Happy Wednesday!
I haven’t slept much lately because a couple of days ago my kid managed to fall while… sitting down. Yes, parenting really is full of surprises. The emergency rooms around here aren’t exactly the kind of place that makes you want to rush there unless you absolutely have to, so we ended up trying to deal with it ourselves. Whether that was a brilliant decision or a terrible one, I’ll leave that for another day.
On the business side, my build-in-public efforts have basically tripled lately. Several new brands, new websites, new domains, and a lot of AI experiments are all happening at once. It’s fun, and I’m enjoying the creative side of it, but it’s also pretty exhausting when everything lives in your head at the same time. I’m hoping to slow things down a little over the next few days and actually give myself some space to think. If you want to follow along, Twitter is probably the easiest place, or you can hang out in the Business Bloomer Club Slack where a lot of this is happening in real time.
Is WooCommerce Customer Support Still Just Email?
After 14 years working with WooCommerce, and after logging into hundreds of stores for different reasons, I’ve noticed one thing that seems to be incredibly common: customer support is usually just… email.
But what happens when the store grows? Suddenly, that innocent little email inbox starts becoming a system you have to manage.
I’m thinking about this myself at the moment. My customers aren’t just plugin customers anymore. I also have members, course students and conference attendees, all asking different questions. So I’m wondering whether email is still the best foundation for customer support, or whether there is a better way to do this.
Read my full piece on Business Bloomer blog ▶️
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Order Follow-up Email Template: A new way to request reviews
Sending emails is easy. Getting customers to see the emails you send is increasingly hard. Everyone is fighting for their share of the attention economy and email clients like Gmail are working overtime to curate inboxes. And the decision about which emails end up in the “promotions” tab or in the inbox is pretty much arbitrary.
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WooCommerce 11.0.1 is available now
WooCommerce 11.0.1 has been released with targeted fixes for security, WordPress 7.1 compatibility, Store API behavior, analytics validation, and logging performance.
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7 Ways to Make WooCommerce More Performant
Most people talk about WooCommerce performance as if it only means speed. Load time, Core Web Vitals, time to first byte, and page speed scores all matter, but they are only one part of the picture.
A WooCommerce store can load quickly and still confuse customers, create friction at checkout, fail to recover abandoned carts, and become painful to maintain.
In this video, I walk through seven ways to improve WooCommerce performance by looking at the full system: technical performance, product page clarity, checkout clarity, revenue performance, lifecycle communication, and operational maintainability.
Learn more on Remkus de Vries YouTube channel ▶️
Introducing CartCue Pro: WooCommerce Sales Automation That Runs on Autopilot
Carts get abandoned at 2 a.m. Payments fail silently. First-time buyers never hear from you again. Subscriptions lapse without a single follow-up. Every one of those moments is recoverable revenue, but only if something is watching for it and acting the instant it happens.
That “something” is CartCue. You set it up once, and it works the room while you focus on the parts of the business only you can do.
Learn more on User Elements blog ▶️
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