Category: Business

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The Business-IT Industry Relationship

The WordPress platform allows for a number of users to build business ideas over a number of options. Browsing online or offline (at a WordCamp or a regular WordPress meetup event) we could get in touch with WP developers, designers, writers, system administrators, support engineers and other technical. On the other hand, small teams are managed by WP managers and team leaders, CTOs and CEOs of WordPress-driven companies, financial managers aware of different aspects correlated with the eCommerce activity status as well. So, by all means, we have a coherent and cooperative relation between managing and executive personnel, that is… Continue Reading
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Remote Work Is Just As Good

I have a hard time resisting remote employment opportunity discussions online, due to the fact that I spent several years of my life on a flexible timing and remote work business structure. Today's reason is Rarst's tweet regarding StackExchange: https://twitter.com/Rarst/statuses/297460912586121216 Even though I'm not a regular help guy there, I do try to follow discussions and threads (especially in the WordPress section, as well as Java categories) and I admire their policy of remote working. I was just as impressed by GitHub when two of their employees attended OpenFest and defined their values in their track (the video available here). Communication is… Continue Reading
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QA != Tester

Last Saturday I had one of those epiphany moments for something way too obvious, still too shocking for me at the moment of speaking. It was related to the QA process and the place of the QA role in the software industry. I got involved in a discussion on Saturday evening regarding several different technical specialties. There were three of us teaching classes at the Telerik Academy here. Trainees could end up as: developers, frontend engineers, support experts, QA guys etc. Not surprisingly for me, most people tend to lean towards the development department, i.e. trying to join the dev… Continue Reading
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Regular Blogging and Misconceptions

After a short discussion on Twitter related to my Daily Blogging is disappointing post, Chris Lema said that I was wrong: @mattmedeiros @sarahpressler @no_fear_inc Yes he is. But he's also wrong. :) I'd explain, but I'll do it tomorrow. In a new daily post. :) — Chris Lema (@chrislema) January 13, 2014 and then he followed up with another post - Five reasons I recommend daily blogging (even if you disagree), with another subtitle labeled "This is a post about regular writing". Now, since I respect Chris Lema a lot and being able to chat with him helped me and my business,… Continue Reading
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Saving Media in 2018 – Readers Pick The Winner

We live in interesting times. Social media has completely disrupted the way people consume information and get informed about the latest events. A study from Pew Research Center quoted by recode states: More than two-thirds of American adults — 67 percent, to be exact — “get at least some of their news on social media,” according to new data released Thursday by Pew Research Center. That’s up from 62 percent of American adults in 2016. When Google Reader was closed on July 1, 2013, the majority of their users stopped using RSS. Sure, some switched to Feedly or a browser extension. But… Continue Reading
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New Book: Making Money Online with WordPress

My latest book is finally ready - "Making Money Online with WordPress". This is your guide to building your remote online business with WordPress, which will reveal various opportunities for everyone to bootstrap an online business based on the WordPress platform. In 28 pages I have shared my experience with the WordPress platform, working with numerous non-technical clients on their first business initiatives. We have created different types of web projects - online stores, SaaS solutions, digital marketing portals, CRMs and so forth, and it's always challenging to prepare a stable and reliable system for an established agency working offline for… Continue Reading
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Leaders and Responsibility

The Power of Alignment After my WordSesh talk about Code Architecture yesterday, Chris Lema gave a business talk on "The Power of Alignment". It's a great talk about the expectations people and business organizations have, and why relationships don't work out all the time due to miscommunication and false expectations, or misalignment as Chris defines it during his talk. Is Life Fair? A similar idea was covered in another post called "The problem isn’t that life is unfair – it’s your broken idea of fairness". The author reveals the misconceptions of most people and their expectations of the real life. The… Continue Reading
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The Salary Factor

Last week Eric Mann posted his 2014 Salary Survey Results covering some rough figures about our industry and the average salaries paid for different levels of experience. I like aggregated data in general, and it would be nice if more people take on that sort of studies in 2015, extending their horizons across the entire world, including web development companies in Asia, Africa, South America as well. Because "distributed" is a popular lifestyle in the WordPress Community, and it's an important factor that we should never forget about. Before I start, Brian Krogsgard posted about the cost of a WordPress website - which is a post… Continue Reading
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Direct Approach vs. Philosophy Culture

When I was in high school, I joined a forum for philosophers. I was an observer, just monitoring the active users discussing different points of view on the same general principle, or cosmic factor. Later on, I started reading different books on personal skills, psychology and communication. The Esoteric Book The most amazing thing I found was a book. Actually two books - same title, same table of contents. One written by a US writer, the other - from an Indian philosopher. The difference between both books was unbelievable. The US one was completely "how to" with homework assignments after each… Continue Reading
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Content Marketing For Business Benefit

One of the things we did at DevriX in 2014 is focusing more on content marketing. Back in 2011-2013, we kept maintaining a 10-page website with no content since we believed that there are way too many sites out there sharing WordPress tutorials or business tips. Wrong. Ever since we started our tutorials section, we kept growing our visitors base, together with our list of followers and people sharing our resources. Admittedly, there's a lot of work that we need to improve and increase our quality, but we're working in that direction and the numbers are quite positive. Publish For Profits Jennifer… Continue Reading