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WooCommerce Melbourne September 2015 Recap

The first WooCommerce meetup in Australia was held on September 24th, and I was sent down to Melbourne to share the Prospress love and chat all things WooCommerce. Just under 25 locals attended the first meetup which was held in the office of the Emote Digital team. There were many familiar faces amongst the crowd (some of whom I have met previously overseas at #WooConf, and here in Australia at previous WordCamps).

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Bride and groom from behind at sunset
Bride and groom from behind at sunset

Wedding Season with WooCommerce

Spring is upon us in the Northern Hemisphere (or almost upon us if you follow the astronomical season) and you know what that means… It’s almost wedding season!

WooCommerce provides an excellent platform for wedding businesses—from the edible to the aesthetic, from the conventional to the quirky—to sell their products and services online.

Let’s check out a small collection of wedding website examples built with WordPress and WooCommerce.

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Become an ECommerce Maven in 2015

Maybe you’ve been thinking about opening an online store on WooCommerce, but you feel like you need to learn more about it first.

Perhaps you aren’t sure which online store software to use.

Or maybe you’re a big-picture person, so you want to know more about global trends in eCommerce.

In this post, I’ll give you three courses that you can take now—or over the next few months—to learn more about eCommerce. They range from WooCommerce specific, to hybrid WooCommerce/eCommerce, to big-picture thinking.

The best part? They’re all either very affordable or free!

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Needmore Designs' record collection 1290 x 860
Needmore Designs' record collection 1290 x 860

Selling Happiness: Interview With Kandace Brigleb of Needmore Designs

Kandace Brigleb really likes her coffee… and I mean really.

I counted 26 mentions of the word in the transcript of our interview.

That’s probably for the best, because Kandace and the rest of the seven person team at Needmore Designs are carving themselves a tasty little niche out of websites for specialty food and beverage businesses—many of which are coffee roasters.

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someone using a mouse and keyboard
someone using a mouse and keyboard

The Cost of Setting up an Online Store

If you’re new to the eCommerce world, the idea of setting up a website from scratch can seem intimidating.

Many potential eCommerce store owners have a misconception that you require huge amounts of technical skills and an overly-healthy bank balance to get started—it’s not the case.

Armed with some basic knowledge—some of which can be gleaned from our Complete Beginner’s Guide to eCommerce—the entire process seems far more accessible, manageable, and, best of all, affordable.

That’s the purpose of today’s guide: to educate you on the cost of setting up an online store.

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