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How to Set Up WooCommerce – Part 5: Adding Products

At this point, your shopping cart should be mostly ready to go. You've been through setting up WooCommerce, configuring taxes, setting up shipping, and configuring how you want to get...
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How to Set Up WooCommerce – Part 4: Payments

Now that you have your WooCommerce installed, taxes and shipping configured, it's time to get paid. And that means, unless you are sending items as COD, you need to choose...
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How to Set Up WooCommerce – Part 3: Shipping

If you have an e-commerce store, then there's a really good chance that you are going to have to deal with shipping in one form or another. And this is,...
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How to Set Up WooCommerce – Part 2: Taxes

How to Set up WooCommerce SeriesHave you missed a previous post in this series? Go ahead and see the whole series.Setting up Woo If anyone has told you that selling...
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How to Set Up WooCommerce on WordPress – Part 1

Thinking of starting an e-commerce store on WordPress? There's a lot to it, so I want to do a series on it to provide some details on all the different...
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How to Sell Books Online

We do a lot of author website design, and one question I get asked on the regular is how do authors sell their books on their website? There's a lot...
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Accepting Credit Cards online is not as hard as you may think

When someone comes to me with a website that needs e-commerce, one of the first few questions I ask them is, "How would you like to accept payments?" One of...
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Tips for maximizing your WooCommerce site

Having an e-commerce site is hard. You have to compete with a lot of other sites selling similar products. You have to compete for price, for the best shipping deals,...
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Understanding your project is the key to success

A couple of weeks ago I got a call from a prospective client who wanted more information about working together. We started talking and I began to ask him more...
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It’s easier to accept credit cards on your website than you think

Whenever I'm asked to provide a quote for any kind of e-commerce website, whether it be an actual online shop with physical products, a subscription membership site, or just a...
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Putting together the pieces for e-commerce

I've written about it before. E-commerce is hard. Just having a product and putting it online is not enough to get sales. When it comes to actually selling products online,...
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Taking Donations on a WordPress site

We do a fair amount of non profit website design, and one of the things that comes up for those is how to accept donations. A lot of organizations want...
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Selling Products with WooCommerce

More and more potential clients are coming to me with the same request - they have a product they want to sell online. Great! But the first thing I tell them is...
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Common mistakes preventing you from getting sales in your online store

We don't do a ton of e-commerce, but we do some. And one of the things people want to know is, how do I get sales? Or why am I...
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Frequently Asked Questions about E-Commerce

We get a lot of inquiries from people asking about e-commerce. Everyone wants to sell something online, but few people have thought about what's truly involved. I have some answers...
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It’s 2016. Let your customers pay you on your website.

If you have a business that sends invoices, then you should have a link on that invoice that allows your customers to pay online. Preferably on your website. Why? Because it's...
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E-Commerce is Hard

I hate to be the bearer of bad news. But the truth is, doing e-commerce is hard, and doing it successfully is even harder. Usually at least once a day...
E-Commerce and Unique Selling Propositions

Want to do E-Commerce? You need a USP.

There are lots of e-commerce sites out there. You might have one or maybe you're just thinking of having one. So here's my question for you: What's your USP? USP means Unique...
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WordPress News: Automattic Buys WooCommerce

Yesterday, Matt Mullenweg, Automattic CEO and WordPress founder, announced that they would be purchasing WooCommerce. If you offer retail sales on WordPress, there's a good chance you're using WooCommerce already....
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You don’t have to use PayPal!

I love PayPal as much as the next guy. I've had an account so long, I don't even know when I got it. Pretty sure the account was originally set...
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What’s involved in getting an E-Commerce site?

Whenever we get asked to set up an e-commerce site, we start the process with a lot of different questions. Some of those questions include: Will your products be digital...