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Heading to a major WordCamp event can be an overwhelming experience for the brand new ‘camper. Having hundred if not thousands of WordPress-loving peers under one roof might have you stuck in your tracks, no pun intended. How do you meet new people? How do you get noticed? How do you recharge if you’re an […]
Web accessibility was something I was afraid to discuss with clients, when I ran my agency. I didn’t know much about it, where to begin, or how much…
I forget that some WordPress users, even freelancers, don’t realize the sheer size of WordPress. From billion dollar hosting companies, to boutique agencies, WordPress is quite vast. It…
I’m chatting with Corey Maas, former owner of the Kanban for WordPress plugin. After a few years back in the saddle of day jobbing, he’s now running Social…
In today’s episode, I want to chat about the current vibe in WordPress. Compare and contrast the community vibe, to the business vibe. Porto looked like a ton…
The most common piece of advice I think WordPress freelancers receive first is to “find your niche.” Easier said than done. Niches are still hard to find. Crowded…
There’s an entire industry built on selling you the Holy Grail of raising your rates. Courses, memberships, ebooks, videos all assuring you that $10,000 projects are just a…
There’s a new cohort of WordPress celebrity hitting the spotlight these days and I’m here for it. When we look back in the Gutenberg history books we’ll be…
What does the word entrepreneur mean anymore? To you? I think there’s that slightly jaded view of the TechCrunch Disrupt vision of days gone by. Building a unicorn.…
What’s the side effect from WordPress changing so rapidly? We’re dragging blocks, inserting patterns, and visually building our themes these days. There’s been great discussion spurred around themes,…
If you found your way to this episode from my newsletter, thanks for taking part in one of the areas I lack most in: emailing my list. If…
The house that WordPress built…or will build. It can be challenging for new WordPress freelancers to get started in this industry. You have to find the right tools,…
Welcome back to the Matt Report, where we continue our special 2-part series with Josepha Haden Chomposy. If you haven’t listened to the previous episode, I suggest you…
If you’re like me, you know Josepha Haden Chomposy is the Director for WordPress the open source project in title, but you probably don’t know what she does…
I mentor at a local business accelerator for sustainable startups that have community impact. Small — no, tiny — startups that are just getting out of the idea…
Forming a successful partnership in business might be the most powerful, yet, most challenging things to do right. This goes beyond simply linking to each others business or…
There’s a fine balance between optimizing your services for profits and providing satisfactory value for the money you charge your customers. Let me frame that for you: A…
I came across Kristen Youngs’ YouTube channel while I was exploring the popular no code Bubble.io platform. At first, I thought she was creating the typical tutorial videos…
Courage might be the most valuable trait running through an entrepreneur’s veins. The stories shared on this podcast are born from some of the most difficult times for…
What a difference 3-plus-something years makes. Remember the Page Builder race? Then remember when Gutenberg came on the scene smashing the ground, cracking the earth beneath her like…
“Operating system for the web” has lingered around the ol’ noodle since I heard Matt Mullenweg mutter those words some 6 or 8 years ago. The headline made…
WordPress product pricing is too cheap. Elementor, the most popular page builder for WordPress these days, has announced a price hike which will come into effect on March…
After Automattic released their experiment with selling $5,000 websites, I published a video, I spell it wordpress now. A video which has been viewed over 1,400 times and…
Just a quick note about today’s episode: While my son’s really enjoyed hearing themselves with the echo effect on when I let them play with my podcasting set…
While the life of a content creator might look glamorous on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok — it might be one of the most challenging businesses you can start.…
I love finding entrepreneurs at the intersections of starting something new, discovering their customers, and earning those first few dollars in revenue. Noah Bragg joins us today to…
Monetizing “WordPress content” like a blog, a podcast, or a YouTube channel is tricky business. Results are rarely immediate for most creators, with the Google SERP odds being…
If you thought running a membership website was easy, try throwing a global pandemic into the mix. Jason Resnick joins us today to talk about the upcoming re-launch…
When it comes to being profitable, nothing beats a fine-tuned process. As I grew my agency, some 15 years ago, the first thing I looked into was a…
I’ll give you a second to read today’s show title… That’s how I felt talking to Iain Poulson. Like, this dude is Neo, from the Matrix. How does…
I recently shared a talk about marketing your WordPress service or business at the London WordPress meetup. Dan Maby, former guest of the show, invited me on share…
I came across a tweet by the team over at GiveWP sharing Rachel’s message about spinning up a WordPress site in a weekend, which enabled her client to…
I can’t believe it was nearly a year and a half ago when Dany Maby appeared on the podcast to talk about his charitable cause for supporting wellbeing…
I don’t know about you, but I love a good “started from the back of a van and built an empire” story. That’s how Vito Peleg started his…
Working and learning from Sean during his time at Pagely was a real blessing for me. It’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks, but Sean has…
The art of pricing your WordPress freelance projects is forever in motion. I guess that’s why it’s an art, you spend months crafting a new pitch or approach,…
Authenticity and that digital handshake is such a hard formula for companies to get right these days. All too often I see content or marketing campaigns treated as,…
We’re back with another amazing episode of The Matt Report! Paul Jarvis, the author of Company of One and creator of Fathom Analytics & WPComplete, joins me to…
Matt Medeiros starts 2019 and the second part of Season 8 with his interview with Dan Maby. Dan is a self-described wearer of many hats and is the…
Matt Medeiros finishes Season 8 with this interview of Robby Mccullough, who is a co-founder of the Beaver Builder page builder and is from the Bay area. Matt…
Matt Medeiros continues Season 8 with this interview discussing changes in the WordPress community. Liam Dempsey and Tara Claeys are running WordPress businesses, they are consultants and produce…
Matt Medeiros continues Season 8 with the third roundtable episode talking to Naomi Bush, Brad Williams, and Rebecca Gill. Matt discusses a recent podcast with Matt Mullenweg and…
Matt continues with Season 8 with the second roundtable episode talking to Jennifer Bourn, Davinder Singh Kainth and Chris Badgett. This panel represents the thought leaders in the…
This is the first roundtable of Season 8 where Matt Medeiros, Jason Resnick, Sara Dunn, and Nathan Allotey discuss the changes in the WordPress community. Each business owner talks…
In this episode, Matt Medeiros wraps up the season interviewing Michelle Schulp from Marktime Media In Minneapolis. Michelle is an independent designer and front-end developer who works with…
In this episode, Matt Medeiros follows up with Troy Dean to discuss what he is doing with his business in 2018. They cover the online and education space.…
On today’s episode, we’re talking with Brent Jett. Brent is a lead designer and WordPress developer at Nehmedia. He is an accomplished photographer who loves taking photos. He…
On today’s episode, we’re talking for the first time with Davinder Singh Kainth. Davinder is an author and has been published on many sites including BasicWP, Simple Pro…
On today’s episode, we’re talking with Chris Wallace of Lift UX. Chris has been a partner of Lift UX where he has been running a high-end agency with…
Jonathan Perez has been running a successful side hustle called SureFire Web Services. He shares the lessons he has learned about running a business and how you should…
Page builders have become very popular in the last couple of years. We are discussing how Beaver Builder has had explosive growth and how it impacts the user…
AJ Morris, Product Manager at Liquid Web, shares the lessons he learned from running his own boutique agency before joining the web hosting company. There’s a lot of…
Have you ever wondered how WordPress is made? Today’s guest, Helen Hou-Sandi of 10up, is leading the WordPress 4.7 release and joins us to discuss how the pieces…
Wrapping up the gap season, I’ve invited Diane Kinney to host her very own Q&A on the show. I met Diane a few years ago, after launching my…
The main goal of my gap season is to introduce new ideas, conversations, and concepts from around the WordPress community. Today, I’m proud to have had the opportunity…
I met Topher a few years back when we were plopped down near one another at a WordCamp after party. We never met, or crossed paths before. In…
This freelancer has designed a business where customers come to her, and pipeline is never a concern. Megan Gray, founder of House of Grays, teaches us the secret to her freelancing success.
Paul Jarvis and I sit down to discuss what it's like to be a freelancer in 2016, sell digital products, and launch a SaaS business. Is this stuff still possible?
Learn how to market yourself and your services through relationship building and partnerships with Tonya Mork of Know the Code.
A top-to-bottom discussion with Chris Lema about pricing products, servicing customers, and persevering through the business world.
When I wrote the blog post about WordPress not being easy for small business owners, Kronda reached out and said we should connect. I thought her material would be perfect for the show, and boy was I right. Kronda takes us down the path of servicing small business website needs and what it really takes to do it right.
Are you part of a local WordPress meetup and you’re interested in growing that into an annual WordCamp? Or maybe you’re generally interested in what goes on behind the…
I’m a firm believer in fully understanding the essentials (or fundamentals) of any problem you’re trying to solve. For instance, you might not be a designer, but you’re…
Enter part 4 of our web design series, Managing the Fifty-Thousand Dollar Web Project. The Matt Report Web Design Series Part 1: Discovery Process Part 2: Setting the…
John Hawkins founder of 9Seeds, joins us to breakdown how to sell, support, and manage a 5 - 15k web project budget.
It’s easy for us to sit back and tell consultants to raise their rates and set better expectations, but it’s another story when we are the customer. Today’s guest is…
The podcast is back! We’re (finally) entering into that web design story line I’ve been promising you for quite some time now. I’ve been sitting on the entire…
Today, I’m excited to finally have Matt Mullenweg join us on the Matt Report podcast. We’re going to satisfy our typical entrepreneur appetite by diving into his day-to-day…
Last week I showed you how I reverse engineer my competition in 10 minutes. Today, Nathan Wright of Theme of The Crop joins the Matt Report podcast to…
Update: It’s with heavy-heart that I mention Clint’s passing. He will be missed. Think about why you ventured into client services. Did you quit your cushy day job…
I invited my good friend, Brian Casel, to return to our airwaves and teach us a new lesson — productizing. Brian, like most of us, started as a…
Zoe Rooney’s business niche has evolved into being known as the designer’s developer. Shaping a narrower focus has helped Zoe’s business grow in a sustainable way and has…
Since the early days of BuddyPress plugin, David Bisset has focused his freelance developement business around integrating it into his highly customized client projects. He has been able…
Imagine you are working with new client and during your discovery meeting the business owner tells you they want to work with you to fix up their website,…
Attention WordPress agency owners…or hopeful owners! In today’s episode, I sit down with Jennifer Bourn of Bourn Creative and hash out what it takes to go from freelancer…
Being a freelancer means you get to run your business your way. More than likely you start by building your personal brand. You take a deep breathe and…
Shawn DeWolfe, co-founder of ThoseDeWolfes Creative, reaches his hand into both the WordPress and Drupal “cookie jars” depending on the nature of the project he’s working on. With…
It has almost been 1 year since I met Troy Dean as a guest on his own WordPress podcast. Shortly after that, I met him at PressNomics, where…
Curtis McHale is a returning guest on the Matt Report. In this return appearance on the Matt Report, Curtis shares how and why his rule of no weeknight…
Adam Clark’s journey to becoming the WordPress-loving freelance developer he is today took a detour. Adam started out in the field of journalism and moved into using and…
Do you have to train your clients on using WordPress after a site launch? In today’s episode I get to sit down with someone I have a ton…
Fan favorite Carrie Dils joins the show today to talk about GiggleSnort — I mean WordPress freelancing. Carrie brings us through some amazing stories, from bootstrapping a greeting…
One day I’ll write a book about how the experience of selling cars should be a precursor to becoming an entrepreneur. In fact, I’ve put some thoughts together…
It’s not often one has the chance to share a stage with guru of responsive design Ethan Marcotte, as I did during WordCamp Boston 2013. Ok, so it…
Who wants to be in the client services field when you can be in product? After all, the road to the Golden Chalice is lined with riches and…
Sometimes I should learn to keep my mouth shut. But if I did, we wouldn’t get awesome interviews like this one with James Schramko of superfastbusiness.com. I was listening…
Am I the only one that has an urge to start writing a book when the winter time rolls around? Brian Casel returns to The Matt Report to…
You’re an entrepreneur still trading time for dollars — how do you get out of that? You launch a new WordPress website for a client and everyone is…
A while back I said Shane Pearlman is the Godfather of Freelancing. If that’s true, than Bill Erickson is a made man. I’ve been a fan of Bill…
If there were ever a mob or “Family” of WordPress freelancers, it’s a safe bet that Shane Pearlman would be head of the family. I had always known…
How long have you been freelancing? Long enough to think you’re the man? Brian Richards is one of the keenest entreprenerus that I’ve interviewed. The funny thing is,…
What do you do when your agency is burned by bad service and unlucky outsourcing? Roll your own offering. Our latest guest Robert Neu of YouNeedFat.com takes us…
Every now and again you come across an individual who is just knocking it out of the park with awesome stuff. Recently for me, it’s Chris Lema an…
Brad Williams founder of WebDevStudios joins us to give us a behind the scenes look at this fast growing WordPress agency. He’s also a fellow WordPress media man…
Yes, I jumped Jeff of WPTavern ahead of the line! The orignal WordPress media man has been all in the news lately. One fascinating thing about Jeff is,…
I found Brent through this article, where he told us never to say WordPress in our web project negotiations. We want to leave the tech out of the conversation and…
With so many WordCamps and new WordPress meetups cropping up it’s hard to decide where to spend your frequent flyer miles. But, what if you don’t have to…
Have you ever had that mouth wide open, I just met a celebrity feeling? That’s the way I felt when I interviewed Rafal Tomal lead WordPress designer at…
You have to wear many hats as a freelancer. The question is, do you really want to? Ryan Duff joins us in Episode 26 to discuss his journey…
Looking for ways to find more clients, land bigger projects, grow a network of trusted peers and increase revenue? I sit down with Aaron Holbrook of A7 Web…
Keep it simple stupid. Take your idea and cut it and half and then cut it in half again. Then pick the top 3 features of you product…
Have you noticed an increase in WordPress media lately? Podcasts, YouTube channels, weekly newsletters, and recently a 24 hour live marathon are all on the rise. It’s why I…
Ever wonder what it’s like to work at Automattic? Not sure what or who Automattic is? Meet my guest Erick Hitter as he introduces us to the life…
Want to learn how to be more productive in your freelance career or WordPress business? If you answered yes, you’ve come to the right place. Meet Mike Vardy…
Becoming an entrepreneur takes a special person. Some might say passionate, driven, and even crazy. I only have two words to describe Mr. Saddington: Focus and clarity. If…
How do you land the $100k project? Watch this interview with Jose Caballer. If you’re a freelancer, startup, or growing agency one thing you will always face is…
What do you get when you combine a WordPress web show thirsty for entrepreneur knowledge and a guy who did a talk dressed in a crushed velvet robe…
Think freelancing is a tough gig? Try moving half way around the world and rebuilding your business from the ground up. In this amazing interview with Amber Weinberg,…
What makes a support team, business, or community successful? Someone with awesome drive, who communicates well, and genuinely cares about the customer. That’s just a small part of what makes…
Some of us love what we do and some of us do not. Tom McFarlin joined me to talk about building his WordPress freelance career. He’s a partner…
Making money while you sleep is awesome. Making money while you sleep using WordPress is even better. Meet Brian Casel of CasJam Media. In episode #3 of The…
I had the chance to interview one of my favorite WordPress personas on Twitter Curtis McHale. I’ve been following Curtis for a while and just love the type…
Watch this interview to learn how Jesse Friedman went from newbie WordPress developer to noted WordPress author of The Web Designers Guide to WordPress (aff. link) in just…
