Tag Archives: ‘eCommerce’

WordCamp Video Highlight 2017/02/10

Posted on Friday, February 10th, 2017 at 6:27 pm by John Parkinson

This week we are featuring two presentations about e-commerce.

According to Wikipedia,”E-commerce is a transaction of buying or selling online. Electronic commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web for at least one part of the transaction’s life cycle although it may also use other technologies such as e-mail.”

2016 total retail sales across the globe are estimated to have reached $22.049 trillion, up 6.0% from the previous year, according to eMarketer. They estimate that sales will top $27 trillion in 2020.

Since 2010 there have been 179 videos published on WordPress TV that are related to e-commerce.

The videos below come from WordCamps Stockholm and Ann Arbor .

Ulrich Pogson: Building Multilingual e-Commerce Sites

Ulrich recently built wpzoo.ch to sell a few WordPress products. It is available in English and German. He covers the challenges and decisions that were needed to make and how it has worked out for him.

Andrew Wikel: Ecommerce Fundamentals

Andrew answers audience questions and provides advice for those interested in getting started with ecommerce.

There are lots of awesome e-commerce videos available on WordPress TV, which can be found HERE.

 

 

 

WordPress Community Interview With Blessing Mpofu and James van der Hoven

Posted on Monday, November 28th, 2016 at 9:14 am by John Parkinson

I am publishing two interviews this week because, well, basically I screwed up. I have been randomly choosing people to contact after looking at recent WordCamp sites. I was looking at the WordCamp Cape Town 2016 website and I just happened to contact Blessing and James within a few hours of each other. They both replied that they would be happy to chat.

Blessing Mpofu

Blessing works as a Team Director and Digital Media Manager. He also blogs about inspiration and leadership at blessing.im. On his blog About page, Blessing states the following – “You haven’t led until you lead people who, in a sense, don’t really have to follow you, but do so by choice”.

Blessing is also working toward his degree in Theology.

You may notice a slightly different format to the video. Blessing wanted to use a video conferencing service called Zoom. It worked great! It looks like each person on the “call” can record their own video. There are some other nice options as well.

James van der Hoven

James is the owner of Vane Digital and gave a talk at WordCamp Cape Town 2016 titled “Integrating OroCRM into WooCommerce”. He leads a team who are “capable of implementing the best performing ecommerce solutions for our clients and to ensure the smooth integration and automation of their business processes“.

More videos from WordCamp Cape Town 2016 can be seen here.

 

WordCamp Video Highlight 2016/11/11

Posted on Friday, November 11th, 2016 at 11:06 am by John Parkinson

Before we get started on this week’s videos, we want to call attention to the Polyglots Team translation efforts on November 12th. Global WordPress Translation Day 2 is a 24 hour event dedicated to translating WordPress and making it available to more people around the world.

This week we again feature two videos from two different WordCamps.

Pippin Williamson and Caleb Burks: eCommerce Town Hall

From WordCamp Denver, Pippin and Caleb discuss eCommerce in a Town Hall setting.

Building a WordPress site is one thing – turning that site into a revenue-generating machine is another.

Ivana Ćirković: How I Met Your WordPress

This video is from WordCamp Bucharest and features Ivana Ćirković talking about her WordPress journey. Ivana discusses her start as a blogger / website owner and goes through her experience of learning about WordPress, SEO and customer relations.

Talking about her experience with WordPress from the beginnings, Ivana wants to inspire others to be part of this growing community and share all the benefits WordPress has to offer.

Her slide presentation can be seen HERE.

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