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We Have a great discussion here with Christopher Hawkins about an interesting subject how to deal with those difficult clients? Chris has been building web applications for over 16 years, successfully completing projects for business of every size, from Fortune 500s on down. Day-to-day, he manages a custom web development consulting firm. He also authors a software industry blog and has been published in Software Development Magazine (now Dr. Dobbs). http://www.christopherhawkins.com/about/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherhawkins Cogeian Systems   Read the article on the WP-Tonic website for a full transcription of the show: https://www.wp-tonic.com/podcast/112-wp-tonic-best-deal-difficult-client-situations/   ---------------------------------------------   WP-Tonic is not only a WordPress maintenance and support service, but we publish a twice weekly WordPress business podcast where we talk with some of the brightest minds in WordPress development, web design, business, and online marketing.

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: Lockedown SEO 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.

Bob Dunn, known as BobWP across the web, started his business in 1992 and spent over 25 years partnered with his wife providing marketing and design for large and small businesses. He discovered WordPress in 2007 and started designing WordPress sites.   Visit the WP-Tonic site for additional content: https://www.wp-tonic.com/podcast/110-bob-dunn-bobwp-podcast/   ==================   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.

An insightful WordPress roundtable discussion on what are the thing you need to understand connected to the clear difference between what works connected to web-copy and how in someways it clearly very different to print world.   Read the full article and get bonus content on the WP-Tonic website: https://www.wp-tonic.com/podcast/109-wordpress-difference-effective-web-copy-print-copy/   ====================   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.

We talk to Matt Miller the Founder of "School Spirt Vending." Matt has an amazing story connected how he got the idea for his business and how he managed to drive forward and build a real business. He also talks on why his online presence is powered by WordPress. http://schoolspiritvending.com   Get additional content for this episode at the WP-Tonic website: https://www.wp-tonic.com/podcast/108-matt-miller-all-american-entrepreneur/   ===================   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.  

In this episode we look at how you should judge what WordPress design/development company you should hire to help you build you next great WordPress powered website. We have a great panel here with lot of industry experience.   Get bonus content from this episode on the WP-Tonic website: https://www.wp-tonic.com/podcast/107-how-to-evaluate-a-wordpress-freelance-web-designer-developer/     ===================   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.

Jonathan & John give more tips and advice connected to how to make your old slow sloth of a WordPress website into a speed machine. We look at CDN, caching and how to really optimize your images plus we discuss a number of other things to help you make your website in to a speed machine.   Get additional content for this episode on the WP-Tonic website: https://www.wp-tonic.com/podcast/106-speeding-up-your-wordpress-site-sloth-to-speed-cheetah/     =====================   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.

We look at a number of services and WordPress plugins that can help make your WordPress website faster to load and become the speed machine of your dreams. It really easy to end up with a really slow loading WordPress website. We give some clear and actionable advice that really works. What should you look for connected to hosting to themes? Then we move on to services like CDNs and also caching plugins. We have list of 6 to 7 different areas that can make your WordPress website into a speed machine.   Read the companion article on WP-Tonic.com for bonus content: https://www.wp-tonic.com/podcast/105-speeding-wordpress-slow-dog-speed-machine/   =====================   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.

Zac Gordon talks about how much work it been to develop his top rated Javascript online course JavascriptForWP . Zac is a WordPress educator and teacher. In this interview, he talks about starting as a web development teacher at local schools, and eventually working at Treehouse as their lead WordPress development teacher. After Treehouse cancelled any new WordPress courses, Zac decided that he wanted to put together an ongoing JavaScipt for WordPress course. He talks extensively about the lessons he learned from putting this course together, including the production and marketing of the course. Zac has tons of insights on what makes for a successful campaign for a new WordPress product or course, and what the major factors were in making this course a hit. Zac also talks about his little-know (but very large) side business, Web Hosting For Students. He talks about all the growing pains that business has gone through over the years. There's so much valuable information in this episode, you won't want to miss it. Links: https://www.wp-tonic.com/podcast/104-interview-zac-gordon-former-lead-wordpress-instructor-treehouse/   ==================   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.

WordPress & Online Marketing What Works in 2016 From Snapchat to Email Marketing. The WP-Tonic panel discusses what marketing efforts are working for them and their clients in 2016. How are email lists? What about social media? Should you pay attention to Snapchat? What about offline marketing? Does SEO still work? We discuss all these topics and more on this episode of WP-Tonic. Appearing in this episode: Sallie Goetch, Kim Shivler, Jonathan Denwood, John Locke https://www.wp-tonic.com   ==================   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.