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.
If there were ever a mob or “Family” of WordPress freelancers, it’s a safe bet that Shane Pearlman would be head of the family. I had always known about Modern Tribe and their successful plugins, but I never knew much about their progressive take on the WordPress service business. Now that I’ve had the chance…
How long have you been freelancing? Long enough to think you’re the man? Brian Richards is one of the keenest entreprenerus that I’ve interviewed. The funny thing is, he never set out *expecting* to be one. See like most of us starting out in WordPress, we did some favors, got paid a little bit and…
What goes up must come down or in our case, what went down came back up?! You be the judge in my latest interview with Brad Touesnard of Delicious Brains and WP Migrate Pro plugin. Before Brad was helping you migrate WordPress databases, he had visions of bringing an app store like experience to WordPress….
Oh the WordPress media industry — how we love thee. When the news of WPDaily.co shutting down landed on us so abruptly, it left a few of us scratching our heads to say the least. What would happen to it? Who would buy it? Where’s my WordPress news? Well it’s been a few weeks since the…
What do you do when your agency is burned by bad service and unlucky outsourcing? Roll your own offering. Our latest guest Robert Neu of YouNeedFat.com takes us down the journey of starting his WordPress agency and why web marketing along with seo services became the cornerstone of his success. Armed with a developers background…
At the MattReport, we’re always looking for new and interesting ways folks have launched their WordPress business. Some people believe that there’s no difference in a WordPress business, than say, a banana stand — I disagree. Enter Eric Hamm creator of the Catalyst framework and the Dynamik Website Builder to challenge just that thought. Eric has…
If you’re a premium WordPress shop or just running your own business, where do you set the bar? My next guest has a relentless pursuit to create something awesome that his users will love. But hey, that’s easy when you’re total revenue from a premium plugin exceeds $1 million in sales right? Not so much….
Every now and again you come across an individual who is just knocking it out of the park with awesome stuff. Recently for me, it’s Chris Lema an author, speaker, coach, VP and WordPress blogger. If you don’t already subscribe to his blog or follow him on Twitter — you should make a point to do…
Brad Williams founder of WebDevStudios joins us to give us a behind the scenes look at this fast growing WordPress agency. He’s also a fellow WordPress media man and hosts The Dradcast another WordPress podcast. (It’s great, just don’t tell him I said so.) Here’s a fascinating journey of an entrepreneur who picked up his…
Yes, I jumped Jeff of WPTavern ahead of the line! The orignal WordPress media man has been all in the news lately. One fascinating thing about Jeff is, he never fancied himself an entrepreneur. Like many of us, he stumbled upon WordPress and started using it on his own. He fell in love with writing…
I found Brent through this article, where he told us never to say WordPress in our web project negotiations. We want to leave the tech out of the conversation and focus on what we’re solving. After 15 years in the business and selling his agency in 2012, Brent has an interesting story to share about his new pivot into an…
I invited Adam Warner on to the show to talk about his revenue at FooPlugins. For this episode, I was looking for someone who has grown their WordPress business to $60k in annual revenue. What I wasn’t prepared for, was his story about losing $30k+ in his first business. Get your notepad and pen ready, there’s…
With so many WordCamps and new WordPress meetups cropping up it’s hard to decide where to spend your frequent flyer miles. But, what if you don’t have to leave your couch? By day Scott Basgaard serves happiness at WooThemes — by night he’s bringing the entire world together in a 24 hour marathon of WordPress sessions…
The thought that’s been floating around the #DramaPress twittersphere — Does the business track belong at WordCamp? Chris Lema and Jake Goldman join me on a live Google hangout to chat about this topic and more. I’m not going to waste any time here, so let’s dive right in! I’ve made the YouTube video available…
I’m always trying to find new blood for our little community here. Today I bring you John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur on Fire fame. Here’s a local New Englander that started almost a year ago with 0 fans, followers, and podcast downloads. He managed to build a podcast and community to over 100k downloads a…
