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Vito Peleg's journey has been pretty remarkable. From his roots as a touring musician, he transitioned to a freelance developer and soon stepped into the shoes of agency owner and CEO/founder. Much of his success can be attributed to his experience in product market research, marketing, design, and making them work together seamlessly to launch products (and launch them big).

Vito's flagship projects include Atarim — a collaboration platform that provides a seamless workflow experience between agencies/businesses and their clients — and Bertha.ai, the world's first AI-based writing assistant for WordPress. 

In 2019, Vito and his team launched WP Feedback and earned $100k in revenue in the first thirty days. From there, they rode the waves of growth and reconfigured WP Feedback into Atarim. In this episode, we investigate Vito's strategy for success by unpacking how to build a solid foundation from which to launch a product — from establishing product-market fit to figuring out marketing and growth tactics.

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Thanks to Vito for joining us and providing such valuable insights into product launches. Join us next week with Miriam Schwab to chat about partnerships and the power of collaboration for success.

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Solopreneur Patrick Posner's success proves that diversification is an effective tactic to gain more customers and generate more sales. Hailing from Berlin, Germany, he's built an impressively successful one-man business by diversifying his product portfolio to accelerate both audience and business growth. 

His current catalog comprises six offerings, including static website generation, content protection, QR code creation, age verification, and document library security. Patrick is also the brains behind Simply Static — his flagship product — which is credited as the most popular static site generator for WordPress, boasting 40,000 active installs and over 500,000 downloads. 

It comes as no surprise that he's an authority on static WordPress, and he regularly publishes tutorials about WooCommerce, WordPress, and his own plugins. In this episode, Patrick shares actionable tips and tactics to help ambitious solopreneurs juggle multiple products to expand their portfolios.

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Thanks to Patrick for joining us and providing such valuable insights into how solopreneurs can juggle multiple products to grow their portfolios. Join us next week with Vito Peleg to chat about building a solid foundation from which to launch a product successfully.

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Ever wonder what it's like to be a WordPress developer or even how to become one? I invited one onto the podcast to share his journey and tons of great tips for aspiring developers that want to follow the same path. The best part is that he's completely self-taught! We all know how hard that path is, and he made it happen. It turns out that WordPress development has quite a bit of depth and a few different languages and frameworks you can pursue - JavaScript, ReactJS, and PHP. Also, WordPress development seems to have a more lenient barrier to entry in terms of what you need to learn initially. If you're just trying to break into tech and you enjoy coding, this episode is for you.

Micah Wood (guest):
Website - https://wpscholar.com
Twitter - https://twitter.com/wpscholar
Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/micahwood

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In this episode we discuss:

• How Tom got started freelancing
• Landing the first client
• Do you need to be able to "sell yourself" to make it as a freelancer?
• Getting out of the "feast/famine" cycle that traps many freelancers
• What are the biggest mistakes that most people make when first starting out as freelancers?
• What would Tom do if he was starting over again today?
• Should you use marketplaces/platforms like UpWork to sell your services as a freelancer?
• Is it important to choose a niche? 
• Where Tom gets virtually all of his new leads from
• The advantages of "working in public"
• Finding success on Twitter
• Tom's viral Twitter thread on pricing freelance projects ( https://twitter.com/tom_hirst/status/1277933730078785537
• How to create additional sources of income as a freelancer (besides client work)
• Translating freelance expertise into creating and selling content online
• Tom's new agency, Run the Show (https://twitter.com/rtsagency) that specializes in Headless Wordpress
• What is "Headless Wordpress" and why would someone use it?

You can find links to all of the resources we discussed and more on Tom's website here: https://www.tomhirst.com/links/

Allan Cole is a true polymath. Whether it's graphic design, web development, or music, he brings a wealth of knowledge to the table and produces mind-blowing results. You may know him as one of the co-authors of Build Your Own Wicked WordPress Themes, but he's also done websites and designs for big names like Nike, Okayplayer, Kanye West, Jay Electronica, and Janelle Monáe's Wondaland Arts Society!

(And speaking of music, he's one half of the music duo The Stuyvesants. Highly, highly recommended!)

We talked about his current path to success through WordPress, creative collaboration, and of course...the music. According to Allan, there are ways to do what you love and make a living, and he's a prime example of that!

• Allan Cole's Website
• Allan Cole's Work
• The Stuyvesants
• "Build Your Own Wicked WordPress Themes"