39 Companies That Use WP Engine [2024]

One Life Meals is a Toronto-based healthy meal delivery service that made 14,500 meals per month and generated $130k in monthly sales in 2018 through their one-on-one consultation, lean protein and seasonal veggies-based meals, and their focus on the client experience.

Effortless Gent is a style publication that makes $8k/month from ad revenue, brand sponsorships, digital products, and styling consultations while teaching men how to build a Lean Wardrobe and managed to scaled back on brand partnerships to focus on selling their own products.

DetraPel is a company that manufactures and distributes eco-friendly liquid repellent sprays designed to protect fabric and leather belongings, which has made over $512,000 in sales last year and has successfully partnered with Shark Tank.

Emu Joy is a profitable business that has sold over 50,000 bottles, jars, and tubes of all-natural emu oil products online, with more than 90% of sales on Amazon, and founder Carole Rains shares tips on success from bootstrapping and branding, to using multiple checking accounts, and fostering relationships.

This case study follows founder Chris Casseday's journey in creating 513 Kicks, an online sneaker shop that went from sporadic income to an average profit of $2,000 per month within two years through strategic branding, SEO, social media, and email marketing.

French founder Claire Robinson generates an average monthly revenue of $9,000 from her travel blogging business, StructurInfo, which focuses on road trip planning; Robinson offers her own authored travel guides and has developed her business through search engine optimisation and dedicated customer focus.

Big Flare is a location-independent PPC advertising agency that spends over $3M per year on Google Ads for their small to mid-sized e-commerce clients, with a team of five spread across five different countries and timezones, and plans to grow to a $10M+ company within 10 years.

Resource Guru is an online team calendar software, used by around 20,000 people in 88 countries around the world to help them manage their team's time, and has a current ARR of $2.1m.

A cleaning business founder, inspired by Warren Buffett, shares how he turned a $150K savings into Two Maids & A Mop, generating $25M in annual revenues, with 82 locations and almost 400,000 homes cleaned last year, by outworking and outpassioning others, and creating a customer feedback system that directly controls employee wages.

GloFX sold millions of pairs of "raver glasses" and expanded into various markets including arts and science museums, educational institutions, and EDM subculture fashion. One of the fastest-growing companies in America, and generates $400K in revenue per month.

Austin Belcak's Cultivated Culture teaches people how to land jobs at top tech companies, with 50,000+ graduates having landed roles at Google, Microsoft, and other leading firms.

Full Belly Fare, Handcrafted Dinners Delivered, started in 2014 and originally offered deliveries to an average of 10 households per week but now sees 35-50 households, demonstrating how personalized and responsive customer service along with high-quality and affordable food has propelled founder, Lyla, to success.

Fantôm Agency founder Luis Camacho shares how he built his digital advertising agency from scratch, focusing on helping mid-to-late stage SaaS companies scale through paid advertising channels and generating around $8,600 per month without significant overhead costs.

Learn how a Spanish green tech retail business increased revenue year to date by as much as the entire revenue from 2018, with the aim of reaching USD 1 million in 2019, by introducing ad-hoc technical proposals, professional installation services and designing and manufacturing lithium-ion batteries for electric mobility vehicles.

Lemonlight CEO, Hope Horner, co-founded an on-demand video production company that has produced over 7,000 videos for more than 3,000 brands, generating over $6 million in sales and growing to a 45-person team, all without taking any outside capital and being recognized in Inc 5000 and Entrepreneur 360 for three years in a row.

Never Settle, a digital agency with over 1,000 completed projects and a focus on lean methodology and building relationships with clients, has made a name for itself in the eCommerce space, offering comprehensive solutions to businesses of all sizes while maintaining consistent and moderate growth.

PushPress, a modern boutique gym management system, shares their journey of bootstrapping their business to over $100,000 MRR, and the lessons learned about focusing on marketing to attract and retain customers and putting processes in place to learn from failure.

This case study follows the journey of Darren Magarro, who started DSM, a full-service marketing and PR firm from his porch with just a laptop and IKEA furniture, and has since grown it to 18 employees with 334% growth since 2014, utilizing organic and paid digital media, traditional media, and a full-service creative team.

James Harper founded GoEdison, a small business marketing agency that specializes in B2B email drip campaigns for service-based businesses specializing in strange niches, achieving $17,000 - $20,000 in recurring revenue, attributing their success to keeping their business model simple and evolving over time.

Mindful Proteins co-founder shares how they developed TATU, a clean-label protein water with 15g of whey protein isolate that contains 0g of total sugars, to cater to wellness-oriented consumers looking for functional beverages and hydration; targeting yoga studios, retail, and online sales with plans to expand production and new product lines to become a $100 million company.

Today's Business is a full-service digital marketing agency that made the Inc 5000 list in both 2018 and 2019 as one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States, with a client base spanning across various industries, including healthcare, real estate, and tech.

GreenBanana SEO co-founder Kevin Roy explains how his digital marketing company grew from just two employees working on a beer pong table to 16 employees generating around $6 million in annual revenue by focusing on pay-for-performance SEO and being transparent with reporting.

Marketing agency TribalVision grew from a one-man shop to one of the top marketing agencies in Rhode Island and the Boston market, serving over 80 clients and employing 75 full-time marketing specialists, by aligning with clients' needs and focusing on lead generation with online marketing tactics.

Husband and wife team from Colorado started Parker Baby Co. in 2015, specializing in practical baby products that experienced rapid sales growth of 300%, 87%, and 48% in 2017-2019 and is expecting more than 65% growth in 2020, with $325k monthly earnings.

Tobias Young, an online fitness coach with over 20 years of industry experience, shares his journey of starting an online fitness coaching business that now generates a multi-six figure income and his tips for attracting and retaining customers through email marketing, social media, and identifying a target audience.

This case study describes the journey of Russell Michelson who, after leaving his corporate job, turned his WordPress skills into a thriving boutique SEO agency earning $20k/month, thanks to client referrals and Upwork.

Urban Tastebud is a profitable affiliate marketing blog specializing on subscription box reviews that now draws in $51,000 a month; the founder started by writing quick easy-to-read list articles and has remained profitable for 9 years by his consistency while focusing on growing his content and using social media platforms such as TikTok and Pinterest to increase traffic.

Learn how Dance Dress Couture launched The Ballroom Box, a quarterly subscription box targeted to the ballroom competitive industry, and grew it to double the number of subscribers with each box released, while also providing tips on attracting and retaining customers.

Voice Crafters, a multilingual voice-over agency and marketplace founded by Mony Raanan, doubled their revenue to over $765,000 in 2022 with a bottom line of around 30% after transitioning to an online marketplace and carefully vetting their network of over 1,000 professional voice actors in more than 80 languages.

John Lee Dumas launched Entrepreneurs On Fire, a daily podcast interviewing successful entrepreneurs, and went on to create multiple successful products and services including Podcasters' Paradise, which has consistently generated over $100,000 in net revenue every month for 89 months in a row.

Founder Andy Detweiler shares how he bootstrapped his Rockville Real Estate Exchange into a profitable $200K per year business by focusing on solving a problem that people actually want solved, attracting organic traffic, and building a custom front-end tech product and sales team to scale.

French entrepreneur Thomas Bordier took over a failing B2B marketplace in 2003 which now grows the industrial machinery resale market with 300 yearly auctions and an annual $1.7 million turnover from over 25 million worldwide assets promoting offers for over 600 transactions yearly and now launching a new project, Valorexo to create better pricing for used machinery.

Exirio is a wealth tracking app that aggregates all a user’s wealth in one place and gives valuable information on how their investments are performing to help individuals plan for a life of financial freedom.

Bootstrapped budgeting app Buxfer, founded by Shashank Pandit, has grown organically to profitability with a 15-person team and $0 spent on marketing, targeting niche "finance power users" with strong connections to banks all over the world.

Micro-SaaS founder Rick Blyth developed Merch Wizard and KDP Wizard Chrome extensions to help niche Amazon sellers, earning $10k MRR and successfully selling them before creating a handbook and YouTube channel to help others build their own profitable bootstrapped apps.

Lit League is a startup that creates book-themed activity boxes for kids ages 3-12, offering a monthly subscription or individual box options; the company has tripled its growth in one year, becoming an approved materials vendor for 11 different charter schools in two states.