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- LeadPages review (first product I’ve ever given an “award” to)
- LeadPages vs. OptimizePress 2.0 – which one is right for you?
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Hi,
I have moved to another country and missed most of your resent updates. Maybe you have discussed this…maybe not.
Responsive themes….I suppose you will build your themes responsive. I only buy responsive themes so that is mandatory for me.
Thanks,
Erik
Hey Shane,
What if you do a “flexible” theme that has some pre-customized-fast-option available for people that want the fast-customization one?
Take care
Personally, I can’t wait to see what you have in store. If your themes are as perfect as Hybrid Connect…I will be your first customer! Your perfectionism will show in your themes…of that I am sure of!
Hi Shane.
In terms of theme flexibility, why not just have a simple and advanced set up options?
That way, people who want to get their site up quickly can use the simple configuration options to give the basic information required and those who like to tweak can have access to the full configuration options.
In terms of the popularity of themes, you survey has similar results to the stats at:
http://whatwpthemeisthat.com/top-themes.html
Cheers
Peter
I love the idea of ease of use as you mentioned in the video post. It’s my belief that the reason they love genesis is because it’s super easy to use especially with a million child themes available. With that said though from time to time I do have to make some changes to the css and I absolutely hate doing it. The joy of working through someone else code just doesnt exist on my planet. What genesis does extremely well to fight that is the addition hooks and plugins to exploit them further. That may be the best way to go. I’m sure you and your team will put a more creative, useful spin on them. Long story short.. it’s great to have really easy to use themes but just throw in some hooks to extend the “customizability”.
The sunglasses are cool Shane!
I’d like to invite you to reconsider the assumption behind your question regarding flexibility versus ease of use. You assume these contradict each other. But this is true only if you want it to be true. Why not raise the bar and aim for an easy to use and highly flexible theme structure?
All the best
Turan
Hi Shane
Speaking frankly, this video suggests that you do not really have a clue what you are doing which is fine if your intentions are good (we know they are) and the price is super low.
The difficult you will have is that Elegant Themes have 80+ themes for $39 per annum so how the hell do you compete with that?
For this product I do not think you can rely on the affiliate system for building your tribe, so what I would suggest is that you launch a beta program at about $7 for the first year, let your first 5 or 10 themes out on these paid members so that you benefit from crowdsourcing some support and testing.
Make sure you have a forum in place so that solutions are available by the time you go live.
Then when you have the themes ready you do your launch, one at a time with different licenses with the club as the upsell.
If you get this right it could be great but if not it could really damamge your rep.
Underestimating me is a dangerous thing to do, my friend.
I’m damn sure not going to compete on price though. If that were my kind of thing, you’d see me on the Warrior Forum…
I’ll do this the way I always do these things: I will create a product that offers value you can’t get anywhere else and charge a price that the right people are more than happy to pay for it and that also allows us to run a sustainable business, with good support etc.
Why do you think he doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about? Only because of the price point?
Bootstrapping a development team for one year on a $7 annual recurring basis doesn’t seem like a good way of building a business that’s going to be in a position to offer top quality themes, a high level of support and constant improvements / development. If you’re a Walmart customer then feel free to do your shopping there, but the last thing we want to be is a Walmart of the theme world. We believe we have a strong USP that will more than justify the extra expense.