Creating Revenue Streams with Custom WordPress Plugins

Custom tailored WordPress Plugins can help any small business save money on operational costs and earn money with faster, more convenient order management for its customers. Plugins can be made to handle most of a business’s number crunching, time sensitive, and regular day-to-day tasks.

Community Plugin

We built a community Plugin, Benchmark Email Lite, that creates a realtime newsletter signup form widget, and also allows administrators to send out their content as email campaigns. The Plugin has had over ten thousand downloads, representing a reasonably large market share in its category.

Monetization: is via users who install the Plugin being likely to upgrade to a paid account with the service provider Benchmark Email. The more users with subscriptions, the better the Plugin pays off over time.

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Introducing beCounted

Yesterday we released version 1.0 of beCounted to the WordPress community via the WordPress.org Plugins repository. beCounted creates a multiple item count up widget based on annual statistics showing the number of occurrences since the page was loaded.

The default statistics that come with beCounted are a set of mythological creatures, including dragons, mermaids, unicorns, and zombies. Administrators can add any number of statistics to this counter, can customize all of the styling, and can add a custom credit blurb beneath the counter display with the ability to add hyperlinks.

Note: We originally created this WordPress plugin for our client’s website, Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach, calling it the Animal Kill Counter.

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Introducing Benchmark Email Lite

We just released version 1.0 of Benchmark Email Lite to the WordPress community via the WordPress.org Plugins repository. Benchmark Email Lite creates a newsletter signup form widget.

The widget creates a simple W3C and WAVE validated signup form to instantly subscribe visitors to a Benchmark Email contact list, requesting the subscriber’s first name, last name, and email address. If the subscriber preexists on the list, this will update the subscriber’s first and last names on the mailing list.

Thank you for taking the time to read this post. Note that we really appreciate feedback about what we’ve written as well as what topics you’d like us to discuss in future posts so please do let us know.