Introducing Jeff Matson

Jeff Matson is the head marketing guy for Gravity Forms and he looks after everything marketing and sales related. Jeff is married to Jamie and they have two dogs. When not working at Gravity Forms or on his own side-projects, Jeff likes to hang out in his own garage arcade.

Show Notes

Website | jeffmatson.net

Twitter | @thejeffmatson

Work Twitter | @gravityforms

Work Facebook | facebook.com/GravityForms

Episode Transcript

Liam: This is Hallway Chats, where we talk with some of the unique people in and around WordPress.

Tara: Together, we meet and chat with folks you may not know about in our community.

Liam: With our guests, we’ll explore stories of living – and of making a living with WordPress.

Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is Episode 48.

Tara: Welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m Tara Claeys.

Liam: And I’m Liam Dempsey. Today, we’re joined by Jeff Matson. Jeff is a head marketing guy for Gravity Forms and he looks after everything marketing and sales related. Jeff is married to Jamie and they have two dogs. When not working at Gravity Forms or on his own side-projects, Jeff likes to hang out in his own garage arcade. Hey, Jeff.

Jeff: Hey, how’s it going?

Tara: Welcome, nice to see you here. Can you tell us a little bit more about yourself?

Jeff: Sure. I work for Gravity Forms and we make a form plugin if you’re not familiar with us or anybody who’s listening is not familiar with us. My job here is to make sure that we get our name out to as many people as possible and we sell as many copies of Gravity Forms as possible.

Tara: Well, I think probably of any form plugins out there, Gravity Forms, just about anybody who works with WordPress has heard of it. Hopefully, that makes your job a little bit easier. Can you tell us about your background? How did you end up there?

Jeff: So my background is ranged from a lot of different places. I’ve done everything from being a jeweler’s assistant, I worked with hosting, I owned my own cell phone repair shop at one point, I worked at an arcade. I did all kinds of different things. But what mostly brought me here was a few years ago, I decided that I wanted a change and I was living in Charlotte, North Carolina at the time and I decided to go work for InMotion Hosting and moved six hours away to Virginia Beach. At that point, I kind of worked my way up at InMotion, and because of my huge passion for WordPress, I became kind of the top WordPress guy over there. Eventually, I kind of outgrew them a little bit. Awesome company, just kind of not the direction I really wanted to be in, and I decided to make a change. Then I got a job offer to work with Gravity Forms. They just happened to be here in Virginia Beach so it worked out really well. Decided that about three years ago and I’m still here.

Tara: Are you a programmer/developer or just– where do your tech skills lie? You’re doing marketing so that’s why I’m asking this question.

Jeff: I’m the developer. Over the years, I do a lot of freelance work on the side as well, various Gravity Forms development-type projects. Even in the marketing side here I do a lot of development, whether it be just anything that we need to do on the site or just anything that I need to tweak. Even if I find a bug real quick at Gravity Forms or something, I’ll usually just fix it myself. Really how we operate a lot here is basically that if you have the skills to do it, just kind of do it. It’s a lot faster sometimes to just fix a quick bug that you find,