Author: PressNomics

So raise your hand if you have NOT been approached by GoDaddy, Endurance, or Automattic to buy or acqui-hire your WordPress company. <Only 2 hands go up>

WordPress is hot, everyone wants in. The market is consolidating at the theme, plugin, and agency levels with recent deals involving names you recognize. WDS picks up Maintainn after Maintainn picked up WPSell, Velomedia is on a tear scooping up Pixel Jar, CrowdFavorite, and then Forty.  Lift picked up ChurchThemes, Pagely took over BlogDroid, Syed and Thomas go full voltron on optinmoster and other projects, and I know I am forgetting at least 20 others.

So Shane Pearlman stopped me at #wcsf and pitched me this idea for a panel at Pn3. Who am I to deny Shane? Friday will feature an hour long conversation on WP M&A hosted by Shane Pearlman, with guests Jake Goldman, Dre Armeda, Karim Marucchi, and Syed Balkhi.

Hey oh!

Please meet our first round of speakers.

• Danny Sullivan The SEO godfather. [Just in Part I & II. III was a mess]
• Dre Armeda Taco Loving Extraordinaire!
• Selena Larson Technology writer at RWW & Gangplank alum.
• Bob La Loggia The [allegedly] best looking man in Phoenix: 1989,1990,1992, and 1993.
• Quinn Whissen Content Marketing Expert, Amazing person.
• Chris Lema New to the speaking circuit, be nice.
• Steve Zehngut Nicest guy in WordPress.
• Hamid Shojaee His ‘side projects’ turn into million dollar companies.
• JR Farr Co-Founder at MOJO and perfect human.

You see we jest a bit. In all seriousness we are very excited to have these smart and talented folks share with you their broad range of experience and expertise at PressNomics.

As the title says, Mason James at WPValet scored the last ticket for PressNomics 3.  There is a waitlist and we will likely let a few more trickle out to that waitlist in the coming months.

We are finalizing the first round of speakers/sessions and will be announcing soon.

Thank you to our amazing sponsors.

Tickets went on sale yesterday, and there are just a handful left, Get them before their gone.

Your PN3 attendee line-up thus-far is live.

The wait is nearly over. General tickets for PressNomics 3 go on sale tomorrow August 6th at 10:00AM PST.

Microsoft Azure and Pagely are proud to bring you the biggest, best, and most amazingly value packed conference for the WordPress business community.

Best takeaway today for me was the 4 keys to beating anyone: Quantity. Quality. Consistency. Longevity. #Pressnomics

— Cory Miller (@corymiller303) October 17, 2013

Just reflecting back on how awesome #pressnomics was… can't wait until next year!

— WordImpress (@wordimpress) October 23, 2013

Wow, thanks. RT @justinfoell: I was sort of blindsided by @nataliemac's design talk at #pressnomics – powerful stuff

— NatalieMac (@nataliemac) October 23, 2013

My review of @PressNomics: http://t.co/kCj1ZxDxT7

— Chris Lema (@chrislema) October 21, 2013

When ordering be sure to reserve your spot for our “Social Saturday”. Register for the 3rd annual Golf Pro-AM or an outing exploring the local Arts & Culture scene. The Saturday events are an additional $50 and have always been a ton of fun.

PressNomics is a not-just-for-profit event. We have donated over $11,000 from ticket sales to St. Jude Children’s Research hospital over the last two years. Combined with additional donations made specifically by attendees, over $25,000 as been given to help the kids and their families at St. Jude.

See you all soon. Grab your tickets here.

 Yay Sponsors!

Please help us welcome returning sponsor iThemes. Cory Miller the founder of iThemes is also a past speaker and dubbed ‘the sexiest voice in WordPress’. iThemes is a community stalwart and offers a wide variety of plugins and themes for your WordPress pleasure.

In addition please help us welcome GoDaddy as a first time sponsor to this event. GoDaddy is the world leader in domain name registration and is doubling down on their mission to help small businesses grow and prosper.

Finally, the DradCast is back with episode 50 recorded live tonight at 8PM EST. PressNomics organizer and Pagely CEO Joshua Strebel will host tonight and will discuss the upcoming PressNomics 3 conference and reveal the first speaker for this event. Be sure to tune in for the full scoop.

The wait is nearly over. This Wednesday (June 18) we shall be announcing the dates for the upcoming PressNomics 3 conference. Past attendees will get the news first via their inbox.

We are humbled by the response of support we have received already from sponsors. We are proud to announce Microsoft Azure as the title sponsor of this event. Envato, and Mojo Marketplace return as Level 2 sponsors. Site5 and Easy Digital Downloads have began filling out the Level 3 range. Finally Chris Lema, Sucuri, and Zendesk come in at the community level. A testament to the value of PressNomics each one of these sponsors committed and paid within days of being notified, before any details were public.

We here at Pagely are excited to bring the WordPress community another awesome event!

Thank you Foster & Flux

This is a guest post from Helen Souness of Envato, a PressNomics Sponsor.

We’re so excited to be sponsoring PressNomics again this year. Last year’s event was absolutely fantastic according to all reports from our founders who attended. This year we are very excited to have the following team going:

• Helen Souness, GM Marketplaces
• Justin French, Product Owner
• Lance Snider, Growth Manager
• Scott Wills, Community Manager
• Japh Thomson, WordPress Evangelist

If you’re not sure who Envato is, we’re the company behind eight different Marketplaces selling digital products, including ThemeForest which sells templates such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and E-Commerce themes, CodeCanyon which sells plugins and scripts and VideoHive which sells video footage and AfterEffects files. We also run the Tuts+ Network of nine tutorial sites teaching people how to code, design and even craft.  Our recent addition to the Envato stable is MicroLancer where people can get small design and coding jobs done for a set fee and turn around time, super easily.  We now have over 3 million members in our community worldwide, and we welcome thousands more every month.

On ThemeForest we currently have over 3,400 WordPress themes for sale, and over 1,800 WordPress plugins for sale on CodeCanyon, with new items being added to both every month.

At PressNomics we will bring you some insights that we’ve collected recently from our ThemeForest and CodeCanyon customers, identifying CMS and WordPress usage and trends as well as sharing some stories from our conversations with a few of our successful theme and plugin creators.

We’re looking forward to chatting and hanging out with all of you at PressNomics this year. Bring on Rawhide, I’m dusting off my cowboy boots!

Thanks so much to Sally, Josh and the Pagely team for what sounds like being a fantastic event.  We’ll see you there

Helen Souness
GM Marketplaces
@Envato