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.
Who wants to be in the client services field when you can be in product? After all, the road to the Golden Chalice is lined with riches and bountiful treasures. Create an MVP, launch it, and splash into your pool of coins like Uncle Scrooge. No one ever warns you about the long weekends, iterations,…
Dare I say it’s easy to launch a product when there’s a competitor in the wild? How about easier? It’s one challenge to build a competing product and grow a business, it’s a whole other challenge to create something new with no competitors. Today I sit down with Scott Bolinger and Lisa Sabin-Wilson to discuss the launch…
Running a WordPress business? Of course you are! If you’re not, you can use these services for any form of online business. In part 1, we’ll briefly cover WordPress hosting, a few plugins, and a couple or my choice productivity tools. There’s some cross compatibility from the blogging tips post, but I’ve wrapped some new context…
During a pre-sale call for my consulting service, a client asked me if I did content marketing “campaigns.” Now there are PPC campaigns, impression campaigns, and even some podcasting could be looked at as a campaign — but not your overall content marketing. Here’s why: If you’re looking at content creation as as this thing you…
Think about the high performing companies you subscribe to and the image they portray on the web, in social media, and within your inbox. I’m a raving fan of a company that uses a monkey as part of their brand. Can you guess who that is? Mailchimp. Where the name might sound foolish and playful,…
I’m really excited to sit down and chat with the developer of wpForGlass, a WordPress plugin for publishing via Google Glass. When the news broke, the first thing that came to my mind was, “Who is Ozzy Farman and this agency Weber Shandwick?” Why is that important? In my humble opinion, this type of plugin…
Sometimes I should learn to keep my mouth shut. But if I did, we wouldn’t get awesome interviews like this one with James Schramko of superfastbusiness.com. I was listening to James interview on another podcast and he lead in to how easy it is to launch a WordPress website. Even more so, how fast and cheap it…
Am I the only one that has an urge to start writing a book when the winter time rolls around? Brian Casel returns to The Matt Report to discuss his latest Launch Design for Conversions. This isn’t a typical interview, we’re getting right to the good stuff including planning your book, marketing, sales expectations and…
After a month of post production it’s finally here! Wondering what the WordPress startup community is up to? Check out these 4 new startups and join in to hear the judges rate their pitch and business model. Listen to the audio version [tabs] [tab title=”Why donate?”] [one_half][/one_half][one_half_last][/one_half_last] What’s this all about? If you didn’t catch…
Well, it’s finally happened. I interviewed Brian Gardner. If you don’t know who Brian is, where the heck have you been? He’s the first WordPress entrepreneur to pioneer the premium theme business as we know it today. He started StudioPress over six years ago as a passion project and soon became the de facto site to…
Just getting back from PressNomics and flipping through my Rolodex of awesome new connections. Oh and catching up from jet lag — sorry Rebecca. 🙂 If you’re interested in attending PressNomics or learning what it’s all about, check out my review here. Loads of good comments there too. So what’s up in episode 53? I…
You’re an entrepreneur still trading time for dollars — how do you get out of that? You launch a new WordPress website for a client and everyone is excited to go live — but wait, they wanted you to upload their 1,000 pages of content. It wasn’t your responsibility. Months later you realize you’ve been…
I can’t believe it took 51 episodes to get the guy who puts the hustle in being a WordPress entrepreneur. Meet Syed Balkhi the man behind WPBeginner.com, one of the world’s largest free WordPress resources. How does he manage this publication, monetize and build a team around it? He’s also spearheading a new SaaS app built on…
A while back I said Shane Pearlman is the Godfather of Freelancing. If that’s true, than Bill Erickson is a made man. I’ve been a fan of Bill since I stepped on to the scene of WordPress some time ago. From a distance, he has a really lean and mean service product. “Your WordPress website…
Roughly 2.2 million total free downloads across 9 themes and monthly revenue upwards of $35k a month. Meet Trent Lapinski, CEO of CyberChimps themes. I invited Trent on to the show to tell us all about what it’s like to earn a living selling premium themes and supporting such a large install base. Aside from…
