Presented on WordCamp meetup #8 in Kathmandu.

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