How to embed any Wistia video into WordPress

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January 12, 2018 by Gary Leave a Comment

With a Wistia hosted video, it’s possible to alternate click on the video and click Copy link and thumbnail. This will give you some HTML similar to the following: If you then paste the provided HTML (as above) and save to the text section of your WordPress page or post editor you’ll get an image […]

How to use Font Awesome icons as backgrounds in WordPress

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November 17, 2017 by Gary Leave a Comment

I was recently creating a landing page for my MailChimp classes and wanted to use an icon font as a background image in place of a JPG, PNG or other image. Image files slow down webpage load speed so it makes sense to use a lightweight icon font instead of a background image where possible. […]

The cheapest way to boost your eCommerce sales

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September 29, 2017 by Gary Leave a Comment

Customer retention is one of the most overlooked eCommerce growth strategies. The customer lifetime value can be greatly increased through retention. So many of us spend a huge amount of time and expense in getting new customers and we totally forget about increasing sales from past customers. Getting past customers to repeat purchase is way […]

The cost of not using Shopify or WooCommerce to sell online

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May 4, 2017 by Gary Leave a Comment

I recently compared the ongoing cost of using Shopify versus WordPress WooCommerce for a small online store. Just after I’d published that post I received a request to help a business integrate their custom developed eCommerce platform with the MailChimp API. That got me thinking how important it is that the majority of businesses choose […]

Why WooCommerce is really more expensive than Shopify

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April 26, 2017 by Gary Leave a Comment

The two eCommerce services and software that I work with most often are WordPress WooCommerce and Shopify. Clients often state that they are adverse to the monthly cost associated with Shopify and therefore choose WooCommerce because it is free to install and use. This is usually a false rationale however as Automattic (the parent company […]

The easiest way to add a MailChimp popup in WordPress

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January 18, 2017 by Gary 2 Comments

A while back I published a blog post about how to add the MailChimp pop-up subscribe form to WordPress. The solution was more of a hack than anything else however worked for most people. MailChimp Pop-up Subscription Form for WordPress Fortunately WordPress themselves now offer a far simpler means of adding the MailChimp pop-up form […]

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