Introducing: Simple Page Tester

My Latest WordPress Plugin: Simple Page Tester Here at Code My Own Road headquarters I’ve been quietly working away on my next WordPress plugin. As many of you know, I have an incredibly outlandish goal of launching 6 premium plugins this coming year and this is the beginning of that avalanche. Today I’m incredibly excited [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | January 28, 2012

How To Be A God At Evaluating Your Time And Estimating Projects Into Your Busy Schedule

I had an eery feeling that I was being a bit too optimistic with my goals of launching 6 premium plugins in 12 months. But what’s life without a few time management challenges, right? As programmers, we get asked to estimate things all the time and sadly most of us aren’t very good at it. [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | January 19, 2012

Secrets of Marketers: Can you automate your marketing?

I’m in a bit of a crazy situation here, people. I’m working feverishly on my second WordPress plugin to try to release it at the end of the month. Lately I’ve put hours and hours into coding this thing only to neglect pretty much everything else. So while I’m coding away on this new product, [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | January 12, 2012

Monthly Income Report – December 2011

Welcome to my December monthly income report! Each month I am planning on publishing a detailed report of what I’ve been up to during the previous month, the income I’ve made online, and the things I’ve learned. I find it’s a great way for me to motivate myself and others and to keep myself accountable [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | January 3, 2012

How to Build and Sell a Product While You Still Have a Fulltime Job

I’ve always had mixed results when trying to make products and sell them. Aside from a smattering of ebooks, some niche sites that have done just okay and random affiliate product sales here and there, I’ve mostly made money online by trading time for dollars. That is, freelance programming. Freelancing has been good to me [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | December 22, 2011

Can you explain your website in one second?

Go ahead, give it a try. It doesn’t have to be exactly one second, but it shouldn’t takes longer than a second or two to say. If you’re selling a product, offering information, or trying to get someone to take an action you should be able to describe what the single purpose of your website [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | November 17, 2011

How I made it really, really, easy to add email opt-in forms to WordPress

I’ll let you in on a secret. I hate doing the same thing over and over. So when it came time for me to try out this new fad of adding a sign up form to different pages of my site, like my about page and content bucket pages as per Derek’s suggestions, I decided to [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | November 7, 2011

The hard truth about product creation

The difficult bit in the whole product creation lifecycle isn’t actually creating the product itself. In fact, would it shock you if I said that actually making the product accounts for only about 10% of the total time you’ll take to make it a success? Don’t be shocked. Anyone who’s made a product and sold [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | November 4, 2011

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