WP Engine: How A Startup Reached $1M In Sales In Less Than A Year

Re:WP Engine: How A Startup Reached $1M In Sales In Less Tha... by jacques_chester on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @08:32PM (#3830361)

I'm currently working on a startup in an only tangentially related field.

One line item of my capital plan is to relocate a small blog network I run (http://ozblogistan.com.au) to WPEngine. There's enough traffic that I'd need the $249/mth plan.

That's how badly I want not to be a WP administrator. And how much better I think full time professionals could do it.

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Re:WP Engine: How A Startup Reached $1M In Sales In Less Tha... by tedunangst on Thursday April 12, 2012 @12:17AM (#3831000)

Can you explain why you wouldn't go with wordpress.com? As someone who's not running WP, I'm curious how you differentiated the services.

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Re:WP Engine: How A Startup Reached $1M In Sales In Less Tha... by jacques_chester on Thursday April 12, 2012 @12:29AM (#3831030)

My users want custom plugins and themes. Wordpress.com doesn't offer that for less than $500/mth, last I checked. WPEngine will, within reason.

I don't charge for my services, though the various bloggers have made donations out of niceness.

It just sort of ... grew.

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