Business

Some from our iThemes team is at SXSW.com this week. We started a travel blog where you can follow ou fun adventures at our SXSW iThemes Blog

Several decades, maybe even centuries ago, people had personal connections with the proprietors of the businesses they frequently. They were loyal to those businesses because they knew those people and their stories personally. They would not get a haircut, or buy groceries, from anywhere or anyone else, no matter how cheap the alternative was. Then…

I’ve been reading Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. I highly recommend it for most people, but in particular managers, leaders, marketers, programmers, designers … anyone wanting to create or foster the “in the zone” experiences that are commonly associated with sports for their business, products, and overall work (and even leisure…

We’ll be launching our latest venture – PluginBuddy – Thursday, March 4 (yes, that’s tomorrow!). I did this quick video overview to talk about the launch in preparation …. Many people have asked about our business and what our three core brands do …. At iThemes, our main business, we produce WordPress themes (this was…

Here’s Part 2 of Matt Danner and I’s conversations from our recent Nashville trip that spilled over into a video post … in Part 1 we talk about the difference between free and premium products. This one talks about using the right tool for the right job.