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When you don't know where to start, it's easy to start in the wrong place.    You have an idea. A dream. You want to start a subscription box. But you don't know how. So you do what everyone does. You google. It. And you find out there are all kinds of people wanting to sell you all kinds of things to help you run your subscription box business. Software, packaging, marketing tools, and more.    In the beginning, before you even get started, you don't need any of those things. What you need is to Start The Right Way!    If you're just starting your subscription box journey, this episode is for you! Avoid the overwhelm and start where you need to start… the beginning.    I call this first stage The Hopeful Entrepreneur because you're full of hopes and dreams… and so many questions. There are things you need to do during this stage to start your subscription box journey off right.    Complete the 6 in 60 Workshop (Post-It Note Challenge) - identify your ideal customer and plan out your first six boxes.  Contact your local Small Business Adminstration Office - fulfill local requirements to legally set up your business.  Establish social media pages for your business - focus audience building efforts on one platform to start.  Secure a domain for your website - this will be your url.  Explore options for your website - we recommend Shopify or WordPress/WooCommerce.    Getting your subscription box business off the ground takes a lot of work. Following a step-by-step process helps you stay on track.    Join me for this episode as I walk you through this first stage of your subscription box journey, sharing tips, strategies, and resources to help you get a strong start. Don't miss my tips about naming your business - and your subscription box. It matters!    Important Links:  Subscription Box Blueprint eBook  FREE 6 in 60 Workshop   Join me in all the places:  Facebook Instagram Launch Your Box with Sarah Website  Are you ready for Launch Your Box? Our complete training program walks you step by step through how to start, launch, and grow your subscription box business. Join the waitlist today! 

De Freelance à Agence Wordpress à plus de 1 million : podcast avec Tristan Gatellier Dans l'épisode du jour on part à la rencontre d'un nouvel entrepreneur Tristan Gatellier, mon partenaire, mon associé depuis 2020 sur la partie e-commerce. On va revenir sur le parcours de Freelance à créer des sites internet pas cher à devenir une agence incontournable sur Wordpress/Woocommerce à Paris. On va aborder des sujets essentielles comme : - la croissance et le prix de la croissance - comment devenir expert sur un sujet - les bases du SEO - Pourquoi il fait du dropshipping - Sa vision de l'e-commerce et l'évolution du marché - L'impact de l'IA sur nos métiers et nos vies au quotidien - Comment créer une agence avec plus de 10 salariés, les différentes étapes et les galères J'espère vraiment que ce nouvel épisode de ENTREPENEURS 2.0 dans ce format "on passe à table" va vous inspirer, vous motiver et vous booster. Pensez à partager l'épisode, laissez un avis sur les réseaux. Merci

Lambency and MikeyRPGamer talk about the new anime lineup for the fall season. Mikey is thrilled about the upcoming season, and Lambency makes a joke about it. They then move on to talk about some of the upcoming shows.The two talk about what they've been up to in the last week. One has been playing the new Saints Row game and shopping for Christmas. The other has been attempting to recover from a cold by producing articles for the website. They then discuss the website's most recent piece, which is a top five list of dark but amazing anime.The hosts talk about their most recent article and announce that they are working on more. They also discuss their ambitions to upgrade the website, such as employing a web designer and transitioning to a WordPress WooCommerce site. Finally, they say that they are focusing on expanding their product line to include general accessories.Connect with me: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdGuKfKu9YlSLQ2Ujicw5uQTwitter: https://twitter.com/thelambencyshowWebsite: https://www.thelambencyshow.com/Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/thelambencyshowRumble: https://www.rumble.com/thelambencyshowConnect with Mikey:Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikeyrpgamerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikeyrpgamer/Discord: https://discord.com/invite/w9KD32YqPXTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mikeyrpgamerTiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mikeyrpgamerSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-weekly-anime-recap/donations

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Thomas Audunhus is the Chief Product Officer at Servebolt, a managed hosting company for LAMP-stack applications. In this episode, we'll talk about the common web performance misconceptions  and how to make and keep your WordPress/WooCommerce sites fast.Links in the episode:https://serverbolt.comhttps://servebolt.com/articles/speeding-up-woocommerce-the-complete-guide/#Wrong:-Cart-fragments-Ajax-slows-down-page-speedIf you learned something new today, we would appreciate it if you can leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform.

WordPress started out as a pure blogging system, a CMS system aimed at individuals who wanted to run an online blog. Shopware webshop Within a few years, more and more people realised that it could also be used as a CMS system for websites, and since then it has become the platform of choice for most people who want to create a new website. The very fact that the WordPress system is so incredibly popular also means that you won't find other systems with the same number of extra modules you can install as needed. A lot of them are completely free, or parts of the extension are free and some features require a premium version to access everything. Even the CMS system which is the engine behind a website is 100% free (and open source) and can be freely downloaded by anyone. You can even find a large amount of free themes there, but the vast majority of these are nothing overwhelming and won't be usable for anything other than a hobby blog, unless you put some time and energy into customizing the theme. If you want a good webshop system, or cms system then WordPress/WooCommerce or Shopware is most likely one of the best choices you can make. Both systems are easy to use, fast (with the right configuration) and can do almost any job you need. A good webshop system is critical if you want to sell your stuff online. Especially when combined with a nice webdesign and a great UX. Without the right combination of an effecting CMS system, a great webdesign and the right usability you can't expect to succeed with your online webshop here in 2022. Especially UX, mobile responsive and loading times are now something of the most important aspects of running a website these days. And i't also an important aspect of seo if you want to rank your websites on the search engines.

I typically open up my monologue with setting some tension or to attempt to provoke how a grand idea might come together in the upcoming audio. I don't have that today. What I have is a young entrepreneur that impressed me with his story, branding, and how he's approaching the business of…college movers. I know you normally tune in for the SaaS powered wins or the WordPress unicorns, but trust me when I tell you, Sam Chason, founder of Storage Scholars, is bringing the heat. I'll admit, his story was so good, that I almost didn't believe him. I fully expected to decline the interview headed into our pre-interview. Luckily that wasn't the case, and now I'll be rooting for him from the sidelines hoping he can turn this business into a massive success. By the way, we do talk WordPress/WooCommerce and the platforms he's tried in the past — we're still getting our hands dirty here. If you enjoy the episode and want to buy me a virtual coffee in support, go to buymeacofee.com/mattreport and show your support for the show. Episode transcript [00:00:00] Sam: Storage scholars is a door to door, white glove service for college students. So basically the way that the service works it's generally for out-of-state or international studies.[00:00:09] I was from New York. I went to a school called wake forest, North Carolina, and I had two international hallmates, one from China, one from Ethiopia, and I would stereotypically see them bring over two large suitcases overseas. They'd bought the rest of the stuff that they needed at target bed bath and beyond, et cetera.[00:00:24] And there was just no way they were going to ship back their bedding or school supplies back to China. Right. So I thought, had to be a better way type deal. So the way the service works now is students receive boxes and packing supplies that we prefer finalists. They packed up their stuff. They snap a couple photos of the items.[00:00:39] They're looking at store add any extra insurance, lock up their room and go home. And then we generally have contracts with these universities. We get key access from the dorms. We use students on those campuses to do a contact us, move out about a 24 to 72 hours after campus closes, store it for the summer, however long they need to store it for and then have it ready and waiting in their new room pre delivered when they arrived back on campus.[00:01:01] So that's some storage scholars in a nutshell.[00:01:03] Matt: Yeah. When I first, before. You and I chatted. I was like, okay, moving. Like I say, moving company. And in my, in my head, I'm like, big industry makes sense. But then when we chatted and you're like, yeah, but people don't need to bring all their stuff back.[00:01:17] They're gone for whatever a month, 45 days, a half semester or whatever the thing is. Ship, all this stuff back. And I was like, wow, this is really interesting. You mentioned that there were some competitors out there kind of doing this same thing, but just kind of half asking it. Right. It was just a little bit of, one thing, a little bit of the other, not the full, the full compliment.[00:01:38] What are you doing better than the[00:01:39] Sam: current. Well, yeah, definitely shout out Nick hubris, sweaty start up. He was one of the first people I met doing this up at Cornell and that's kinda how I ended up on Twitter and probably my view as well. He, he sold a similar business up in the Northeast, so we were more so in the Southeast, we actually just recently signed a contract with a school in Pennsylvania a couple of days ago.[00:01:56] So making an expansion there watch out during removers, but a lot of it has to do with not only the university partnerships. So we're doing everything by the school's books. There's some others kind of, Companies out there that will just farm emails blast to a school and just figure they can get 30, 40, 50 customers per school and say that they operate at 80 a hundred institutions across the country.[00:02:16] We're more about building deep in Beth's in-depth relationships with those schools. And not only with the administration, but then also. Really fostering entrepreneurship on these campuses and kind of in two to three students, generally sophomores, they have some long longevity and bring these kids on board.[00:02:31] Having them shadow us, they can learn really important, like marketing operations, entrepreneurial type skills in school and ideally pay the wafers their way through college, kind of the same way that I[00:02:40] Matt: did. Yeah. So it's like, it's I don't, these are my words. You tell me paid internship. Is that how it.[00:02:47] Sam: That's funny. You say that that's actually quote unquote what I just put on our handshake profile. Some of these schools, cause it was not getting accepted before as more of like a high paying job. I figured not only is that what's more appealing to a college student nowadays. They want something for their resume, but also something they can make money on it, but it's also kind of the way we were able to get it out of these universities and getting on those job boards in the shop postings.[00:03:07] But, but it's very valid to,[00:03:08] Matt: so to my dedicated audience, so. Of what Sam just said is probably clicking to you. Why? Sam is here generally, I'm interviewing somebody who has a digital product, a digital service and agency software as a service. We're going to get to that in a moment, but I really love the, because again, people who listen to this know that I'm a huge proponent of entrepreneurship, but learning the nuts and bolts of it, rolling up the sleeves and getting to work.[00:03:33] It's a fantastic model. So I applaud you for like having this platform for people to. Really figure things out. I don't want to say the hard way, but like, you're getting them a job. They're learning all of this stuff. Have you been able to measure that? I know it's kind of early days for you, but how have you measured the success of people actually learning the business side of things, even if they're not sticking with you, for years as their end, is there anything like that, that you have a feedback loop?[00:03:59] Sam: Yeah. I mean myself. I The reason why I started this business was to pay my way through school. I did it more out of necessity. But my business partner, actually, he was a year younger than me. He's across the room over here. He's probably got his headphones in, but he was a biochemistry major coming to school, like 4.0 student, like probably could have gone to Stanford med.[00:04:16] But really got the itch, got the bug working with. And decided about halfway through his junior year to tell his whole family, Hey, I'm putting my medical career on hold. I really want to actually make, not necessarily to make a difference, be able to actually do things with my, with do things with my time, like immediately, as opposed to going to medical school residency and not be able to actually have a career until 10, 12 years after school.[00:04:36] So he was probably like the first one. And then. As we went out and started hiring these co-founders, I'm going to had kids that were sophomores, juniors, seniors, and they graduated and they all wanted to had three of them wanted to then work full-time afterwards. We ended up doing that. He ended up running like a residential, commercial moving company that we had for a little while.[00:04:52] Other ones have then worked for a little bit and then gone out and worked for companies like at JP Morgan. And truly, I think the biggest thing about this is a lot of times people will have things on the resume. And, but they don't necessarily have the ability to talk about it. Like, Hey, I worked at, I intern at UI Parthenon.[00:05:07] That's been amazing, but like, what did you actually do at Eli Parthenon? Right. And when they work at storage scholars, they have such a breadth of actually what they did. They went from they're calling the customers. They're actually meeting the customers. They're executing tons of marketing strategies are actually learning sales experience directly from us.[00:05:25] Full-scale entrepreneurship and we're taking all the tools that we've had found successful on campuses in the past, give them that playbook, but then also giving them pretty much unlimited budget to then do whatever they feel is best on their campus. And they feel really empowered. That's really where we found most of our success.[00:05:40] Matt: That's awesome stuff. A listener. You might hear some noise in the background. Sam is sitting in his common area of his apartment building, but I'm happy to report if you're watching the show on, on YouTube, YouTube, youtube.com/uh, the Matt report. Sam has a professional microphone in front of him. Thanks to thanks to me, urging him to get one, because he'll be doing a round of podcasts and you'll realize how good it is for his business and the marketing side.[00:06:02] In our pre-interview you mentioned Excel. I want to talk about the software side of it, and then we'll talk about more of like that marketing and branding stuff. Cause I think your, your branding's on point and I want to learn a little bit more. How you got to that point, why you realize that's important, but in our pre-interview you mentioned that your brother helped build some of the software.[00:06:21] Of the business. A lot of my listeners are into that and to the software side, how they're making things click. Is there a certain tech stack that you can talk about that you're using to build the inner inner workings of the business or even the public facing one? Are you using WordPress for the website?[00:06:38] Sam: Stuff like that? I guess I'll start with the part that I'm more knowledgeable, but the front end was at one point it was WooCommerce when it first, first. Went to Squarespace. And then actually I'm probably about 80% done with migrating over to a web flow. Sorry, escaped my mind for a second. So the,[00:06:58] Matt: that you for leaving woo commerce.[00:07:00] And then, then now you're kind of, okay, he's going back to Webflow. So at least it's something that's.[00:07:04] Sam: Yeah, so more so from the aesthetic design aspect, we go into web flow mean not, we were kind of reaching our capabilities a lot more of like block tacks and block images on Squarespace. And I just wasn't able to kind of take it where I want it to go in terms of the branding.[00:07:17] But then the backend is, has gone through. A ton of different iterations. A lot of it had to do with, we had one business model and then you get key access from the universities. You go to a different business model, then you have COVID and you have to start doing like shipping packages. And my five brothers listened to this.[00:07:33] He definitely was a little frustrated. His, his, his answer was always, yes. Yes, we could do that, but w I don't think we really understood exactly what yes, Matt and all the work that went into that. And we have, I think 287 custom fields for each associated account for different like yes-no formulas and stuff like that, too.[00:07:50] But it's, it's basically built mostly on PHP angler a and my SQL eight in terms of the, kind of the front end of the database, and then AWS as well. So we're actually, he's stepping in. He's coming more of like a CTO role. And we're bringing in kind of like a development team. So we have two full-time developers, as well as somebody who's kind of managing them as well.[00:08:10] And they should be coming on board in the next couple of weeks. It will be the real test of all the feedback we've gotten is that he has really clean code. And I really hope that to be true, but[00:08:18] Matt: if not, why not? Brother's not getting anything for Christmas. Coming[00:08:21] Sam: now. He's, he's, he's an incredible mind.[00:08:23] So I would assume all of that stuff is.[00:08:25] Matt: I, I want to talk about this software segment for a little bit here. When you left WooCommerce, what were your reasons? You're not in an uncommon, a lot of people listening to this too. There's a segment who are agency owners, freelancers. They talked a lot of folks who hop through different CMSs.[00:08:40] They hear a bunch of different things. You're not in an uncommon seat to be making these jokes. But what was it for you to leave WooCommerce to begin with?[00:08:47] Sam: Yeah, you have to appreciate that. I was 18 and I was better than my first ever website. And I just had my brother at the time because he was the only like technical person.[00:08:54] I knew, Hey, like what should we build the website on? He kind of helped me build the WooCommerce website to begin with. And then I had a friend that was working for kind of a different startup. It was more, it was a food and Bev startups with a little more of a prettier interface. He's like, you gotta use Squarespace.[00:09:07] You gotta start using canvas. This is mind blowing to me like, oh, I can actually just drag and drop and make this as opposed to relying on my brother to actually go in and design something where he was extremely technically sound. But aesthetically is probably is more of a secondary. So that was more so just the ability for me to do it myself.[00:09:23] But I'm sure now, five, six years later will commerce would, it would have been more of a drag and drop. It just was a little more intimidating at the time. Yeah, for[00:09:30] Matt: sure. For sure. Is the software side without revealing the secret sauce. Is that a secret sauce for you over your competition?[00:09:39] Like what technologies or how do you simplify this experience for your customers through the avenue of.[00:09:47] Sam: A hundred percent. It's definitely, there's no reason to fully reinvent the wheel. Storage and moving companies existed obviously for decades, what we do. It's, you can't buy some off the shelf software.[00:09:58] That's actually going to work for exactly what you're looking for. So we've definitely, scoured the competition. We've built our own software and then we've also kind of taken probably some of the 10, five, 10% from these other. Worked for them. And put it into our platform. Of course they can kind of like a, a Frank and business of, of storage scholars for the college Jordan's game.[00:10:17] But I think a couple of the things are you market to the college students, but the real customers are kind of the parents. So that was the biggest lesson we learned in terms of making accounts that can give both parent and student access where the student come on, they can make the account, the parent that doesn't have to like contact the student to find out their log.[00:10:34] The parent can pay. The student can edit the pick-up drop-off information. It's a whole open flow of information that in the past it would be that scenario would be that Jane Smith is a divorced mom and she made an account for her son Johnny Maxwell and. The account would say Jane Smith, but it's actually for the sun and it's like, what is going on?[00:10:54] Right. So being able to really be flawless in the flow of information and then that way we actually know exactly who we're communicating to, and we can also communicate both to the students and parents and keep everybody in the loop is it's probably the biggest differentiator.[00:11:05] Matt: Is this all website on the website or is there a mobile.[00:11:08] That everybody has instant access to.[00:11:11] Sam: Yeah, it's a mobily optimized website right now. That's actually where we're stepping into as well as making an app. I think the initial instinct was why do we need an app who wants to download a storage app and have it on their phone at all times? But at the same time, there is definitely limitations with websites and being able to upload images quickly.[00:11:27] And just more so the speed of the site is what's holding us back right now from not necessarily a customer standpoint, that's a lot simpler, but more of a managerial standpoint because customer they're uploading. Five images, total where the managers are going in, potentially looking at 600 orders in a one or two day period and just the load speed and the page speed needs to be increased.[00:11:44] So making a oh an app first for the managers where they can also integrate all the software, use it right now, like off the shelf in terms of time tracking payroll and also integrating our actual software altogether to have one harmonious unit.[00:11:58] Matt: What challenges are you finding? Kind of like you're almost in that marketplace.[00:12:04] Conundrum where you need to kind of serve two different crowds, right? So in a, in a marketplace standpoint, you need the customers to show up and you need the inventory to sell them in your case, you need the customers to show up, but you also you're like, so you're building a software for these customers to snap the photos of the stuff.[00:12:21] People need to pack up and move for them. But then you're also trying to build software for your team to use, efficiently and effectively. How is that process? Like, you get customers that give you feedback. Hey, this experience was great. This experience sucked. And then you get the same feedback from your, from your employees.[00:12:35] Or like, I can't find the stuff fast enough, or I can't see all the orders coming in. Has that been a challenge at all or fairly smooth sailing so[00:12:43] Sam: far? Yeah, definitely. Always been customer first. I think the customer experience has not been sacrificed by any means, but it's been the iterations of the business.[00:12:53] So like right now, About 80% or sorry to say it's about 50, 50, I would say at this point, because we keep changing of our business is key access schools, kids leave their stuff in their room. They go home. We do big mass move-outs in 24, 48 hours. That has, Boriso been put on the back burner because we have a little more time and autonomy.[00:13:13] We're not dealing directly with the students. Face-to-face where we can kind of sit back and wait for the website to load or just kind of go on your computer. Make that work, but then you have an entirely different way. We built it where it's like a by appointment where you meet the customers at the door, they pick up time, they're on a alive queue and then there's worklist associated with that.[00:13:30] So the by appointment has been perfected, but then now that we continue to evolve and make the business model better, it's like actually having them make two different work lists, one for like a one day, move out and one for like a 10 day move out. And with, with all the things that have obviously happened in the last 12 months, we had to.[00:13:46] Make some other things become priority, but I think, I don't think, this year is exactly what we're doing. We're actually going to make that. So they're both working and you can have a work list. You can download that. You can search by it. You can filter by dorm. You can filter by floor of the dorm, and then you're just going through and just crushing dorm by dorm, as opposed to like looking at specific dates or people are signing up for their move-outs.[00:14:05] I want to[00:14:05] Matt: move on to talk about the challenges of running the business. Aside from the software and talk about these logistic things, part of the advantage. I remember you telling me and you, I think you mentioned it before in the pre-interview is that you do go into the room, right? They, you get access to the room to grab the.[00:14:21] And your competition doesn't do that, right?[00:14:25] Sam: Yeah. So, some. Some of these schools have access to the dorms. But the thing is, is that a lot of them are, are basically more so high level marketing companies. And then they're farming out the actual, moving to local moving companies and with what's going on with COVID and stuff as well, in terms of like having, being coming vaccinated, that's one big barrier to entry at like, well, how are you going to trust us outside moving company to walk into your dorms, but who can you trust?[00:14:49] The students on your campus because they've been vaccinated. So that was kind of one way for us to get a backdoor approach to that. And then on top of that too, if you're an 18 year old girl and your father is sending you to school, does your father really want you to have, 40 old man walking into your room stereotypically, right.[00:15:03] And walking into that dorm and picking up your stuff and moving it out when you could have a kid that was in your calculus class. And we definitely do struggle with the kind of balancing that image of peer to peer, but also. Kind of perfection and, level of quality because some people are like, this is awesome.[00:15:18] You're my, your. Current, classmate at the same time, my mom doesn't mind if I can trust you with my stuff. So that's another reason kind of behind the branding and trying to make us see them a more of like the Uber black premier service. We're not a discount service, we're charging a premium price and, our level of service should be reflected in that just because we're using students, that doesn't necessarily decrease the quality.[00:15:37] It's just increasing the personalization. Yeah.[00:15:40] Matt: And, but the particular challenge getting to was is you have to make these, not only do you have to make that I guess, sale or relationship to the customer, but you also have to make it with the school because it's not like the school is just going to let you do all this stuff without, I'm assume without them knowing who the heck you are and like what's going on.[00:15:56] They start seeing all these black t-shirts rolling in the nice logos on it. Like what's happening here. I'm sure you have to try. Again, like a couple sides of the fence that the end user customer, and then the place that has the inventory, which is the school and in it, you have to build up those relationships on both sides.[00:16:14] The, and then the next challenge, which popped into my head when we were chatting earlier is just the, student, what I'll say is a paid internship. These student body employees, if you will, across the country how are you managing. Scaling that like, do you have to start having regional managers, people, once they do graduate school, they become an actual full season employee with you.[00:16:38] And now they're managers of that school. How does that ramp[00:16:41] Sam: up? Yeah. So we call those internships. We call them campus co-founders because we truly believe that they are kind of co-founding in some ways like franchising their campus, and they can either get an inflated hourly upwards, 15 to $20 an hour at a base, or they can essentially get like a percentage of revenue.[00:16:57] And then of course, they're going to see that increase the more years that they're actually operating. So when you have, like, for example, you had a kid who, a soft. Junior senior. By the time he was senior year, he made $20,000 in a single move out based on that revenue schedule. And then he wanted to continue working full time.[00:17:14] So I think you have the people that are naturally interested. But the challenge with that of course is when we were kind of under a million dollars in sales or a couple years ago, it was all right. Well, we want to bring these people on, but the beauty of this business is seasonal. And as a full-time student, it was.[00:17:28] But like now that we're graduating we're no longer in school. We have all this extra time and like, to what you alluded to, we're spending a lot more of that time actually selling universities and kind of university sales, as opposed to just, building up this marketing and then trying to do the move out and then do the move in and.[00:17:42] Taking a rest because we actually have school to do it. It's finding a job to do the rest of the year. So as we've been able to grow, I think the beauty of this is that the more people that have actually wanted to work full-time we've been able to give them full-time opportunities. So we heard a gift from Milan.[00:17:55] We hired a kid actually just from college of Charleston a couple of weeks ago. He came on full time and then we have two more in the pipeline, one from Richmond and one from Washington and Lee university that are currently seniors in. There if express interests and, and working post-graduation I think for the first time, I'm really excited that we actually will be able to give them full-time opportunities as just like you said, as regional managers and one region managing their region physically, but then also helping to then manage remote.[00:18:20] No another five or 10 that are schools under their domain.[00:18:23] Matt: Do you look at certain areas? So I'm south of Boston, there's a billion schools here. Like, do you look at areas that you want to go into that maybe you haven't found any organic interest from? Is that a thing? Or is it like, Hey, I'm just like this natural growth just works and it's way easier to manage or do you look at territories that you want to get into and, and how does.[00:18:44] Sam: A hundred percent. So I went to school in North Carolina, so natural expansion was Virginia, South Carolina. Saw a competitor that had a school in Texas at SMU. So that's how we went down to Texas rice and that's to me this past year, I just moved down to Texas to expand that. Texas and Florida. But I'm from New York, my business partners from Boston too.[00:19:01] So we definitely have our sights set on the Northeast. There's just actually a little more competition up there. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. Mean being a fast follower is definitely a lot easier than trying to educate not only the school, but the customer on what a valet storage service is.[00:19:16] So I'd rather just go in where they've had a previous, service provider that's just bad. And then we can just go in and take over. But where are we? Found kind of those pockets is actually we started going to housing conferences. So conferences that have the residency, I, the operations people.[00:19:31] And that's actually where he met this one person from Pennsylvania, where by no means were we meaning to expand there. But we developed a great rapport. She loved what she heard and she was like, yeah, I'd love to sign an exclusive contract with y'all. That'll happen in the last couple of weeks, but now it's like, oh, well now that puts some eyes in Pennsylvania.[00:19:47] Maybe we need to expand there a little quicker and. Pennsylvania's got probably 20 schools that we could expand to. And once you have that kind of density, there's no reason not. Yeah.[00:19:55] Matt: I'd imagine and correct me if I'm wrong. Like I, I would imagine when you go into expand into a new territory, your biggest or potentially your biggest spend is going to be marketing and advertising.[00:20:05] Just to get the word out there. It's not like you're having to ship a bunch of product or these amazing boxes that we're going to talk about in a second. But is there any kind of like thing you have to ship in? And store your own storage stuff, something really meta, like, is there a thing you have to ship out there?[00:20:20] A box of stuff and people just have to.[00:20:23] Sam: Yeah. So yeah, I'll ship a box or two of our storage scholars boxes to the co-founders tell them to go out and buy a table, give them their corporate credit card to go do that. And that's going to have shirts, cups, stickers, banners, film backs, kind of that, that kind of marketing material.[00:20:37] But the beauty too, is that on any first year campus, whether we're talking about marketing materials or whether we're talking about. Storing kids' actual things is that, there's a really nice thing called self storage. That's usually five minutes from campus. So when we're not necessarily sure about a market, the numbers can look great, but it doesn't assign me.[00:20:54] People are going to use the service. So we'll use self storage almost exclusively for the first year. And then once you have that market proven, then you're going to go out and you're going to find an industrial warehouse lease. But that being said, it's also another challenge of the business because we might have.[00:21:06] 10 15,000 square feet from the four months of made August. But then all these kids move back in. You might have a couple of students that store longer. You might have some marketing materials, some extra boxes, but that's going to come down to a maximum, thousand square feet. Right. So then you're kind of downsizing either to self storage or coming up with a really creative lease with the landlord.[00:21:22] But that's a, that's definitely a, a tough aspect of the business too. It's finding that space.[00:21:27] Matt: Oh, when you raise a billion dollars, I hope it's not one of those. We work stories where you set out to be a coworking space, but you ended up being a real estate company. And then why the hell do you own all this property?[00:21:36] And you're like, oh, we're really a moving company. And then sheets are all imbalanced. Let's talk about, let's talk about marketing for a second. Toward the end of the show, a great marketing. I think I know the answer, but why did you focus on, how did you feel? How did you know that, that marketing's really going to work for something like this or branding and your logo and stuff is really going to work for something like this?[00:21:57] A competitive market.[00:21:59] Sam: Yeah, the way the business was started, as I printed out some flyers that I'd probably throw up out. If I looked at today, I'm there pretty embarrassing, but I went door to door. I saw all my freshmen, hallmates and freshman classmates, and they knock on the door and they say, come in.[00:22:13] I'm like, no, that's, I would knock on the door again to come in. And I'm like, no, I'm not who you think I am, but sure. I'll come in. So I, I definitely had some tough conversations at the beginning and got some raw feedback on what was what they were looking for and what they weren't looking for. But I think initially too, in terms of like a branding aspect after kind of doing that customer discovery was.[00:22:31] The best advice that I got from one of my entrepreneurship professors is there was a competitor on campus and I was like, oh, they're charging $14 a box. I'm going to charge 13. Oh, he's like, do not be the discount service, like always charge more and, but provide more too. Right. So I from, I wouldn't say day one, but from day two, it's like, okay.[00:22:49] Yes, we need to be out there. Be the premium service and service, the top level customer and give them the service that they, that they desire. And the whole black and white was really trying to be the. Premium futuristic, Uber black type experience, luxury experiences, as opposed to being, I don't know, like a green eco-friendly moving company.[00:23:07] We are. Absolutely. You can find that. I don't mean to say it like that, but I think sometimes there's, there's definitely certain colors that elicit certain emotions and I, I want it to be more of a sleek elite luxury brand.[00:23:17] Matt: Yeah. The do do when every time you're moving students, You always rocking the branded boxes or is it like one branded box on top and the rest of them are[00:23:26] Sam: brown?[00:23:27] No, absolutely. So not only does that give you the brand awareness, but actually, so we used to use obviously brown boxes, right. And we would buy these stickers and they put the sticker on top of the box. It also put the sticker on there, out of box item, their TV, their refrigerator, whatever. But in terms of like an inventory perspective, if you imagine you have a box and then you'd stack another box on top, And you have a sticker on the top.[00:23:49] Well, you can't see it. Right? So those boxes were also designed because you have their writing, their name, the order number, the item number on the top of the box. They're also writing it massively on the side of the box, actually in the storage facilities. They're lined up. Yeah. I see all their names very, very clearly.[00:24:04] So from just like an identification standpoint, that was the purpose of it. And then of course, yet when you walk around with black storage, collar shirts, white shirts, white shorts, and these big black boxes, and then you see them in the, in the dumpsters for two weeks after, and the recycling bins, after everyone leaves and comes back, it's like, it's great branding.[00:24:19] Matt: Yeah. Yeah. People wonder what the heck's going on. I want that, like, that looks easy. Speaking of looks easy. I'm looking at the. Archive a web archive.org site. And I'm looking back to August, 2018. Your tagline for the site back then was easy, effortless and economical live the scholars. How did you change that from a marketing perspective?[00:24:40] You started talking to customers, you chatted with them. They were like, no, we'll pay you a little bit more money. And you got rid of the word economical. How did that all play out? Changing that.[00:24:48] Sam: Yeah. I thought alliteration was more powerful than value at the time. So that's probably why I went with that.[00:24:53] But yeah, I it was, like I said, I, I want it to beat out the competition because also at the same time, I didn't, I wasn't confident. Like I knew it was confident in myself, but I'd never, I didn't want to over promise and under deliver. So to say, Hey, we're the best service we're better than the competition.[00:25:06] I'd never even moved to box before. It's like, that was kind of tough. So that was year one. And then once we, server. 64 students at wake forest university. I was like, all right, well, this went well. We made it happen. I touched every single box. I know exactly how this works. I shook probably half the kids hands and the parents hands that use this service.[00:25:22] All right. Now I'm confident we can go out there and start to spread what we're doing and do it in a, in a much better way and be able to charge that premium price tag, Sam,[00:25:30] Matt: this doesn't sound like it's your first rodeo. Who do you have? Have you ran a business before somebody, your dad, your parents, a great mentors.[00:25:38] You're just born with it. What is it?[00:25:40] Sam: So my parents are both public high school teachers in New York. I'm the youngest of three. My brother is a web developer, my sister's a and in fashion. So I, I didn't necessarily get it from them fully, but definitely the fiscal responsibility absolutely came from my parents, actually my grandfather mostly, and from, at a young age.[00:26:00] Kind of the quintessential story would be, and maybe two of them was that at five. I was like, Hey mom, dad, like, I want to have a lemonade stand. So great. Okay. So you're going to go out. You're going to buy the paper, the markers, the plastic cups and the, lemonade powder. And w we'll we'll lend you the money in the beginning, but you got to pass that back.[00:26:17] And to like be, $18 in debt at five years old, it's like, shit. Like I gotta make this happen. Right. So I'm standing out in the street and I'm flagging people down. And, and from that point on, even at age nine, I'm like, oh mom, like Frankie wants an Xbox for Christmas. Okay. Well, how are you going to get that for him?[00:26:33] Right. Well, it's like, I wasn't poor, but it just kind of given him. The fiscal responsibility at such a young age, what kind of drove me to, to start develop these skills very early on and start flipping ATVs cars and stuff like that in high school and selling candy out of my locker and middle school. I was always kind of hustling.[00:26:49] Matt: Are you, have you raised money? I don't think we, as we talked about this in the pre-interview raising money, organic bootstrap, I should say, or do you plan on raising money? What are the cards hold.[00:26:58] Sam: Yeah. Currently exclusively bootstrapped. Like I said, too excited for aside from a little PPP, but it, the, the business motto is structured such as, and the reason why I started this business was, Hey, I need to make money.[00:27:10] Like today. I need to pay for my school today. So how can I do that? And so kids would pay a $50 deposit, which they still do now. And that for me covered the initial cost of the boxes, the tape, the storage units, the trucks, and that's, what's been able to catapult. As far, I don't think we could grow to 150 schools next year without raising money, but that's not really the purpose or really the path right now.[00:27:33] Like I said, building deep in-depth relationships with the universities and the life cycle of a, of a university sales cycle is, is pretty it's pretty. Oh, it's more of a relationship driven business. So trying to figure that out along the way, and at this point where we've been able to bootstrap it and keep it going that way.[00:27:49] Matt: Sam chase and storage scholars, storage, scholars.com, Sam, anywhere else you want folks to go?[00:27:56] Sam: Yeah, definitely follow us on socials on on Instagram, on Facebook, LinkedIn, we are definitely trying to be a young company. So give us some rod feedback. If, if you're in that age, demographic 18 to 21, let us know what we're doing.[00:28:10] Right. Let's know what we're doing wrong. Love to hear from you, ★ Support this podcast ★

I typically open up my monologue with setting some tension or to attempt to provoke how a grand idea might come together in the upcoming audio. I don't have that today. What I have is a young entrepreneur that impressed me with his story, branding, and how he's approaching the business of…college movers. I know you normally tune in for the SaaS powered wins or the WordPress unicorns, but trust me when I tell you, Sam Chason, founder of Storage Scholars, is bringing the heat. I'll admit, his story was so good, that I almost didn't believe him. I fully expected to decline the interview headed into our pre-interview. Luckily that wasn't the case, and now I'll be rooting for him from the sidelines hoping he can turn this business into a massive success. By the way, we do talk WordPress/WooCommerce and the platforms he's tried in the past -- we're still getting our hands dirty here. If you enjoy the episode and want to buy me a virtual coffee in support, go to buymeacofee.com/mattreport and show your support for the show.

When you don't know where to start, it's easy to start in the wrong place.    You have an idea. A dream. You want to start a subscription box. But you don't know how. So you do what everyone does. You google. It. And you find out there are all kinds of people wanting to sell you all kinds of things to help you run your subscription box business. Software, packaging, marketing tools, and more.    In the beginning, before you even get started, you don't need any of those things. What you need is to Start The Right Way!    If you're just starting your subscription box journey, this episode is for you! Avoid the overwhelm and start where you need to start… the beginning.    I call this first stage The Hopeful Entrepreneur because you're full of hopes and dreams… and so many questions. There are things you need to do during this stage to start your subscription box journey off right.    Complete the 6 in 60 Workshop (Post-It Note Challenge) - identify your ideal customer and plan out your first six boxes.  Contact your local Small Business Adminstration Office - fulfill local requirements to legally set up your business.  Establish social media pages for your business - focus audience building efforts on one platform to start.  Secure a domain for your website - this will be your url.  Explore options for your website - we recommend Shopify or WordPress/WooCommerce.    Getting your subscription box business off the ground takes a lot of work. Following a step-by-step process helps you stay on track.    Join me for this episode as I walk you through this first stage of your subscription box journey, sharing tips, strategies, and resources to help you get a strong start. Don't miss my tips about naming your business - and your subscription box. It matters!    Important Links:  Subscription Box Blueprint eBook  FREE 6 in 60 Workshop   Join me in all the places:  Facebook Instagram Launch Your Box with Sarah Website  Are you ready for Launch Your Box? Our complete training program walks you step by step through how to start, launch, and grow your subscription box business. Join the waitlist today! 

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It's another of our chats in the series called the 'A-Z of WordPress', where we attempt to cover all the major aspects to building and maintaining sites with WP. Today is 'E' for... Ecommerce. There's just so much to say here because WordPress and Ecommerce are growing at a phenomenal rate. With so much activity, you'd think that there might be a 'best' way to build an online shop. But as is so often the case with WordPress, there's multiple ways to achieve the same goal. So today on the podcast we talk about our experiences with WordPress as well as surface some of the plugins and themes that we've come across over the years to make your WordPress / WooCommerce shop a reality. Go check it out...

It's another of our chats in the series called the 'A-Z of WordPress', where we attempt to cover all the major aspects to building and maintaining sites with WP. Today is 'E' for... Ecommerce. There's just so much to say here because WordPress and Ecommerce are growing at a phenomenal rate. With so much activity, you'd think that there might be a 'best' way to build an online shop. But as is so often the case with WordPress, there's multiple ways to achieve the same goal. So today on the podcast we talk about our experiences with WordPress as well as surface some of the plugins and themes that we've come across over the years to make your WordPress / WooCommerce shop a reality. Go check it out...

It’s another of our chats in the series called the 'A-Z of WordPress', where we attempt to cover all the major aspects to building and maintaining sites with WP. Today is 'E' for... Ecommerce. There's just so much to say here because WordPress and Ecommerce are growing at a phenomenal rate. With so much activity, you'd think that there might be a 'best' way to build an online shop. But as is so often the case with WordPress, there's multiple ways to achieve the same goal. So today on the podcast we talk about our experiences with WordPress as well as surface some of the plugins and themes that we've come across over the years to make your WordPress / WooCommerce shop a reality. Go check it out...

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Okay, business owners, it's time to start thinking about building a website that allows you to show your availability for bookings, and allow your customers to make reserve slots, pay online, and manage their own reservations themselves. You don't have the staff you used to anymore, and you need to be able to set it and forget it, and this means making sure your customers are able to cancel, change time slots, re-book, etc. via your website all on their own. This video shows you how to use the WooCommerce Bookings plug-in to turn your WordPress WooCommerce store into a reservation management website, and use the WooCommerce Bookings Availability plug-in extension to display your bookable products in nice, elegant Schedule Blocks and Calendar Blocks. This solution is perfect for any business. Hotels, Restaurants, Lawyers, Accountants, Consultants, Fitness Gyms, Yoga Studios, Therapists and other Telehealth Professionals, and virtual versions of any of the above. :) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/paulhickey/support

Most eCommerce store owners and merchants will agree that their online store needs to be perfectly SEO Optimized in order to have any chance of success. One area that eludes many small business owners with eCommerce stores, whether Shopify or WordPress WooCommerce is getting the Product Structured Data Schema implemented correctly. This show tells you how to add SEO Product Schema Structured Data in WordPress for your WooCommerce Products using the Plug-in WP SEO Structured Data Schema - https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-seo-structured-data-schema/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/paulhickey/support

WordPress WooCommerce continues to prove why it's head and shoulders above Shopify, Magento and it's other eCommerce competitors. Time and time again I've been asked by Shopify merchants how they can drive more conversions via traditional digital marketing tactics. Shopify merchants are relying too much on things like Facebook Ads and Google Ads, when traditional blocking and tackling needs to happen first. WooCommerce continues to provide add-ons/extensions (plug-ins) that allow store owners to grow their business organically first, then build on top with ads. 1. Featured WooCommerce Extension #1: Smart Coupons - think of Smart Coupons like digital gift cards, vouchers, discount codes all rolled into one. This is the way to add Gift Cards to your WooCommerce Store. Packed with features that I go over in-depth in this video, the one I think I like most is the ability to add a future gift card automatically along with the purchase of a product. This double-incentivizes your customers by giving them a reason to buy the first time, and a reason to make a return purchase. Another solid feature is the ability to buy and send a gift card to a friend. 2. Featured WooCommerce Extension #2: Follow-Ups. This is a big one. Better than running ad campaigns, add this for $99/year and use it to send thank you messages via Twitter and Email to your customers. Follow-Ups come with their own ability to send coupons, so you wouldn't need #1 and #2, just #2. Follow-ups is like having your own email marketing automation system inside your WordPress site, so you really wouldn't need to mess with Mailchimp, Klaviyo, Constant Contact or Emma, etc. The ability to focus in one platform and keep it simple can help you as a small business owner. 3. Featured WooCommerce Extension #3: Google Product Feed - For organic searches alone, this is huge. Shopify merchants have come to me for years to implement this via a simple add-on in their stores and now WooCommerce has it's own version. Watch the video to see how much organic real estate the Google Product Feed gets in terms of SEO search results, and you need it anyway if you want to run Google Shopping ads, which the data says work better than contextual ads for physical products that ship B2C. Why? Likely because they're visual AND show on the traditional Google SE Results page. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/paulhickey/support

I've been building eCommerce sites using WordPress WooCommerce since 2011, and during that entire time, I've had several business owners looking for a way to customize their store to make it B2B (business to business). What does this mean? Well it essentially means that clients (other businesses couldn't just rock up to the site and see all the products and pricing). First, they'd have to apply to become a member of the site. Then, once their application is approved, they would be able to see various products and pricing depending upon user role (what type of customer they are). WooCommerce B2B is a great plug-in for this. Features include: - Extend the default registration form to accept B2B registrations. - Add a user roles dropdown and extra fields to the default registration form. - Manually review and approve new B2B user registrations. - Enable default registration fields - Hide products and categories based on user roles. - Hide prices and add to cart button - Hide for guest users, specific user roles, or specific products & categories - Option replace “add to cart” button with a “quote” button - Add a mini-quote dropdown and customize quote form fields. - Configure different prices for different user roles - Add customer-specific pricing - Tax-exempt specific customers and user roles - Restrict shipping methods by user roles - Restrict payment methods by user roles --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/paulhickey/support

Podcastlerime Temmuz 2019 tarihinde New York'ta başladım ve ilk kaydımı Financial District'e wework'te yer alan ofisimde yapmıştım. Son kaydımı da İstanbul Kadıköy'de evimde :) Podcastlere çok fazla vakit ayıramadığım için böyle bir karar aldım. Ancak Joykek.com firmamız üzerinden ve web sitem faruktoprak.com üzerinden yeni dijital pazarlama etkinliklerini ve içeriklerini sizlerle paylaşmaya devam ediyor olacağım. Wordpress wooCommerce ile e-ticaret web sitenizi çok hızlı, dakikalar içinde kurabilirsiniz. Aynı şekilde ürün ekleme işlemini gerçekleştirip wooCommerce Facebook katalog ve Google eklentilerini de kurarak, Google Merchant Center ve Facebook Katalog sayfasına ürün feedlerinizi yükleyebilir ve bu platformlar aracılığı ürün reklamcılığına başlayabilirsiniz. Üstelik bu işlemlerin hepsi ücretsiz. Bunun için herhangi bir yazılımcıya ihtiyacınız bulunmamaktadır. Ancak yazılımcınız olursa daha fazla seçenek ile daha customize yani kişiselleştirilmiş ve özelleştirilmiş bir e-ticaret web siteniz olabilir. E-ticaret reklam formüllerinde de üzerinde en çok durduğum formül olan revenue formülünü bu podcastte açıkladım. Revenue gelir demek, bu formül ile işletmenizin ne kadar tıklamaya ne kadar gelir elde edebileceğini hesaplayabilirsiniz. Bunun için geçmiş verilerimizi referans alabiliriz. Bu veriler sırasıyla Clicks (Tıklamalar), CR Conversion Rate (Dönüşüm Oranı) ve AOV Average Order Value (Ortalama Sipariş Değeri ya da Tutarı) Clicks ve CR'ı direk Google Ads hesabınızdan alabilirsiniz; AOV'yi ise Google Analytics hesabınızdan alabilirsiniz. AOV verisini görebilmeniz için gelişmiş e-ticaret kurulumunun yapılmış olması gerekmektedir. Bu verilere ulaşabildiğiniz varsayarsak direk aşağıda ki formülü kullanabilir ve gelirinizi hesaplayabilirsiniz. Gelir : Tıklamalar x Dönüşüm Oranı x Ortalama Sipariş Tutarı Revenue : Clicks x CR x AOV Örneğin, 15.000 clicks, %1.2 CR ve 500-TL AOV olduğunu varsayarsak hesaplayacağımız revenue 90.000-TL olacaktır. (15.000 x 0.012 x 500) E-ticaret estimations formülleriyle ilgili desteğe ihtiyacınız varsa bana ulaşın. Herhangi bir sorunuz ve iş birliğiniz için direk frktprk@yahoo.com e-posta adresim ya da web sitem iletişim sayfasından benimle iletişime geçebilirsiniz. Kendinize iyi bakın... Bol dijitalli günler :) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dijital-pazarlama/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dijital-pazarlama/support

In this episode James and Chelsea talk about replatforming an ecommerce site from Magento 1 to WordPress WooCommerce. If you have any questions about replatforming your site, please email the team at hello@somarketing.com 

This video shows all WordPress website owners how to update their Tax Zones in WooCommerce. WooCommerce is the best, easiest way to add an eCommerce store to your WordPress website. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/paulhickey/support

El E-commerce es uno de los sectores que más rápido está creciendo en el mundo. Por eso es importante que si quieres crear tu página web y no sabes dónde hacerlo, escuches este episodio, donde haré una comparación entre las dos plataformas de E-commerce más grandes a nivel mundial, Shopify y Wordpress (Woocommerce). Para que puedas escoger cuál de estas se adapta mejor a las necesidades de tu empresa. Tendré en cuenta los siguientes 9 criterios fundamentales para administrar y escalar un Ecommerce en esta comparación: 1. Facilidad y uso 2. Costo 3. Temas o plantillas 4. Flexibilidad 5. Pagos, envíos e impuestos 6. Seguridad 7. Servicio al cliente 8. Disponibilidad de aplicaciones o plugins 9. Qué tan amigables son con Google Ten en cuenta que ninguna es mejor o peor que la otra, según tus conocimientos y lo que estés buscando con tu E-commerce, hay una opción para ti. ¡Espero que te guste el episodio! Suscríbete para escuchar consejos sobre cómo vender por Redes Sociales y entrevistas con personas que están vendiendo exitosamente por Internet para que puedas aplicar sus mismas estrategias o sistemas.

Find a platform like Shopify that will allow you to create a site that already has eCommerce capabilities. Wordpress/WooCommerce and BigCommerce are both other options you can use, but we are a little biased without seamless Shopify works. Determine the products you want to sell online and how you will track in-store merchandise vs online. Our suggestion is to get a POS system that will track both, which Shopify does offer. This will help you in situations where someone tries to buy online, makes the purchase, and then you don't pull the merchandise before someone else picks it up in store. Focus on a niche market, you have the whole world you can target and market to online, but you should still focus on your audience. If your demographic is an older demographic, make sure the site has a similar feel that they would enjoy. Honestly, try to copy as much of your in-store experience as you can. Prep your customers for your launch. If you have an email list, Facebook followers, etc. Keep them posted on your progress as you make the transition and educate them along the way. You want them to be primed and ready to buy when you go live, this will give you that initial first spark of selling online. Don't expect to have success overnight, just like it probably took you years to create a loyal following, there are millions of websites like yours (more than likely) and you have to earn their trust and purchases. Focus on the experience online. Online is a pay to play space, but one you figure out the right game, the chances for growth are limitless. Don't be afraid to invest in SEO, social media advertising, or affiliate marketing. Schedule your FREE 45 minute strategy session to transition your business from offline to onlinehttps://apply.bitbranding.co/

Today Chris Lema, vice president of LiquidWeb, joins the show to discuss all things Wordpress and WooCommerce. With 20 years of consistent success, Chris has a lot of information to share with us about how to successfully set up an event. We’ll talk about public speaking and how people can improve their ability to effectively hold a room. Listen in to find out if it’s worth spending the extra money on premium plug-ins for your website and Chris’ tips for using your insecurities to propel you forward instead of holding you back. You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: https://bit.ly/2W4XwWg   Interested in our Private Community for 7-Figure Store Owners?  Learn more here.   Want to hear about new episodes and eCommerce news round-ups?  Subscribe via email.  

In the beginning you'll cobble together a solution for your customer's problem, using a patchwork of apps and systems. But if you're solving a genuinely important problem for your target market, you'll soon discover this is no longer good enough: it's inefficient, clumsy, and frankly unappealing. When you arrive at that moment, what will you do? Jonathan Kiekbusch of SEO Butler knew he not only could but had to improve the infrastructure of his solution, so he would be able to provide a much better experience and outcome for his customers. The answer was to invest a significant amount of cash into a complete redesign of the company's website...and the systems behind it. Jonathan says: We founded SEOButler 4 years ago, as a totally bootstrapped startup, originally on Opencart, which to no surprise was a total mess. Originally we started with just a couple of digital products/services. As customer and order volumes grew quickly we started to consider moving platform. Eventually we moved to Wordpress/Woocommerce. Over the years we grew significantly and kept applying patches / plasters to the site in order to continue to make it run. It started to crumble around us. Our website seobutler.com couldn't handle customer volumes, complex processes and other complexities, basically resulting in us not being able to maximize our earning potential. Site load times were through the roof; same with bounce rates. Lots of issues. We track our support tickets, and discovered the volume of tickets related to bugs on the old site kept increasing. We also started interviewing customers to identify exactly what it was that they weren't happy with. Identifying processes that caused friction with our customers was a huge learning point. Eventually we gave in and decided to completely rebuild the website from scratch, investing over $30,000 to work with experts: hiring a special designer, specialist developers for both front and backend and doing it “the right way.” Initially the experience was “painful” because we always undervalued our main way of creating revenue for the business. But now that the project is almost completed (we are in public beta), we are so grateful that we finally made the decision to go this route. ## Listen in on our discussion and discover not only what point you might be in a similar situation, needing to bite the bullet and create a significant upgrade to your capabilities and solution, but also what huge benefits there are to making this kind of investment. Is it time to talk about what improvements you could be making to your product infrastructure--to give your customers a fantastically better experience and you a smoother, more profitable operation? Let's talk! Book a call with the experts at Cold Star Tech: https://www.coldstartech.com

Data Driven Daily Tip 224. Attention marketers and small business owners. If you own an eCommerce website and are selling products regularly online, you need to have eCommerce tracking set up in Google Analytics. This is typically super simple to do with Google Analytics, but sometimes there's some additional coding required on your website so that the data flows properly. Luckily, for WordPress Woocommerce merchants and website owners, this process is made super simple by the WooCommerce Google Analytics Integration Plug-in. Follow the steps outlined in this video and you'll be good to go to start tracking your transactions, revenue and eCommerce conversion rate in Google Analytics. You want this set up correctly because it will also allow you to make Data Driven Marketing decisions related to how many transactions and purchases your marketing efforts are generating for you, such as Facebook Ads, Google Ads, Email Marketing and SEO. The Step-by-Step Process Outlined In The Video Is Below, Thanks To OM4.com.au. Go to Google Analytics, click on your website, then click on Admin, View, Ecommerce Settings then configure the following: Set “Enable Ecommerce” to On. Set “Enable Enhanced Ecommerce Reporting” to On. Save, then click on “View Settings” Set the “Currency displayed as” setting to match your WooCommerce currency. Save your Analytics View settings. Return to your WordPress dashboard, and install and activate the WooCommerce Google Analytics Integration plugin. This free plugin is written by WooCommerce core developers, and allows WooCommerce to send your transaction/sales data across to Analytics. Go to the WordPress Dashboard, WooCommerce, Settings, Integration, Google Analytics and configure the following settings: enter your UA-ID (you can find this in Google Analytics, Admin, Property, Property Settings. DON’T enable standard tracking (this is already added via GADWP plugin in step 2 above) Tick “Enable Universal Analytics” Tick “Purchase Transactions” Tick “Add to Cart Events” Tick “Enable Enhanced eCommerce” Save the plugin’s settings --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/paulhickey/support

Bonjour, bienvenue sur le podcast retour expérience e-commerce c'est Anthony et pour ce 5e épisode j'aimerais vous parler de la recherche 2 produits sur votre boutique. D'abord un constat, prenez le top 10 des sites e-commerce en France ou aux US, un point commun qui est une barre de recherche de taille conséquente dans la partie haute de la page. C'est parfois même un pivot central de l'architecture de la page. Pourquoi ? Tout simplement parce qu'il est plus simple et plus rapide pour un internaute de saisir le produit qu'il recherche plutôt que de naviguer dans les menus. Et là ça coince souvent, en effet le moteur de recherche Prestashop est très mauvais et celui de WordPress Woocommerce n'est pas fameux non plus. Ce qui veut dire que sans moteur de recherche externe intégré l'expérience client va être très dégradée et frustrante. Le visiteur devra soit chercher travers le menu soit recommencer la même opération plusieurs fois en espérant trouver quelque chose qui correspond à sa requête. il y a de grandes chances qui ne trouve rien et finisse par aller sur un autre site. Avant il y avait la possibilité d'intégrer le moteur de recherche Google sur son site mais le résultat n'est pas naturel à intégrer à la charte graphique du site donc à bannir. Je n'ai malheureusement pas testé plusieurs solutions mais celle qui est en place sur mes sites me donne pleine satisfaction: il s'agit de DooFinder. La barre de recherche n'est pas modifiée mais dès que le visiteur commence sa recherche il y a un système d'autocompletion et de suggestion qui affiche des résultats - des produits dans dans un bloc modal en surimpression sur la page donc permettant une recherche rapide et rendant le choix visuellement facile et attrayant. On a l'habitude de dire que le moteur de recherche dominant et Google, c'est vrai lorsqu'il s'agit de rechercher une information allez moins quand il s'agit de réaliser un achat ou Amazon et mettre dans la matière. Amazon est le moteur de recherche d'achat par défaut pour un nombre toujours plus important d'acheteurs. Il n'y a donc aucun mal à tirer des leçons de leur homepage. On vient de parler brièvement de la barre de recherche continuera à décrypter une homepage moderne et efficace dans les prochains épisodes.

Le piattaforme migliori per realizzare un ecommerce sono i CMS. Secondo le statistiche di ahead works i più utilizzati sono Wordpress + Woocommerce, Prestashop e Magento.Wordpress Woocommerce: Vantaggi: Community, funzionalità, basse conoscenze tecniche, costi bassiSvantaggi: non è una soluzione nativa per ecommerce, problemi sul multilingua, problemi su ecommerce.Per chi? ha un budget ridotto, piccoli artigiani, aspirante imprenditori, hotel, b&B, agenzie viaggioPrestashopVantaggi: Community, robusto, soluzione nativa ecommerce, semplice da installare e gestireSvantaggi: Affiancamento buon programmatore o per ottimizzarlo al massimoMagento:Vantaggi: Buona community, Massima affidabilità, sicurezza, solidità, funzionalità ecc..Svantaggi: costi,hosting performante, know-how tecnico elevatoPer chi? Aziende medio-grandi con budget per sviluppo e gestione, usata da Nike, Olympus, Lenovo, Samsung ecc….Ce ne sono altriOpenCartOsCommerceMythoZenCartMa sono obsoleti quindi di consiglio di passare a Prestashop o MagentoScarica gli Ebook Gratuiti di SCUOLAECOMMERCE.COM ►http://www.scuolaecommerce.com/ebook-gratis/

Le piattaforme migliori per realizzare un ecommerce sono i CMS. Secondo le statistiche di ahead works i più utilizzati sono Wordpress + Woocommerce, Prestashop e Magento.Wordpress Woocommerce: Vantaggi: Community, funzionalità, basse conoscenze tecniche, costi bassiSvantaggi: non è una soluzione nativa per ecommerce, problemi sul multilingua, problemi su ecommerce.Per chi? ha un budget ridotto, piccoli artigiani, aspirante imprenditori, hotel, b&B, agenzie viaggioPrestashopVantaggi: Community, robusto, soluzione nativa ecommerce, semplice da installare e gestireSvantaggi: Affiancamento buon programmatore o per ottimizzarlo al massimoMagento:Vantaggi: Buona community, Massima affidabilità, sicurezza, solidità, funzionalità ecc..Svantaggi: costi,hosting performante, know-how tecnico elevatoPer chi? Aziende medio-grandi con budget per sviluppo e gestione, usata da Nike, Olympus, Lenovo, Samsung ecc….Ce ne sono altriOpenCartOsCommerceMythoZenCartMa sono obsoleti quindi di consiglio di passare a Prestashop o MagentoScarica gli Ebook Gratuiti di SCUOLAECOMMERCE.COM ►http://www.scuolaecommerce.com/ebook-gratis/

Dans cet épisode je réponds à une question de Quentin qui me demande quelques conseils sur l’hébergement de son futur blog et notamment sur le choix de Wordpress. Pour poser vous aussi vos questions : https://www.bertrand-soulier.com/podcast/Liens cités dans l’épisode :- Héberger son blog chez Wordpress : https://fr.wordpress.com- Télécharger Wordpress https://wordpress.org- Medium : https://medium.com- Ghost : https://ghost.org/fr/- Hébergement MonArobase : https://monarobase.net et son offre spécial Wordpress : https://monarobase.net/wordpress- Hébergement Auvergne O2Switch : https://www.o2switch.frMes blogs :- Mon blog de mec (Wordpress) : https://www.monblogdemec.fr- Mon blog de papa (Ghost) : https://monblogdepapa.fr- Notre boutique de thé (Wordpress + Woocommerce) : https://www.chakaiclub.fr- La plateforme de soutien à Cyberbougnat (Wordpress + plugins divers) : https://www.cyberbougnat.net/soutenir/- Mon blog (Ghost) : https://www.bertrand-soulier.com---A propos du podcastVotre Coach Web est mon podcast sur la création de contenu pour aider ceux qui veulent s’exprimer sur internet et les réseaux sociaux, développer leur visibilité et en vivre.Tout savoir sur le podcast et poser vos questions : https://www.bertrand-soulier.com/podcastS’abonner au podcast :- sur iTunes : https://itunes.apple.com/fr/podcast/votre-coach-web/id1249494221?mt=2 - sur Google Play Music : https://play.google.com/music/m/I7f4meeenujgugju3b3nxvhdsdi?t=Bertrand_Soulier_-_Votre_coach_web- Ecouter le podcast sur YouTube : http://bertrand.video/podcastNouveauté : je teste Patreon avec une page dédiée au podcast : https://www.patreon.com/bertrandsoulierPour prolonger :- Mon groupe d’entraide et de conseil sur Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/groups/242687639569739/- Ma lettre sur la création de contenu : https://www.getrevue.co/profile/soulierbertrandN’hésitez pas à me poser vos questions sur Facebook, Discord, Instagram ou Twitter avec le hashtag #askbertrand et sur le formulaire : http://bertrand.video/askbertrandSur les réseaux sociaux :- Twitter : http://twitter.com/bertrandsoulier- Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/soulierbertrand- Instagram : http://www.instagram.com/bertrandsoulier- YouTube : http://bertrand.videoMes blogs :- Mon blog tech et pro : http://www.bertrand-soulier.com- Cyberbougnat : http://www.cyberbougnat.net- Mon blog de mec : https://www.monblogdemec.fr

Vart är open source-plattformen WooCommerce på väg? Vi samtalar med grundaren av Wordpress/WooCommerce-byrån Krokedil Niklas Högefjord. Vad är utmaningen och fördelarna med WooCommerce? Hur fungerar den svenska Wordpress/WooCommerce-communityn? Vilka ska inte välja WooCommerce? I 33:e avsnittet av podden E-handelstrender samtalar Urban Lindstedt med Niklas Högefjord, grundare och vd av Wordpressbyrån Krokedil.

This week, we look at What Makes a WooCommerce Website Successful? The lessons we learned are not what you might expect them to be. Our panel this week: Sallie Goetsch: https://wpfangirl.com Morten Rand-Hendriksen: http://pinkandyellow.com/ Scott Buscemi: https://luminary.ws/ John Locke: https://www.lockedowndesign.com/ Show Table of Contents: 0:00 We introduce the episode and our panel. 3:34 WordPress News Story: John James Jacoby Publishes 35 Part Tweetstorm on WordPress Leadership, Community, and Economics https://wptavern.com/john-james-jacoby-publishes-35-part-tweetstorm-on-wordpress-leadership-community-and-economics 27:26 Our Main WordPress Topic: What Makes a WooCommerce Website Successful? 27:49 What are the characteristics that make any ecommerce website successful? 28:45 Show off what makes you different. 29:15 You have to drive traffic to your website. 31:34 Running an e-commerce site is the same as running a bricks-and-mortar store. 34:12 If you don't have traffic, you aren't going to make sales. 35:58 Rising to the top of Google takes more than one day. 38:19 People think that WooCommerce extensions will help them make sales, when they are really for sites already making sales. 39:56 Not every issue is a technical issue. 40:30 Many companies think they know their audience, but they don't. 43:29 If you really know your market, you will succeed. 45:25 Are there any challenges that are unique to WooCommerce as opposed to other e-commerce platforms? 48:04 WooCommerce is a powerful platform, but requires a lot of technical knowledge from the consultant setting it up. 50:27 There's a user story behind every WooCommerce setting. 51:57 Every ecommerce platform has certain trade-offs. 52:59 Some more thoughts on what can make a WooCommerce site build challenging. 57:26 Running an e-commerce website has many layers of complexity and legal obligation beyond those of a regular marketing website. 1:02:01 We do outros for the podcast listeners.   ================ Leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe to our WordPress podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wordpress-wp-tonic-jonathan/id893083124?mt=2   ================ Read the article on the WP-Tonic website for bonus content: https://www.wp-tonic.com/podcast/what-makes-a-woocommerce-website-successful/   ================   WP-Tonic is not only a WordPress maintenance and support service, but we publish a twice weekly WordPress podcast where we talk with some of the brightest minds in WordPress development, web design, business, and online marketing.

Programa número 11 del podcast Dinamización Tecnológica y WordPress: WooCommerce, más que una tienda online. En este segundo programa de la segunda temporar del podcast Dinamización Tecnológica y WordPress hablamos sobre diferentes usos de WooCommerce. Porque WooCommerce no sólo lo podemos utilizar para crear tienda online tradicionales de venta de productos sino que podemos convertirla […]

On episode twenty three I continue the WooCommerce Season. This week I am joined by Dustin Hartzler of YourWebsiteEngineer.com. We talk about WooCommerce, Wordpress and much more. I have also started a new giveaway on this show, Win Some Wordpress Stuff. Listen for your chance to win a new Wordpress plugin! This episode I am giving away the Product Sales Report Plugin by Potent Plugins. Visit my show's website at GaryLelandShow.com Please send questions for the show to GaryLeland@gmail.com Take a look at the magazine I publish for podcasters at http://Podertainment.com Take a look at my book http://100PodcastTips.com

Are you confused about which hosting platform to use for your dropshipping business? You're not alone!When we first started, we also felt overwhelmed by all the options offered to us, from marketplaces like Amazon to more traditional website hosting services like Squarespace, Wix, or GoDaddy. Lucky for you, you don't have to go through what we did, because in this week's episode of The Dropship Podcast, we'll be sharing with you the best dropshipping platforms in 2025.Want to choose the best platform for your dropshipping journey? Then don't miss this episode!Listen in and learn everything you need to know about the best (and worst) platforms for your dropshipping business, why Shopify continues to lead as the top dropshipping platform, why you shouldn't rely on marketplaces like Amazon and Etsy, and so much more.Are you ready?Let's dive in!Key Takeaways:Introduction (00:00)This is what your platform needs (02:19)The three groups of platforms (06:08)WordPress/WooCommerce (11:46)Shopify (15:37)BigCommerce (19:59)Additional Resources:❗ Join our FREE masterclass and learn how to build a high-ticket dropshipping business: https://dropshipbreakthru.com/go/watch/go/—❗ Connect with us on social media:➡️ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dropshipbreakthru/ ➡️ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dropshipbreakthru/➡️ Join our FREE Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dropshiptribe/ ➡️ Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dropshipbreakthru —The Dropship Podcast is brought to you by Jon Warren and Ben Knegendorf. Join us every week to learn everything you need to know to master the art of high-ticket dropshipping.