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How I Use Canva to Create Featured Images

wordpressJun 16, 2021

Shifting from Adobe to Canva felt like betrayal The first time I used Abobe Photoshop or Illustrator was almost 30 years ago. And I used them every day for more than 20 years. But slowly over the years, I started needing them less (and using Excel far more). Nevertheless, when I discovered and started to...

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Embracing Gutenberg Completely

wordpressJun 15, 2021

I've moved to Gutenberg completely In Mid-January I changed my theme to Blocksy and started the re-design of all my pages from my favorite page builder to Gutenberg. Before I get into the why and how of the transition, let me first say a few words about how much I still love Beaver Builder and...

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All WooCommerce Roads Lead to Improved Checkout

ecommerceJun 14, 2021

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...

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Starting Out as a Creator? The Real Work is to Stand Out

insightsJun 13, 2021

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...

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Let's Talk About WordPress Affiliate Marketing

wordpressJun 12, 2021

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...

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Creating a Customer Dashboard For Your Membership Site

membership-sitesJun 11, 2021

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...

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Want to increase your chance of success?

insightsJun 10, 2021

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...

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Trying to sell corporate memberships?

membership-sitesJun 9, 2021

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...

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Recapture.io & Abandoned Carts for WordPress

wordpressJun 8, 2021

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...

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Plugins to Help with WooCommerce Catalog Mode

ecommerceJun 7, 2021

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....

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