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Last Week in WooCommerce: Post-Purchase Offers
In this past week I discovered another cart solution for WooCommerce that already comes with the ability to handle post-purchase offers. You'll recall that I have told you about FAST before. And I gave a presentation about CartFlows more than a year ago. But with the recent discovery of a new player, I knew that...
The Power of Networking: Product Developers Take Note...
I saw this tweet today... https://twitter.com/louisnicholls_/status/1368628254656102402 If you've spent the last several years becoming an amazing product developer, first let me just say that you're awesome. There are very few people on the planet (by percentage) that can make a computer do what they want it to do. The lesson Louis is highlighting is critical!...
Website accessibility is so much easier now
Our websites need to be more accessible Like most people, I can be resistant to change because it means I have to change my mental models. I have to think about things in a different way, and consider things I've never considered before. Web accessibility has been one of those things. Don't get me wrong....
Driving Revenue Growth in the WordPress Ecosystem
My Version of the Story Starts in 2016 I left Crowd Favorite at the start of 2016. We'd just had a major health scare where my wife was bleeding internally and we had to rush to an ER (where things were so severe that we were rushed to the front of the line). My wife...
My Site's WordPress Plugins List
A couple weeks ago I told you that I had changed my theme. One reader wrote back and said, essentially, that's nice but can you get us your WordPress plugins list? I had two immediate thoughts: Are there any extraneous plugins I should clear out before I write about the list?Am I going to create...
I don't care about the feature list, I just want less work
This is an opinion. Just an opinion. If you don't want to hear it, come back tomorrow. More product, agency and business advice then. But this is advice I'm starting to give many of the product developers I'm talking to - specifically plugin folks in the WordPress ecosystem. Mind you, I'm not saying you should...
Building products? Embrace successive experimentation & affordable loss
Most people think about their new product development efforts by looking at what they could gain. Maybe you should look at your affordable loss.
Last Week in WooCommerce: GoDaddy doubles eCommerce plugins available
GoDaddy doubles Ecommerce plugins available If you've worked with WooCommerce for any amount of time, you've likely purchased a WooCommerce extension from the SkyVerge team. The code is great. The team is great. The support is great. Last September you may have read the post by WPTavern, which reported that GoDaddy had acquired SkyVerge -...
Six Product Marketing Mistakes To Avoid
Learning on your own dime can get costly I will never know who deserves the credit for this quote, but it's one of my favorites: You must learn from the mistakes of others. You will never live long enough to make them all yourself. The reality is that most of us learn the hard way....
Anonymous Personalization: Creating a more engaging experience
Is anonymous personalization an oxymoron? Anonymous personalization sounds crazy. Most of our approach to personalization comes after we identify someone. So how can you do it when a website visitor is anonymous? Before I get into it, let me ask you if this has ever happened.... Have you ever visited a website, gone to their...
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