It’s most cost-effective to keep current customers happy rather than only be chasing new customers. Learn how to optimize post-purchase behavior in WooCommerce for greater loyalty & lifetime value.
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As a web designer, your ability to bring in new customers depends on your ability to write successful web design proposals. But you can’t afford to spend three or four hours perfecting every proposal. You need your time to actually build websites – and a web design proposal template can give you this time.
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If you’re a freelancer, contractor, or small business owner, working with clients can be one of the most challenging parts of your job. This is especially true when those clients become mysteriously unresponsive. When this happens, you’ll need to be vigilant in sending a follow up email. And this is where some handy email scripts come into play.
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We asked 32 different agencies and freelancers in the dev-design-tech segment to tell us what makes a good client in their book, and what drives them crazy when things don’t work out as planned. Here’s what they said.
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Granted, WordPress rarely breaks down by itself … like a car does, or your fridge. But every once in a while, new security issues or bugs get discovered, some plugins start acting wonky and even the database itself needs some spring cleaning. So as great as WordPress is, it’s not a maintenance-free product. And the issues tend to add up over time. The most common
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The question of how to monetize a blog is often the very first thing that new bloggers ask. In this guide, we have five methods for you – all of them battle-tested ways to monetize a blog. We go through them one by one and explain how to implement them for maximum impact.
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Warning! This isn’t yet another “you need to set blog goals” -rant. This is more. Way more. First, the facts: blogs that set goals, measure, and stick to good goals, are way more effective than blogs with no goals, or blogs with ineffective goals. This post will tell you all about the specifics of that, explain how to set effective blog goals, and then how to make sure you stick to them.
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Web hosting for small business is not something that we usually focus too much attention on. I mean, even when building a website for a small business client, we are still very likely to recommend a popular overall hosting solution, like WP Engine or SiteGround.
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One thing that’s fairly surprising when you start offering software products is the never-ending stream of feature requests. And the more popular your “thing” gets, the more requests you’ll receive. That is why a good “Feature Request” system is so important. Here’s a case study of how to build one.
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While doing my research, I found lots of tips online about selling on Fiverr® but far less info about how to get the most out of your experience as a buyer. So, because I’ve been playing around with Fiverr quite a lot lately, I thought I’d fill this void and put up a list of some of my top Fiverr tips – from a buyer’s
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Remote work is an increasingly popular choice for employers and employees: employers get to enjoy the pick of the best talent from across the globe, and employees get the flexibility of working from wherever they like. For most remote workers (including me), this means working from home.
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Running a business imposes a lot of unique challenges. Finding customers, negotiating rates, building a product, marketing that product effectively, minimizing costs, hiring new people, and on and on and on. All of this is what keeps the entrepreneur in you awake at night.
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ThemeForest vs independent theme shops? Well, let’s face it – the myriad of options available to any prospective WordPress theme purchaser is utterly overwhelming. As such, reducing the pool of contenders to one or two trusted sellers seems like a good idea, but it raises the question: where should you actually buy WordPress themes from?
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With the massive success of websites like Etsy and ThemeForest, multi-vendor eCommerce marketplaces have become a popular way to sell both physical and digital products. They provide an easy method for you to host third-party vendors. Customers are happy because they get to choose from a wide selection of products, and you’re happy because you get to charge vendors a commission. But because of the
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