PressNomics 2012: The Economics of WordPress Conference. November 8-10

Chandler, Arizona (PRWEB) May 02, 2012

PressNomics is The Economics of WordPress

The open source web publishing platform WordPress supports a very successful commercial economy estimated near $ 1B/yr. Commercial entities of all kinds serve the market of ~72 million WordPress powered sites and blogs with custom designed themes, plugins, web hosting, and service based consulting. PressNomics is a once a year gathering of international WordPress professionals to learn, foster collaboration, and build new strategies for commercial success in the growing WordPress economy.

Organized by Phoenix based WordPress Hosting company Page.ly, the PressNomics conference sessions are focused exclusively on the commercial economy fueled by startups and SMB’s leveraging WordPress. Discussion topics will include: bootstrapping to profitability, software licensing guidelines, SaaS, interface and application design, and finance.

Speakers that include Mikkel Svane Founder & CEO of Zendesk, Mark Jaquith lead developer on the WordPress open source project, and Alex King founder of CrowdFavorite a WordPress development agency will share their insights on startups, venture capital, best practices and personal stories of business triumphs and teachable moments.

The 3 day event will be held at the famous Crowne Plaza San Marcos Golf Resort in historic downtown Chandler Arizona. 2 days of insightful programming will be followed by a leisurely day of Golf and Bowling for all attendees to relax and renew friendships.

PressNomics is made possible with generous support by San Francisco based New Relic providers of an advanced web application performance management service. Further promotional support is provided by Dallas based secure cloud hosting company FireHost, and Zendesk the company behind the customer service help desk software of the same name.

Tickets go on sale to the general audience on June 1st 2012 at the early bird price of $ 200 per seat. Attendance is limited at 150. Select attendees may purchase tickets sooner at a deeper discount by requesting an invite via the PressNomics homepage.

WordPress is a registered trademark of the WordPress foundation and is not affiliated with this event. Respect.

PressNomics 2012: The Economics of WordPress Conference. November 8-10

PRESSNOMICS: The Economics of WordPress

Chandler, AZ (PRWEB) October 18, 2012

WordPress has evolved into much more than a blogging platform. Over the years tens of millions of individuals and businesses have leveraged the open-source content management system to do everything from publish a family website to serve as the digital home for multi-national enterprise organizations.

It takes some understanding of web technology and business acumen to run and effectively scale a digital business.

Enter Pressnomics. Created by Joshua and Sally Strebel, Founders of Page.ly, which provides managed WordPress hosting solutions. PressNomics is the first conference that will focus specifically on the Economics of WordPress and how individuals, teams, and organizations are using WordPress to make their financial living.

On November 8-10, 2012 a virtual whos who of the premium WordPress eco-system will assemble in Chandler, Arizona for the inaugurial conference to talk, network, learn and strategize on how to continue to build and flourish their digital business. There will be premium theme designers, plugin developers, consultants and everyone in between in attendance. As Joshua Strebel states,

“PressNomics aims to bring commercially minded WordPress focused companies and professionals together in an atmosphere of learning and collaboration.”

The schedule includes talks from Zendesk.com CEO Mikkel Svane and WordPress core contributor Mark Jaquith as the topics range from discussing successful startups and WordPress specific economic concerns.

It should be noted that PressNomics is not a WordCamp; this is not a WordPress Foundation sponsored event, however looking at the registered invitees and planned speakers there will be a number of core contributors in attendance.

The picturesque venue will be the Crowne Plaza San Marcos golf resort. Starting that Thursday morning at 8am with registration the conference is slated to be jam packed with insightful sessions and group activities that are arranged in such a way that attendees wont have to pick and choose between tracks, instead attendees will be able to attend every single 30 minute session. View the complete schedule.

For the first event of this kind, it is admirable to see the number and caliber of sponsors that have come on board. It goes to show that pressnomics is definitely filling a void in the conversations we (the business owners and users) have been wanting to have.

Title sponsorship for the conference is held by New Relic, the all-in-one web application performance tool. While Firehost, Windows Azure, Zendesk, site5 and Envato round out the commercial sponsorships.

PRESSNOMICS: The Economics of WordPress