Author: Alex Denning
Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
Times story on Facebook’s problems
What Is The Morning Writing Effect?
Writing as a proxy for “when do we work best”?
Getting Black Friday right for WordPress products
Black Friday is a great opportunity for WordPress products, but offering a straight discount isn’t necessarily the best way to go: you need to balance existing customers, price-sensitive potential customers, and deal-searchers, and a straight discount leaves at least one of those groups dissatisfied.
Candy Japan YouTube marketing horror story
Last week I linked my piece on marketing channels, and the importance of testing new channels to see what works. This is a great write-up of a marketing channel experiment – YouTube sponsorships – and how it really didn’t work.
Marketing channels, and how to think about marketing your WordPress business
Alex on his marketing philosophy.
Do you even want to be “a bootstrapper?”
Make something you’re proud of.
WordPress Theme and Plugin Shops are Pioneering the First Layout Blocks for Gutenberg
Great reporting and case studies from the Tavern.
Daily Routines: Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison on doing your best creative work
Free Webinar: Understanding Today’s CSS with Algorithms, With Lara Schenck
Last week Fred hosted our first Pro Community-style webinar, on Why Gutenberg Doesn’t Kill Pagebuilders (Yet). We really enjoyed it. It was fantastic to connect more deeply with WPShout readers, and we’ve had very generous and kind feedback on the quality of the teaching and value of the format.
Am I Happy At Work?
Obsessively tracking detail