Author: Joe Warnimont

Joe Warnimont is a Chicago-based writer who focuses on eCommerce tools, WordPress, and social media. When not fishing or practicing yoga, he's collecting stamps at national parks (even though that's mainly for children). Check out Joe's portfolio to contact him and view past work.

How to Sell Videos Online: Essential Best Practices and Tips

Joe Warnimont
how to sell videos online

From YouTube to video on demand (VOD) stores, it's clear that video content has a foothold in the worlds of learning, entertainment, and ecommerce, considering many creators make solid incomes selling tutorials on topics like photography, business, and even unique areas like gardening, romance, and fingernail art. Videos make sense for aspiring online entrepreneurs: it's easy to launch a website to sell them; all you need is a topic you're passionate about; most people can learn how to produce a high-quality video to post for sale. What's more, is that you don't need to know everything about a topic to be considered an expert; that's what research is for! So, whether you'd like to teach people about cryptocurrency, storytelling, or customer success management, we're here to help you learn how to sell videos online.

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Is Dropshipping Worth It? Find Out the Truth About Dropshipping Success

Joe Warnimont
is dropshipping worth it

It may sound surprising, but dropshipping has been a profitable form of business model for fulfillment since the 1960s, even before the internet was around. Mail order catalog companies like CompuCard partnered with larger retailers like JCPenney and Sears to sell their products at a markup, so a brand like Sears would store, package, and ship items to the CompuCard customers, but only when a purchase came through (just like on-demand dropshipping). So when we look at the question, “Is dropshipping worth it?” it becomes very clear that it has been worth it for quite some time, and it continues to offer valuable cashflow options for a wide range of retailers. The bigger question is how to actually make dropshipping worth it when factoring in changing trends, oversaturated markets, and the fact that much of the product comes from places like China.

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How to Use Printify With Shopify (The Ultimate Guide)

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Printify and Shopify: What do these have in common? They're both platforms for helping you sell products online, and they each work together to provide a print-on-demand fulfillment process for selling those items. Essentially, running a print-on-demand store – where designs are only printed on products like shirts and canvases once a customer orders them – requires two major elements: an ecommerce platform for building an online store and a product design and fulfillment platform. The ecommerce platform is Shopify, allowing you to make an online shop; the product design/fulfillment platform is Printify. In this article, we'll show you how to use Printify with Shopify to establish an efficient product creation and sales process.

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Anyword Review (Oct 2021): A Way to Boost Ad Marketing Text with AI

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anyword review

If you've ever written an advertisement, email subject line, or social media post for your online store and thought, “That's no good,” or “I need to hire a copywriter or marketing agency,” then it might be time to look for a more automated copy-improvement method. There's an AI copywriting tool called Anyword, which takes your ad, email, SMS, or blog content and turns it into high-conversion copy, all by using artificial intelligence. In our Anyword review, we explore its pricing, notable features, and take a look at the interface to see if it's worth the investment for online merchants.

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Best 3PL Companies in Canada for Fast Ecommerce Fulfillment

Joe Warnimont
top 3pl companies in canada

The best 3PL companies in Canada allow for online stores to store their products in Canadian warehouse space, get those items packaged up nicely, and then quickly sent to customers all over Canada. As with all 3PL (third-party logistics) companies, we also want to see essentials like integrations with popular ecommerce platforms, partnerships with the top mail carriers (in this case, it's great to see options like Canada Post), and robust order fulfillment software for figuring out the best warehousing facilities to store your products, when they need to go out, and when you should restock your shelves.

The world of ecommerce relies on fulfillment services and methods like self-fulfillment, dropshipping, and 3PL, so at some point, you must choose one to get products to customers. We usually argue that going with 3rd-party logistics companies is often the most economical, fastest option, considering you eliminate aspects of the fulfillment process (on your end) like warehousing, packaging, and shipping.

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How to Start a Print on Demand Store With Printful and WooCommerce

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It's the age-old question of selling online: from where should you source products? You have options like dropshipping, wholesale buying, and inventing a product to have it built by a manufacturer. And of course, there's the tried-and-true sourcing option of printing on demand. The print on demand (POD) process involves placing designs on merchandise such as t-shirts, bags, and stickers, then using a POD provider to accept purchases from your ecommerce shop to print them on the items, package them up, and ship them out to customers. It's sort of a hybrid between designing your product and dropshipping since there's no need for you to carry inventory or pay for warehouses. In this article, we'll cover how to start a print on demand store with Printful and WooCommerce, one of which is a POD provider while the other is an ecommerce platform, respectively.

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How to Start a Pop-up Shop For Seasonal or Yearlong Success

Joe Warnimont
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You've most likely seen them in your town, especially if you live in a major metropolitan area. They're pop-up shops, and the retail trend seems to be more than a craze that's going away anytime soon. These are usually temporary–but sometimes turning permanent–retail stores that offer an experience-oriented location for people to shop, mingle, and enjoy entertainment. In this article, we talk about how to start a pop-up shop, along with information about what goes into a pop-up shop, how much it costs, and how to successfully manage one.

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The7 WordPress Theme Review (Oct 2021): Ecommerce Website Building at its Finest

Joe Warnimont

When opting to use WordPress/WooCommerce for your ecommerce store, you're opening up an incredible number of options for scaling your business, designing whatever you want, and implementing marketing tools through themes, plugins, and other extensions. But it all starts with a solid WordPress theme with page-building elements and sleek designs. That's why we decided to complete a review of The7 WordPress theme, seeing as how it has gained significant attention, high ratings, and hundreds of thousands of sales on ThemeForest.

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