with something to think about. A client asked me this question in August 2009: My response to his question in an e-mail 2 years ago: Has Much Changed? Has much changed since my response in 2009? People are still trying to figure out what works best for them. It's not a guarantee that one will work for Read More

Google says we’re the “best wordpress developer in seattle”…so it must be true!

I'm not sure how many searches a month the term "best wordpress developer in seattle" gets, but I'm happy to see we're #1...and I find it even more interesting that Joomla decided to pay for a Sponsored Link. Real classy!