WP Elevation WordPress Business Podcast

In Episode 9 of the WP Elevation podcast I spoke with Collis Ta’eed, CEO of Envato, home of ThemeForest, CodeCanyon, GraphicRiver and more recently, Microlancer. I was eager to hear how Collis and his wife have built such a behemoth of a company and I wanted to ask him how he responds to the criticism that his marketplace based business has devalued web design and web development. His answers are well worth listening out for. I interviewed Collis just after I had returned from Pressnomics and we had  a great chat off camera about the WordPress business space in general and where it’s headed. Collis is one of the true gentlemen of the WordPress business world and it was an absolute delight to spend some time chatting with him. Envato has grown so rapidly it makes the mind boggle. You can reach out and thank Collis on email or Twitter. Collis suggested I interview the guys behind the smash hit theme Avada (around $150K in sales per month!!!). So ThemeFusion boys, I’m coming to get you. Hint: to enter the competition, leave a comment below telling us the #1 tweak to a WordPress website that you’d like to palm off to Microlancer.

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In Episode 8 of the WP Elevation podcast I spoke with Shawn Hesketh from WP101. “What?” I hear you ask. “Isn’t he a competitor of the Video User Manuals plugin” I hear you continue to protest, befuddled. Well yes he is. He is also a genuinely awesome dude and we happen to get along very well, so we spoke about WordPress, being in the education business and building communities. I interviewed Shawn while I was in the Netherlands attending WordCamp Europe and I got the episode number wrong. This is actually episode #8, not #7 as I say at the start of the interview. You can reach out and thank Shawn at WP101. Shawn suggested I interview Bill Erickson. Bill, I’m coming to get you. Hint: to enter the competition, leave a comment below telling us what kind of video training you’d like to see offered at WP101.

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In Episode #7 of the WP Elevation podcast I spoke with Maren Kate Donovan, CEO and founder of Zirtual, a US based virtual assistant service. I recently hired a virtual assistant, or a Zirtual assistant as they call them, through the Zirtual service and was blown away at their excellent on-boarding process. I also wanted to find out from Maren why and how she has built her company to what it is today.

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John talks about how he tested the idea for Ghost with a simple blog post that went viral and how he managed to pull off a kickstarter campaign that landed him almost £200K in startup funding.

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In Episode #5 of the WP Elevation podcast I had the pleasure of talking a fellow Australian Japh Thomson who is WordPress Evangelist at Envato, the company behind several creative marketplaces like ThemeForest and CodeCanyon.

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In Episode #4 of the WP Elevation podcast, I talk to Shane Pearlman from Modern Tribe, a collective of WordPress freelancers working with some of the biggest brands on the planet and the makers of the awesome Events Calendar Pro plugin, among others. Oh yeah, and we’re giving away a copy of the Events Calendar Pro plugin, so watch the interview for how to enter (and you'll learn heaps of cool stuff from Shane about freelancing).

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In Episode #3 of the WP Elevation podcast, I talk to Shayne Sanderson from Maintainn, a WordPress updating and maintenance service about client work, managing WordPress updates, project management, working remotely with the guys at WebDev Studios and how Skype let us down. Oh yeah, and we're giving away three months of the Maintainn service.

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In Episode #2 of the WP Elevation podcast I decided to reach out to the host of the other WordPress podcast that focuses on business. Matt Medeiros from the Matt Report. Sadly my Internet connection makes Matt look like a bad animation but the interview is full of gold. Plus, we're giving away some cool prizes.

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In this very first episode of the new WP Elevation podcast I was fortunate enough to chat with Brennan Dunn about being a freelancer. Brennan is a successful freelancer who now helps other freelancers through his books, courses and software.

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