Technorati Engage - Self-Service Advertising For Blogs & Soc. Forget the 4Ps of Marketing. Let's Talk about the 4Ps of Su. WordPress MU and BuddyPress plugins, themes and news at WPMU.org. I haven’t allowed myself the luxury of sitting down to write a decent post in me for some time, so this feels good. Especially because it’s one of those ‘James comes out on top at the end’ posts, which is always nice to share – and it’s also a topic very close to my heart- making WordPress MU work in terms of revenue, and specifically, where Edublogs is concerned (although I’ll also make fairly frequent reference to WordPress.com too). Now, to start off, I should note that Edublogs (a WordPress MU site for education) was started off not as a business but to meet the practical purposes of providing blogs to academics via a simpler approach than individual WordPress installs.
It also wasn’t started off by a business-person, it was started off by a lecturer in education design (me) without even the merest whiff of funding and on a $7 p/month hosting plan. How did we do this? Donations Sponsorship Advertising Another one of the semi-successful models. . … drum roll … Selling Something Else Upgrades. Business Directory for Wordpress. JobPress - Job Board Wordpress Theme. Suzanne Yada's Link Journalism - business-of-news.