There are some really great reviews and articles this week, and I definitely recommend checking out the hosting reviews at Review Signal.
New or Updates Plugins & Themes
- I love this new plugin from Shop Plugins: EDD Cart URL. This lets you create a group of products, then generate a URL that adds them all to the cart with one click — it’s great for email campaigns or social sharing.
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Here’s another new Easy Digital Downloads add-on: Fraud Monitor. This plugin runs a series of checks on every transaction for common fraud indicators to hold potentially fraudulent orders.
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Here are some cool social sharing buttons that work with the WPSSO plugin to integrate with popular plugins like WooCommerce and BuddyPress.
Reviews & Tutorials
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Review Signal has posted another edition of their hosting benchmarks, which are the absolute best resource for performance testing on WordPress hosting companies.
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Chris Lema continued his series of membership plugin reviews with a few more this week:
- Chris also has a cool tutorial on creating a custom tee shirt store in 20 minutes with WooCommerce and Printful.
Marketing & Conversions
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ConversionsXL has a great overview of social proof: why it’s important, some different kinds of social proof, and ways to use it.
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Calls to action are easy to test and can yield great conversion boosts — here are some tips from KISSmetrics on writing better calls to action.
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Practical Ecommerce shows you how to use bullet points to sell your products more effectively.
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You can use your return policy to improve sales and conversions with some of these tips from Payfirma.
Other Tips & Articles
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This overview from Lemon Stand is probably more than you ever wanted to know about payment processing fees.
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Here’s a really cool case study from Prospress on creating a subscription business selling access to piano tutorials with WooCommerce.
Thanks for stopping by, and enjoy your weekend!
