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In our debut episode of our WooCommerce podcast, Brad Williams from WebDevStudios joins me in some talk around WooCommerce, the enterprise space and other various things.

WooCommerce has been finding its feet in the enterprise space and according to Brad, we are just on the cusp. We started the show by defining enterprise. Some people may jump to conclusions based on how the word is used.

We also chatted about how it’s growing in the WooCommerce space, and becoming even more defined in the WordPress arena. Also, what this growth means and whether we will be seeing more WooCommerce sites for the larger online stores and retailers.

Brad shared touched tips as well for agencies who are thinking of getting into the enterprise space. It’s tempting. Large companies have large budgets but with that come the other issues you will need to deal with when working with corporations— or any large business. It’s a whole different world compared to building sites for small businesses.

We chatted about the recent decision of WalMart’s to close dozens of Sam’s Clubs and the fact that we will continue to see more of this as online buying becomes more prevalent and the masses of people, including yours truly, who are shopping on sites like Amazon.

Speaking of the “A” word, our conversation ended with Brad sharing an article he read lately about the art of Amazon shipping. If you wonder why Amazon often ships products in oversized boxes, and you think you may know the answer, you will want to listen to this. It was fascinating.

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Well, here it is. Or should I say it’s back?

Do the Woo jumps on the BobWP media circuit as of today. And in episode 0, I chat briefly about what you can expect from the return of this podcast.

As you may or may not know, our BobWP eCommerce podcast started out as Do the Woo. And it morphed into a broader spectrum of eCommerce at a certain point.

But I missed this bugger.

In this show I share a bit more about the direction of how this podcast will play out. My plans are to have a co-host join me, so we will see if I can wrangle that each week. And yes, I did say each week. We will also see how that goes in the beginning as well.

So I hope you listen in as the field is wide open in the return of this podcast. And it should be fun.

In episode 19, Brad Williams and BobWP are joined by James Kemp from IconicWP.

In this show, we talk about about his journey with creating plugins and how James landed on IconicWP. We look at the recent acquisition of Prospress from Automattic and chat a bit about the 7-star review feature in a free plugin put out by Liquid Web. Plus more from the eCommerce world.

James tells us more about his start selling his plugins on Code Canyon and, after several years, making the decision to move to Freemius. We talk a bit more about his plugins and, specifically, the ones that extend variations, which is a much-used feature of WooCommerce and one that presents specific challenges.

We also chat about the recent acquisition of Prospress by Automattic and agree on what a smart move that was. With their popular Subscriptions extension, as well as their other products, it was a no-brainer. We also send our heartfelt congratulation to Brent and his team there.

Next we dive into the free plugin that Liquid Web released called Better Reviews for WooCommerce. We shared our own thoughts about the 7-start review aspect of the plugin as well. If you want to learn more about it and the option of using attributes in the reviews, you can check out our post here.

We ended our show with a couple of articles sharing the eCommerce growth of two of the big shops entering the online arena more strongly than ever, WalMart and Target. Growth from Walmart is their expansion on one-day delivery while Target attributes theirs to curbside pickup.

WooSesh will host their second annual virtual conference Oct. 9-10, 2019. If you build WooCommerce stores, it’s a must. You can subscribe over on their site to keep updated.

You can find James over on IconicWP or check out any of his plugins through our posts below. You can also find James and his company on Twitter.

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