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All WooCommerce Roads Lead to Improved Checkout
You can't talk about WooCommerce without mentioning Shopify When people talk about eCommerce, Shopify is going to come up. You know it will because it's the dominant player that people talk about when they talk about eCommerce. One reason people point to Shopify is their improved checkout. Almost immediately, people started building WooCommerce checkout solutions...
Starting Out as a Creator? The Real Work is to Stand Out
The work to stand out is harder than ever If you're just starting out as a creator - writing, blogging, shooting video, and posting on social - the real work is figuring out how you stand out. I wrote you the other day about standing out when you build products. But what does it mean...
Let's Talk About WordPress Affiliate Marketing
There are a lot of perspectives to consider when we're talking about WordPress affiliate marketing You can't really spend much time on Twitter, Facebook Groups, or reading some blogs to hear the strongly opinionated take that people doing WordPress affiliate marketing are biased. You hear them say all sorts of things: Affiliates suck! They're just...
Creating a Customer Dashboard For Your Membership Site
Every membership site needs a customer dashboard One of the things I love about WooCommerce is that long before other WordPress plugins did it, they created a default \"My Account\" customer dashboard page. When it comes to customer dashboards inside membership sites, I first experienced one with Wishlist Member (before WooCommerce was a thing). But...
Want to increase your chance of success?
I spent the last four days inside a hotel suite with 8 other folks. We had all-day meetings together. We ate together. It was exhausting - and I'm an extrovert. So today was the first day in 161 days where I almost thought I would skip writing a post. Because I am drop-dead tired. But...
Trying to sell corporate memberships?
Selling group memberships Years ago I helped a friend build their online business. He was selling an online course that really took off. After a great two-week launch, we wanted to plan for the next opening - and that's when we decided we wanted to support corporate memberships (or team memberships, or umbrella memberships). Turns...
Recapture.io & Abandoned Carts for WordPress
How much would you pay to solve abandoned carts for WordPress? If you're making money while using WordPress, there's a good chance you're using a solution like WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads. And if that's the case, you're likely also facing the challenge of abandoned carts for WordPress. Now, if you don't know what an...
Plugins to Help with WooCommerce Catalog Mode
What does it mean to run WooCommerce Catalog Mode? When we first started creating the WooCommerce hosting plans, the thought was that we were creating a very specific solution for high traffic stores. then, after a few months we discovered something very interesting. A good number of stores were running their store in catalog mode....
In a Contested Market, Build Stand Apart Features
There will always be competition Eleven years ago, when The Events Calendar was created, I'm pretty sure they didn't realize how many calendar plugins were going to be created. Plugins like Gravity Forms and Yoast SEO also probably didn't imagine today's landscape. But if you're stepping into the market today, you need to think about...
The Mentoring Roles You Need In Your Life
Some assumptions about getting mentoring Let's start with some assumptions I'm making. Everyone is busy. Few people walk around with signs on them that say, \"I mentor.\"No one knows what you need. It's not like you walk around with your own sign.You won't ever get what you never ask for. I know that's a horribly...
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