Clarity for your digital business. Matt Report episodes uncover the most resilient digital business builders in the digital, WordPress, SaaS, and no-code space. If you're building a sustainable online brand or business, this is the best podcast to follow.
Featuring guests like: This week in Startup's Jason Calacanis, Automattic's Matt Mullenweg, Startups for the Rest of Us Rob Walling, and Copyblogger's Brian Clark.
Been a while right?! I’m back with an update to what’s going on with Matt Report, and a potential new direction I’ll be taking the content through the new year. While I love all of the deep conversations I’ve had about WordPress, the new home for that is The WP Minute. That’s where I’ve been…
Heading to a major WordCamp event can be an overwhelming experience for the brand new ‘camper. Having hundred if not thousands of WordPress-loving peers under one roof might have you stuck in your tracks, no pun intended. How do you meet new people? How do you get noticed? How do you recharge if you’re an…
Web accessibility was something I was afraid to discuss with clients, when I ran my agency. I didn’t know much about it, where to begin, or how much time it would it take to implement the various practices. That fear steered me away from presenting it as part of a web design project. I’m not…
I forget that some WordPress users, even freelancers, don’t realize the sheer size of WordPress. From billion dollar hosting companies, to boutique agencies, WordPress is quite vast. It took Yaw a few years to even realize that Automattic, the commercial entity behind WordPress, even existed! We’ll explore his story today, starting out as a freelancer…
Marc Benzakein shares a retrospective on running ServerPress for a decade in the WordPress space. We unpack the history on discovering the beloved software development tool and partnering with Steve Carnam, alongside Gregg Franklin. What makes this WordPress business so challenging from others? What held back some of the development and getting ahead of the…
Just because you’re an introvert doesn’t mean you can’t build a business. It doesn’t mean you’re afraid to get on stage and talk about your success — or failures. Ken Elliott knows this role all too well. He’s a self-described “networking introvert” that built a WordPress agency with his co-founder, will be emceeing WordCamp US…
What if you locked yourself in a room and threw away the key to work on your business? Stop the Slacking, the doom scrolling, but forced to focus on the agenda of improving…everything. That’s exactly what Kim Coleman, co-founder Paid Memberships Pro & Sitewide Sales, did to re-focus the Sitewide Sales business. Running a business…
Corey is no stranger to building product. In part one, we chatted about his legacy of products, and selling his WordPress plugin. Today, we’ll be back chatting about what goes into making great products. Important links Corey on Twitter Gelform Mexican Train Online Where will the WordPress middleclass go? Check out the NEW stuff from…
I’m chatting with Corey Maas, former owner of the Kanban for WordPress plugin. After a few years back in the saddle of day jobbing, he’s now running Social Link Pages plugin for WordPress. He also spent some time during the pandemic launching a new online game — built on WordPress. Come learn what it’s like…
In today’s episode, I want to chat about the current vibe in WordPress. Compare and contrast the community vibe, to the business vibe. Porto looked like a ton of fun, sad I missed it! The WP Minute showed up in a big way, so I’m really thankful for that. Plus! I couldn’t hold off from…
Rachel Winchester is challenging us to think about WordPress as a canvas for art. WordPress as a paint brush, not an NFT. In this episode we uncover how she found WordPress and bringing those skills to her day job at DigitalCube. As a loyal Elementor builder, what does Rachel think about Gutenberg and FSE? Tune…
The most common piece of advice I think WordPress freelancers receive first is to “find your niche.” Easier said than done. Niches are still hard to find. Crowded markets together with figuring out what you’re best at providing to customers can be a challenge. What if that niche involves web sustainability? That’s not a crowded…
Today’s guest, Ines van Dijk, is helping WordPress product owners get better at customer support. With over a decade of experience in the WordPress customer support space with WooCommerce and Automattic, Ines knows what it takes to run a successful support team. You can hire her team to help build you a complete plan for…
There’s an entire industry built on selling you the Holy Grail of raising your rates. Courses, memberships, ebooks, videos all assuring you that $10,000 projects are just a click away. Why wouldn’t you believe them? They’re on the gram throwing hundred dollar bills off a boat or speeding away in a Lambo. To be fair,…
There’s a new cohort of WordPress celebrity hitting the spotlight these days and I’m here for it. When we look back in the Gutenberg history books we’ll be able to show that blocks, patterns, and javascript not only rocked the code of the project, but the community as well. Some immediately dropped out, other stayed,…
