Do any of these problems sound familiar to you? 1) You want to place a high impact email opt-in in key places such as your sidebar, or post footer 2) You want to make forms you’ve built with Gravity Forms…
Andrew Youderian • February 24, 2014 “Are you still interested in buying the business?” The potential…
Andrew Youderian • January 22, 2014 Forget about spinning articles and directory listings. If you want…
Running advertising on your WordPress site can get pretty complicated and so can the plugins available. This particular post is aimed at those whose needs are on the lower end so I’m only looking at free plugins here. If you’re…
Recently I had a client that needed to display a grid of images in a sidebar widget, each one of which would link to a different page. Previously they had hard coded all the images and links as HTML in…
Creating a child theme is generally the best practice for modifying or customizing an existing theme. However in a couple of cases there may be another, easier way, especially for beginners and non-coders. Why Use A Child Theme? If you…
Andrew Youderian • December 17, 2013 A month ago I announced I was selling my eCommerce…
One of the most confusing things about WordPress is that there’s basically two ways you can use it and your decision will have a significant impact on what you can do with your website. You can use the WordPress.com service,…
Here’s an interesting factoid for you. Approximately once every 13 seconds* another blogger posts on an internet forum or group a variation on the following question: “Why does Facebook always show the wrong image when I post a link to…
Andrew Youderian • November 14, 2013 I’m selling one of my stores, TrollingMotors.net, and will be…
Andrew Youderian • November 3, 2013 I don’t normally write update posts, but I had a…
Andrew Youderian • October 17, 2013 Today I’ll be (hopefully) demystifying how to read a balance…
Andrew Youderian • September 30, 2013 The income statement seems straightforward enough: revenue at the top,…
How To Make Your WordPress Site Conversion Friendly: Part 2 – Effective WordPress Sidebars Sidebars are one of the best places to put your calls to action. Widgets make your life easy and almost every theme has ’em! But we need…
I wrote a post for Torque Mag ( an excellent WordPress news resource ) recently on the nature of the relationship between WordPress developers – those who create themes and plugins, and users of WordPress – those regular folks who…
Andrew Youderian • September 9, 2013 Sadly, Google’s infamous Keyword Tool is no more. It was…
WordCamp Los Angeles is taking place September 21st & 22nd – two days of awesome WordPress fun, learning and connecting. If you haven’t bought your ticket yet, I recommend you do so ASAP since they are likely to sell out.…
Coloft is an awesome co-working space in Santa Monica. In addition to providing the physical space where entrepreneurs can work together, they also foster community and creativity. One of the value-adds they provide is Coloft Academy – an ongoing series…
Andrew Youderian • August 23, 2013 I know the products and the market I sell in…
Part 1 – Defining Your Conversions and Calls To Action Mastering the use of WordPress is just one step in making your online presence effective and successful. Your website is going to be in a state of refinement until you’ve…
Andrew Youderian • July 30, 2013 I’m thrilled to announce the launch of the eCommerceFuel podcast!…
Doing the rounds on the interwebs lately is a lot of talk about the new feature Gmail is launching in their interface – tabs. It’s going to make life harder for those of us that send out email newsletters and…
Andrew Youderian • July 22, 2013 A few months ago, I shared our plan to implement…
If you’ve used WordPress even just a little bit, you’ve probably come up against the fact that it’s really hard to add extra space into the editor. You can only hit “return” a couple of times before it starts eating…