Growing a $40k+ monthly recurring WordPress support business
This is not the first time Dan Norris has been featured on Matt Report. In November 2013 Dan applied and was accepted as one of the 4 business contestants featured in the first Matt Report WordPress...
View ArticleLeadin plugin: Finding growth within Hubspot
Leadin is a project that was conceived and continues to be nurtured at the Hubspot headquarters. While there is a plugin to integrate WordPress with the Hubspot system plugin, Leadin was expressly...
View ArticleTurn your consulting service into a product
I invited my good friend, Brian Casel, to return to our airwaves and teach us a new lesson — productizing. Brian, like most of us, started as a “web designer” then made the shift to product via...
View ArticleClint Warren: How WordPress Saved His Career
Update: It’s with heavy-heart that I mention Clint’s passing. He will be missed. Think about why you ventured into client services. Did you quit your cushy day job for extravagant visions of the 4 Hour...
View ArticlePeople you should follow in 2015
Anyone that inspires you. Anyone that does great work. Anyone that is starting from the bottom. Anyone that is generous with their knowledge. Anyone that teaches you a lesson, everyday. Anyone that...
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The Precursor to Greatness
It’s that time of year again where everyone is setting out to achieve some new goal. Be it health and fitness or reorganizing their business aspirations. Noise will fill the twittersphere of blogging...
View ArticleEpisode 100
In just over two years time, I’ve finally accumulated 100 published iTunes episodes of the Matt Report. It’s been a fun ride and I’m looking forward to the next 100. The WordPress podcasting space is...
View ArticleHow to journal for sanity
All too often we get lost in thinking about creating content for a larger audience to consume. We worry about headlines, retweets, and shares. Content is king and it’s the hottest advice for driving...
View ArticleEmbracing Social
I’m always surprised to find digital business owners that are not social savvy. Actually, maybe I’m not anymore. I couldn’t begin to tally the amount of no response situations I find myself stumbling...
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Embracing business
Today, I’d like to talk about embracing business. As creators of product, we’re always after the shiny object. If you’re like me, we’re constantly chasing the opportunity. Chasing an opportunity leads...
View ArticleAndrew Youderian of the eCommerceFuel podcast
I don’t recall exactly how I stumbled across Andrew’s podcast, eCommerceFuel, but when I did I was hooked. Here’s an entrepreneur talking strictly about the e-commerce market, with a strong focus on...
View ArticleMinimal Viable Podcast
I listen to a lot of podcasts. In fact, my Stitcher app reports that I have over 1,000 hours of listening time since I started using the service. That doesn’t count when I had used iTunes, listened...
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How to reverse engineer your competition in 10 minutes
Knowledge is power. What you’re about to read is not a magic bullet to beating out your competition. It’s also not some secret NSA-like dive into their data or secret documents. This data that is...
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DigitalOcean for WordPress Hosting & Staging
My father grew up tinkering with cars and I grew up tinkering with servers. Back in the day, I was a computer salesman at Circuit City. Small Office/Home Office was the name of the department – team...
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The Plight of The Cobbler
One day you woke up and said to yourself that you wanted to control our own destiny. No more listening to the man or long hours stuck in a cubical. “This podcast said I could do it!” you shout. So you...
View ArticleReverse Engineer Part 2: Interviewing my target
Last week I showed you how I reverse engineer my competition in 10 minutes. Today, Nathan Wright of Theme of The Crop joins the Matt Report podcast to tell us how accurate my findings were. We’ll also...
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Innovating WordPress Themes
Recently, Tom McFarlin brought the idea of innovating WordPress themes to center stage. I always find his posts thought-provoking and I felt this one in particular warranted a blog post of my own....
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Interview with Matt Mullenweg
Today, I’m excited to finally have Matt Mullenweg join us on the Matt Report podcast. We’re going to satisfy our typical entrepreneur appetite by diving into his day-to-day routine and we’ll learn what...
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Warming up to ManageWP.org
I’ll admit, I was skeptical when ManageWP.org launched. “Here’s another Digg,” I thought. Do we really need another source of WordPress news? Will this just turn into a link farm? A popularity contest...
View ArticleHonoring Clint Warren
Life has a funny way of introducing you to a perfect stranger, forming that into a strong bond, and then ripping it away from you at the blink of an eye. Last night, I learned of the passing of my...
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