Nicholas Godwin, Author at Ecommerce Platforms

Articles Nicholas has written:

An Honest WP Event Manager Review

Nicholas Godwin Sep 15, 2021

What’s the most effective way to sell your event tickets?

Offer early bird rates.

Yes, 51.3 percent of event organizers said offering early bird rates sold their tickets more than anything else. Other tactics that worked include:

Discount codes, 24.4 percent Group booking rates, 13.5 percent Offering referral codes, 10.8 percent

Did you notice anything?

Here it is:

You can’t use any of those event promotion tactics without an event management solution. It’ll be a nightmare.

That’s where WP Event Manager enters.

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How to Choose a Domain Name for Your Ecommerce Business in 2023

Nicholas Godwin Jun 16, 2023

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Domain names were not always for sale. They used to be free.

Until 1995, you didn’t have to pay for a domain name. That’s a full 12 years after Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel invented the domain name system.

Today, you have over 1500 brandable choices on what goes to the right of the dot on your domain name. You don’t have to settle for a .com when you have more relevant options such as .STORE, .ONLINE, .SITE, and more.

There are over 366 million domain names registered today.

Oh, and we pay for them too. Someone even paid a whopping $49.7 million for a domain name.

Most domain name acquisitions go unannounced. But thanks to an SEC filing, the most valuable domain name acquired is Cars.com at $872 million.

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AMZScout Review: Everything You Need to Grow an Amazon Business in One Place

Nicholas Godwin Sep 15, 2021

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If selling on Amazon overwhelms you and you think the platform is competitive, you’re right. But that can be a big advantage if you use a tool like AMZScout.

Amazon has about 8.6 million registered sellers worldwide, but about 24.4 percent of them are active sellers. However, this doesn’t stop the daily subscription of about 3,089 sellers on the platform.

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Magento 1 End of Life: How You Should Respond (2023)

Nicholas Godwin Jun 16, 2023

Ecommerce Resources

The initial date for Magento 1 End of Life (EOL) was November 2018. However, in September 2018, Magento set the final end of life date to June 30, 2020.

Joe Ayyoub, the Director of Support Operations at Magento, made it clear that the extension of the EOL is to ease the stress on their merchants.

So by June 2020 end of life date, Magento will stop all software security patches or quality fixes to Magento 1. You won’t suddenly go out of business, but you might not like the outcome if you don’t take action.

Back in 2018, the deadline for the Magento 1 EOL must have felt like a long time, but now, the countdown is in days. Although no one will stop you from continuing with this platform, it’s in the best interest of your business to switch to Magento 2 or its alternatives.

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How to Turn Your Brick-and-Mortar Store into an Online Store

Nicholas Godwin Sep 15, 2021

Ecommerce Resources Ecommerce Selling Advice

Taking your brick and mortar store online, comes with short term and long-term benefits. In the short-term benefits is that you keep selling even with the present COVID-19 incidence. You’ll help your customers comply with physical distancing while meeting their needs.

In the long term, moving your store online keeps you in business. Thousands of brick and mortar stores have closed down because shoppers are moving online.

Besides, the rise of ecommerce platforms like Shopify, 3dcart, BigCommerce, Big Cartel, and the rest makes this transition easy.

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How to Use Squarespace (2023) – Complete Tutorial on How to Create a Squarespace Websites

Nicholas Godwin Mar 10, 2023 5

Ecommerce Resources

A Squarespace website is easy and fast to build from scratch, even without a prior web designer experience. Apart from being intuitive, the platform offers all the tools you need to get your site up and running in one place.

For about 17 years, Squarespace has helped millions of customers build websites.

This website builder and content management system (CMS) comes with an enormous knowledge base. It’s easy to know what you should do per time, thanks to its checklist feature.

However, to reduce the time you’ll spend in building yours, this article goes straight to the point. This Squarespace tutorial will help you get things right from the get-go.

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WooCart Review: A Deep Look at the FirstHosting Service Exclusively for WooCommerce Stores

Nicholas Godwin Sep 15, 2021

Ecommerce Hosting Reviews

Finding the right hosting service is one of the top concerns of new WooCommerce store owners. This concern is valid because most managed WordPress offers run on shared hosting. Hence your store’s load time increases as more site owners share the same servers.

That load time can impact the store’s user-friendliness and sales.

Seventy-nine percent of your customers are less likely to buy from you if they aren’t satisfied with your website's performance.

So, what makes WooCart different?

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MARQ Logistics Software Review: Reduce Product Returns by 95%

Nicholas Godwin Mar 9, 2022

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MARQ is an AI-based logistics software that helps businesses share their operational processes with their customers. It helps you set up high-definition video recordings that show your customers that you packaged their orders carefully and adequately.

When buyers shop for a product online they are 25 percent likely to return them. For businesses running on tight margins, these returns can quickly become catastrophic. This is the problem that the MARQ software solves.

MARQ improves trust and transparency, hence lowering product returns by 95 percent.

In practice, if 25 items would have been returned from 100 sales, MARQ lowers it to about one return only. It also resolves return disputes in 30 seconds — saving time and money.

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