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If you’re trying to decide what the best eCommerce platform is for your online store then you’ll love this post. Trying to decide what the best platform is for your eCommerce website is one of those rabbit holes that you can easily get lost down for weeks and months on end.

When you add into the mix that the world of eCommerce is constantly changing and evolving, it’s easy to get overwhelmed and end up being paralysed by indecision and doubts about what the best course of action is for just about every decision for your online store.

Well what better way to help you solve any of your lingering doubts about how to get your eCommerce empire off to a flying start than to hear directly from some of the best and brightest minds in the world of eCommerce!

WooCommerce Checkout: Optimizing it for better conversions

By Simon Tomkins4 Comments

Although the default WooCommerce checkout is reasonably well laid out I think more can be done to improve this crucial step for store owners. Because, really this is now the most important step of the process. You’ve done the hard work, encouraged a buyer to select a product, add it to the cart – now you need them to buy.

You don’t want your effort to be wasted and with a couple of easy tweaks you’ll be able to reduce the likelihood of this happening. I’m going to show you how to optimize your WooCommerce checkout to present the best possible experience to buyers and encourage them to complete the process. Let’s get started!

WooCommerce Email Customizer – The Five Minute Guide

By Simon Tomkins1 Comment

I was looking for a WooCommerce Email Customizer solution for our own CommerceGurus site for a while for buyers of our Shoptimizer WooCommerce theme. Email customizations are one of the forgotten aspects of eCommerce but definitely shouldn’t be overlooked. They’re invaluable for defining your brand right up to and including the point-of-sale and can provide useful information to buyers post-purchase.

This could include a link to documentation, a phone number for support or even a coupon code for subsequent purchases as a way of saying thank you. Let’s look at what I discovered, and I promise, it should only take five minutes to implement on your store.

It’s an easy win!

WooCommerce Shortcodes – Tutorial and lots of examples

By Simon Tomkins27 Comments

WooCommerce shortcodes may not be familiar to everyone. Even if you have a WooCommerce store, it may be a feature you haven’t come across and don’t yet realise how useful they can be in sprinkling product references and buying call to action buttons throughout your site.

WooCommerce shortcodes are small code snippets which you can place anywhere in your site to display WooCommerce products or calls to action such as ‘Buy Now’ buttons. There are a multitude of uses for these and we wanted to incorporate some great examples directly within our Shoptimizer WooCommerce theme. They should also work within any theme with WooCommerce installed.

WooCommerce Subscriptions – become a recurring revenue powerhouse

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Before talking about the excellent WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin I want to first mention a start-up, whose beginnings were described on the Starter Story website.

Blue Coffee Box is a coffee subscription business, founded in the UK by a dad, with the intention of raising enough monthly revenue to pay for his son’s college education and living fees. His son now runs the business with him and through directly mailing a fresh, original batch of coffee to their paying subscribers, they have already surpassed $26,000 in monthly income.

This is after being in business only a little bit over one year.

The Ultimate Guide To WooCommerce Dropshipping: Everything You Need To Build Your Business

By Colin Newcomer11 Comments

So you want to start a dropshipping store…that’s awesome! But there are a lot of moving parts when it comes to building a successful dropshipping store, so it’s natural that you might be looking for a helping hand to guide you along the way.

To make getting started a whole heckuva lot easier for you (and put you on the path to success), we’ve created this massive dropshipping tutorial covering everything from what dropshipping is to how to pick dropshipping products and how to actually build your store.