Business

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…

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…

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…

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.

Matt Danner and I sat down to record a conversation we had over a recent business trip when I saw he was using a free and cool iPhone app that I saw being sold as a premium app a while back. It struck a cord with me and Matt had some great insight to share.…

Just thinking about some experiences and attitudes I’ve witnessed in the past (not necessarily just as a boss), I starting thinking about what my dad taught me about work ethic. He said, “If you agree to a job, give your best. Don’t shortchange your employer.” What that means is … if you agree to a…