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CleverPlugins.com is run by two people, Tony Lindskog and myself, Lars Koudal, and the story of how this came to be is a bit different, and I thought I would share it with the world.
I started myWordPress.com a while back (over a year in fact) to blog about my spare-time passion, WordPress. I initially also had the idea to make it a membership site with videos and in-detail tutorials and code snippets, but found my time was better spent coding and developing plugins for WordPress.
So the first plugin was born, SEO Booster PRO. This is by far the most popular and best-selling product so far. SEO Booster PRO was inspired by a few interesting articles and spun into a clever and self-optimizing plugin for WordPress users.
The initial hype and interest began when I first published the lite version for free, which became adapted by a lot of WordPress bloggers. The PRO version has more practical features, which makes the money well worth it.
During the development of my second premium WordPress Plugin, I came into contact with Tony Lindskog via Skype. Over thousands of im's and mails a friendship formed, and now a partnership. Tony handles CleverPlugins.com, the affiliates, sales, pre- and post-sale support (we have very few support messages, most of our plugins just plain work out of the box).
A lot of plugins have been developed over the past year, we have a range of cool plugins such as:
SEO Booster PRO- Put your internal SEO on autopilot. Dynamic SEO when its best!
my SEO Status - Track your progress in the search engines, backlinks, indexation, etc.
my Video Poster - Posts directly from Youtube to your blog. Can download and rename pictures, auto-insert comments, make tags, work with custom fields for any WordPress theme, etc. etc. One of the few plugins that makes a post with actual content! So you can install it, use it, and deactivate it again, yet the blog is not left with blank content.
Newsletter Booster - When a visitor leaves a comment on your blog, this plugin makes it a snap (literally a checkbox) for them to sign up to your newsletter at the same time! Every blog that has a newsletter has reported big increases in signups, and our customers love the fact that it works with AWeber, Mailchimp, etc.
Twitter Control Center- Only for people with tons of Twitter accounts. This little snappy plugin makes it a brease to control them all. Mass tweet (3 different tweet messages can randombly be used), mass follow another Twitter account or mass unfollow a Twitter account. If you control a lot of Twitter accounts, then this tool is for you.
There are other plugins, but I do not want to make this blogpost a sales pitch (at least not completely).
I can also inform everyone that v2 of my SEO Status has been developed, and is now being tested on a range of blogs, before we release it to our existing customers. They get the upgrade for free, thats how much we care about our customers.
I have also started development of SEO Booster PRO 2, which will contain the same base functionality as v1, but with a lot of added features, some bugfixes or optional settings here and there. The best part is the major new features. Those I will let you know about eventually, but not quite yet. |
