2012 State of iThemes Address: Make Waves
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State of iThemes AddressFeb. 29, 2012
Cory Miller, Founder
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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
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The Story of iThemes Who We Are & Where We’ve Been
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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
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iThemes Annual Retreat Feb. 14-15, 2012
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We are pretty goofy sometimes!
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‘Make Waves’Our 2012 Theme
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Making People’s Lives Awesome
Our Mission
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Making Web Design Fun and Easy (Easier)
How We Do That ...
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Make Waves means ...Be Bold. Be Daring.
Disrupt the Status Quo.Innovate. Make Better. For You.
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Team Specific GoalsThrough Mid-Summer 2012
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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)
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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
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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
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At PluginBuddyOur goal is to make web design fun &
easy by letting you do more cool things with WordPress
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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
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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:
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At WebDesign.comOur goal is to make web design fun
& easy by offering professional, cutting-edge training in WordPress web design
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Our Other ProjectsEbooks
Friends of iThemes
Education Program
iThemesTV
AllureThemes.com
MadeByWheat.com
BuildAWebsite.com
TheDiv.org
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Some of the People Behind the Scenes - Our Central Team
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Introducing The Make Waves Manifestos
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MakeWaves2012.com6 ‘We Believe’ Statements
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Our Goal For This Is ...To Make Meaning.
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My Goal For You ...To Enlist You. To Rally the Fleet.
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1. We Believe ....Web Design Should Be Fun.
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Web Design Should Be Fun.Help 5,000 People Build Sites in WordPress.
Help 2,000 People Get Started Learning Web Design.
1.
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2. We Believe ....In Web Entrepreneurship.
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Web EntrepreneurshipHelp 200 Freelancers Get Their First Paid Gig.
Help 10 Freelancer Go Full-Time.
2.
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3. We Believe ....In WordPress.
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Give Back to WordPressEnlist & Equip 500 People to Contribute Back to WP.
3.
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4. We Believe ....Every WordPress Site
Should Be Safe & Secure.
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Safe & Secure WordPress Sites250,000 WordPress sites with good backup solution.
4.
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5. We Believe ....In Investing in People.
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Investing in PeopleEnlist 200 People Committed to Learning & Growing.
5.
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6. We Believe ....In Web Freedom.
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Web FreedomEnlist 500 People to Fight for Web Freedom
6.
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1 Web Design Should Be Fun2 Web Entrepreneurship3 WordPress4 Every WP Site Safe & Secure5 Investing in People6 Web Freedom
We Believe
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What This Means for You
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Join Us in Making Waves This Year
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‘If you want to go fast, go alone.If you want to go far, go together.’
-African Proverb
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Pledge Now atMakeWaves2012.com
Setting Sail March 2012
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Questions & Input