{"id":1097,"date":"2019-10-03T12:12:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T02:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2019.sydney.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=1097"},"modified":"2019-12-11T12:18:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T01:18:56","slug":"wordpress-plugins-initial-growth-to-global-scale-what-i-wish-i-knew-before","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2019\/session\/wordpress-plugins-initial-growth-to-global-scale-what-i-wish-i-knew-before\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Plugins &#8211; Initial Growth to Global Scale &#8211; What I Wish I Knew Before!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\nHow do you scale a growth WordPress Plugins business from that initial growth? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This talk continues Chris\u2019 WordPress Plugins growth story and lessons from Chris&#8217; presentation at the 2018 Sydney WordCamp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where last year the OPMC story was on the initial 7 year growth phase on their WordPress Plugins division, this year will be an honest and at times brutal account of the growth to scale process &#8211; that is, where does growth lead and how fast can you scale once you\u2019re getting the customers and the initial honeymoon period is over?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2018, OPMC was experiencing some growth in its WordPress Plugins division, due to a single acquisition. It transformed the priority of the business unit from a side focus to one of OPMC&#8217;s primary business units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since last year\u2019s talk, we&#8217;ve undertaken 2 rounds of Plugin acquisitions, developed new official plugins for WordPress owned official WooCommerce and grown substantially from last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plenty of lessons have been learned, good and bad, enough to fill a book!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a scaling story where our size stands above some, but we are still tiny compared to others. 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