Centrals Archive | Castos https://castos.com/central/ Podcast hosting and analytics to help you build, grow, and monetize your show Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:26:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://castos.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/favicon-150x150.png Centrals Archive | Castos https://castos.com/central/ 32 32 How We Approach Remote Company Retreats https://castos.com/central/how-we-approach-remote-company-retreats/ Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:26:28 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=21082 As an entirely distributed, remote team, getting together once a year is essential to our company operating at a high level. In Castos’ annual team retreats, we take dedicated time to deeply understand each other, get some time to celebrate the wins we’ve had in the past year, and do some heavy strategic planning for ... Read more

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]]> 2021 Virtual Company Retreat https://castos.com/central/2021-virtual-company-retreat/ https://castos.com/central/2021-virtual-company-retreat/#respond Fri, 24 Sep 2021 08:58:24 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=17079 Due to the Covid pandemic, our company, like so many others, has been forced to forego the typical in-person company retreat in favor of a remote retreat. For us, this decision was made in May as the Delta variant was roaring in Europe and beginning to take hold in the US and there was just ... Read more

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]]> https://castos.com/central/2021-virtual-company-retreat/feed/ 0 Welcoming Chad Stearns to the Castos Team https://castos.com/central/welcoming-chad-stearns-to-the-castos-team/ https://castos.com/central/welcoming-chad-stearns-to-the-castos-team/#respond Mon, 16 Aug 2021 07:24:00 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=17188 Today the entire Castos team is excited to welcome Chad Stearns as our newest team member. Chad is joining the team as one of two new Account Executives. Chad has a long history of success in the SaaS sales arena, most recently coming from a role at Pagely as Inside Account Executive. Born and raised ... Read more

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]]> https://castos.com/central/welcoming-chad-stearns-to-the-castos-team/feed/ 0 Welcoming Michael Parker to the Castos Team https://castos.com/central/welcoming-michael-parker-to-the-castos-team/ https://castos.com/central/welcoming-michael-parker-to-the-castos-team/#respond Mon, 16 Aug 2021 07:23:00 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=17187 Today please welcome the entire Castos team as we welcome Michael Parker to the team as one of two new Account Executives. Michael has a long history of success in sales in the SaaS world, most recently at Appraisal Lane. He is a Texas native and has been based in Austin since 2009. Michael began ... Read more

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]]> https://castos.com/central/welcoming-michael-parker-to-the-castos-team/feed/ 0 Welcoming María Eugenia Lucena To The Castos Team https://castos.com/central/welcoming-maria-eugenia-lucena-to-the-castos-team/ https://castos.com/central/welcoming-maria-eugenia-lucena-to-the-castos-team/#respond Mon, 02 Aug 2021 07:00:00 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=15333 Today the entire Castos team is excited to welcome María Eugenia Lucena to the team as a Front-end Developer. Maru, as she prefers to go by, is joining us from Santiago, Chile, but is originally from a small village in Venezuela. As the first dedicated front-end developer on the Castos engineering team, Maru will be ... Read more

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]]> https://castos.com/central/welcoming-maria-eugenia-lucena-to-the-castos-team/feed/ 0 Welcoming Jimmy Baum to the Castos team https://castos.com/central/welcoming-jimmy-baum-to-the-castos-team/ https://castos.com/central/welcoming-jimmy-baum-to-the-castos-team/#respond Tue, 06 Jul 2021 06:00:00 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=15016 Today we’re thrilled to welcome Jimmy Baum to the team as a Customer Support Specialist. Jimmy was born and raised in Sierra Madre, CA near Los Angeles. He studied linguistics at the University of Oregon. Aside from blogging and podcasting interests, he loves outdoor things like camping and hiking, woodcarving, taking photos, gardening, traveling, and ... Read more

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]]> https://castos.com/central/welcoming-jimmy-baum-to-the-castos-team/feed/ 0 Castos Completes Pre-Seed Fundraising Round https://castos.com/central/pre-seed-fundraising-round/ https://castos.com/central/pre-seed-fundraising-round/#respond Fri, 02 Jul 2021 08:08:00 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=14793 Castos, a leader in podcast hosting and analytics, has successfully closed an investment round of $756,000. With investments by Automattic, Yoast SEO, and individual investors, Castos will use this additional capital to fuel its advance into the Private Podcasting market.  With podcasting, and audio content in general, showing no signs of slowing now that the ... Read more

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]]> https://castos.com/central/pre-seed-fundraising-round/feed/ 0 Welcoming Isata Kamara to the Castos Team https://castos.com/central/welcoming-isata-kamara-to-the-castos-team/ https://castos.com/central/welcoming-isata-kamara-to-the-castos-team/#respond Mon, 12 Apr 2021 06:36:00 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=14348 Today the entire Castos team is excited to welcome Isata Kamara to the Castos team as our newest Customer Support Specialist. Isata comes to us from a long background working in tech, and in customer support roles at companies like Hopin and Livestorm. Isata has been working in the Customer Support role for more than ... Read more

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]]> https://castos.com/central/welcoming-isata-kamara-to-the-castos-team/feed/ 0 Welcoming Kelly Torres to the Castos Team https://castos.com/central/welcoming-kelly-torres-to-the-castos-team/ https://castos.com/central/welcoming-kelly-torres-to-the-castos-team/#respond Thu, 01 Apr 2021 07:00:00 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=14302 Today the entire Castos team is excited to welcome Kelly Torres to the Support team as our newest Customer Support Specialist. Kelly comes from a long, entrepreneurial background in the WordPress space, having founded a managed hosting platform previously. She brings to the team rich experience in customer support, and in technical experience in managing ... Read more

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]]> https://castos.com/central/welcoming-kelly-torres-to-the-castos-team/feed/ 0 Welcoming Paul Edward to the Castos Team https://castos.com/central/welcoming-paul-edward-to-the-castos-team/ https://castos.com/central/welcoming-paul-edward-to-the-castos-team/#respond Mon, 22 Mar 2021 07:00:00 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=14246 Today we’re excited to be welcoming a new addition to the Castos team in our engineering group. Paul Edward is joining the Castos team as a Senior PHP Developer on March 22, 2021. Paul has extensive development experience in both WordPress plugin and Laravel web application development. Hailing from Lagos, Nigeria, Paul has worked for ... Read more

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]]> https://castos.com/central/welcoming-paul-edward-to-the-castos-team/feed/ 0 Welcoming Roberto Gongora to the team https://castos.com/central/welcoming-roberto-gongora-to-the-team/ https://castos.com/central/welcoming-roberto-gongora-to-the-team/#respond Mon, 15 Mar 2021 13:04:29 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=14214 The entire Castos team is excited to welcome Roberto Gongora to the development team. Roberto has a long history in both WordPress and Laravel development, working with several applications and plugins similar to Castos in the past. Roberto lives just outside of Merida, Mexico, with my beautiful wife Elizabeth and their dog Abril. He’s also ... Read more

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]]> https://castos.com/central/welcoming-roberto-gongora-to-the-team/feed/ 0 How Engineering Works In Support At Castos https://castos.com/central/how-engineering-works-in-support-at-castos/ https://castos.com/central/how-engineering-works-in-support-at-castos/#respond Wed, 24 Feb 2021 13:03:42 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=14133 For the last year or so a big question within our team is “Are we working as efficiently as we can?”. The Castos team, pretty much every day This means many things, including: Are we calm and happy at work? Are we able to focus on one thing until that thing is done, and done ... Read more

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]]> https://castos.com/central/how-engineering-works-in-support-at-castos/feed/ 0 Welcoming Kim McCaffery to the team https://castos.com/central/welcoming-kim-mccaffery-to-the-team/ https://castos.com/central/welcoming-kim-mccaffery-to-the-team/#respond Fri, 22 Jan 2021 13:28:52 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=13962 The entire Castos team is excited to welcome Kim McCaffery to the team in her new role as Customer Support Specialist. Kim has extensive experience in customer support and customer success in her previous roles with Inventory Lab and with Conferences.io. Kim brings to Castos a unique perspective from these work experiences as well as ... Read more

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]]> https://castos.com/central/welcoming-kim-mccaffery-to-the-team/feed/ 0 Welcoming Alec Joy To The Castos Development Team https://castos.com/central/welcoming-alec-joy-to-the-castos-development-team/ https://castos.com/central/welcoming-alec-joy-to-the-castos-development-team/#respond Mon, 02 Nov 2020 18:33:39 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=13429 Today Castos is excited to welcome Alec Joy as the newest member of our development team. Alec comes to Castos with extensive experience building web based SaaS applications, and his knowledge of Laravel and it’s ecosystem is already bearing fruit in his first two weeks on the team. A resident of Syracuse, New York, Alec ... Read more

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]]> https://castos.com/central/welcoming-alec-joy-to-the-castos-development-team/feed/ 0 PodcastMotor is now Castos Productions https://castos.com/central/podcastmotor-is-now-castos-productions/ https://castos.com/central/podcastmotor-is-now-castos-productions/#respond Thu, 15 Oct 2020 07:55:24 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=13268 Many of you may know that Castos was not my first business in the podcasting world. I started over 5 years ago with a productized service business called PodcastMotor. The mission at PodcastMotor was simple: Take the time consuming, difficult work of editing and production off our customers plates so they can focus on running ... Read more

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]]> https://castos.com/central/podcastmotor-is-now-castos-productions/feed/ 0 Our Developer Hiring Process https://castos.com/central/our-developer-hiring-process/ https://castos.com/central/our-developer-hiring-process/#respond Fri, 04 Sep 2020 07:11:55 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=12973 In SaaS companies, one of the most important hiring decisions we make is to bring on new developers to our engineering team. And even for technical founders, the developer hiring process can be arduous and fraught with indecision. Here at Castos our developer hiring process has evolved quite a bit over the years we’ve been ... Read more

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]]> https://castos.com/central/our-developer-hiring-process/feed/ 0 Welcoming Matt Medeiros To The Castos Team https://castos.com/central/welcoming-matt-medeiros/ https://castos.com/central/welcoming-matt-medeiros/#respond Tue, 21 Jul 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=12500 Today Castos is excited to welcome a new member to the team, Matt Medeiros as our Director of Podcaster Success. Matt comes to Castos with a long history of work in the WordPress and podcasting worlds. Matt is the co-founder of Slocum Studio, a web development agency in Dartmouth, MA where he managed client communications, ... Read more

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]]> https://castos.com/central/welcoming-matt-medeiros/feed/ 0 Hacktoberfest 2019 https://castos.com/central/hacktoberfest-2019/ https://castos.com/central/hacktoberfest-2019/#respond Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:43:55 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=8841 Every year, for the month of October, the folks over at Digital Ocean host a month long event aimed at supporting open source projects, called Hacktoberfest. The goal of the event is to help drive the growth of open source by making positive contributions to the ever-growing community surrounding open source projects. The first 50 ... Read more

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]]> https://castos.com/central/hacktoberfest-2019/feed/ 0 Our Promise To The Environment https://castos.com/central/our-promise-to-the-environment/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 07:35:19 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=8763 The Castos team has long believed that one of the privileges, and even responsibilities, that come along with running a profitable company is the ability to give back to the world around us. This can take many forms. For some it means contributing to the WordPress communities in our local towns. For others it means ... Read more

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]]> Redesigning our website from the ground up with Gutenberg https://castos.com/central/redesigning-our-website-from-the-ground-up-with-gutenberg/ https://castos.com/central/redesigning-our-website-from-the-ground-up-with-gutenberg/#comments Mon, 15 Jul 2019 11:30:21 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=8018 About 2 months ago we embarked upon the process of redesigning the castos.com homepage and marketing site. The previous design served us well for the last 2 years and, just like the new site, proudly ran on WordPress. With the introduction of the Gutenberg block editor into WordPress core in release 5.0 we thought this ... Read more

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]]> https://castos.com/central/redesigning-our-website-from-the-ground-up-with-gutenberg/feed/ 2 Castos goes to #WCEU https://castos.com/central/castos-goes-to-wceu/ https://castos.com/central/castos-goes-to-wceu/#respond Fri, 05 Jul 2019 09:14:03 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=7948 WordCamp Europe 2019 happened on the 20th to the 22nd of June. For part of the Castos team, that week will be remembered as the first Castos Team Retreat. Day 1 Craig, Danilo and I met up in Berlin the day before WordCamp. Having worked together, but remotely, for the better part of three years, ... Read more

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]]> https://castos.com/central/castos-goes-to-wceu/feed/ 0 The process of refactoring Seriously Simple Podcasting https://castos.com/central/the-process-of-refactoring-seriously-simple-podcasting/ https://castos.com/central/the-process-of-refactoring-seriously-simple-podcasting/#respond Fri, 24 May 2019 10:01:54 +0000 https://castos.com/?p=6726 Seriously Simple Podcasting has been available as a WordPress plugin for almost 7 years. The initial release was published on 13 December 2012 by Hugh Lashbrooke. Since Castos acquired the plugin in late 2016, we’ve pushed out 33 updates in the past two years. We’ve worked hard to fix bugs and add new features, the ... Read more

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]]> https://castos.com/central/the-process-of-refactoring-seriously-simple-podcasting/feed/ 0 Castos joins startup accelerator TinySeed https://castos.com/central/castos-joins-startup-accelerator-tinyseed/ https://castos.com/central/castos-joins-startup-accelerator-tinyseed/#respond Thu, 23 May 2019 09:39:02 +0000 https://castos.com/?post_type=central&p=6877 On the day of Castos’ 2nd anniversary of launching our hosting platform we officially became a member of the inaugural cohort of companies in a remote startup accelerator called TinySeed. Out of more than 900 company applicants Castos was chosen as one of 11 companies that will now embark upon a full year of guided ... Read more

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]]> https://castos.com/central/castos-joins-startup-accelerator-tinyseed/feed/ 0 Lessons Learned Maintaining An Already Successful WordPress Plugin https://castos.com/central/lessons-learned-maintaining-already-successful-wordpress-plugin/ https://castos.com/central/lessons-learned-maintaining-already-successful-wordpress-plugin/#respond Fri, 14 Jul 2017 16:24:47 +0000 https://castos.com/?p=5646 As most readers of this will know WordPress is an extremely powerful Content Management System that as of the time of this publication powers ~29% of all sites on the internet. To say that it’s a Best of Class product is a huge understatement. In December 2016 I got an email from a friend and ... Read more

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