Colin Newcomer
Colin Newcomer is a freelance blogger for hire with a background in SEO and affiliate marketing. He helps clients grow their web visibility by writing primarily about digital marketing, WordPress, and B2B topics.
DropshipMe Review – Use It To Add Curated AliExpress Products To WooCommerce
Considering using WordPress and WooCommerce to start your own drop shipping store?
DropshipMe is a WordPress plugin that lets you connect your WooCommerce store to a curated selection of ~45,000 AliExpress products, all with edited titles and images.
What Is A Typical Business Model For An Aggregator Site? Here’s How It Works
Can you make money just from curating other people’s content? It seems too good to be true, right? While you can find all these examples of high-traffic content aggregator websites, you still might be wondering, “are those sites actually making any money?”. And if so, how are they doing it?
In this post, you’re going to learn how content aggregators work from a business perspective. You’re going to learn about some of the time and money expenses that go into creating a content aggregator website, and then how those website owners make money to recoup their investment and, eventually, make a profit!
Jupiter X Theme Review: A Flexible Theme Powered By Elementor
The original Jupiter theme is one of the best-selling themes ever at ThemeForest, with well over 100,000 sales and a 4.75-star rating on over 4,500 reviews.
Jupiter X, a theme from Artbees,is a makeover of that popular theme that aims to let you customize your entire WordPress site to create a website that’s unique to you.
Abandoned Cart Pro Review: Recover Abandoned Carts On WooCommerce
Abandoned Cart Pro is a premium plugin that aims to change that by helping you send automated emails (or text messages) to recover abandoned carts.
Read our hands-on review to see it in action.
Uncanny Automator Review: Automate WordPress Like Zapier (Or With Zapier!)
Have you ever heard of tools like Zapier or IFTTT? Both of them make your life a lot easier by letting you “connect” different apps together and automate various actions. For example, you could use Zapier to automatically create a new Trello card for each new email in Gmail.
Uncanny Automator brings that same type of automation to your WordPress site. You can either “connect” different WordPress plugins together. Or, you can connect plugins to any one of the 1,000+ apps at Zapier. Or, you can even do both at the same time, which is where things start getting really cool!
Humcommerce Review: eCommerce Analytics, Heatmaps, Recordings + More
If you want to optimize your eCommerce store, you need to be able to understand how shoppers interact with your store, where they fall off in funnels, and just generally what contributes to sales…and what gets in the way.
To do that, you need data. And getting that data, of course, requires analytics.
Humcommerce is an all-in-one analytics tool that aims to help you “boost conversions on your eCommerce store” and “understand exactly how visitors interact with your website so you can convert more visitors into buyers.”
How to Create an Awesome WordPress News Site With 6 Plugins (Or Fewer!)
Trying to figure out how to create a news site with WordPress? The process is actually a lot easier than you might think. And in this post, I’m going to prove it!
I’ll show you how can build a fully-functioning news aggregator website with WordPress using just six plugins (or fewer!).
Amelia Review: A Beautiful WordPress Appointment Booking Plugin
Need to accept appointment bookings on your WordPress site? If that’s a yes, you should read this Amelia review for a look at a brand new WordPress appointment booking plugin from the same developer as the popular wpDataTables plugin.
Amelia has an amazing front-end and back-end interface built with vue.js and other modern technologies, as well as lots of other smart functionality that makes it definitely worthy of checking out.
WordPress.com Business Plan Review: A Worthy Self-Hosted Alternative?
If you’ve ever read a WordPress.org vs WordPress.com comparison post, you know that one of the common complaints against WordPress.com is that it’s not “real” WordPress.
That all changed in August 2017 when WordPress.com announced that Business plan users would be able to install their own themes and plugins, putting that tier of plans somewhere between the WordPress.com of old and self-hosted WordPress.
So…should you consider ditching your self-hosted WordPress site and hopping on one of WordPress.com’s Business plans?
How To Create A WooCommerce Photography Site To Sell Photos Online
Looking for a way to sell photos online? A WooCommerce photography site might be just the ticket – and it’ll be a lot cheaper than something like Shopify!
With the method that I’m about to show you, you’ll be able to create a shoppable gallery to:
- Sell downloadable photos publicly to anyone who visits your site
- Give individual clients their own private sections where they can go through and shop their own photo sets
