Is Every WordPress Company Becoming a SaaS or WaaS? (And Should You?)
It’s not as though subscription services are a new thing within WordPress. It’s just that they were once relegated to the likes of WordPress hosting companies or maintenance providers who could easily package up their services into a done-for-you monthly solution. But these days, it seems like other WordPress professionals are getting into the game. […]
How Automated Maintenance and Support Services Can Boost Your Profitability
Let’s be honest: Working with WordPress as a CMS has its pros and cons. There’s no other platform that gives users so much flexibility or extensibility and, yet, its complex nature is also what drives many away. It can be a struggle building websites or products for WordPress if you don’t package your services up […]
Would Your WordPress Business Benefit from Recurring Revenue? (F*** Yes!)
If you’re a web developer or run a WordPress agency, tell me if this sounds familiar: There are plenty of people who need a new website. But more and more of them are going the DIY route because of website builders like Wix or WordPress page builder plugins like Elementor. And while I can eventually […]
Generate Recurring Monthly Revenue with Dollie for WordPress
Trent, VP of Dollie and Stratus5, tells the story of why our team created Dollie to help WordPress developers, agencies, and vendors build sustainable businesses. Dollie provides the tools developers need to launch cloud enabled WordPress as a Service businesses that generate recurring monthly revenue.
Elementor Raises $15M: Will They Move into SaaS Services Next? (And Why You Should Too)
I believe that Elementor is about to undergo a massive shift. And it’s going to have a major impact on WordPress businesses. In this post, I’m going to speculate about: Why that $15 million will go towards a new SaaS platform. How major industry players like Envato will get involved. Why you should be thinking […]
Hello Dollie, Cloud Hosting eCommerce for WordPress
Dollie is a turnkey Cloud Automation Platform. Built for WordPress developers, agencies, vendors and the Enterprise to offer white-label cloud hosting services to their customers. The future of WordPress is not in selling .zip files or building one-off websites. Dollie lets developers, agencies, and vendors sell their own custom WordPress solutions pre-configured in the cloud as a […]
Elementor Raises $15M: Will They Move into SaaS Services Next? (And Why You Should Too)
Yesterday the Elementor team announced that they’ve raised a 15 million series A funding round. It goes without saying that this is unprecedented news for the WordPress ecosystem. Elementor is just a page builder plugin and it raised 15 Million? How many versions of Elementor Pro do they expect to sell?! The answer: Maybe a […]
Building a Premium Managed WordPress Hosting Solution with Dollie [A Captain Press Case Study]
Roman Serement, the CEO of Captain Press, offers a fully managed WordPress hosting solution.
“The idea behind CaptainPress is to offer simplicity to the user,” Roman explained. “On top of this we can offer maintenance plans. The idea is to offer as many features as possible, and we will be implementing more and more services on top of this in the future.”
What Happens When Dollie Empowers Theme Vendors to Sell Their Own Products [A 7th Queen and LaunchMyWP.com Case Study]
Have you ever wished you could sell your WordPress themes as bundled services, but have no idea how to get started? If you’re done with relying on third-party marketplaces to sell your themes one-by-one, keep reading. Theme developer 7thQueen shares its story. Introducing 7thQueen 7thQueen is a well-established WordPress Theme Vendor that specializes in creating high-performance […]
Feature Release: Client-Deployed Site Permissions
Dollie’s continual development always yields interesting and useful features. Today, with the release of Dollie V3.2.0, we’re introducing the latest feature: “Client-Deployed Site Permissions”. This feature globally sets client access to their deployed sites at a certain user power – while maintaining the Single Sign-On (SSO) functionality as admin for the owner of the Dollie […]