In reply to Ozgur Zeren.

Hi Ozgur,

I must repeat, that even Matt agrees that WordPress is "too hard" and "too expensive." So the free marketing help Matt seeks is clearly misguided.

What WordPress users and vendors need is for WordPress to focus more on the needs of its user and vendors, not make a plea for free marketing help.

And although Matt is asking for free marketing help, and is following and posting to this blog post, he hasn't posted here that he and WordPress will be making WordPress as user-friendly as its growing competition any day soon.

So my question remains, if Matt and WordPress are unwilling or unable to fix WordPress's biggest issues, why should busy business experts provide WordPress with free marketing help?

WordPress is in danger of repeating the mistake many large organizations make, ignoring their obvious flaws and competition until it is far too late. For example Blockbuster's embarrassingly slow and inadequate response to Netflix etc.