There are enormous opportunities within WordPress including creating your own business using the platform or being hired as a consultant, developer or designer. We discuss examples of highly successful WordPress businesses as well as list some great resources on how to find jobs within the WordPress community.
Creating a website for your startup or small business is now more important than ever because 71% of businesses already have websites.
But, that’s not all.
About 50% of potential customers will abandon your site for a competitor’s website if the user experience is poor.
This is why you need to create an attractive and performing website to promote brand visibility and sales.
There’s never been any doubt that WordPress is the defacto standard for small websites. Its dominant content management system market share is proof enough of that.
But where people have doubted WordPress is when it comes to larger businesses and digital publishers.
That’s changing, though. Not only does the UK’s largest newspaper use WordPress, but others like The New Yorker have also jumped on board the WordPress train.
But those are the big guns, with big budgets to match. If you’re a smaller digital publisher, can WordPress still do what you want?
In this post, we hope to demonstrate that you don’t need to be a big publisher with the budget to hire a dedicated WordPress agency. Instead, using freely (or affordably) available plugins, you can easily turn WordPress into a digital publishing powerhouse.
Here’s how…
Wondering how well your favorite WordPress business is doing? I think we’re all a little voyeuristic when it comes to behind-the-scenes information and revenue data.
But most of the time, we don’t get to satisfy that itch because all those juicy details are private.
Some companies, though, have opted for the alternate route – transparency.
Such companies publish stats on their revenue, order numbers, and lots more. And if you’re running a WordPress business, or just interested in the WordPress economy, these posts are a goldmine.
To help you find those companies, we’ve put together this list of 10+ WordPress companies that publish transparency/income reports. At least at the time of writing this post, all of these companies are still actively publishing transparency reports (though some only do so sporadically).
Let’s jump right in…
It’s coming up to a busy time of year for gift buying so I thought I’d get in early and roundup some great gift ideas for designers. It’s a time when you can finally kick back, fill a glass or two with holiday cheer and pour over some titles, brimming with inspiration.
If you know anyone of a creative mind-set or wish you had some design chops yourself, there will still be some great choices below. We’ve included gifts for book lovers, gifts for men, gifts for women, and perfect Christmas gifts. Let’s get started, shall we?
Do you know if your website is doing as well as it should be? Do you know if you chose the best text for your CTA button? Or if your headline isn’t performing as well as possible?
Unless you’re regularly testing different versions of your site – the simple truth is that you can’t know because you don’t have the data to know. To get that data – or at least to come closer to the right answer – you can run A/B tests to compare different versions of your site and see which performs better.
Many WordPress users can’t figure out how to run A/B tests on WordPress, though. Or, they can’t afford the premium tools that make A/B tests easy.
To help solve the problem, I’m going to show you how to run Google Analytics Content Experiments on WordPress for an easy, and free, way to split test your WordPress site.
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