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Given the size and growth of the WordPress ecosystem, it’s surprising how few profitable product businesses serve that ecosystem. Whether it’s premium plugins and themes, external services, or a combination of product and consulting, it’s hard to build a sustainable, profitable business. In this presentation, learn some of the pitfalls that prevent consultants from being successful transitioning to product-builders, that prevent some businesses from getting traction or profitability, and some of the specific aspects of WordPress product consumers that can help you be successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Given the size and growth of the WordPress ecosystem, it’s surprising how few profitable product businesses serve that ecosystem. Whether it’s premium plugins and themes, external services, or a combination of product and consulting, it’s hard to build a sustainable, profitable business. In this presentation, learn some of the pitfalls that prevent consultants from being … Continue reading Building a profitable, bootstrapped business on WordPress<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5855994,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1398527100,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[640380],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[289],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-641140","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-business"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"session_date_time":{"date":"April 26, 2014","time":"10:45 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"640380","slug":"jason-cohen","name":"Jason Cohen","link":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker\/jason-cohen\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/641140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/641140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641141,"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/641140\/revisions\/641141"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/640380"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/asmartbear"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=641140"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=641140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}