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Budgets & Priorities

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by Adii Rockstar in WooCamp

We have a team of 10 hard workers dotted around the world, and whilst we’re absolute ninja’s at most the things that we do, we still have one constraint: time.

We realize that most of you reading this will sit there and think “Sheesh, I wish I had 10 team members to help me out” and that’s a valid point, but we obviously have a growing, hungry user base to support. Consider that there’s 45 000-odd of you in the WooCommunity, which means each member of the WooTeam is roughly responsible for 4500 users (or “clients”), quite a daunting thought…

The problem isn’t necessarily insuring a memorable, and positive experience for every single WooThemes user, we have a constantly evolving membership system for that (more on that soon), but it’s finding the balance and time to spend on developing and releasing new products. If you consider that we’re hitting our goal of 2 themes a month relatively easily (along with the fact that we’re continuously releasing improvements on the WooFramework / old themes and the themes we’re developing are becoming more complex), we’re not doing a bad job of managing our time.

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Saving You Money

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by Adii Rockstar in Interactive

This morning I was randomly playing around with Google Lab’s News Timeline when I stumbled on two interesting, mainstream articles referencing WooThemes. The article entitled “How to Launch a Professional-Looking Blog on a Shoestring” basically went on to explain in great detail how a WordPress + WooThemes combination saved the author a lot of time & money in setting up a new website.

The second article about two mainstream news websites in Iowa who have also adopted the WordPress + premium themes approach, just drives the point home: premium / commercial WordPress themes save you both money & time.

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