It’s Official – I’m Helping Write a WordPress ‘Dummies’ Book
My good friend Lisa Sabin-Wilson, author of WordPress for Dummies (where iThemes, my company, is mentioned), myself, and three others of us will be writing a 900-plus-page book called WordPress All-in-One Desk Reference. Actually … we’ve been writing on it for two months now. It’s been hard work but also a blast. And by being
What Drives Us as a Business: Short Videos on our Core Values
I did these short videos this week to highlight some of the core values and philosophies that define us as a team and business. My purpose in these videos is simple: I want you to get to know us and what we’re about at our core. If you know who we are, then you’ll better
We’re Roadtripping To Boulder … in an RV
We just announced today that our team will be traveling to WordCamp Boulder July 10 …. in an RV! Yes … 6 geeks, 1,500 miles and one RV. Check out our little promo video below for why we’re going …. and also follow along our excellent advenuture at iThemesRoadtrips.com.
A Great Honor: Being Pelted with Stress Balls After a Presentation
I just gave my talk on Lessons I’ve Learned as an Entrepreneur to WordCamp Chicago this weekend … and got one of the most awesome honors afterward: being pelted with orange stress balls. At least they didn’t have fruit! The WordCamp Chicago presentation was not recorded but here’s the recording of the first time I
Business Is Always Intensely Personal
You should always take business intensely personal. I certainly do. I’m a firmer believer that if you dedicate your life – 40-plus hours a week, five days a week – to anything, it oughta be worthwhile – and include both healthy doses of purpose and passion. You breathe life into your work. You put your
More Money Not Key to Happiness
Disclaimer: This post is just purely career advice for anyone starting out in their respective fields, whatever that may be …. I’ve experienced all of this personally and am merely sharing some things I think will make you happier and more successful in your work. *** I was reading this article on how to find
Life Lessons, Change and The New Nike Tiger Woods Commercial
Just saw the new Nike Tiger Woods commercial and have to say … it’s phenomenal. Epic. I’ve really loathed the press coverage hysteria around Tiger and the issues that provoked this commercial … he’s an intensely private guy and understandably so. Obviously he has confessed and owned up to his mistakes (despite not needing to
On Workcations
Piyush Patel of Digital Tutors gave some great advice recently in an entrepreneur’s session I attended. He said (poor paraphrase probably), “If you want to test whether your business can exist without you, go completely off the grid for two weeks.” After two years and a great rockin’ team now, I still don’t think I
The Enduring Value of a Good Email List
Internet marketers preach the importance of having a list. I do too. An email list of targeted people in your niche is invaluable to building a sustainable business online. Trust me on this: The bigger and better the list, the more success you’ll enjoy. We launched iThemes with an email list of about 200-300 people.
20-Plus Links to Business Content I’m Digging
I’ve been opening my browser for the past two weeks and it’s just filled with tabs for awesome content I’m saving …. so I just decided to make a big list post. The topics are wide ranging … but mostly concerned with marketing, entrepreneurship, work, motivation and the like … Here Are the Links to