This past Wednesday, December 13th, we gave a talk at the “3+1” event here at the TeknoparkIzmir. The organization is a set of talks by 3 entrepreneurs and 1 scientist to talk about their story and their projects. First half of our talk was about WordPress and WooCommerce, trying to inform people about how great they are 😀 And the second half was about Weptile’s evolution. From freelancing days to current team and future projects. It was nice to have this opportunity and we thank TeknoparkIzmir for the organization. Yet this event was just a beginning of a series of talks it seems. At the end of December, we’ll be have a seminar in the Computer Engineering department here in the IzTech University. Another talk, a much bigger one to a bigger and more related audience perhaps – the Computer Engineering senior students. Our goal will be to tell them about the great community of WordPress, again the evolution of Weptile and pro’s and con’s of each step we went through for the ones that are planning to become entrepreneurs themselves.

Our beloved partner TiestaTea is now an Inc 5000 company! They made it to the list (as #759) with this year’s growth. Way to go Tiesta! Keep on LIVING LOOSE! We can’t really take any credit from their gigantic success of 599% growth. But still, we should be allowed to brag about their website, as we’re responsible for it right? 🙂 So here are some numbers that we’d also be able to show off with: Comparing their 12 months with us vs. 12 months before us, they have more than DOUBLED the number of orders (115% increase to be exact) and increased gross sales by 38%. We are proud to be even a tiny part of this great success and thankful to TiestaTea for giving us the opportunity to be a part of this wonderful team 🙂 <3 Now that the bar has been raised so high, we have even more to do on their website!    

Here in Izmir, we have relatively nice weather all along the year compared to many. No harsh colds in the winter and simply a hot summer 🙂 We  do our best to enjoy our weekends best as we can with all the beaches and vacation locations nearby. So that’s how most of the summer passed by. And come September, we celebrated Gizem’s birthday with a surprise on her desk: By pure luck and coincidence (a long story here), she came to the office with her father and sister that day, which ended up with an even better surprise for her 🙂 And by the end of September we planned a possible good bye party to the hot weather plus yet another birthday party, this time for Esat. Plus it was an excuse for a BBQ 🙂 Now that the “winter is coming”, we’re back at work full speed, non-stop, without any foreseeable break until spring. You all know where to find us 😉  

Past 9 months passed so fast for us with the usual flow of client projects, new WordPress plugins, new partnership for premium theme development and further plans about the future. We couldn’t manage it if we weren’t a team that works so well together and really loves each other personally. Perhaps this synergy in our team is our super-power. Growing to become a team of 5 was within our plans for 2016 all along. However it’s getting harder and harder each time we grow. Our standards in talent and personality are increasing with each new member of the team. After all, it’s not easy to find a superhero… but we still managed to find one. Welcome Gizem – our new superhero since July! Gizem (super-power: hand walking) (special thanks to WPEngine for our superhero costumes)