Tevya Washburn
Loves his wife, kids, and WordPress.
The brain behind Starfish Reviews and WordXpress.
Podcast Experience
Press This: The WordPress Community Podcast
Idaho's Money Show
Tevya’s Story
Tevya grew up on a farm on the edge of town in Idaho. He loved to ride his horses. When it was too cold or hot, he’d head indoors to tinker with computers. As an adult Tevya found WordPress in 2008. He then turned his freelancing into a legit WordPress maintenance and support business called WordXpress.
Since then, he’s bought out two other WordPress maintenance companies, brought-on and later bought-out a partner, rebranded, pivoted his company’s core business model, and started a sister brand, based on the needs of his WordXpress members.
Starfish Reviews is that sister brand. It’s a WordPress plugin that helps businesses and personalities get more reviews for their business, podcast, products.
WordXpress helps small business owners ensure they look great online, without expense of hiring a website person. Speed performance issues, security breeches, updates that break the site, and ugliness that scares away customers are just a few examples of the kinds of problems most WordPress users deal with, but WordXpress members don’t.
Experienced Presenter
(on WordPress and business topics)
Ideas for Discussion
Suggested Topics
Clever Strategies for Driving Constructive Reviews
Online Review Strategy with WordPress
Getting the Most from Online Reviews
Possible Questions
What made you decide to create Starfish?
What mistakes do people make when thinking about review strategy?
Do reviews really help conversion rates? How?
Should I respond to positive reviews?
Is it a good idea to remove negative reviews?