Become a WordPress.com Affiliate and Elevate Your Earnings 

WordPress.com is looking for affiliates to help promote our suite of open-source products, including WordPress.com hosting, domains, Express Website Design Service, WP Job Manager, and more! If you’ve got an audience, you’ve got the potential to elevate your earnings by becoming an affiliate for one or more of our eligible…

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Maximize Your Agency’s Potential by Partnering With Automattic and WordPress.com

Automattic, WordPress.com’s parent company, is home to an unbeatable suite of publishing and small business tools. Jetpack, built into every WordPress.com site, offers performance, security, and growth tools. WooCommerce is trusted by more than 3.6 million online shops, making it the number-one open source ecommerce platform on the internet. And…

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Preventing WordPress Design Disasters

Broken images, mismatched colors, and menu links that go nowhere—we’ve all experienced these design disasters online. Sometimes, these problems are caused by clients accidentally breaking something when accessing a website’s backend. In today’s Build and Beyond video, Jamie Marsland provides five ideas for how builders and clients can work together…

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Variable Expenses: How To Budget for Them

Reading Time: 6 minutes “Winter is coming!” warned Ned Stark on Game of Thrones. But for businesses, winter translates to variable expenses incurred when least expected. But hey, that’s why we learn to adapt, right? One of the most challenging aspects of financial management is dealing with expenses that change…

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Fixed vs Variable Expenses: Balancing Your Budget

Reading Time: 4 minutes Do you ever find yourself wondering where all your income goes? If budgeting is an impossible puzzle, understanding the difference between fixed and variable expenses is a crucial first step toward financial control. In this blog post, we discuss fixed vs variable expenses and provide practical…

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What is Self Assessment?

Reading Time: 3 minutes HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) employs a system known as Self Assessment for Income Tax collection. While taxes are usually deducted automatically from wages and pensions, individuals with income from other sources must declare it by completing a tax return. Additional income, such as rental earnings,…

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What is a VAT Number?

Reading Time: 4 minutes A VAT number is like a special identification tag for businesses that sell taxable goods and services. It’s a nine-digit code issued by the HMRC with the prefix ‘GB’ in England, Scotland and Wales that lets you add a tax to prices of items or services,…

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