There are so many people involved – and billions of dollars – that wordpressing (intentional spelling, defined as building infrastructure for, or deploying content on the internet) is seeing WordPress community ideals and business goals start bumping up against each other more and more often. Recently we had issues around WordPress.org/hosting and Bluehost trademark use […]
Tag: Business
DigitalOcean IPO
DigitalOcean publicly filed its S-1 on February 25. What’s an S-1 and why is this important for industry. S-1 SEC Form S-1 is the initial registration form for new securities required by the SEC for public companies that are based in the U.S. Any security that meets the criteria must have an S-1 filing before […]
Naming Your Business? Pricing? Closing a Sale?
Sometimes the simplest questions bring out the simplest solutions. I have three here, and I guarantee if you’re working for yourself, or someone else, you’ve had to deal with at least one of them at some point (and will again). Naming Your Business or Product Oh boy this is always fun! The hard part is […]
The D. Fish List
What? Who? David J.P. Fisher, Sales Hall of Fame Inductee, speaker, author, and coach, has put together his 5th-annual installment where he looks at how we can more effectively use the last week of the year, Create Massive Leverage with the Last Week of 2020: 18 Experts Show You How to Master 2021 Now: “When […]
Morning Coffee: .TRUST
So this is a little breaking news in the domain name ecosystem, fresh in my inbox from Jothan Frakes, .TRUST TLD moves from NCC Group to UNR (Uniregistry). There are so many top-level domains (TLDs) that it’s hard to keep track but surprised this one hasn’t had more play this year. In the domain name […]
Morning Coffee: Afternoon Performance Blend
A little thought. I am by no means a financial market prognosticator or analyst, but I think the recent poor NYSE/Nasdaq performance and early year-end profit taking are going to push to pent up demand by the third quarter of 2021 for a WordPress IPO. By WordPress I mean the obvious financial leaders who are […]
Morning Coffee: Payments
There has been a lot of news in the last week about web hosting companies. Today we have Epik in the news, The Verge, PayPal cuts ties with domain registrar Epik over digital currency: “… in an open letter to PayPal employees dated October 19th and posted to Epik’s blog, Epik senior vice president for […]
Morning Coffee: WordPress Business Happenings
Today’s lead goes to an article from September 28, courtesy of Bloomberg, Endurance International Group Revives Possible Sale Talks: “The web-hosting company is working with an adviser on options, the people said, asking not to be identified as the matter is private. No final decisions have been made and Endurance may choose to remain a […]
Morning Coffee: Just Show Up
The brilliant Kim Doyal must be channeling me, ok that’s not even close to reality but I do like to say #AlwaysBeThere. Kim has put together a piece and podcast on her thoughts for #JustShowUP, What it Means to Just Show UP: “Nothing will grow your business faster than taking complete responsibility for everything … […]
Morning Coffee Monday Mashup: Cubicle Culture
Monday’s the day to look out the window at non – WordPress, agency, SaaS, hosting, ecommerce, open source topics. Remember the days when we looked out office windows? Want to go back? You might not be able to. The times they are a changing!