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Every so often I get an email from someone asking about how to get started as a web desiger or web developer. I don’t always have time to reply, and to be honest I’m not a career advice guru anyway. Here’s a useful website that discusses ways to get into the web design industry from…
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…
Replication is the process of making a copy of something. Using the replication process we can copy the active directory database from one site to another site. Replication is the process of sending update information for data that has changed in the directory to other domain controllers. That means we are creating a backup of…
Andrew Youderian • July 30, 2013 I’m thrilled to announce the launch of the eCommerceFuel podcast! For someone who loves both eCommerce and the sound of my own voice, it’s a truly exciting day. To celebrate, I’ll be giving away a copy of The Insider’s Guide and a 1-on-1 consulting session to one lucky listener…
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 email marketing with promises to share how things went … and the results are in! I’m happy to report with the help of Klaviyo and Rejoiner we were able to generate 10.5% of our overall sales from email marketing in…
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…
The Google Keyword tool which is an essential tool for researching keywords – finding search volume and related phrases etc is shutting down and is going to be replaced with their new tool called Keyword Planner. It will still be…
I recently had the honor of presenting at WordCamp Orange County 2013. I was asked to give a “WordPress 101” talk which may sound simple, but is deceptively so! It’s actually quite a challenge. I teach WordPress every day so…
You may have noticed your Twitter feed stopped showing up on your WordPress site just recently. This is because Twitter changed their API. An API is something that various web services like Twitter provide in order to allow developers to…
Andrew Youderian • June 30, 2013 Ten years ago you could get a basic store online, add a few products, buy some cheap traffic and – voilà! – you’d be able to build a successful online store. Oh, how times have changed! While it’s still very feasible to build a thriving eCommerce business today, the…
WordPress shortcodes are a powerful feature that theme and plugin developers use to give users advanced tools at their disposal, but they continually confuse people. They are infinitely easier than writing actual HTML and CSS but can still freak out…
Andrew Youderian • June 13, 2013 Deciding if and how to offer phone support is one of the hardest things I’ve wrestled with as an eCommerce entrepreneur. I’ve tried half a dozen different approaches and I’m still not 100% satisfied with how I’ve incorporated it in my business. It’s a really tough issue, especially for…
Andrew Youderian • May 30, 2013 Today I’m thrilled to announce The Insider’s Guide to Building an Online Store. The Guide is a comprehensive, step-by-step eCommerce training course designed to help you build your own store – even if you’re just getting started. To celebrate the launch, I’ll be giving away a few copies … but more…
How to Install Exchange Server 2013 As Microsoft has released Exchange Server 2013, we have verified it on our development environment as well as live environment and successfully installed using below mentioned steps: Prerequisites for installing Exchange Server 2013 The prerequisites that are needed to install Exchange 2013 on a Windows Server depends on which…
UPDATE: Donna Fontenot is the lucky winner of a Developer account at Elegant Themes! Looking for a fancy new theme for your WordPress site? Today might be your lucky day. Elegant Themes has been kind enough to let me give…
Andrew Youderian • May 15, 2013 It’s really hard to find quality eCommerce content with the individual entrepreneur in mind. Too many sites are targeted only toward large enterprise businesses, have poor content or don’t have first-hand experience running an eCommerce store. That’s why I’m bringing you a list of eCommerce experts who need to…
Just recently I’ve worked on two sites that needed a way to display testimonials and a way to collect them from clients via the website itself. With WordPress there are several ways you could achieve this, this is just the…
Seems like podcasts, especially of the video variety, are having revival at the moment. Here’s a few WordPress-related ones worth checking out. They are all feature some very smart developers and other members of the WordPress community so it’s a…
While on the Facebook recently I was targeted with an ad that told me that if a certain 9 year old child can make WordPress websites, I should be able to as well. It’s not the first time I’ve seen…