If you want to hear from folks behind companies like HubSpot, Help Scout, Indie Hackers, startups.com, Castos, Jilt, Delicious Brains and Beaver Builder, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to the WPMRR WordPress Podcast, a weekly show completely dedicated to bringing you the very best from the intersection of WordPress and monthly recurring revenue. Whether you’re new to the WordPress community or a wily open-source veteran, join the founder and CEO of WP Buffs and The WPMRR Virtual Conference, Joe Howard, as he hosts a diverse crowd of the best and brightest WordPress minds around. Want to grow a plugin business to 300,000 active installs in 1.5 years? Listen to Bhanu’s episode. Want to run a podcast that’s driven 500,000,000 downloads? Bradley’s episode is for you. Want to scale a design agency to $2M ARR while working less and spending more time with family? Tune into Jay’s episode. And with guests like Chris Lema, Joost de Valk and Brian Krogsgard, you’re guaranteed to get the inside scoop on the future of the WordPress economy itself. Every week comes new stories that are guaranteed to give you lightbulb moments in your journey of building your own WordPress business. Subscribe today and we’ll be in your podcast player this upcoming Tuesday!
In today’s episode, Joe talks to Artur Grabowski of Extendify – a team of passionate professionals with the goal of building a modern WordPress experience that just works. It has a templates library and other great WordPress products such as Editor Plus, Redux, Gutenberg Forms, ACF Blocks, MetaSlider, Block Slider, and GutenbergHub.com. Artur shares…
In today’s episode, Joe talks to Artur Grabowski of Extendify – a team of passionate professionals with the goal of building a modern WordPress experience that just works. It has a templates library and other great WordPress products such as Editor Plus, Redux, Gutenberg Forms, ACF Blocks, MetaSlider, Block Slider, and GutenbergHub.com. Artur shares…
In today’s episode, we’re reeling in another throwback episode, Joe’s interview with Leah Knobler of Help Scout – a support tool and customer service platform used by customer-centric organizations around the world, from small businesses to high-growth startups and nonprofits. Leah gives us several actionable nuggets about hiring, scaling, managing, and growing a remote…
In today’s episode, let’s listen again to Joe’s conversation with Nathan Hirsch, the co-founder of FreeUp – a solution platform to finding & hiring pre-vetted freelancers online, only allowing the top 1% into the network out of hundreds of freelancer applicants every week. Nathan talks about how he co-founded a solution platform that caters…
In today’s episode, we bring back Joe’s conversation with Jennifer Bourn, a designer for twenty years, an agency owner for thirteen years, and a blogger for ten years. She is founding partner at Bourn Creative, a full service design and development company that specializes in purpose-driven design and everything WordPress. Jennifer talks about her…
In today’s episode, Joe talks to Melanie Phung, Owner and Principal Consultant at Orange Spark Digital – a boutique consulting practice to help organizations achieve greater visibility and success online. Services offered include website strategy service, search engine optimization, content strategy, and web analytics. Melanie shares how she manages her boutique SEO agency, getting…
In today’s episode, Joe talks to Kim Coleman, the co-founder of Paid Memberships Pro – the most complete WordPress membership plugin. She has her hand in all aspects of the development, management, and marketing for the product and the team. She oversees frontend development for the core open source plugin and over 75 Add Ons. …
In today’s episode, Joe talks to Marc Benzakein, the Operations Manager at ServerPress LLC – a software services company that provides workflow tools for WordPress Developers and Designers. His experience ranges from network administration to software development to upper level management in both Internet Service Providers as well as Software and Services Development. They…
In today’s episode, Joe talks to Chris Klosowski, the Director Of Technology at Sandhills Development, LLC. He joined Sandhills as a lead developer in 2015, and before that, he was a software developer at GoDaddy.com. Chris shares his journey on leadership coaching and acquiring professional knowledge to help keep his team moving. Also, they…
In today’s episode, Joe talks to Eithan Abramovich of Highly Analytics, a Medium-style tooltip made for content creators to help understanding maximize how your passive readers interact with your content. Eithan shares the ideas behind creating the plugin, features users can use in the free version, and offering premium in the future to help boost…
In today’s episode, Joe talks to Pippin Williamson, the Managing Director at Sandhills Development, LLC – the home to several WP plugins such as AffiliateWP, Easy Digital Downloads, and WP Simple Pay. He’s also the man behind Sandhills Brewing, a microbrewery that focuses on oak-aged and oak-fermented beers. Pippin retells his day-to-day hustle in…
In today’s episode, Joe talks to Matt Mullenweg, one of the founding developers of WordPress and the Founder and CEO of Automattic – a distribution company committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion with the goal to democratize publishing and commerce. Matt talks about the systematic approach of Automattic, WordPress, and the rest of the…
In today’s episode, Joe talks to Courtney Engle Robertson, a WordPress teacher dedicated to helping businesses streamline their online marketing. She has been teaching basic through advanced software, hardware, and social media uses in plain English for third graders through grandparents, including businesses and bootcamp students since 2001. Courtney reveals the unlimited passion behind…
In today’s episode, Joe talks to Joe Casabona, a creator of online courses at Creator Courses and for LinkedIn Learning, and hosts a podcast called How I Built It. They share similar sentiments on parenting toddlers, mental health check while juggling work and parenting, and expanding a Circle community among other WordPress related responsibilities. …
In today’s episode, Joe talks to Michelle Frechette of GiveWP, the perfect online fundraising platform to increase your online donations, manage donors, and gain insight on your effort — all from directly within your WordPress website. Michelle enthusiastically retells her fundraising expertise at GiveWP. She shares her fool-proof strategies on getting recurring donations and…
