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Alex Denning & Ben Gillbanks of the MasterWP WordPress newsletter

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In this episode, Matt Medeiros interviews Alex Denning and Ben Gillbanks who have started the newsletter MasterWP.    MasterWP weekly is the newsletter for WordPress professionals. Each week you can get a collection of apps, tools, and links that will make life better and provoke thought.  The newsletter provides a good mix of web standards and best practices.

 

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Guests:

Alex Denning is the marketing piece of MasterWP and works with small and medium-sized WordPress solopreneurs, agencies and companies on their themes, plugins, and products, solving the marketing problem they don’t want to deal with.

Ben Gillbanks is the other part of MasterWP.  He is a WordPress developer, web designer, and part-time Entrepreneur who runs Pro Theme Design, a premium WordPress themes store.

What you will learn from this Episode:

  • The WordPress Industry has been shifting a bit and showing a downtrend with many WordPress podcasts ending or changing cadence. (01:00)
  • MasterWP is a high-quality newsletter that you can look forward to every week. (4:36)
  • MasterWP is completely free. You can sign up for the newsletter for the latest news in the WordPress industry. (6:18)
  • The MasterWP newsletter was not created as a marketing platform that will eventually be monetized (like Post Status). (7:40)
  • Sponsorships are currently covering the costs for MasterWP. (8:40)
  • A large Google doc is used to work collaboratively on the newsletter with links before publishing. (12:50)
  • The newsletter is copied into a MailChimp template and then sent out. (13:18)
  • Alex started very early with a Video Game review...
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