I am looking into building a multi-vendor site via WA but there are several options to do this via different plug-ins. I would like to have the option of the other vendors bei
Check out my latest niche here on multi-vendors site. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Now got only one service provided by myself, trying to get more people to join, any good ideas on the marketing part??
http://kk.siterubix.com/
My main comment in regards to your site is that you need to add content, so the your reader can get to know what you are all about. Otherwise, it looks like a classified newspaper, and most people will not want to buy your products or services.
Not me
But we got so many experts here at wa i am sure they will help you out so just wait, i am ready to learn too
Good luck
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Multi-vendor with woocommerce & plugins anyone experienced?
I am looking into building a multi-vendor site via WA but there are several options to do this via different plug-ins. I would like to have the option of the other vendors bei
If you are talking about the vendor accessing the same site as yours, you need to create a username for them. Or it is is a different site, buy a new domain under your account and create a log in for them to access the wordpress.
My opinion.
:)
Joe
Hello,
User can register as a vendor themselves under vendor's registration menu. But because i am the admin so i haven't test it as a registered vendor yet. Hope you can lend a helping hand here.
Of cause It can be converted anytime under WA when I got enough supportive vendors.
Thanks in advanced.
Check out my latest niche here on multi-vendors site. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Now got only one service provided by myself, trying to get more people to join, any good ideas on the marketing part??
http://kk.siterubix.com/
My main comment in regards to your site is that you need to add content, so the your reader can get to know what you are all about. Otherwise, it looks like a classified newspaper, and most people will not want to buy your products or services.
Not me
But we got so many experts here at wa i am sure they will help you out so just wait, i am ready to learn too
Good luck
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I am wondering if, based on experience, there are certain niches that tend to have a better return on the web.
I would still like to continue with the ones I have going,
Your question has inspired the post that I'm going to work on later today. Thanks. Lol.
A single mom's time is very limited and she has to get as much out of every minute of the day as possible.
If it was me, I would consider a niche that involves something that I'm already doing every single day. Your day could be the inspiration for your post.
I read somewhere that you like the health field. Maybe a niche about healthy, fast, meal ideas for kids. If you are promoting products that don't cost much, you will need to make up for it with volume. I've done keyword research on food and meals in past and there is a lot of opportunity if you narrow it down. (I'm a huge fan of Jaaxy for this.). Or excercise for kids? Or places to take them (zoos, parks, ....)
If you sell or promote more expensive items, you don't need as much volume but the amount recieved per transaction will be higher.
Hey Lauren,
What niches are you in? Also, if you're not having the success you want try narrowing down your niche. I found that is what I had to do on one of my sites. It was too broad so I really didn't focus on campaigns to promote specific products. It was just kind of all over the place.
That's what I would suggest for you. Spend some time researching keywords, products, prices, information, etc.
Hope this helps :)
Marlinda
I am not aware of a demographic studies that can bare that out. I know that experience has a great influence on quality content. So perhaps the driver would appropriately be... What experiences of my life can be transformed into a niche I can key on?
Secondary driver might be... What do I have a passion for but have never gone beyond that point? This will help you to generate more meaningful content because you have a tremendous interest in it.
Thirdly you can decide on reading reviews and formulating your own content.
FINDING OUT THE TRENDS
Open up a browser and search for keywords relative to your interest as a niche... See how many results are returned for search. Narrow it down by adding a date filter like in the last 30 days.. Compare your notes and you'll get an idea what people have been searching for.
Advice for success with online business for a single mom?
I am wondering if, based on experience, there are certain niches that tend to have a better return on the web.
I would still like to continue with the ones I have going,
Your question has inspired the post that I'm going to work on later today. Thanks. Lol.
A single mom's time is very limited and she has to get as much out of every minute of the day as possible.
If it was me, I would consider a niche that involves something that I'm already doing every single day. Your day could be the inspiration for your post.
I read somewhere that you like the health field. Maybe a niche about healthy, fast, meal ideas for kids. If you are promoting products that don't cost much, you will need to make up for it with volume. I've done keyword research on food and meals in past and there is a lot of opportunity if you narrow it down. (I'm a huge fan of Jaaxy for this.). Or excercise for kids? Or places to take them (zoos, parks, ....)
If you sell or promote more expensive items, you don't need as much volume but the amount recieved per transaction will be higher.
Hey Lauren,
What niches are you in? Also, if you're not having the success you want try narrowing down your niche. I found that is what I had to do on one of my sites. It was too broad so I really didn't focus on campaigns to promote specific products. It was just kind of all over the place.
That's what I would suggest for you. Spend some time researching keywords, products, prices, information, etc.
Hope this helps :)
Marlinda
I am not aware of a demographic studies that can bare that out. I know that experience has a great influence on quality content. So perhaps the driver would appropriately be... What experiences of my life can be transformed into a niche I can key on?
Secondary driver might be... What do I have a passion for but have never gone beyond that point? This will help you to generate more meaningful content because you have a tremendous interest in it.
Thirdly you can decide on reading reviews and formulating your own content.
FINDING OUT THE TRENDS
Open up a browser and search for keywords relative to your interest as a niche... See how many results are returned for search. Narrow it down by adding a date filter like in the last 30 days.. Compare your notes and you'll get an idea what people have been searching for.
When your life circumstances start to get to you, your nerves are fried and you feel like you are approaching insanity how do you keep on working on your website?
Are yo
First thing you should do is step away from whatever it is if you can. If this is not possible, close your eyes for a moment and take a deep breathe. Picture a happy moment from your life and calm yourself. After that, then you can revisit the cause of your stress from a relaxed state of mind. Slowly trace your steps to find what caused your problem and go from their to fix it. I hope this helps some in all areas.
How do you compartmentalize when needed?
When your life circumstances start to get to you, your nerves are fried and you feel like you are approaching insanity how do you keep on working on your website?
Are yo
First thing you should do is step away from whatever it is if you can. If this is not possible, close your eyes for a moment and take a deep breathe. Picture a happy moment from your life and calm yourself. After that, then you can revisit the cause of your stress from a relaxed state of mind. Slowly trace your steps to find what caused your problem and go from their to fix it. I hope this helps some in all areas.
I'm curious, I usually get two or three. Sometimes I wonder if that's enough but it takes me a lot of research time sometimes.
What's your take?
I try so hard to do 3 a week, but mine need research as well, so it's a challenge. I'm thinking of doing some lighter ones just to get more blog posts in a week.
An average of 2-3 on the same site, but I have multiple websites, I write about 5-7 a week on different websites
How many blogs do you publish on your site a week?
I'm curious, I usually get two or three. Sometimes I wonder if that's enough but it takes me a lot of research time sometimes.
What's your take?
I try so hard to do 3 a week, but mine need research as well, so it's a challenge. I'm thinking of doing some lighter ones just to get more blog posts in a week.
An average of 2-3 on the same site, but I have multiple websites, I write about 5-7 a week on different websites
Is anyone using WA as a platform to run an e-commerce business?
If you do, would you mind sharing with me how you do it?
I have an e commerce site in a sense, but I don't have my own products... everything is an affiliate product. I have set up one page for banners and then a variety of pages for individual products with explanations on each class. To market my own products, I would have to add a plug for billing and payment.
I've just built one. What with the 25 site slots that come with Premium, and SSL cert, it seemed a good place to test an e-store (drop shipping). Given it's shared hosting at WA, should the site get any volume, my idea was to move it off. At the moment I have about 20 items and just over double figure traffic on a good day. I only started a Facebook ad to drive traffic a day ago though, so it's all very much testing the concept.
However, even given the minimal demands of my little site, I've been thoroughly disappointed with load times on WA! I've implemented caching and image optimising plugins, and the site is still all over the place in terms of loading. Had another round with SiteRubix Support again today. My home page takes anything from 4-15sec to load! Product categories and products took up to 60 secs to load this afternoon! No one's going to stick around on an ecommerce site with those load times!
Still not happy with performance but it's behaving a little better now.
Anyway, rant over :) As to how I did it, I implemented the Woocommerce plugin.
My sites are listed in my profile. It's the last one. Have a look round if you want, and I'll be happy to answer any questions.
That is pretty slow, I know I'm not that patient. Is that with you accessing the site from a separate browser or window?
I will go look at your site, I'm toying with the idea at this point. It seems like a lot of work to do through WA as opposed to a program
You're telling me! It's settled down a bit now, but you really need consistency. I'd expect some lag on a shared server, but in the early days, I wouldn't expect it to be an issue... but I've seen even my affiliate sites exhibit terrible load times, and they're hardly doing anything 'unexpected' for a blog! Meh - see how it goes. But you'd like to know the idea failed because it didn't work, not because your visitors just moved on out of frustration at your site's load time!
It is a bit fiddly to do, but as a member here you have all the elements to do it without being charged $$$. There are store front themes and Woocommerce is free to install.
Worth having a play with it to see how you get on.
Hi Adam. I am interested in the topic and have had a look in your site. The speed is really worrying. Is this general situation with such sites? I am thinking to start something of the sort, but this is not good.
What did Support say? Do you make images small, say (well) below 100 kb? Why so slow, there is p3 plugin profiler, so perhaps you can see if what is behind this. I am truly interested to know.
I'd a look just now, and from my end, the site is loading about as fast as it ever has.
Support just said I'd been experiencing a temporary issue, that they checked and it was loading fine when they did. What their definition for passing the test of "fine" is, I don't know, Beyond that they just advised to only use the "required plugins" to speed the site up. I've WP Fastest Cache and Imagify installed as performance boosters, that's all. And I installed them as I wasn't happy with the site speed, not for fun.
The pics are all around 100k in their original size, imagify will have shrunk them further. There's no images that are excessive in size, nothing that shouldn't be served up pretty quick, especially with a cached site.
I don't expect much more out of site support to be honest. Unless it's something trivial or any easy fix, I've found them pretty hopeless. I wanted a php file change one time, and out of laziness asked support - I had to provide practically step by step instructions, and would've been faster doing it myself.
Part of the appeal of WA is the site hosting, but I fear for anything more than a simple blog, the hosting at WA isn't up to it. I noted that other members with business sites have them hosted outwith WA, presumably due to issues of speed and reliability. Heck, my affiliate blogs have failed to load at times, and the WA banners frequently go AWOL.
Thank you. I hope we are not misusing Lauren's space here, this is related to her question.
One thing to mention. I have been told that there are issues with cart in the site (as you have) and the cache. See my question similar to Lauren's and the comments by 'eatsoap' Is anybody using woocommerce for amazon stuff? Cannot say more as I have no experience, but I am about to start something of this kind and just collecting information.
Re the cart, WP Fastest Cache says it's 100% compatible with Woocommerce, and in my tests on my laptop and mobile, I haven't seen any issues.
I checked out my site with P3 profiler, and plugin load time is 1.7secs. However, everything I've got installed, I need.
I noted on the site referenced in the thread above, if it's hosted on WA, it loads about as fast as my own...
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Anyone running an e-commerce website on wa?
Is anyone using WA as a platform to run an e-commerce business?
If you do, would you mind sharing with me how you do it?
I have an e commerce site in a sense, but I don't have my own products... everything is an affiliate product. I have set up one page for banners and then a variety of pages for individual products with explanations on each class. To market my own products, I would have to add a plug for billing and payment.
I've just built one. What with the 25 site slots that come with Premium, and SSL cert, it seemed a good place to test an e-store (drop shipping). Given it's shared hosting at WA, should the site get any volume, my idea was to move it off. At the moment I have about 20 items and just over double figure traffic on a good day. I only started a Facebook ad to drive traffic a day ago though, so it's all very much testing the concept.
However, even given the minimal demands of my little site, I've been thoroughly disappointed with load times on WA! I've implemented caching and image optimising plugins, and the site is still all over the place in terms of loading. Had another round with SiteRubix Support again today. My home page takes anything from 4-15sec to load! Product categories and products took up to 60 secs to load this afternoon! No one's going to stick around on an ecommerce site with those load times!
Still not happy with performance but it's behaving a little better now.
Anyway, rant over :) As to how I did it, I implemented the Woocommerce plugin.
My sites are listed in my profile. It's the last one. Have a look round if you want, and I'll be happy to answer any questions.
That is pretty slow, I know I'm not that patient. Is that with you accessing the site from a separate browser or window?
I will go look at your site, I'm toying with the idea at this point. It seems like a lot of work to do through WA as opposed to a program
You're telling me! It's settled down a bit now, but you really need consistency. I'd expect some lag on a shared server, but in the early days, I wouldn't expect it to be an issue... but I've seen even my affiliate sites exhibit terrible load times, and they're hardly doing anything 'unexpected' for a blog! Meh - see how it goes. But you'd like to know the idea failed because it didn't work, not because your visitors just moved on out of frustration at your site's load time!
It is a bit fiddly to do, but as a member here you have all the elements to do it without being charged $$$. There are store front themes and Woocommerce is free to install.
Worth having a play with it to see how you get on.
Hi Adam. I am interested in the topic and have had a look in your site. The speed is really worrying. Is this general situation with such sites? I am thinking to start something of the sort, but this is not good.
What did Support say? Do you make images small, say (well) below 100 kb? Why so slow, there is p3 plugin profiler, so perhaps you can see if what is behind this. I am truly interested to know.
I'd a look just now, and from my end, the site is loading about as fast as it ever has.
Support just said I'd been experiencing a temporary issue, that they checked and it was loading fine when they did. What their definition for passing the test of "fine" is, I don't know, Beyond that they just advised to only use the "required plugins" to speed the site up. I've WP Fastest Cache and Imagify installed as performance boosters, that's all. And I installed them as I wasn't happy with the site speed, not for fun.
The pics are all around 100k in their original size, imagify will have shrunk them further. There's no images that are excessive in size, nothing that shouldn't be served up pretty quick, especially with a cached site.
I don't expect much more out of site support to be honest. Unless it's something trivial or any easy fix, I've found them pretty hopeless. I wanted a php file change one time, and out of laziness asked support - I had to provide practically step by step instructions, and would've been faster doing it myself.
Part of the appeal of WA is the site hosting, but I fear for anything more than a simple blog, the hosting at WA isn't up to it. I noted that other members with business sites have them hosted outwith WA, presumably due to issues of speed and reliability. Heck, my affiliate blogs have failed to load at times, and the WA banners frequently go AWOL.
Thank you. I hope we are not misusing Lauren's space here, this is related to her question.
One thing to mention. I have been told that there are issues with cart in the site (as you have) and the cache. See my question similar to Lauren's and the comments by 'eatsoap' Is anybody using woocommerce for amazon stuff? Cannot say more as I have no experience, but I am about to start something of this kind and just collecting information.
Re the cart, WP Fastest Cache says it's 100% compatible with Woocommerce, and in my tests on my laptop and mobile, I haven't seen any issues.
I checked out my site with P3 profiler, and plugin load time is 1.7secs. However, everything I've got installed, I need.
I noted on the site referenced in the thread above, if it's hosted on WA, it loads about as fast as my own...
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If you are talking about the vendor accessing the same site as yours, you need to create a username for them. Or it is is a different site, buy a new domain under your account and create a log in for them to access the wordpress.
My opinion.
:)
Joe
Hello,
User can register as a vendor themselves under vendor's registration menu. But because i am the admin so i haven't test it as a registered vendor yet. Hope you can lend a helping hand here.
Of cause It can be converted anytime under WA when I got enough supportive vendors.
Thanks in advanced.