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Lawrence Ladomery

Lawrence Ladomery

Marketer

Melbourne, Australia Local Time —
Since April 2026 131 views
Availability
Available for hire · Freelance Open to volunteering
Specialties
Product / Agency Owner Content Creator Marketer SEO Specialist Community Other
Company
Milk Bar Marketing
Preferred Hosting
xCloud Host
First WP Version Used
4.x
Birthday
September 30
Joined WP.org
July 2005
Joined WPFolks
April 2026
WPFolks
WP @ 23
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About

I'm a digital marketing professional with 10+ years of B2B experience, and have worked primarily with smaller companies, helping them get traction and grow with limited resources.

I've been working in the WordPress space since 2017, for product and hosting companies, but also on a consultancy basis.

In my spare time I blog about growth for WordPress businesses on WP BizDev.

Photos on WordPress.org

@lawrence

Activity

Reacted to a post by Ankit Panchal
Happy Birthday @lawrence 🎉🎂
2 weeks ago
Reacted to a post by Mehraz Morshed
Happy Birthday
2 weeks ago
Lawrence Ladomery
Lawrence Ladomery @lawrence 4 weeks ago
Hello all, I've just finished a contract and have some bandwidth before I start a new one. I would like to offer my marketing services for free, on an advisory basis. But for a company / project at a very specific stage of their growth: - Recently in market with a new product or about to launch one, or have an established one that isn't growing as much as you want. - Having at lest 3 staff

- One of the staff is either a junior marketer, or open to hiring one of an intern The idea is that I help shape strategy but there is someone who can execute, based on my instructions. We can collaborate on Slack, have weekly calls, and use Notion for project management. A word of warning: the starting point is going to be validating product-market fit, which really means... understanding if there is a business opportunity there at all. Interested, let me know via a DM here. Please provide me as much detail as possible. I hope to choose on project in the next 5 to 7 days. Why am I doing this? It's a learning experience for me too. AI has changed everything and I'm exploring different GTM approached. Cheers - Lawrence

4 months ago
Lawrence Ladomery
Lawrence Ladomery @lawrence 4 months ago
Replying to @wpankit

My official contributions have been at WordCamp Asia or ones in Australia, on Contributor Day or helping out / advising folks in the hallway tracks.

Here's my problem - for what I know and do, which is Marketing, options are limited. Because the project is mostly about devs and run by devs. There's a big gap in 'business culture', which I think is a concern.

I wrote about this a year and a half ago, and if you follow me, you know that every few months I vent about it :)

Lawrence Ladomery
Lawrence Ladomery @lawrence 5 months ago (edited)

Envato has announced that they are raising their commission to 50%, referring to "challenging marketing conditions"

Here are my thoughts:

  • The strategy may be to purge authors who are not generating enough revenue to reduce the operational burden
  • There is still value in authors staying on ThemeForest (unless the operational costs are too high)
  • The risk of ThemeForest shutting down has increased. It's time to take steps to mitigate that.
  • But it's time that authors start selling directly, like StylemixThemes have done so successfully since 2021

I wrote about this on my blog: https://wpbiz.dev/growth/envato-commission/

Anyone on ThemeForest affected by this?

Envato raised its commission - is it time to sell direct? | WP BizDevFrom wpbiz.dev