Business
I make no secret about the fact that one of my life’s passion is entrepreneurship. But another great passion and pride is for my city (Oklahoma City) and state (Oklahoma). I’m an Okie through and through. I love what’s happening here and want to see my community thrive as we build and support the Oklahoma…
Entrepreneurship is a passion of mine. And for the last couple of years, I’ve become increasingly more intentional about helping budding entrepreneurs live their own dreams … and yes, learn from my mistakes as well as the things we’ve learned that have helped make us successful! Since starting iThemes in January 2008, and thus fulfilling…
WordPress is an amazing piece of open source software with a huge community behind it. As with that comes opportunity to use it to make money (in the right way). For the past 6+ years, I’ve been using WordPress in a number of ways to make money personally and build my personal brand and an…
As part of my StartupSofa blog where I try to offer resources to budding entrepreneurs, I’ve just released a survey to see where you are in the entrepreneurial adventure. If you’re looking to start a business, or already doing one part-time (or heck even full-time), please take 30 seconds to fill this out survey so…
Websites are the best, most affordable, yet underused marketing tool for small businesses. But sadly few businesses understand how to utilize these powerful, measurable marketing vehicles for their businesses. At Made by Wheat, our professional web design services company, we’re doing a special educational workshop on Feb. 23 titled “7 Keys to Successful Business Websites.”…
The good news is … SOPA and PIPA have been delayed by the House and Senate. The bad news is … they will come back with brand new clothes, a shiny new name, and more teeth soon. In fact, they could come back with a venegeance because of the forces behind them. Millions of people…
In 2008 I started my entrepreneurial journey with the founding of iThemes. This month, in fact, is my four year anniversary of becoming a full-time entrepreneur and living my lifelong dream. Throughout the years as we’ve enjoyed our definition of success and others have seen it, I’ve been increasingly asked by friends and acquaintances about…
I’m pleased to announce our new web design services division named Creative Services by iThemes and led by our newest team member Ty Carlson. I began my entrepreneurial journey first as a freelance web designer in WordPress before I started iThemes full-time in January 2008 (and still get random requests for custom work which I…
Since I started my business full-time in 2008, achieving a lifelong dream, I’ve had numerous people, most of whom are friends and family, ask me what it takes to become an entrepreneur. Helping others start the adventure of entrepreneurship is a passion of mine, so I’ve teamed with a couple of veteran entrepreneurs to do…
One of our core values at iThemes (and my personal life) is … Learn and Grow, then Teach and Share. Our commitment has always to helping individuals on our teams grow and push themselves to do more. We started a nonprofit web tech foundation to help individuals in Oklahoma aspire to make careers in web…