Category: Web Development

Andrew Youderian • September 8, 2015 The eCommerce pricing strategy I’m about to share has been a massive game-changer for my store. In my second year in business, it produced enough extra income to hire my first full-time employee so I could work on higher-level tasks and freely travel for months at a time.…

In this article, I’ll show you a great way to share a single instance of a plugin or theme with multiple installations of WordPress – symlinks.…

First, why would you want to be picked up by Google News? What are the benefits? The aim of Google News is to filter through the world’s news and make timely news accessible to readers in a way that’s easy for them to read, understand, and put to use.…

In WordPress, instead of simply adding these to the header, you should use a method called enqueueing which is a standardized way of handling your assets with the added bonus of managing dependencies.…

True customer relationship management (CRM) helps you understand your customers and engage with them throughout the entire customer lifecycle. This is accomplished by collecting and analyzing lots of data.…

The WordPress HTTP API consists of a bunch of functions that will help you make HTTP calls a lot more easily. No need to fiddle around with file_get_contents or cURL anymore, just a single unified interface.…

Andrew Youderian • July 20, 2015 When it comes to being a remote employee I qualify in every sense of the word. I live on an island twelve miles out to sea in a community of barely 400 people.…

Andrew Youderian • July 13, 2015 The countryside screamed past at 200 mph as I worked on my laptop, comfortable inside the train’s first-class cabin. Outside, weathered farmers worked fields by hand as women walked by carrying baskets.…

Crowdfunding can be described as the process of raising funds with the help of friends, family, customers, and investors. This is typically done online via a website or through social media to reach a large audience. If…

Andrew Youderian • June 9, 2015 Nate Friedman started out as an electrical engineer in the steel industry, climbed the corporate ladder at a Fortune 50 company and eventually ran a real-estate listings startup that didn’t work out.…

Andrew Youderian • May 29, 2015 If you ask any inventor, designer or creative person what has stopped them from seeing a brilliant idea to fruition, the answer is always the same: money.…

Whether you’re a WordPress developer that needs to offer support, a business in desperate need of a unique customer service strategy, or even if you’re looking to take on the likes of Yahoo!…

WordPress is an excellent platform for blogging or hosting a website. However, it has evolved into much more than that. WordPress is now a powerful content management system which powers over 27% of the web, and thanks to a few external plugins, can handle a variety of different file download needs.…

Andrew Youderian • May 8, 2015 The conversion rate.  If you’re anything like me, it’s the single most important metric you look at next to revenue when checking analytics.…

With over 4+ million active installs, a 4.6 user rating on WordPress.org, and an army of happy, loyal digital store owners to back it, WooCommerce is the most popular free e-commerce solution for WordPress by a mile.…

Andrew Youderian • April 17, 2015 Ignore flashy resumes and forget the MLA manual. If your brand is in need of attention grabbing headlines, compelling product descriptions, epic email campaigns and more, you need to focus your energies on much more than a fancy CV.…

Andrew Youderian • March 20, 2015 Here’s what an average day for someone running multiple businesses often looks like. They wake at the crack of dawn, check emails, check sales from last night, check inventory levels, check in on orders going out that day, check back on orders being processed that day, make a cup of coffee, send a tweet, check emails again, field phone calls from their wholesaler, return phone calls from customers, check email and finally get to take a swig of coffee.…

Andrew Youderian • March 5, 2015 Last December I announced we were migrating our eCommerce store, Right Channel Radios, from the Magento shopping cart to Shopify.  Not only were we migrating platforms, but we were also pouring $50,000 into a complete overhaul of the brand and the website design.…

Andrew Youderian • February 13, 2015 Ben Jenkins is a collection of conflicting stereotypes. He’s a retired baseball player with a degree from the Art Institute in Chicago.…