1.
WordPress
&
Opportunities for Students
At Techcamp Saigon Uni 2014

2.
About me and the company
Dat Hoang
● Community & Support
of OnTheGoSystems
● Marketing Online
OnTheGoSystems
● WPML
● Toolset plugins
● ICanLocalize

3.
Agenda
● Amazing Trend
● Opportunities
● Where to start

4.
WordPress.com stats
In 1 month:
● 409 million people view 14.4 billion pages
● 40.5 million new posts
● 50.3 million new comments
Source: http://wordpress.com

5.
Big brands using WordPress
Using both
+ WordPress.com (VIP)
+ WordPress.org (open source)
Source: http://wordpress.org

6.
Big brands using WordPress
● CNN
● New York Times
● Harvard Business Review
● Samsung
● Wall Street Journal
● Forbes
● Ebay blog
● TechCrunch

7.
Market share
Grey: all sites
Green: CMS
● CMS: over 60% is WordPress. Far behind: Joomla 8.8%,
Drupal 5.4%...
● 5 new sites are created over the world, 1 site is WordPress.
Source: http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all

8.
How users make the trend
Source: Google Trend

9.
What creates the trend
● Easy to learn
● Easy to use
● Easy to manage
● Easy to do SEO

10.
Opportunities
● Jobs
● Freelancers/Startup/Self-employed
● Work remotely

11.
Opportunities: Jobs

12.
Opportunities: Jobs

13.
Freelancers/Startup/Self-employed
● ThemeForest: designers + coders
● Freelance sites:
○ oDesk.com
○ freelancer.com
● Bloggers: thachpham.com

14.
Work remotely
● Saving Traffic Time
● Work Anywhere in the World
● Requirements:
○ Smart brain and fingers
○ Internet

15.
Work remotely: an example
● 45 members - over 20 countries - 4 continents
● company conference: once a year
● always moving
● we are hiring

16.
Where to start
● IT background
● Soft skills: communication, teamwork...
● English
● WordPress Codex
● Community
○ FB group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wordpressviet/
○ Meetup:
http://www.meetup.com/Saigon-WordPress/
○ Website: ThachPham, Izwebz

17.
Big Thanks!
Dat Hoang
Community & Support Vietnam
E: dat.h@icanlocalize.com
W: wpml.org | wp-types.com | icanlocalize.com
At Techcamp Saigon Uni
Saigon, June 21, 2014