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WPMRR WordPress Podcast
Christie is a product manager at Liquid Web. I started WP Buffs and we increase MRR every single month. And here’s the good news. We’re joining forces to bring you The WPMRR WordPress Podcast! If you’ve been looking for a WordPress podcast that’s entirely focused on growing successful WordPress businesses and monthly recurring revenue without taking itself too seriously, we’ve got your back.
Episodes
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- E182 - Selling $100,000+ Projects (Matt Medeiros, Pagely)
- E181 - Making it as an Influencer (Shane Barker, shanebarker.com)
- E180 - Challenges of Organizing 1,000+ Person Virtual Conferences (Brian Richards, WPSessions)
- E179: Leading the Charge on Headless WordPress (Scott Bolinger, AppPresser)
- E178: Running a Growing Sales & Marketing Team (Nathan Bliss, Kinsta)
- E177: The Powerful Women of WordPress (Amy Masson, Women in WP)
- E176: Pixel-Perfect Optimization and Compression (Shane Bishop, EWWW Image Optimizer)
- E175 - Maintaining Your North Star (Justin Busa & Brent Jett, Beaver Builder)
- E174 - Starting a Freelance Career (Sam Smith, gsamsmith.com)
- E173 - Dominating the Enterprise Space (Mario Peshev, DevriX)
- E172 - Eclipsing 33% of the Web (Joost de Valk, Yoast and WordPress)
- E171 - Inventing Inbound Marketing (David Ly Khim, HubSpot)
- E170 - Launching the Fastest Plugin by a New Company to Hit $100,000+ ARR (Vito Peleg, Atarim)
- E169 - Purposefully Repurposing Content (Shaina Weisinger, Repurpose House)
- E168 - Project-Based WordPress Work is Becoming Old-School
- E167 - Telling Stories that Close Deals (Chris Lema, Liquid Web)
- E166 - Why Being a Contrarian Works (Hristo Pandjarov, SiteGround)
- E165 - The Importance of Customer Journeys in Sales (Lucas Prigge, Kinsta)
- E164 - [Live starting today] The WPMRR Virtual Summit 2021
- E163 - Bringing Back Static Sites at a Massive Scale (Miriam Schwab, Strattic)
- E162 - Proudly Staying Small Regardless of Popular Growth Norms (Tara Claeys, DesignTLC)
- E161 – Successfully Shifting from Services to SaaS (Gary Gaspar, Marker.io)
- E160 – Taking Advantage of the Hot WordPress Acquisition Market (Iain Poulson & Alex Denning, FlipWP)
- E159 – Getting Her First 100 Subscription Customers via 5 Highly Productive Hours per Week (Lesley Sim, Newsletter Glue)
- E158 – Writing Copy and Telling Stories that Convert (Todd Jones, Copyflight)
- E157 – Improving Email Deliverability, Open Rates and Personalization (Rene Morozowich, renemzw.com)
- E156 – Digital Nomading When You’re an Essential Employee (with Christie Chirinos)
- E155 – Running a WordPress Newsletter in a Crowded Space (Maciek Palmowski, WP Owls)
- E154 – WordFest (July 23) & Mental Health for Remote Workers (Dan Maby, Big Orange Heart)
- E153 – Going Big by Solving WordPress' Biggest Roadblock (Artur Grabowski, Extendify)
- E152 – Powering Remote Culture for a Team of 90+ (Leah Knobler, Help Scout)
- E151 – Recruiting and Hiring the Top 1% of Freelancers (Nathan Hirsch, FreeUp.com)
- E150 - Mastering Sales and Marketing for Freelancers (Jennifer Bourn, Profitable Project Plan)
- E149 - Core Web Vitals, SEO Strategy & Referral Optimization (Melanie Phung, Orange Spark Digital)
- E148 - 10 Years of Driving Success Through MVPs (Kim Coleman, Paid Memberships Pro)
- E147 - How to Live an Entrepreneurial Life Worth Living (Marc Benzakein, ServerPress)
- E146 - Becoming a Better Manager Through Coaching & Reading (Chris Klosowski, Sandhills Dev)
- E145 - Launching a Social Sharing Plugin from His Dorm Room (Eithan Abramovich, Highly Analytics)
- E144 - Scaling to $350,000 MRR Through Managing Expectations and Trust (Pippin Williamson, Sandhills Development)
- E143 - WordPress vs Wix & the Fight Against Fake News (Matt Mullenweg, Automattic)
- E142 - Teaching WordPress to Get Students Hired (Courtney Robertson, learn.wordpress.org)
- E141 - Prioritizing Mental Health and Growing a Circle Community with 2 Kids at Home (Joe Casabona, How I Built It)
- E140 - Helping Non-Profits Master Recurring Donations (Michelle Frechette, Give)
- E139 - Launching and Cultivating a Paid Circle Community (Corey Haines, Swipe Files)
- E138 - Masterfully Acquiring Massive Businesses (David Vogelpohl, WP Engine)
- E137 - Growing a Powerful Decoupled WordPress Solution (Leonardo Losoviz, GraphQL API)
- E136 - How to Make Client Onboarding a Low Churn Profit-Center (Brian Casel, ProcessKit)
- E135 - A Deep Dive into Cloud Computing, Finding 1,000 True Fans & the Movie Biz (Morgan Lucas, RUN TCP/IP)
- E134 - A Hyper-Tactical Content & SEO Masterclass (Maddy Osman, The Blogsmith)
- E133 - How to Hire Convincingly via Job Boards and Recruitment (Alex Harling, Dynamite Jobs)
- E132 - Christie's Last Episode (and Her Takeaways from 2 Years of Hosting)
- E131 - WP EZI joins WP Buffs: The Acquisition Tell-All
- E130 – Superman on Making Sales and Marketing with WordPress Easy (Gregory Karelitz, HubSpot)
- E129 – Obi-Wan on crossing 300,000 active installs within 1.5 years (Bhanu Ahluwalia, Rank Math)
- E128 - Starting a Diverse Agency (Tracy Levesque, Yikes Inc.)
- E127 - Making the Internet 100% Accessible by 2025 (Rafi Glantz, accessiBe)
- E126 - Navigating The Complexities of People Ops During COVID-19 (Brad Touesnard, Delicious Brains)
- E125 - Finding Success at the Intersection of Design and Development (David Yarde, Sevenality)
- E124 - How to Make A Name For Yourself in A Fully Digital WordPress Community (Joe Simpson, joesimpson.info)
- E123 - How to Effectively Hire and Get Hired (Kyle Maurer, Sandhills Development)
- E122 - Should Your Business Take Political Stances or Stay Silent?
- E121: Lessons learned from 500,000,000+ podcast downloads (Bradley Denham, Record Edit Podcast)
- E120 - WPMRR Top Tips on Sales and Marketing
- E119: What an Automattic IPO in 2021 means for WordPress Professionals (Brian Krogsgard, Post Status)
- E118: Accelerating audience growth through affordable accessibility (Ahmed Khalifa, Hear Me Out! [CC])
- E117: Preparing for Explosive eCommerce Growth this Unique Holiday Season
- E116: Managing 300% growth while raising $120K from TinySeed (Craig Hewitt, Castos)
- E115: Organizing the Page Builder Summit 2020, live this week (Nathan Wrigley and Anchen le Roux, summit.camp)
- E114 - WPMRR and the women of WordPress
- E113 - WPMRR on WordPress as an Open Source Software
- E112 - How to have virtual meetings that are highly effective, actionable and impactful
- E111 - 12 Customer acquisition strategies that drive smart growth (part 2)
- E110 - 12 Customer acquisition strategies that drive smart growth (part 1)
- E109 - Non-traditional team building and doing big name podcast interviews (Noah Labhart, Code Story)
- E108 - Virtual events to attend in 2020 with WordCamp US cancelled
- E107 - Dealing with haters, producing quality content at scale and too many online WordPress events
- E106 - Running a team of 20+ translating the web (Augustin Plot, WeGlot)
- E105 - Breaking the fourth wall, how we run our podcast
- E104 - Bus factor, selling subscriptions and ConvertKit advantages (Q&A)
- E103 - Darth Sidious on everything podcasting (Joe Casabona, podcastliftoff.com)
- E102 - Equity crowdfunding in WordPress (Tom Fanelli, Convesio & Alex Denning, Ellipsis Marketing)
- E101 - Obi-Wan on growing a $2M+ ARR design agency while raising 5 kids (Jay Owens, Design Extensions)
- E100 - Hacked cPanel, client reports, content update requests and other Q&A
- E99 - What it's really like to be people of color in the WordPress community
- E98 - Gimli on everything affiliate marketing (Logan Pickett, Weglot)
- E97 - Dark Helmet on how to effectively hire and get hired (Kyle Maurer, Sandhills Development)
- E96 - Yoda on financially navigating the COVID times (Ben McAdam, buildscalesellsummit.com)
- E95 - Obi-Wan on crossing 300,000 active installs within 1.5 years (Bhanu Ahluwalia, Rank Math)
- E94 - The future of funding in WordPress
- E93 - Obi-Wan on running a growing sales & marketing team (Nathan Bliss, Kinsta)
- E92 - The last 6 months designing, building and launching the new WP Buffs
- E91 - The new WP Buffs has arrived (website walkthrough)
- E90 - MacGyver on email unsubscribes, swag promotion & authentic marketing (Michelle Keefer)
- E89 - We're back! COVID-19 updates, strategies and 100% forgivable loan opportunities
- E88 - WPMRR top tips on acquisitions and being acquired
- E87 - WPMRR top tips on Sales and Marketing
- E86 - WPMRR top tips on remote working
- E85 - WPMRR top tips for developers
- E84 - The WPMRR guide to pricing your product or service
- E83 - The WPMRR Guide to Scaling Your Business
- E82 - Top 5 most downloaded episodes of WPMRR
- E81 - The WPMRR guide to all things MRR, ARR, and Churn
- E80 - The WPMRR guide to freelancing
- E79 - The WPMRR guide to staying healthy
- E78 - The WPMRR guide to community
- E77 - The WPMRR guide to building your WordPress business
- E76 - Fingolfin on building a startup social network that actually makes people productive (Courtland Allen, Indie Hackers)
- E75 - Vibe on successful Product Hunt & AppSumo launches (Araks Nalbandyan, 10Web)
- E74 - Elphaba on proudly staying small regardless of popular growth norms (Tara Claeys, DesignTLC)
- E73 - Chewbacca's unique approach to growth (Corey Haines, Baremetrics)
- E72 - Travis Pastrana on leading the charge on headless WordPress (Scott Bolinger, AppPresser)
- E71 - Doctor Who on educating and diversifying the WordPress community (Angela Bowman, Women In WP)
- E70 - Chewie on his massive virtual summit for WordPress professionals (Jan Koch, WP Mastery)
- E69 - Harry Potter on hiring the top 1% of freelancers (Nathan Hirsch Freeeup.com)
- E68 - Wolverine on making it as an influencer (Shane Barker, shanebarker.com)
- E67 - Boba Fett on masterfully acquiring massive businesses (David Vogelpohl, WP Engine)
- E66 - Hermione on the powerful women of WordPress (Amy Masson, Women in WP)
- E65 - Ginny Weasley on actively creating more inclusive WordPress world (Allie Nimmons, GiveWP)
- E64 - Digital nomading when you're an essential employee
- E63 - Superman on making sales and marketing with WordPress easy (Gregory Karelitz, HubSpot)
- E62 - Is the current model of open-source contribution sustainable?
- E61 - Gandalph and Smeagol on auto-updating privacy policies (Hans & Donata Skillrud, Termageddon)
- E60 - Aragorn on pixel-perfect optimization and compression (Shane Bishop, EWWW Image Optimizer)
- E59 - Link on the challenges of organizing 1,000+ person virtual conferences (Brian Richards, WPSessions)
- E58 - Hellboy on balancing Dow Jones and agency work (Victor Ramirez, Abstract)
- E57 - Speed optimization, tackling happy customer churn, security options and more listener questions
- E56 - Rick on launching the fastest plugin by a new company to hit $100,000+ ARR (Vito Peleg, WP Feedback)
- E55 - Automattic's $3M acquisition of Tumblr
- E54 - Han & Chewie on maintaining their north star (Justin Busa & Brent Jett, Beaver Builder)
- E53 - Bilbo on how to deal with haters (Jason Coleman, Paid Memberships Pro)
- E52 - How to (successfully) apply to speak at WordCamps
- E51 - Princess Leia on powering remote culture for a team of 90+ (Leah Knobler, Help Scout)
- E50 - Joe's big news!
- E49 - Darth Maul on inventing inbound marketing (David Ly Khim, HubSpot)
- E48 - Beyonce on purposefully repurposing content (Shaina Weisinger, Repurpose House)
- E47 - Working out so it will all work out
- E46 - Boba Fett on starting a freelance career (Sam Smith, gsamsmith.com)
- E45 - Obi-Wan on a different approach to eCommerce (Topher DeRosia, BigCommerce/HeroPress)
- E44 - Veronica Mars on making the web fully accessible (Rachel Cherry, WPCampus)
- E43 - The Witch King of Angmar on selling $100,000+ projects (Matt Medeiros, Pagely)
- E42 - Harry Potter on being acquired by GoDaddy (Rich Tabor, CoBlocks/GoDaddy)
- E41 - Churn, lifetime value, APRU, MRR growth and other subscription metrics
- E40 - Working and thriving solo or as a small agency
- E39 - Gandalf on managing company culture for a 20-person team (Kyle Maurer, Sandhills Development)
- E38 - Bib Fortuna on running a $10,000,000+ business (Wil Schroter, startups.com)
- E37 - Going open-source or closed platform
- E36 - Éowyn on productizing eCommerce email automation (Beka Rice, SkyVerge/Jilt)
- E35 - Christie’s big news!
- E34 - Wonder Woman on providing churn lowering support (Michelle Ames, Give)
- E33 - Qui-Gon Jinn’s 48-hour content marathon (Bob Dunn, bobwp.com)
- E32 - R2-D2 on dominating the enterprise space (Mario Peshev, DevriX)
- E31 - How to take a 3-week vacation from your business
- E30 - Qui-Gon Jinn on eclipsing 33% of the web (Joost de Valk, Yoast and WordPress)
- E29 - BB-8 on physical and digital organization (Joe Casabona (casabona.org)
- E28 - Yoda on scaling a highly profitable business (Troy Dean, WP Elevation)
- E27 - Background Ewok #5 on thriving as an independent designer (Michelle Schulp, Marktime Media)
- E26 - Darth Maul on sales and marketing for freelancers (Jennifer Bourn, Profitable Project Plan)
- E25 - Obi-Wan on getting to 15,000,000+ downloads (Jeremy Moore, Ninja Forms)
- E24 - Frodo on scaling premium WooCommerce hosting (Rahul Nagare, Scale Dynamix)
- E23 - V on transitioning from motorcycles to SaaS (Marc Benzakein, ServerPress)
- E22 - Princess Leia on developing fearless freelancers (Carrie Dils, Fearless Freelancer)
- E21 - Threepio on telling stories that close deals (Chris Lema, Liquid Web)
- E20 - How to get your 1st customer (and then some)
- E19 - Sauron on bootstrapping a startup community (Channing Allen, Indie Hackers)
- E18 - Another Ewok on preparing for a year of digital nomadism (Robby McCullough, Beaver Builder)
- E17 - Yoda on dominating your finances (Ben McAdam, benmcadam.me)
- E16 - Jar Jar on masterfully experimenting with WordPress (Matt Giovanisci, Moneylab)
- E15 - Big, hairy, audacious goals for 2019
- E14 - Lando on scaling WooCommerce (Julian Melissas, Craftpeak)
- E13 - Aragorn on moving from artist to marketer (Caylin White, WP Buffs)
- E12 - A WordCamp US preparation guide
- E11 - An Ewok on experimenting with pricing (Brad Touesnard, Delicious Brains)
- E10 - 5-ish ways to overcome your screen addiction
- E9 - Han Solo on being acquired (John Turner, SeedProd)
- E8 - How to immediately get outed as a WPN00b
- E7 - Should you use Facebook groups or Slack for community building?
- E6 - Does ARR suck compared to MRR?
- E5 - Should you find a co-founder or go it solo?
- E4 - Why project-based WordPress work is becoming old-school
- E1 - The fatal E-Myth assumption that will kill your business
- E3 - Conquer the clock and add hours to your day with timeboxing
- E2 - To work or not to work...remotely
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