Sergey Kotlov - Workshop Butler Blog

5+1 ways to increase class attendance with discounts

Early Bird, Group and Friend Discounts, Referrals, Second Training Discount - everything you need to know about discounts for classes real businesses use

Founder's Banter

Onboarding process in a startup

Just since July, we had made not one, not two but four(!) attempts to hire new people for our team. It wasn't a bed of roses! Anyway, we are happy to share our journey and hopefully, it would keep you from making our mistakes.

Taking stock of 2020 and making plans for 2021

There're only a few days of 2020 left. Now it is the right time to look back and analyze and to look forward and plan.

Card payments for every WSB company. Try it right now!

We have some really astonishing news for you: from now on card payments are available for all companies and trainers!

Growth Ideas

COVID-19 Influence on State of Training Management

A few observations on how the pandemic influenced the training industry in 2020

Team Update in September 2020

Unsuccessful first salesperson hire, customizable attendee export, good progress on the new UI

Incident Report: API requests failed

Yesterday, September 28, between 12:51 and 13:42 CET, our API started responding with errors over HTTPS due to expired SSL certificate. As a result, most website integrations didn't work correctly, including registration forms. The root cause of the problem was an incorrect

Product Updates in August 2020

Payment receipts, attendee transfer and improved income statistics for certification brands - read about product updates in August

Customisable Attendee Export

Export any information about attendees by specifying what attributes you'd like to see in the report

Unique Evaluation Links

Easily collect feedback from workshop attendees with the new unique links per attendee

Featured Events

Featured events allow you to highlight and promoted selected workshops easily on your website

Updates to WordPress plugin

In recent weeks, we released three (2.9.0, 2.10.0, 2.11.0) minor updates to our WordPress plugin. There was no general direction for them, just a

Founder's Banter

Finding Focus

Letting go of the things into which you invested time and money may be hard, yet necessary as they prevent you from moving forward

Export Workshop Attendees

Shops motivate customers to buy single bananas. It makes total sense: each banana matters; it's fun, and they are actually tasty. Small features matter as well. Sometimes they can even

Founder's Banter

Losing Focus

Losing focus is hard. Most importantly, it happens tiny step by tiny step until you realise you're lost

Certification Program

Three tips on starting a successful certification program

After several years of working with 10+ certification programs, here are three simple tips to help you succeed with your own certification program

Founder's Banter

How does Workshop Butler team deal with new challenges? This is a launching post for, hopefully, a series of articles describing how we work in new realities.