There are many successful cases in the world. People don’t want to show off money or status. Truly successful people are always ready to share their experiences and lifebuoys to help others cultivate, develop and realize their dreams. The guest interviewed today is one of the figures who created and inspired others to find creative sources. Templatemonster is one of the largest website theme markets on the Internet. Visit David Braun, CEO of com. He was one of the creative figures who inspired everything they did. He was the founder of a successful business and volunteered to serve several social projects. He was an enthusiastic base runner, father of three children, traveler and drummer. In order to be interviewed, we met David and asked him about his project, web development and life goals. The
Hello David! Thank you for meeting our team for the interview. Let’s start with the most popular questions that every meeting must accept. Please briefly introduce your pet project templatemonster. Com How did it start? Hello! Thank you for your invitation. I’m really happy. The brief history of templatemonster began in 1998 in a small apartment in my hometown city. Some of my friends and I started a free studio for web design services. Our first project is a customized website for friends’ friends and their customers. The
We have grown gradually, have more customers, and have won several Fortune 500 enterprises. At that time, I thought of selling finished products, but I didn’t know what kind of products it was. Until one of our designers showed me how to use the pre created Photoshop design element library. He put down the elements needed for the layout and made some adjustments to get a beautiful design. Later, we learned more about website templates and began to follow this trend. At that time we only got one competitor. Then they came up with a very ugly design. So we have secured a lot of customers, templatemonster. The com project was born. The
Although I was very lucky, I got support through my efforts! By the way, not all roses. At first, we were cut off from our money account because of fraud. Several dishonest customers used stolen credit cards to buy huge sums of money. There are also several DDoS attack threats and threat attempts. But with the help of our friends, we overcame this situation. Then, how can a small local project with templates for all platforms and niche markets grow into a large market? Oh, that’s a thorny road! Or, the first template is based on flash. But in 2010, when Steve Jobs claimed that flash was no longer popular, we faced a big problem. Most developers are flash experts. Firing up to 200 experts and hiring new ones seems to be a very expensive and inappropriate solution. Therefore, we decided to reconsider all workflows and retrain developers as HTML encoders. The
Templatemonster One of the biggest declines in history. Www. 68mn. Employees retrain and spend a lot of time changing partner programs. We face a loss of efficiency and quality. But we reprocessed all the processes, changed the focus and strategy, and overcame all the problems. Do these questions help build one of the coolest teams in other companies? They also =) we have tried to create a friendly environment for our employees from the beginning. It shouldn’t be where ordinary people work. Our goal is a friendly environment where everyone can create something and provide new solutions.
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Templatemonster today See what com is. What makes your project special except the people on your team? It seems to be about versatility and user affinity. Start with the official partner WordPress template. However, they only focus on suppliers working under the GPL license. Therefore, we started to develop other platform templates, including magnto, Opencart, prestatshop and Joomla. Today, we provide templates for almost all existing and popular platforms. For CMS and all niche markets, we started our own side project motocms, which combines the theme of finished products. The
Male and female templatemonster What are the latest innovations and innovations of COM? Brand new logo design, a lot of changes have been made to the website, template store, etc. We will build our store into a huge market. Any website designer and developer can display and sell their own products. This provides a great opportunity for developers to find more clients with the help of template providers. We strive to expand the scope of the template and provide solutions for all business gaps or individual projects. From today’s photographers and original writers to business owners or financial consultants, everyone can get wonderful themes, including all the latest trends in web design. The
Six months ago, we focused on creating flagship templates for the most famous platforms. Our goal is to provide enterprises and developers with all-in-one solutions, including all the functions of their favorite platforms, as well as enterprises and developers who want to have beautiful designs and a variety of options. We have provided major themes for WordPress, Opencart, Magento, motocms, etc. To this end, we have launched the latest version of the monster theme. Mongroid 2 for WordPress is a versatile solution with everything you need for templates. The stylish administrator panel makes it easy to manage layout and content using the drag and drop editor. This includes 12 themes, which are prepared in advance for various business niche markets such as coffee shops and restaurants, e-commerce, consulting, hotel business, etc. Monstroid allows you to quickly create feature sites using templates that contain all plug-ins, options, and user-friendly features. As far as I know, it is the only solution in the template market. The
But these templates Is it only useful for advanced users? What benefits can ordinary customers get from your products? The template is for two groups of users. First, the end user does not need each sub topic in the template. These users can enjoy the benefits of Novi builder included in the drag and drop editor and multi-objective themes. Help create websites without coding knowledge. This will greatly save the included plug-in delivery time and cost. But we also offer many opportunities for web developers and web studio. They can use these templates as the perfect foundation for their projects. Multi functional themes do not require different templates to be purchased for each customer. They have a set of theme suits in our market that are convenient at the price of ordinary templates. The
The most important thing about our products – we provide all customer support and help them with all problems they may encounter. Our customers receive free, lifelong support year round, and no other company can boast of this generous offer
Interesting! What else do you offer customers? Our goal is to provide all necessary information to our customers. We created the startup hub for small businesses. This should help nascent businesses, regional business owners, bloggers and other projects build an online foothold, build brands, engage customers and increase traffic. The
Another training program is the recently launched templatemonster Certification Center. It absolutely allows all users to participate in the course and obtain the certification to open their own network studio. Through this project, everyone can complete the website construction process, obtain certificates, and let people open their own website studio. The YouTube channel also provides training videos to give users a detailed understanding of popular platforms, hosting and domain choices. These include courses to help customize templates and create exciting websites. In addition, we also provide a variety of side projects, such as service centers, to help customers create websites. For users who do not have time to adjust the theme or need to adjust the theme. Our experts will handle all processes and build a website ready for launch within 24 hours. Templatemonster Com also provides cooperation plans and social stocks for users looking for opportunities to make money online. Therefore, social stock is an attractive competition. It invites ordinary users to act as brand promotion ambassadors, promote templates and obtain wonderful products. Let me choose the most recent achievement? It seems to be my family and my team. I always support most of my crazy projects and ideas, so I love the people around me. We took part in the marathon and won the top of the mountain last year. I hope there will be many handsome projects in the future Thank you for your interview. I also hope there will be new and amazing opportunities waiting for you in the future. Good luck!