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Sales funnel for WordPress are complicated #sales #wordpress

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:08:00 +0000

Last year, we wanted to implement sales funnels for our other plugins on our WordPress site.

But we couldn't find a native solution to WordPress that we could call a complete sales funnel builder. There were a couple of WordPress funnel plugins but they were so complicated and took a lot of steps to build a funnel.

Plus, there were no WordPress tools with a visual funnel planner. People used external tools such as Funnelytics or Prettyfunnels to plan their funnel steps.

Overall people spent over 30-40 mins just to create a simple sales funnel.

Meanwhile, when we looked into SAAS tools, we found Clickfunnels, Kartra, and many others. But they were so expensive. Plus, most of them also didn't have a funnel planner.

So we found out:

- Funnel building takes over 30mins (for beginners it could take even more).

- It took multiple tools to plan and build funnels.

- No WordPress plugins had a visual funnel planner.

- WordPress funnel plugins were so complicated.

At the end of the day, we couldn't get the solution we were looking for.

3 points posted by CSSultan

Find why the customer didn't make the purchase #sales #analytics

Mon, 23 Aug 2021 13:47:00 +0000

Finding why the customer didn't make the purchase after visiting the buy page is hard, existing solutions are intrusive and inefficient.

Exit survey is one of the common methodologies applied to find why the customer didn't make the purchase but they are considered a nuisance and so we rarely get any valuable data from it.

3 points posted by Jason

Selling hardware products as a solopreneur #sales #ecommerce

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 14:16:00 +0000

I want to sell hardware products internationally, But as a solopreneur meeting compliance for hardware locally and internationally is a nightmare and hence I settle for building SaaS products like most other indie hackers.

There are hardware product marketplaces like Tindie which help solopreneurs get their customers, But the seller has to still maintain the inventory and ship directly to the buyer. Today hosting a eCommerce website as an individual is not the limiting factor even for those who don't know to code, So the real need gap exists in removing the compliance and shipping hurdles.

With tough competition in SaaS industry, Building hardware products is a great way to differentiate our product line-up. With the rising number of solopreneurs I think it's high time this need gap gets addressed.

I have couple of ideas to address this which I'll share in the comments and would like to hear more from you.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Finding paying customers for a product #marketing #sales

Mon, 06 Jan 2020 12:52:00 +0000

Web software consumer market has been behaviourally optimised to seek 'FREE' products. People happily use low quality free products, which steal their data, control their free speech and elect governments for them; but stay away from high quality, reasonably priced products which offer better values for their price.

If this continues, only monopolies which can spend Billions in advertising their free products can continue their business and small businesses which aims to provide better value cannot even reach their customers.

There is a need for a new marketing phenomenon which can help such reasonably priced products reach their intended customers i.e. those who are willing to pay for better value and create a behavioural change towards buying high quality, sustainable products.

4 points posted by Nancy Ilias