The Best Tools for Creating a WordPress Product Company
- Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) 01:32
- This software was made for uses like creating a WordPress product company.
- It has all the features that you’ll need.
- EDD has a free version, but you’ll want to get the premium version.
- Help Scout 02:37
- Support is very important for a product business.
- This tool makes it easy to manage your support requests and turn customer questions into FAQ’s for your website.
- AffiliateWP 03:28
- This program works seamlessly with EDD.
- It allows you to create your own affiliate program. Your loyal customers can use this to promote your products.
- Jilt/Ahoy! 04:10
- These marketing plugins help with abandon cart, exit intent, and other marketing features.
- MailChimp/GetResponse 05:41
- These tools are fantastic for email marketing.
- Having a powerful email marketing strategy is so important for creating a WordPress product company.
- It’s the difference between selling one time products and growing a base of loyal customers.
- PixelYourSite Pro 06:53
- This tool works with Facebook to manage your pixel.
- It’s easy to set up a tracking pixel for your website.
- What’s nice about using this software is that it will integrate with your ecommerce software.
- This means that if someone comes to your site through a Facebook ad and makes a purchase, Facebook will be able to track that conversion. This will give you more data for making future ad decisions.
- MonsterInsights Pro 08:35
- This is an analytics software that integrates with Google Analytics.
- It works well for e-commerce and gives you more insight into your sales data.
- OneSignal 09:37
- This is a push notification software.
- Every time you publish new content for your WordPress product company, OneSignal can send a notification to your subscribers.
- ThirstyAffiliates Pro 11:09
- This software works in conjunction with affiliate marketing.
- It allows you to cloak your links, so you don’t have a huge long link with an obvious affiliate link in it.
- The pro version will automatically insert your affiliate links for you.
- Yoast SEO 12:32
- This software isn’t just for e-commerce, but it’s important because you need to keep SEO in mind to rank your products.
- GitHub/Bitbucket 13:21
- These tools are very useful for version control, especially if you have multiple developers working on the same code.
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