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Dude Posts About Selling WordPress Plugins

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Saw this post on Reddit entitled Anyone on r/WordPress interested in buying a Premium Plugin business?:

Throwaway account here for discretion.

I’m exploring selling the rights to one of my premium plugins, and thought r/wordpress would be a good place to gauge interest and possibly find a buyer in my favoritest of favorite communities. Also, because of the nature of the business, it really needs to be taken on by someone who is already proficient at WordPress development.

This plugin was launched in August of 2010, and since then has generated approximately $44,000 in sales, with around $36,000 profit remaining after paying affiliate commissions.

When it first launched, I was actively promoting the plugin and sales were steady around $3,000 – $5,000 per month. However, my attention got pulled into other projects and with only minimal marketing and updates, sales have been stable at around $1,500 per month for most of this year. I spend an average of 1-3 hours per week handling tech support and email inquiries…not too shabby.

I’m selling because I have too many other items on my plate to be able to give the plugin the attention it needs, both in general improvements to the codebase and in marketing.

What’s included:

  • All rights to the plugin itself. It is currently released under a split GPL/Proprietary License
  • The Domain & Sales Website
  • The vBulletin-powered Support Forum & vBulletin License
  • The E-Junkie account to manage transactions & affiliates ( 250 registered affiliates )
  • My availability & assistance during the transitional period.

Asking Price: $25,000 USD

If you have any questions, either about the sale of this business or general questions about how to earn a living selling premium plugins, please post them here. I will do my best to answer without publicly revealing the plugin or any other potentially sensitive information.

If you’re a genuinely interested potential buyer, please PM me so we can further discuss.

Thanks!

Well, he posted it on a public, popular site so how discrete is that?  Since there are 60 million WordPress blogs out there, some 30 of which are self-hosted (or something like that) it’s quite possible.

Maybe I should find a way to offer some cool functionality with upgrade of either PMID Citation Plus or Facebook Simple Like.

I should go through my list of top WordPress plugins and see how many of them offer pay upgrades.

Facebook Simple Like: A No-Mess Facebook Fan Page Like Button [WP Plugin]

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Want to boost your Facebook fan page subscription rate? This WordPress plugin makes what should be an easy task, but isn’t, an easy one. It enables you to use a shortcode to place a small like button where ever you like without the ordinary clutter: stream, faces, count, and all of the other junk that comes with the “fan page like box” ordinarily. Basically, it generates a fan page subscription button that looks *identical* to the one ordinarily only for *sharing* a page (as opposed to actually subscribing).

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Installation Instructions
All you need to do is unzip it in your wp-content/plugins folder and then activate it in the wp-admin area of your blog.

Like this plugin? Want to contribute?
If you like this plugin there’s a few different ways you can contribute.

 

Screenshots!

 

The Facebook fan page like button with the default white (#FFFFFF) iframe background (generated with the shortcode), contrasting with the ordinary look of the Facebook "like box."

The settings/configuration page for Facebook Simple Like.

The profile pictures section of your facebook fan page, which is where you find the requisite "profile id" of your fan page.

 

Random Stuff: Rebranding WordPress and the Optincrusher Plugin

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I’m not sure about how courteous it is to do this, but nevertheless I found the comprehensiveness of this post really compelling. Basically, when setting up a client’s website he rebrands their admin panel, and even gives them an invoice pay area (via freshbooks) in the administration area. Really pretty neat. Check it out here.

Also, this WordPress plugin called optincrusher is pretty neat for newsletter building.

Simple Tags WordPress Plugin

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I’ve stopped using categories for the most part, at least temporarily, as I’ve started to adopt tagging more. This is a more intuitive way of organizing my posts, I think. I used to use delicious a lot, but since I realized I could use my blog for almost all of the exact same purposes by making better use of the WordPress tagging feature, I’ve transmuted that same energy into blog posts. Suddenly I’ve realized I actually have a lot of blogging material.

So when I first started doing this I asked myself the obvious question: OK, these tags are great, but is there a way to make them awesome? So I started looking around for plugins that augment the behavior of WordPress’ tags just to see what is available. What I found is that, seemingly, SimpleTags is the undisputed heavy-weight.

SimpleTags Features:

  • Allows pages to be tagged.
  • Suggests tags via: Yahoo! Term Extraction API, OpenCalais, Alchemy, Zemanta, Tag The Net, Local DB. (All of which I know nothing about)
  • Allows you to auto link tags into post content. This means if you tag “WordPress” on a post, every time you mention “WordPress” within the post it will become a link to all the other posts with the wordpress tag in them.
  • Allows you to automatically include tags in your meta keywords.
  • Allows a related posts section to posts, and optionally, the feed as well. Usually I use contextual related posts, but this is pretty cool and seems functional.
  • Gives you access to a customizable tag cloud that can be inserted into the template, or within posts and pages.

This plugin is very customizable, and might be a keeper: Get SimpleTags