Several tutorials I enjoyed this week, especially the ones from Shopify on Product / Market fit and the testing checklists from Rooster and Conversion Reviews.
- AffiliateWP has released another free add-on — this one lets you create customized product referral rates for a particular affiliate.
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In case you’ve never seen these, AffiliateWP also posts tons of great tutorials and code snippets. Here’s a new one on sending emails to affiliates when referrals have been paid.
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WooThemes launched a photography extension for WooCommerce this week, and Post Status has a great analysis of how this fits into the self-hosted photography market.
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WooThemes has also announced that WooCommerce 2.3 in now in the second beta testing phase.
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Here’s a quick guide from SkyVerge on changing WooCommerce attribute defaults.
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Prospress published an interesting case study on a local food delivery service using WooCommerce for managing orders.
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In light of the overnight success of ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com, Practical Ecommerce has a list of questions to ask yourself when launching an eCommerce site. Even if your site is already live, the questions are still valuable to reevaluate your own setup.
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Shopify posted a checklist of to dos for Updating and Optimizing Your Online Store. While this are more along the lines of “site checkups”, this is a useful reminder to go through now and perhaps midway through the year.
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The Real Reason People Aren’t Buying From You is also from Shopify this week, which is a great look into product / market fit.
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Rooster has a list of quick site optimization ideas from conversion rate specialists that can give you some ideas on tests for your own site.
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Speaking of tests, Conversion Review has a great checklist for A/B testing to ensure that your tests are accurate and valid.
Thanks for stopping by, and enjoy your weekend!
