2012 state of ithemes address: make waves
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Each year I give an update on where we're going, what we're doing and why and how we do things for our customer community.TRANSCRIPT
State of iThemes AddressFeb. 29, 2012
Cory Miller, Founder
State of iThemesThe Story of iThemes
Introducing the Make Waves Theme
Share Team Specific Goals (What’s Coming Next)
Announcing the Make Waves Manifesto
Question and Answer
The Story of iThemes Who We Are & Where We’ve Been
Our StoryStarted in January 2008
Now with 25 team members
Headquartered in Oklahoma City
Named OKC’s 7th Fastest Growing Private Company
Our Mission: Make People’s Lives Awesome
Do the work we love while we supporting our awesome customer community
iThemes Annual Retreat Feb. 14-15, 2012
We are pretty goofy sometimes!
‘Make Waves’Our 2012 Theme
Making People’s Lives Awesome
Our Mission
Making Web Design Fun and Easy (Easier)
How We Do That ...
Make Waves means ...Be Bold. Be Daring.
Disrupt the Status Quo.Innovate. Make Better. For You.
Team Specific GoalsThrough Mid-Summer 2012
iThemes.comReleased Ecommerce Themes & several more
Total Builder Child Themes: 63
Working on BuddyPress Themes
Next is Events Block
More Themes, Better Themes, More Features
Chris is working on next big theme innovation project from iThemes (Release scheduled for mid-Summer)
At iThemesOur goal is to make web design fun &
easy by offering easy to use website builder tools with a complete design
palette at your disposal
PluginBuddy.comReleased Slides & Frolic Plugins
Total Number of Pro Plugins Released: 18
PluginBuddy Developer Suite is our Hottest Package & Best Value
BackupBuddy 3.0 in the works (late March release)
March is BackupBuddy Month
New BIG plugin project started after BackupBuddy 3.0
At PluginBuddyOur goal is to make web design fun &
easy by letting you do more cool things with WordPress
WebDesign.comRoughly 340+ Hours of 24/7 Training in Vault
Held 2 live events in OKC this year
Working on 2 more non-OKC live events
Adding 15+ Hours of Fresh Content a Month
Talking to New Guest Experts to Add Value, Topics
Planning a Kid’s Programming Camp this summer
WebDesign.com
Members Only Chat
BluePrint Basics
PluginFocus
BluePrint Advanced
CSS
jQuery
SEO
BizDev
Monthly Peek
Getting Started with WebDesign
Educating the Educators
Covering these topics each month:
At WebDesign.comOur goal is to make web design fun
& easy by offering professional, cutting-edge training in WordPress web design
Our Other ProjectsEbooks
Friends of iThemes
Education Program
iThemesTV
AllureThemes.com
MadeByWheat.com
BuildAWebsite.com
TheDiv.org
Some of the People Behind the Scenes - Our Central Team
Introducing The Make Waves Manifestos
MakeWaves2012.com6 ‘We Believe’ Statements
Our Goal For This Is ...To Make Meaning.
My Goal For You ...To Enlist You. To Rally the Fleet.
1. We Believe ....Web Design Should Be Fun.
Web Design Should Be Fun.Help 5,000 People Build Sites in WordPress.
Help 2,000 People Get Started Learning Web Design.
1.
2. We Believe ....In Web Entrepreneurship.
Web EntrepreneurshipHelp 200 Freelancers Get Their First Paid Gig.
Help 10 Freelancer Go Full-Time.
2.
3. We Believe ....In WordPress.
Give Back to WordPressEnlist & Equip 500 People to Contribute Back to WP.
3.
4. We Believe ....Every WordPress Site
Should Be Safe & Secure.
Safe & Secure WordPress Sites250,000 WordPress sites with good backup solution.
4.
5. We Believe ....In Investing in People.
Investing in PeopleEnlist 200 People Committed to Learning & Growing.
5.
6. We Believe ....In Web Freedom.
Web FreedomEnlist 500 People to Fight for Web Freedom
6.
1 Web Design Should Be Fun2 Web Entrepreneurship3 WordPress4 Every WP Site Safe & Secure5 Investing in People6 Web Freedom
We Believe
What This Means for You
Join Us in Making Waves This Year
‘If you want to go fast, go alone.If you want to go far, go together.’
-African Proverb
Pledge Now atMakeWaves2012.com
Setting Sail March 2012
Questions & Input