2012 state of ithemes address: make waves

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