Brent Shepherd

with Brent Shepherd

Woo Subscriptions

Episode #28

Welcome to the WP Elevation Podcast, Episode 28. Our featured guest this week is Brent Shepherd, a fellow Australian living in San Francisco, who is the developer of the Woo Subscriptions extension which allows you to have customers subscribe to a recurring monthly product using WooCommerce. It is a premium extension and he has built a nice company out of building this extension for WooCommerce. In this episode, you’re going to learn how Brent made the transition from a freelance web dev into a WP product company.

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Win Prizes

We're giving away a copy of Woo Subscriptions, valued at $109, which allows customers to subscribe to a product and pay you monthly. To enter the competition, leave a comment under this video and tell us either what you're currently using the Woo Subscriptions for or what kind of business you would like to use it for.

Congratulations Mats Thorburn! Brent has awarded you the Woo Subscription prize. Hope it elevates you and your business! Troy Dean

Show Notes

This week’s highlights include:

WP Elevation Tip of the Week: Don’t write prototypes. Why not just build a rapid prototype in WordPress or use the Canvas Theme on Woo Themes to build a rapid prototype to show the client what we’re building instead of trying to explain it in words
I asked Brent about writing proposals and he said “Well in a perfect world, you don’t want to be writing proposals because if you’re writing proposals, then you’re probably competing with other developers and it’s going to come down to price and who the customer believes is best suited for the job”

Reach Out

You can reach out and thank Brent on Twitter.

Suggested Guest

Brent suggested I interview Scott Bolinger of DradCast and Alex McClafferty from WP Curve. Scott and Alex, keep your eyes on your inbox.

Competition Hint

Hint: to enter the competition, leave a comment below and tell us either what you’re currently using the Woo Subscriptions for or what kind of business you would like to use it for.

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Troy Dean

I am the Founder of Agency Mavericks. The reason I get out of bed every day is because I love helping people to grow their web design or digital marketing businesses. I do this through coaching, creating courses, speaking, consulting and heading up our awesome community.

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18 Responses

Alex McClafferty says:

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Nice interview gents! 10/10 to Brent on the WANTED poster.
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Nice interview gents! 10/10 to Brent on the WANTED poster.
Mats Thorburn says:

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Great interview! – What I would use WooCommerce Subscriptions for? I sell organic tea and I think we have a lot of customers who would drink our teas every day all year, but never get around to the second and third order. I want to turn them into Tea Subscribers 🙂
Mats Thorburn says:

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Great interview! – What I would use WooCommerce Subscriptions for? I sell organic tea and I think we have a lot of customers who would drink our teas every day all year, but never get around to the second and third order. I want to turn them into Tea Subscribers 🙂
Brent Shepherd says:

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As a tea drinker, I love that idea Mats! I’ve seen a few great coffee sites using Subscriptions, but no tea stores. If you ship to North American, I might even be your first subscriber. 🙂
Christine F. Abela says:

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I use WooSubscriptions to sell a monthly service checking clients’ WordPress sites for possible weaknesses in their security. I also used it on a client site where she sells access to a collection of craft patterns (along with WooCommerce and the Groups extension).
Christine F. Abela says:

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I use WooSubscriptions to sell a monthly service checking clients’ WordPress sites for possible weaknesses in their security. I also used it on a client site where she sells access to a collection of craft patterns (along with WooCommerce and the Groups extension).
Jonas says:

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I’d use WooCommerce Subscriptions for a member’s learning website on nutrition and health in my native language. Good way to show Woocommerce Subscriptions wide range of uses in my case. I’d love winning a copy. My email is dan_grr*at*yahoo*dot*com
Jonas says:

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I’d use WooCommerce Subscriptions for a member’s learning website on nutrition and health in my native language. Good way to show Woocommerce Subscriptions wide range of uses in my case. I’d love winning a copy. My email is dan_grr*at*yahoo*dot*com
Jen says:

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Im not using Subscriptions yet, but have been seriously thinking about it for my maintenance plans.
Jen says:

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Im not using Subscriptions yet, but have been seriously thinking about it for my maintenance plans.
JohnO'Mahoney says:

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I will use Woo Subscriptions for a business I’ll soon be at starting with my son. It is a guitar video tuition service and we will be offering it on a monthly subscription. So this would be a perfect solution for us.
JohnO'Mahoney says:

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I will use Woo Subscriptions for a business I’ll soon be at starting with my son. It is a guitar video tuition service and we will be offering it on a monthly subscription. So this would be a perfect solution for us.
chzumbrunnen says:

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I’ll use Woo Subscriptions for a German language WordPress teaching site. Love that it’s not hooked to a certain third party gateway.
chzumbrunnen says:

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I’ll use Woo Subscriptions for a German language WordPress teaching site. Love that it’s not hooked to a certain third party gateway.
Gin McInneny says:

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Hang tight guys. It shouldn’t be too long till Brent announces our prize winner! WP Elevation
Gin McInneny says:

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Hi Everyone, Thanks for the comments and feedback. I have been in touch with Brent and although it was a hard decision, he has awarded the final prize (Woo Subscription!) to Mats Thorburn. Well done Mats – we’ll be in touch shortly.
Mats Thorburn says:

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Thanks so much Brent! No shipping to the US I’m afraid 🙂 But we will try to make some Swedish tea drinkers happy subscribers with the help of your plugin. Cheers /Mats, pekoe.se.