Giving away things for free and make a living out of WordPress
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Giving away things for free and make a living out of WordPress
- 1. WordCamp Meetup #8 March 4, 2012 WordPress Nepal wpnepal.org facebook.com/groups/wordpressnepal
- 2. Giving away things for FREE to make a LIVING out of WordPress Chandra Maharzan nhuja.com tweet @maharzan
- 7. The best things in life are FREE.
- 8. What we will look at: • What do you need • Ways to giving things away for free • How people are doing it • Success stories
- 9. What you need • Extremely good at what you do • Passion • Patience • Continuity
- 10. What next ? • Create something and give it away for free • Create regularly • Create credibility
- 11. Success Stories
- 12. Orman Clark • Designer, UK, premiumpixels.com • gives away graphics, 28000 followers • over 19000 theme sales • over $665,000 • $150 / hr
- 13. Otto, Viper007Bond • programmers • giving tutorials, ideas and plugins for free • landed jobs with Automattic • WordPress.org / VIP Hosting
- 14. Christopher Ross • active WordPress.org forums • Collaborate with other developers • Get projects
- 15. Smashing Magazine • Runs WordPress • Writes tutorials • quality articles / good authors • 100,000 subscribers • Ads & books - $190,000 a month • Others: http://www.incomediary.com/top- earning-blogs
- 16. My experience • Nepal • started with free theme simpleX • 140,000 downloads • partnership with Graph Paper Press • customization work • top 100 free themes, Mozilla blog • wpshoppe.com
- 17. Conclusion • Be very good • Have passion & patience • Be regular and active - share • Sky is the limit
- 18. Don't run after success, let it come to you.
- 19. Thank you