Category: WordPress for Business
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The Pagely Content Marketing Process Part Two: Writing, Editing & Optimizing for Search
If you haven’t already, read part I of this series. Managing a team of in-house writers in combination with relevant guest posts requires many different things — flexibility, an eye for detail and patience. Writing is a creative endeavor and it’s the area where our content marketing process offers the greatest flexibility despite being well-structured.…
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How To Guide: Affiliate Marketing Essentials For Startups
I have nothing. Wow, that sounded bleak. But you’re intrigued, right? In a less dramatic way, I have nothing in terms of customers, clients, and resources. Nada, zilch or as the old Hebrews would say – bupkis. (And by old Hebrews I mean my Grandma Molly and Grandpa Murry) I am an online startup that…
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Distributed Teams Best Practices: 9 Lessons Learned
As distributed teams become more widely accepted, especially in the tech space, we thought it would be beneficial to share some insights on what it takes to build and run an effective distributed team. While we could simply draw on our own experiences, we also thought it would be beneficial to reach out to a…
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How do I choose the right hosting plan?
You want to make sure your hosting needs are adequately addressed without overpaying for a plan that gives you unnecessary capacity and features. Understandable. “How do I choose the right hosting plan?” is probably the most common question we see from prospective customers here at Pagely. While we try to lay things out as clearly…
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Risk Mitigation and the True Cost of Website Downtime
Most businesses don’t think twice about the necessity to carry the insurance policies to protect against various forms of loss. Errors & Omissions, Workers’ Comp, Liability… managing downside risk of unforeseen losses and limiting potential damage is a standard cost of doing business. But rarely do business owners go into a hosting scenario with the…
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Commercial Developers: How to Sell Your First 100 WordPress Themes and Plugins
Over the last few years, the premium WordPress product market has gone from strength to strength. These days, it really is possible for top developers to earn six- or even seven-figures a year by selling their premium themes and plugins. This has led to a surge of new products hitting the market, with lots of…
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Why doesn’t a Formula 1 car have A/C and leather seats?
I went car shopping not too long ago. We test drove several models and they all had a similar set of options. Leather, A/C, Navigation etc. They were all in the same price range and essentially all did the same the thing, move people and things from A to B. However there were a few…
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Growth: Notable Clients and New Managed WordPress Features
Today we are happy to share a few details on new plan features and highlight our continued success in serving the enterprise WordPress hosting market. As we continue to grow (read our last Growth: post) we have been working on new tools and configurations for our large scale clients, many of which we’ll very soon…
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It’s a marathon not a sprint. Winning at customer service.
Every single hosting company has had an outage, a bad customer experience, or something that has gone wrong to upset a customer. It’s just the nature of the beast. Some companies are able to take their lumps and recover. For some it may become a pattern where even despite their best efforts later on they…
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Bidding Competitor’s Trademark in Adwords. Good Marketing or Shady Practice?
Update 9/2/2015: Sadly I thought we were done with this nonsense. However a new competitor (now the 3rd) has decided to take up this tactic even after we asked them politely to stop. Shame that their $20+ million in VC has done so little for them that they need to ride our coat tails. Adwords…