An indispensible online business building tool

[web biz owner]

The bizXpress plugin is a much-needed tool for serious WordPress users who want to build real, sustainable online businesses. In addition to allowing you to investigate whether a niche idea is likely to be profitable before going to all the work to build a site, it gives you a step-by-step guide that is detailed and comprehensive. Even though I’m an experienced WP user, I learned a lot by going through the guide. (If you’re a newbie, then using this plugin and all its resources will give you a big head start right out of the gate.)

I downloaded the plugin because I wanted to enter a new market. Using the brainstorming tool brought back keywords that I wouldn’t have thought up on my own. After filtering the results and checking for monetization potential and doing some other research that is recommended in the guide, I started to rethink my niche which ultimately, has taken me in a slightly different direction that has me very excited to create my site and build out my offering.

These are smart tools from a smart company that has been creating tools to help internet entrepreneurs succeed for over a decade.

[kentaiwan98]

The plugin is absolutely not needed for WordPress, provides no intrinsic additional functionality to WordPress (other than adding a few links in the admin)… and, though approved as a SaaS, is largely a waste of your precious CPUs. Just go to their website and use the tools directly from there. No plugin needed. No upgrades needed. You won’t miss out on a thing by NOT installing the plugin.

[bizxpress]

Hi Ken.

Well, yes, you will miss out on a lot by not installing the plugin. You get access to Brainstorm It!, all of our documentation, and our Support team, from one location, your WordPress installation.

You also get our forum newsfeed, after you activate the feed reader widget and then set it up in your dashboard. That newsfeed is where we let bizXpress users know about all of our new articles, and other updates, like the one I did a few days ago about the new version of the Jetpack plugin, which is a big improvement over the old one.

[kentaiwan98]

Brainstorm It is available direct from the site, nor is the documentation, support team, etc. The only thing you don’t get that is included on the wordpress admin menu: a feed to their forum. Just go to their site, and avoid this plugin altogether.

The plugin is unnecessary and useless, unlike the bizXpress tools, which are of good value. However, once your free trial ends, the plugin is without any function whatsoever.

What surprises me though: why there is no ability to login via the WordPress Panel, no API that allows interaction between WordPress & Sitesell directly, and one wonders why (when so many other plugins have some kind of API that pull data etc, directly into wordpress and/or make services available within WordPress… ) BizXpress is unable to do this. Each link you click forces you to open another window, taking you AWAY from your wordpress install.

For BXP to work as SaaS properly, it needs to get over that, and treat wordpress users as an end in themselves, not a means to get more traffic Sitesell’s sites. There are plenty of other plugins that already do this. Provide an API that inputs chosen KW directly into the WordPress SEO plugins, help users with choosing their keyword data, … all those things that Sitesell used to be good at. That’s what would make this a valuable plugin.

As it stands, BXP (as a plugin) is nothing less, nothing more than a collection of links. And whether or not this comment stays here, users will find this out when they try it out. I did.

BTW, Jetpack gets updated and is shown in the WP updates section ANYWAY. That is not a good reason to keep a useless plugin.

[kentaiwan98]

And now there is no trial offer for people who install this plugin. Negating the only reason to install the plugin.

Unless you’re a customer, you will not use this plugin. If you’re a customer, you will remove it… It’s unnecessary, as you will find out.