This year’s wordcamp meetup was held on 16th June at the Nairobi Garage. The meetup brought together developers, bloggers and all kinds entrepreneurs intending to or having a career on WordPress.
“There are thousands of people who have successfully built their careers on WordPress” said Bruce Linnus, a successful South African Entrepreneur whose career is built on WordPress.
Nearly 20,000 people make money yearly on WordPress, another important point to note is that WordPress Powers 20% of the Internet! Whereby nearly 27% of the websites in the entire world run on WordPress. “WordPress is the biggest site of its kind on the planet!” said Bruce.
WordPress beats Joomla and Drupal when it comes to usage and dominates 76.4% of CMS Market Share.
According to Bruce Linnus, in order to build a successful career on WordPress you are required to have the following characters;
1.passion; Without passion you can not be able to succeed in any career
2. You should practice often 3.communicate properly, manage finances to succeed on your career.
4. Learn how to properly manage the business
5. An entrepreneur needs to be strict with money, and manage money very wisely. This will help a business grow faster.
Before starting any kind of business first consider what works for you. If you look for money money will look after you!