Okay, so there may be two things: eating fried corn cakes, and celebrating the world’s leading e -commerce platform at the second annual WOOCOMMERCE conference (or we kindly referred to as wooconf).
Austin, Texas, held our second annual WOOCONF, which is a event full of learning, network and food.There are already a large number of reports about WoOconf 2016. In the next few weeks, we plan to provide more content, including speaker slides and conference videos.
However, when you wait, we think we should let everyone see what our team has obtained from this activity -especially the five largest educational gains .
In -depth understanding of the behind -the -scenes story of our second WOOCONF, and further understand the central theme of our speaker’s speech this year.
The goal of wooconf ] We welcomes our participants to participate in WOOCONF 2016: study, develop and sell.
The goal of our second meeting is to give the owners and developers using WoOOCOMMERCE a chance The platform, surrounded by experts and fans. We also want to give everyone an opportunity to expand their horizons, whether it means to contact us (awesome!) To establish contact with other participants.
WOOCONF aims to be an excellent opportunity to become a connection, learning and development skills, whether you are just starting the owner or experienced developers.
Considering these goals, we provided Wooconf participants with two days and a whole day, plus the third day of bonuses, including optional seminars and online lunches. Of course, there are joy time and party! Everyone has a lot of opportunities to learn, connect and play happily.I learned a lot of things … From its appearance, it is also very interesting.
You can get the highlights of the first and second days here.For those who are not present, cannot catch up with every meeting, or just want to review, the following are the five largest gains from our talented speakers
.
The first point: the best practice should not always be Your Practice
This is what we have been saying on blogs: This is not the most informed of the notification of the notification Good things, but do your your store,
your
customer and your success is the most favorable thing. We are glad to hear our talented speakers have issued this statement many times. In fact, we heard this in the first speech of the PEEP LAJA in Conversionxl .
PEEP quoted the common conversion optimization best practice and the A/b test list, and told the audience Just because they are very common, it does not mean that they will work for you. Best practice is more like common practice. They are not the best. #WOOCONF
-Christian Rumscheidt (@crumscheidt) April 6, 2016
PEEP emphasized
its own
business The importance of creating process. Instead of trying different optimizations based on the suggestions found online, it is better to find out the problems in the store and test multiple solutions until the solution is found.
\”Optimization is the compound profit of growth.\” @Peeplaja #Wooconf Pic.twitter.com/w6r4wnxymp
– Dave Lee (@RTWDAVE), April 6, 2016
We heard other spokesperson repeated this again, and they repeated the importance of your store test solution based on . Hearing so many experts emphasized that this is exciting, which is consistent with what we have said on blogs for several months. It even conforms to our support: Our Ninjas and Wooexperts can help you find a solution that is suitable for
you
, not just an effective solution.
This is why we provide ninja and Wooexperts: Some things may look look
suitable for you, but it may not be simple in practice. Don’t be afraid, we are ready to help you.
This emphasis on the correct fit penetrated into personalization, we also heard this in many conversations -but we talked about this later.

One of the biggest ways to achieve this goal is to emphasize this goal to emphasize helping your potential customers through
Instead of simply speakers sold to them
. We heard that it needs to increase value, not just to provide something and a huge change in mentality. We heard this hint in Mirace Wanzo’s conversation on Facebook advertisements that she could discuss it more effective even if it was a paid advertisement even to start dialogue. As she said, if you have a highly attractive advertisement, you can get more social impressions, which makes you \”worthwhile.\” As the speaker Miracle Wanzo emphasized, increasing value can even make Facebook ads more effective.
This topic is the main focus of Mattomte’s speech, which is appropriately named \”Stop Sales\”. Start help. \”Matt compares the sales staff as a lion, and compares potential customers to innocent gaze. It talks about how the traditional predatory sales model scares the buyer away.

Matt emphasized that it needs to help your potential customers, instead of providing a hard sales that scares away. Just as you may have alreadyAs you know, there are many ways to do this -whether it is simple things such as websites such as rich information, or things like online seminars.
Do you want to be regarded as a lion? maybe not. He also gave up this gem about the cold phone, and how it was outdated: The cold phone is like the French kissing strangers #Wooconf
– Erica Schaaf (@Ericaschaaf1) April 7, 2016

. The website of Nordstrom tried to predict what kind of clothes she wanted, and the result was a failure.
The lesson learned here is: customers want to get
true
help, If you can’t do it, don’t disturb.
[Email \u0026#160; Protected] Said that customers are now looking forward to personalized, tailored and related business. #WOOCONF PIC.TWITTER.com/mlos0v2af5 – WooCommerce meeting. (@Wooconf) April 6, 2016
You can’t do everything, so do the biggest thing to affect If you are the owner, you will Can’t do everything. You may
want to do
everything, but the fact is that you must choose things that have the greatest impact on your business and focus your energy there.
Many of our talented speakers shared their secrets, that is, what to find can have a maximum impact on your store, or find a method to maximize a specific activity to the maximum activity to the maximum activity to maximize the maximum event. Impact
.
When Dustin Stout talked to the owner’s content and social media, we listened He talked about this. Dustin said, instead of choosing every networkOr every marketing method and invest in it, it is better to choose two or three and \”in -depth\”.
When it comes to social media and small enterprises, \”don’t chase pine rat\”. Pay attention to important places @DustinWStout #Wooconf
– Online Nola (@Getonlinenola), April 6, 2016
After Dustin’s speech , Drew Sanoki immediately urged the crowd to adopt the method of focusing on their \”whale\” -that is, those customers who bring the most income and promote your business forward. By finding the source of these customers, you can develop these specific marketing channels and reduce the time and energy of waste wasting elsewhere. Following \”Whale\” #Wooconf Pic.twitter.com/bcjztrifdc
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This may even be applicable to our participants: You must have to Choose the most important knowledge (that is, which knowledge can be used for your mobile phone camera).
In tracking analysis, we even heard of this. Skyverge’s Beka Rice mentioned \”analyzing paralysis\” in tracking and analysis, and said that it is good to solve and improve several store indicators, and then continue when you are satisfied.
A good suggestion of @Beka_rice. Process some not all e -commerce indicators. #WOOCONF PIC.TWITTER.com/eioqh6yx5z – WP Engine (@Wpengine) April 7, 2016 woocommerce is not just a shopping shopping.
Indeed: Woocommerce is a platform that more other platforms are selected by more shop owners (Builtwith now allows us to account for 37%),
But it is regarded as \”just another shopping cart\”. A little narrow.
Even \”one of many free options\”.

Fortunately, many of our speakers soon showed us the huge possibility of Woocommerce. The focus of the speech was member qualifications, subscription websites, content marketing, etc. Make mention here!
There can be many pages or only one on the WOOCOMMERCE website. As developers such as Merrill show to us, all of this is within reach.
We heard from developers such as Merrill Meyer, and they talked about how to turn the Woocommerce store into a single -page website. Merrill provides the skills to convert multiple pages of stores into single -page stores, and it is very simple to do.
Kenn Kelly delivered a speech on this theme, called \”Woocommerce is not (only) shopping cart\”. He talked about all the amazing things you can do through e -commerce, including member qualifications and discussed some future ideas.
\”@WooCommerce can surpass the shopping cart business, but it requires our collective innovation.\” @KENNKELLE #WOOCONF PIC.TWITTER.com/bqlkmn7qc1 – David Bisset (@DimensionMedia) April 6, 2016
Kenn specifically mentioned some development we see on Amazon and other websites, including Dash Button, and also talked about games that e -commerce did not touch change. These are within our ability … but we need the help of the community to reach there. This leads us to the last point. Perhaps the biggest harvest: Our community can do amazing things
Thousands of store owners and developers every day use, modify and improve Woocommerce. This is true: without you, we will lose.
When we work together, in such activities, or on the creative board on the Internet, we can complete the really amazing thingOur own Bryces Adams soon showed us the future possibility of collective development in the presentation of the first day. Bryce was inspired by chatting with team members during the 2015 Wordcamp during the 2015 Mencius.We showed how webhook and API calls do anything, from lighting from LED to driving drones.
We can use Webhook and API calls to bring drone experiments into the next step. We are praying for drones to transport drinks next year’s party.
Imagine how far the developer can go. The thermist printer starts on demand, and the bridge between the virtual and physical position is just the beginning. We think Bryce may have given many participants’ own ideas!
However, the entire WOOCONF proves this concept
. Throughout the event, we saw that the owner cooperated with our incredible sponsors to find solutions for their stores. We see developers with insights to other developers. We see the ninja running in real time to help Taiwan and solve the problem in real time.
When we gather together, we can complete anything. It may sound old, but it turns out that this is true.
When we work together, whether we can create a miracle whether it is on the next version of the WoOOCOMMERCE or to provide a difficult solution for your store. The entire WOOCONF reflects this: this is a place to learn and communicate in unprecedented ways to learn and communicate.
As I heard more than one person said to me on the last day: \”I have learned a lot, so that my head is filled!\”
Next time I want to join Are we? Please continue to pay attention to the future wooconf news
As we collectively organize the second Wooconf, we are eager to do it again. It is not only a place to learn and communicate: it is also very interesting.
It looks very interesting, right? You know you want to participate.If you want to join our next meeting, you can register on wooconf.com to get updates. We will issue announcements when we decide the venue, convene a speaker and reduce the date. The biggest challenge for us may not do it again immediately!
Will you join us next year, do we hope?

Say goodbye, see you next year!
ThisAll the photos in the article are attributed to Todd White.
Like the wonderful shot!