Episode 147 – Patrick Rauland

Introducing Patrick Rauland

Patrick is obsessed with eCommerce. He’s created eCommerce websites for clients, worked at WooCommerce in support, development, and product management, and he creates courses on LinkedIn Learning for WooCommerce. He’s written several books on eCommerce, and also runs WooSesh, an online conference all about WooCommerce.

Show Notes

Twitter | @BFTrick

Website | Speaking In Bytes

Game Website | LaidBackGames.com

Nexcess | Optimize WooCommerce, Store Builder

Preferred Pronouns | He/Him

Episode Transcript

Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPress.

Liam: We ask questions and our guests share their stories, ideas, and perspectives.

Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is Episode 147.

Tara: Welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m Tara Claeys.

Liam: And I’m Liam Dempsey. Today, we’re joined by Patrick Rauland. Patrick is obsessed with eCommerce. He’s created eCommerce websites for clients, worked at WooCommerce in support, development, and product management, and he creates courses on LinkedIn Learning for WooCommerce. He’s written several books on eCommerce, and also runs WooSesh, an online conference all about WooCommerce. Patrick, welcome. Thank you for joining us today.

Patrick: Thanks for having me.

Tara: Thanks for being here. We’re really glad to have the opportunity to get to know you better and have a little chat. Can you tell us more about yourself?

Patrick: Yeah. I did forget to write down one thing. I now work at Nexcess as a product marketing manager, and we specialize in eCommerce hosting. So I’m still doing even more eCommerce. Then I also was the lead organizer for WordCamp Denver the last couple of years. Let’s see. And I think just in personal life I also love everything board game.

Tara: Woo, I’m excited to talk about that because there’s been a lot of board gaming, like probably a lot of people have over the years. Pandemic lockdown, cozy up at home kind of stuff. My daughter came home from college and she’s obsessed with this game that has trains in it and you have to connect the trains across the country.

Patrick: Ticket to Ride.

Tara: Ticket to Ride is the name. I’m terrible at it. I don’t like it. You cannot multitask in that game, which is something that really bothers me. But there’s apparently versions like in Scandinavia versions and all these different versions, which would make it much harder if you’re not familiar with what’s where. The game I’m newly familiar with.

Patrick: In that board game world, that’s a gateway game, we’d call it. So it’s a game to get people into the hobby. So, if that’s too much, many other…all the games on…I know, this is a podcast and most people can’t see behind me, but most of the games behind me are more complex than that.

Tara: Okay. I’m not sure it’s the complexity. It’s the singular thing you can do on a turn. Like why can’t you get tickets and build a train? I didn’t understand that. But you got me going. I like Scrabble.

Patrick: I’m terrible at word games. I can guarantee everyone in the world can beat me at any word game. My brain doesn’t work that way. So I give you kudos.

Tara: Fun, fun. Are a lot of new games out?

Patrick: Yeah. People are still launching games on Kickstarter,