Business
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…
Continue readingBusiness 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…
Continue readingOn 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…
Continue reading20-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…
Continue readingFollow our SXSW Adventures
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
Continue readingOn Being Human … Again
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…
Continue readingOn Flow and Optimal Experiences
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 ……
Continue readingWordPress Plugin Store Launches Tomorrow
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…
Continue readingOn Using The Right Tools for the Right Job: Video
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…
Continue readingWhat’s the Difference Between Free and Premium Products
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…
Continue reading