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WooCommerce Affiliate Programs
Improving your WooCommerce Store We're in a 30-part series on improving your WooCommerce store. If you've missed any part, here are the first three posts: WooCommerce Product Comparisons WooCommerce Product URLs Wishlists for Guests In each of those posts we've talked about engaging your customers—either bringing them or keeping them at your site. Today I...
WooCommerce Wishlists for Guests
If you've been following along, we've covered two tips in this WooCommerce Help Guide series: Tip 1: Product Comparisons Tip 2: Product URLs Today we're going to talk about WooCommerce Wishlists for Guests. If you're wondering why I add the \"for guests\" part to it, you should know a lot of people use wishlists for...
WooCommerce Product URLs
I'll be honest with you, this tip may not be the right one for you on day 2 of this 30 day series on improving your WooCommerce site, but it bothers me so much that I moved it up on the list. I hate WooCommerce product URLs. Because it doesn't ever feel natural to me....
WooCommerce Product Comparisons
Let's spend a month improving your WooCommerce site. Over the last several years I've worked with independent, small and large businesses to improve their WooCommerce sites. I've written about some of these projects (sometimes on this site, other times in other spots)—from simple T-shirt stores to high-scale makeup stores. So this month I'd like to...
How to build a stock photo subscription site
Have you ever wondered how to build a stock photo subscription site? It's possible to do with WordPress. One of the questions I got two weeks ago focused on the kinds of sites like Shutterstock—which I use all the time—and whether it was possible to build a site like that on WordPress. The answer is...
Five marketing strategies for ecommerce websites
Everyone worries about development—because they know it's hard work. Most people don't realize how hard marketing is. So you want marketing strategies for e-commerce websites... The other day I mentioned to some developers that if they had 90 days to launch a new product, assuming they weren't letting any of these reasons hold them back, I...
POD: Selling on demand products without any inventory
Have you heard of Print on Demand? Last week I spent a few days at the Drew Estate Cigar Factory with my buddy Steve. While we were there, we met some great folks from Houston—all customers of my new favorite cigar store, Stogies. One of them had a great idea for a t-shirt and merchandise...
WooCommerce vs Easy Digital Downloads: How to pick?
Both WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads turn WordPress into a powerful eCommerce application. How do you know when to choose which? Some people will tell you that the simple answer is to always go with WooCommerce since: It's really popular It's has massive market share (37%) It does it all But I don't think that...
Load Testing WooCommerce Sites
In a webinar I was on recently, I talked about load testing WooCommerce sites. Yesterday I was asked if I had written about it and so, today, I can say that I have. What is load testing? Load testing means you create a false demand of traffic on your site in advance of (potential) real...
Installment plan support is needed in WordPress
If you're running a membership site or online course using WordPress, you've likely noticed that installment plan support is kind of missing... What are Installment Plans? If you've ever wanted to buy something that cost more than you could afford, you've likely interacted with or been offered a payment plan. It's a plan that lets...
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