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Mastering WooCommerce by Patrick Rauland Book Review

Mastering WooCommerce by Patrick Rauland is a print and digital book that’s just as useful for those new to WooCommerce and would like a step-by-step guide to building a store as it is for more experienced users who are seeking a detailed reference guide they can turn to when needed.

If you want to increase your knowledge of WooCommerce, whether you’re just starting out or you’re already familiar with this platform, then investing in Mastering WooCommerce would be an excellent purchase.

While there are many valuable WooCommerce guides online, you can’t beat a book when it comes to covering a topic in depth. Having a printed or digital book to hand that covers all the essentials, and more in one place can be a great alternative or accompaniment to the countless articles and other resources available online.

12 Inspiring “About Us” Examples From eCommerce Stores

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Nearly every store has an About Us page. However, they’re often overlooked, containing only the most basic information presented in an unexciting way.

If that applies to your store or you haven’t updated your About Us page in a while, this guide will inspire you to turn this important part of your store into an effective piece of content that can help grow your business.

Your About Us page can play a key role in differentiating yourself from the competition — something that’s vital for all eCommerce stores.

FlyingPress Review – An Easy Way to Improve Site Speed

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Slow site speed can be fatal for an eCommerce business. Poor performance can cause problems for regular websites, too.

The longer it takes for your site and its pages to load, the worse conversion rates, user satisfaction, and search engine visibility you can expect.

Therefore, it’s vital you do all you can to improve the performance and speed of your site.

Along with a fast-loading theme or store design and performance-focused web hosting, installing a WordPress performance plugin is one of the best ways to improve the speed of your site or store.

However, there are many WordPress caching and performance plugins to choose from. This means finding the best one for your site can be time-consuming. Also, if you get it wrong, you might even end up with worse performance.

When it comes to your options, FlyingPress is one plugin you could choose.

It’s a plugin designed to help improve site speed with as little effort as possible while still providing enough customization options for power users with exacting requirements.

In this FlyingPress review, we help you decide if it’s the right plugin for your site. We cover the main features of this plugin, explain what it’s like to use, and share the results from our tests of using it on a WooCommerce store.

WooCommerce Discounts Review – Powerful Discount Functionality

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Would you like to offer discounts at your WooCommerce store? And not just standard $10-off discounts but much more creative ones?

If so, this WooCommerce Discounts review will introduce you to a new plugin built specifically for that purpose.

The plugin was created to give you more control over running discounts at your eCommerce store. Regardless of what type of discounts you want to create, there’s a high chance this extension has the necessary functionality.

Some of its key features include the ability to create volume, bulk, and quantity discounts; offer discounts that provide free products or samples; and set up dynamic discounts based on cart contents, total spend, and more.

So if you’d like powerful functionality for managing discounts at your eCommerce store, read our WooCommerce Discounts by Wombat Plugins review to find out if this is the right option for you.

WP Rocket Review – Improve WordPress Performance With Ease

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We all know how important site speed is. Load times impact user experience, search engine visibility, and conversion rates, so it’s vital that you do all you can to improve your site’s performance.

This is especially true if you’re running an eCommerce store, where slow loading times and poor user experience can negatively impact your business by decreasing conversion rates and sales.

One way to improve the performance of a WordPress and WooCommerce website is to install a caching plugin.

WP Rocket is one of the most popular caching and performance plugins for WordPress. Thanks to its great reputation and eCommerce support, it’s one you should definitely consider using.

But is it the right option for you?

In this WP Rocket review, we help you answer that question and determine if it’s worth the $59 investment.

However, if you’re in a hurry and just want to know if WP Rocket is any good, we found that it noticeably improved the performance of our test WooCommerce WordPress site and was very easy to use. This makes it a good investment for any eCommerce business or other type of site you’d like to load faster.

If you’d like to know more about WP Rocket and see the results from our tests, read on…

Effective eCommerce Sales Promotions To Grow Your Business

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Sales promotions are a key part of running an eCommerce store. When done right, they’re highly effective at generating more transactions.

But what are they exactly, and what are some of the most effective types of eCommerce sales promotions?

Well, those are two of the questions we’ll be answering in this article.

If you’d like to grow your business by generating more sales, expanding your customer base, and increasing the amount each customer spends, eCommerce sales promotions can certainly help.

To learn more about eCommerce sales promotions and find out how to start running them at your store, this guide will get you up to speed.