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Business 2.0 with WordPress
The presentation by Mario Peshev discusses Business 2.0, focusing on how modern web technologies and WordPress can support small businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers. It highlights the advantages of using WordPress, including its open-source nature, vast library of themes and plugins, and strong SEO capabilities. The document also outlines the potential of WordPress for creating an online business quickly and efficiently, providing numerous examples of successful themes and plugins.
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Business 2.0 with WordPress
- 1. Business 2.0 /wWordPress Mario Peshev DevriX CTO http://devrix.com
- 2. Agenda • About me • What is Business 2.0? • Target group • Why WordPress? • Themes • Plugins • Freelance
- 3. Mario Peshev • DevriXCTO • Trainer and consultant • Java, PHP, Python • Trainings in VMware, CERN, Saudi Aramco… • WordPress theme and plugin development and consulting
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- 5. Business 2.0 • Businessbuilt on Web 2.0 • Services and products using the advantages of the modern web
- 7. Web 2.0 ina glance
- 8. Samples of Web2.0 • Blogs • Social networks • Video portals • Image galleries • http://web2magazine.blogspot.com/2007/01/ thanks-for-web-2.html
- 9. Web 1.0 Web2.0 DoubleClick Google AdSense Ofoto Flickr Akamai BitTorrent mp3.com Napster Britannica Online Wikipedia personal websites blogging evite upcoming.org and EVDB domain name speculation search engine optimization page views cost per click screen scraping web services publishing participation content management systems wikis directories (taxonomy) tagging ("folksonomy") stickiness syndication
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- 13. Target group • Whois this presentation designed for? – Small business owners – Entrepreneurs – Developers – Designers • Bloggers are by default
- 14. Small business owners •Running own business • Generating some profit • Trying to increase the number of clients and orders and popularize the business without serious PR and advertising budget
- 15. Entrepreneurs •Willing to create a genius Startup idea • Demands Web 2.0 functionality for the business plan in no time • Saving time and money for the creative application plan instead of spending on software implementation
- 16. Developers • Technical peoplethat need somewhere ‘to start from’ • Variety of themes that could be extended with no need to be proficient in design
- 17. Designers •Graphical spiritual masters with little to no technical background • Independency from the functional overhead
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- 20. WordPress • …is a powerful and flexible platform • …is created in 2003 • …is Open Source • …has Automattic crew on its side • …provides thousands of plugins and themes • …offers great SEO optimization
- 22. Standard features • Someof the standard WordPress features: Standard features Posts Settings Pages Comments Categories Users Links Menus Media manager Sidebars
- 23. Design advantages • UIand friendliness pros: Design advantages Great administrative panel jQuery effects integrated Predefined themes for extension UI flexibility of some functional details Perfect usability Lots of tutorials and videos
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- 28. Design auditory • WordPresscould be extended design wise in an infinite way • Theme frameworks, startup themes and thousands of tutorials on building WordPress content • Draw the frontend on the top of the powerful backend features
- 29. Free themes • WordPress.org repository • 1400+ themes • You can reuse or submit your own theme too!
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- 32. Themes business • Averagepremium theme price – $30-40 per sale (50-70% net profit) • Average number of sales – 500-600 • Great portfolio item • Clients want custom features or new themes
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- 35. Themes and Frameworks •Offer super premium functionality – Awesome sliders – Shortcodes for pricing, team members, styled lists, sliders, maps, toggles, contact forms – Skins or skin builders – Portfolio elements – Customizable page/blog/portfolio layouts
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- 39. Plugins • WordPress extensions,providing extra features to the platform: – eCommerce – Sliders – Galleries – SEO – Social networks integration
- 40. Free plugins • WordPress.org repository • 17000+ plugins • You can reuse or submit new plugins too!
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- 42. Useful plugins • WordPresscould be way different than the standard blogging platform when built with the right theme and subset of plugins • You can save time and money purchasing top notch plugins (or extending them) instead of developing on your own
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- 45. Commerce plugin features •Integrate into different themes • Drag’n’drop categories and product management • Orders and invoicing with export • Shipping methods, weight • Tens of payment gateways • Coupons and vouchers
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- 47. Gravity features • Powerfulforms and wizards with drag’n’drop editor • Conditional logic • Schedule forms • Advanced fields • User registration modules • Newsletter synchronization
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- 50. WishList features • Custom member types • Custom registration forms • Gallery support • Protected areas for different roles
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- 53. Digital Access Pass •Content delivery platform • Free/Paid access to different areas – pages, video, audio, PDF and more • Membership levels • Payment methods • Limited access
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- 55. WP-Answers features • Q&A System • Points and rewards • Profile pages • Automatic content from Yahoo! Answers • Social networks integration
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- 57. Groupon Clone Options • Adding deals and configuring option • Highly configurable listing and timers • Social networks integration • Google Maps & PayPal integration
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- 59. MailChimp • Email campaigns and newsletters • Templates and auto responders • Socials and Google integration • SPAM inspectors • APIs for mobile and other services
- 60. WP Email TicketSupport
- 61. WP Email TicketSupport • Read POP3 emails and convert to tickets • Import attachments • Clients can keep track on the queue • Pending tickets widget • Compatibility with WordPress users
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- 63. Freelance networks • WordPressjobs for: – Design – Development – SEO – Marketing – Content writing/translation – Project management
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- 67. Summary • WordPress couldbe used to start your business online or work remotely with the platform • There are thousands of themes and plugins that could setup a site in minutes • DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle
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Editor's Notes
- #8 http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/Web_2_point_0.html
- #15 Shops, book agencies, marketing
- #30 Popularity of the main website – many clients and installs, some want premium features or hire for web serviceshttp://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
- #31 Thousand of templates + graphics, plugins, videos to build the site in no time Can extend + premium supportTell about the business themes later, we have slide on this onehttp://themeforest.net
- #32 http://www.mojo-themes.com
- #41 Plugins with lite and premium versionCustomers want development on top of these pluginsCan use as a reference laterhttp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
- #42 http://codecanyon.net/~15USD
- #44 http://buddypress.org/http://freelance-lodge.org/forums/
- #45 Shopp - $55-299MarketPress – $39 1m support, $209 1m support/updates
- #46 Widgets into different areas
- #47 http://www.gravityforms.com$39 personal, $199 developer
- #50 http://member.wishlistproducts.com/$97 single site, $297 multisite
- #52 http://thecolombiansoulmates.com
- #53 https://digitalaccesspass.com/$167-297
- #55 http://wp-answers.com/$89
- #57 http://www.wpmaverick.com/$99
- #59 https://mailchimp.com/Free for 0-2000 subscribers and up to 12K mails/month, $10-240 else
- #61 http://codecanyon.net/item/wordpress-email-ticket-support-plugin/254823$20
- #65 http://odesk.com
- #66 http://vworker.com
- #67 http://jobs.wordpress.net
- #70 http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/us-government-agencies-using-wordpress/
- #72 The Wall Street JournalAdobe BlogsSAP.infoFordSocial