In this episode, Matt Medeiros continues the impromptu Season 6 with his interview with Tom McFarlin. Tom is a developer and business owner in the WordPress community but is not solely dependent on WordPress. He balances his consulting and development business along with teaching and blogging with a focus on Object Oriented Programming (OOP) encouraging people to write good code. Listen to the episode
What you will learn from this Episode:
Tom has a membership area with Digital courses on his site TomMcfarlin.com. (1:10)
Pressware has been growing over the past 7 years and provides consulting, custom plugin and development functionality. (2:43)
Tom’s blog has moved into a combination of free posts along with paid content for members. (2:28)
Marketing your product:
The marketing strategy is not just a focus this year for the membership site launch. (3:39)
Building strong content will take time and people can sign up as needed or when they recognize the value. (8:02)
Blogging with great content with authority takes a lot of work. (8:52)
The current blog is established and is being published with a set schedule. (9:42)
Word of mouth and posting to Twitter have been the best marketing
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/16765/how-tom-mcfarlin-manages-a-product-services-business
source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2017/12/07/how-tom-mcfarlin-manages-a-product-services-business/
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