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Broadcast Your Own Audible Programs With Managed WordPress

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You can start podcasting from your home using your Managed WordPress site. Podcasts are pre-recorded audio episodes that may contain speeches, songs, tutorials, stories, books, or anything audible. These programs can be published or scheduled on a specific day and time or can be played on-demand from your WordPress site.

You can easily start your own podcasting website with Managed WordPress and run audio shows from your home using your smartphone or a podcasting microphone. Making your own website for building and managing a schedule for your online audio episodes is easier than you think. You can set up the website yourself, manage podcasts, host episodes of your audio files, and enable your users to easily subscribe to them from your website or via iTunes or Google Podcasts.

Step-1 Make Your Website

The first step is to register your domain name, then subscribe to Managed WordPress and the automated tour will help you to connect your domain to your website and your website will be up online in minutes.

Step-2 Record Your Episodes

To record your episodes, you may use your smartphone for recording plain audio files and if you want some mixing with background music, audio effects, etc then make use of Audacity, a free GPL licensed software that allows you to record audio with multiple options for cut, copy, splice, and mixing sounds together. You can also add various effects and change the speed or pitch of your recording.

Once your audio files are ready, you can publish them up on your WordPress website. There are many free plugins that offer you easy hosting and publishing of podcasts from within your WordPress website. One such plugin is PowerPress Podcasting, simply install-activate it, and then navigate to the PowerPress menu visible on your WordPress admin panel. This will take you to the plugin’s admin page.

Follow the connection steps mentioned on the page and fill out the necessary information. You may also connect your podcast to Google Podcasts or iTunes, the option is present on the settings page. It provides you specific fields for podcast details such as intro, category, and artwork, etc. These details are used in your podcast’s RSS feed, and the iTunes and Google Podcasts will also use the same information for placing your podcast in their directory. The Podcast RSS URL of your website which you can submit to Google Podcasts and iTunes is yourexample.com/feed/podcast (make sure to replace example.com with your own domain name).

Step-3 Upload Your Audio Files

Files can be uploaded before or at the time of publishing podcasts on your WordPress website. To upload files you simply need to visit your admin area dashboard Media -> Add New page and upload your audio files individually or in bulk. You will need the URL of each file while publishing your new podcast, the URL can be obtained by clicking the uploaded media file and copying the link from the right section showing ‘Copy Link’ field. The same can be done from Add New post page while publishing a new podcast, you simply need to click Add File button and do the same from the Media Library Thickbox.

Step-4 Publish Your Podcasts

Visit your website’s admin area dashboard and navigate to Posts -> Add New (same as you do while publishing any new blog post) just make sure to create a separate category for your podcasts to make navigation easier for yourself and your visitors.

Title your blog post, write a description of your podcast episode, scroll down and you will notice the ‘Podcast Episode’ meta box. Here, you will need to paste your uploaded media file URL and then click the verify button.

Use the shortcode [powerpress] to place the player exactly where you want it into your post content. The plugin also provides you a playlist player shortcode [powerpress_playlist] that includes a playlist of your latest podcast episodes. Finally, publish your post and your podcast episode will go live. Follow the same steps for publishing new audio episodes.

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How To Sell Premium Content Such As Posts & Pages In WordPress?

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Apart from the books and media files, you can also sell posts, pages, and custom post types on your WordPress website. To start selling posts and other premium content online, you simply need to register your domain name and subscribe to WordPress Ecommerce or if in case you are already active in blogging with WordPress then first install-activate the WooCommerce plugin on your website followed by Pay For Post plugin.

Pay For Post with WooCommerce is a free plugin that allows you to sell posts, pages, and custom post types on your WordPress Ecommerce website in three simple steps.

  • Create a product
  • Create a post, page or any custom post type
  • Associate your product with your post from the Pay For Post WooCommerce meta box

What It Does?

The free version of this plugin enables you to create premium posts, pages, and custom post types, this premium content can only be viewed after purchase. It gives you the ability to protect a single post or multiple posts as a single product or to protect single posts with multiple products.

How It Works?

When someone clicks a premium post, a restriction message is displayed asking the user to first purchase the content by clicking the displayed ‘Add To Cart’ button and complete the checkout process.

You can grant access to users for a limited time and set custom pricing on any post or page on a website. You can also use subscription patters for granting access to multiple posts for a specified time.

The premium content on your website displays a global restricted content message which can be customized from the admin panel of your website. The premium version of this plugin offers you some additional functionalities such as the listing of purchased content on order receipt and order confirmation page, a tab on the account page to list out all purchased content, and more restriction options.

Apart from this, the plugin also offers you two simple shortcodes (listed on this plugin’s page) to display posts and pages you have made available for purchase. It uses native WooCommerce functionality to ensure future compatibility.

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Not All Employments Are Equal

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Not all employments are equal. For example, a job can full fill your daily needs, but it gives you no chance to become rich even if you are capable of. It gives you no security, and you may lose it with recession or any time of crisis. So whether you want to work eight to nine hours a day for whole life or just two to three years rigorously to build a system that brings you income even when you are sleeping? Working under someone else is bad on its own, and it gets worse when the source of your support suddenly stops.

Second is self-employment which is of course better than a job but is itself a paid labor where your income stops when you stop working. Apart from the above two, a business is a much better option but not all types of businesses, as you need capital to invest and then wait for your business to thrive. It makes you invest in staff, location, bills, and other expenses and if in-case your business fails, you end up having nothing except the stress of loans you have taken.

So what is best? The best is home-employment and the best home employment is starting up as people’s personal outlet. It gives you a chance to earn from the very first day of your business and offers you the opportunity to become rich in two-three years of hard work. Being a people’s personal outlet you work from your home following Sangkrit’s four-fundamentals to help other businesses come online.

Everybody needs money to survive, your financial freedom makes your life better but it can also make your life worse if you choose the wrong type of work. The activities that make you independent are the ones that you probably don’t like doing, and this is the reason for all your problems. So change yourself, and your life will also change.

Be the owner of your business, make your own decisions, you don’t need anybody, your key to success is doing the right things every day and you will get the success you want. Start your day following Sangkrit’s four-fundaments of cleaning your private space, cooking your vegetarian meals, programming your world, and blogging your business to work from your home as people’s personal outlet and help people in bringing their businesses online.

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The Problem Is You

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Don’t wait for the things to get better, wish you were better in managing them. For your life to get better, you have to change many small things in your life. Everybody has problems, everyone faces rejection, don’t wish for a problem-free life, it is not possible. Instead, work on your skills to become a good problem solver. Selling is the most important skill of your life, everybody is selling something even if they don’t know about it, or how to do it properly. Selling the right thing in the right way at the right time makes you rich.

To get the best in your life you should start by following Sangkrit’s four-fundaments to work from your home as people’s personal outlet and help businesses to come online. You will have the success you want if you follow the system, consistently, every single day without getting disheartened from the problems and rejections you face during the survival phase of your business.

When you start selling something, you start to face rejection. Rejection simply means that you are making attempts, you are taking actions, and you are actively working for the success of your business. The problem is not how learned you are, how much experience you have, your financial situation, or your responsibilities. The problem is you.

You Will Have To Train Yourself

Most of the problems in life are internal, not external and you can solve them out. Make yourself better by learning from your failure, learn from other’s failures too, read necessary books and articles, and most importantly you will have to train yourself. You have to master the skill of selling your product to anyone and that you can teach yourself by facing a sufficient amount of rejections because then only your brain starts to improve you and your way of handling problems. It all works in the background, just like gaining physical strength or muscle mass or learning a bicycle, you just have to take actions consistently and repeatedly. The more attempts you will do, the better you will get, the easier it will become and the more successful you will be.

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If You’re Not Having Fun, You Are Doing It Wrong

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Following four fundaments of Sangkrit to work from home as people’s personal outlet makes you happier, financially independent and saves you from the worldly mess. Consistently follow this course to build your fortune from home and lead humanity into the internet age. It won’t let you become poor as you do have your private property i.e. your blog on your domain with its value increasing every day.

If you are not having fun, it means you are doing it wrong. It means you don’t know how to respond to the challenges. Start by following Sangkrit’s four fundaments of cleaning your private space, cooking your vegetarian meals, programming your world, and blogging your business.

Cleaning your home and organizing your private space will help you to think better and reduce stress, it will make you happy. Reduce clutter from your private space, it will increase your productivity at home which will keep you motivated in the whole process.

Cooking your vegetarian meals makes you independent, knowing how to cook gives you the freedom to invent new dishes with any ingredients you have. Soon you will realize that you don’t need many types of equipment to cook and most of the dishes can be prepared with a few pieces of equipment.

Cooking builds your confidence, it keeps you and your family healthy, and it helps you to save money. People who cook at home and eat home-cooked meals on a regular basis are happier and healthier, both physically and mentally.

With cleaning and cooking, you will notice your energy levels going up and you are feeling happier than before.

Using your cooking skill, you can also serve your neighborhood people with home-cooked meals, this can be easily done by subscribing WordPress Ecommerce. You just need to list your dishes on your website so that people can order them online. You can make things much easier for yourself by allowing people to only order breakfast, lunch or dinner in advance so that you can cook extra food with your daily meals, pack it and let them pick it up from your house gate.

Program your world by following this course of Sangkrit every day, your every day should start with cleaning your home. Encourage every member of your family to join you and help you in this, following that every member of the house may prepare a dish of his choice and enjoy family meals together.

Register a domain name each for every member of the family and subscribe Managed WordPress or WordPress Ecommerce to responsibly start blogging with business. Homeschool your children into this domestic entrepreneurship by teaching them the four fundamentals of Sangkrit.

Start blogging your business, write down posts from useful ideas that have passed through your mind while following the process of cleaning and cooking. Your blog post is your primary product, it brings you money by helping other people. You can expand your business by writing new posts every day. It increases your connectedness with netizens across the world wide web, they read your blog, they subscribe to your blog, they increase your income.

Selling something balances you best in this world, being a people’s personal outlet you are ready for selling internet essentials. Help people in registering their domain name and then earn money by making their website over Managed WordPress or WordPress Ecommerce. Bringing everybody’s business online is the biggest ongoing business that you can develop into your domestic entrepreneurship for a family business.

Following this, you can bring your life to its best and every other day it will become more fun for you.

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The Harder You Try, The More Unconvincing You Become

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When you do nothing, your results are nothing. When you do very little, your results are nothing. When you act massively, the results can be little, massive, or zero. But when you act consistently, the results become massive. So in order to succeed, staying consistent is your key. There would be some exceptions, they are also in science and math but for most of the people, it works like this only.

Being a people’s personal outlet, you are on the right track and this track is not a race with many competitors. Instead, it is like a no time frame marathon, where you can succeed only by moving in the right direction. The rejections you face in between are hurdles that cannot be removed, it has nothing to fear about but you will have to make up your mind for that to finally reach your destination.

Working as a people’s personal outlet, your objective is to make money by bringing all businesses online. You do this by helping people to register their domain name, and then you make their business website using Managed WordPress or WordPress Ecommerce.

Whatsoever marketing technique you use, you will certainly face rejections and if you are not prepared to face people who reject your offer, the first few rejections are going to scare you out, this is the point of time where most of the people fail by trying very hard to convince their prospects, and then they quit. Learn from the rejections you face but never let them stop you from taking actions.

You must have heard some marketing calls where the salesperson sitting on the other side tries to sell you some product or service on the behalf of some company. How many times have you said yes to their offer? Most of the time you would have cut the call in between or asked them not to disturb you further. Still, these people never stop trying. Why? They are making some value out from such boring attempts, there must be some people actually saying yes to their offers. Every salesman faces rejections on a regular basis, it is part of the selling process so just don’t worry about it and never try harder to convince others. The harder you will try, the more unconvincing you will become. You simply need to move to your next target and carry on with your efforts.

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The Internet Is Here To Stay

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Internet is here to stay and the requirement for essentials i.e. domains, websites & apps isn’t going to disappear. By working as a people’s personal outlet you choose the Internet as your place of doing business and you help others in doing the same. By doing this, you get a very big market to capture from your home simply by blogging your business.

As a people’s personal outlet your objective is to help other businesses to come online. You do this by helping businesses to register their domain name, then you make their website with the help of Managed WordPress or WordPress Ecommerce and you charge something for that.

This business marketing can be done in two different ways:

  1. Targeting the global
  2. Outreaching the local

Both of the ways have their own side of importance.

Targeting The Global Market

The first way is blogging your business on your domain, it helps you to target the global market. This is a long term plan, not a one day task. It helps you to establish your domain, your identity on the world wide web, and following that it brings you business with progressive passive income.

Passive income means the income which requires little or no effort in earning whereas progressive passive income is when you make little effort to grow your income. In your case, this type of income is built when you keep blogging your business on your domain and make use of Google Adsense to monetize your website.

Outreaching The Local Prospects

The second way works locally, it can be a short term plan which gives a boost to your new business as the income can get big, fast and you can start your earning from the very first day. Here, what you have to do is reach out to the businesses in your neighborhood, in your city and help them to come online.

When you will start outreaching your prospects, you will certainly meet two types of people:

  1. People who were already waiting for your call, message or email
  2. People who were not waiting for your call, message or email

The first kind is the group of people who already know that they have a need of bringing their business online, they already want a website from a good service provider. The reason they are still offline can be anything, maybe no one contacted them before, or the developers who contacted them asked for more money, trust issue, procrastination, etc. You can easily close deals to this type of prospects with a good offer Also keep in mind that these people don’t just want your services, they want a relationship with a person they can talk to and get help from.

The second kind is the group of people still living in the industrial age, even the wakeup call from coronavirus pandemic hasn’t woken them up so just let them sleep, don’t target them personally with calls, messages, and emails, etc. This group should be targetted impersonally with the medium of blogging and advertisements etc. You are already blogging your business to enlighten humanity, so your local efforts should be focussed on the first group of people.

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Selling Homemade Products Online With WordPress Ecommerce

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If you are a maker, consider selling your products online from your home using your WordPress Ecommerce website.

When you are a maker of your products, you get the power to control all aspects of your items, make them cost-effective and offer them to your audience from your online store, targeting consumer demand in the market simply by blogging your business. WordPress Ecommerce enables you to start selling anything online from your place and you can reach out to new prospects by blogging your business.

Homemade Production Process

Your homemade production process doesn’t have to be enormous especially during the starting phase of your business. You can simply target your neighborhood and when you are ready to scale you may expand in your city by establishing a process of making more products in your home.

You can start the production process easily from your home, just take some time out for it, just as you take some time out from your schedule for watching movies, making phone calls, exercising and yoga, etc.

Make products, click their pictures form your smartphone, and list them for online selling in your WordPress Ecommerce website. Another good advantage for your small business is that you can set a standard delivery time of one week or something and then carry out the production process as you get new orders.

What Homemade Products Can Be Sold Online?

The homemade products that can be sold online can be anything you know how to make. For instance: People are selling candles, pickles, cookies, candies, jam, jelly, dry pasta, chips, noodles, bread, snacks, and similar eatable items, white cement-based flower pots, and other decorative items (there are many YouTube tutorials on this), you can sell plants, arts & crafts, homemade cost-effective jewelry items, sweaters, and homemade clothing items, masks, homemade soaps or anything else you like. For better production and a professional touch, you can search for specific video tutorials on YouTube.

Apart from this, if you are good at cooking then you can also sell breakfast, lunch, and dinner in your locality on pre-booked orders. For-instance: Neighbourhood people may book their breakfast, lunch, or dinner in advance, all you have to do is make extra food, pack it and then let them pick it up from your house gate.

How To Start Your Online Store Website?

Simply register your domain name then subscribe to WordPress Ecommerce, follow the on-screen process and it will take you to your website’s admin panel from there you can add your products and start selling online.

Keep Blogging Your Business

By blogging your business you can promote your products online, Also keep in mind that people don’t just want products, they want a relationship with a person they can talk to and get help from. You can build your trust by addressing your prospects in your posts. You may also ask your existing customers to help you in selling by recommending your products to the people they know, offer them some commission for that.

You may also work as people’s personal outlet by helping others to bring their businesses online, just as you did. Help them in registering their domain name and then you can make their websites with Managed WordPress or WordPress Ecommerce, charge something for that.

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Track Demand For Out Of Stock Items In WordPress Ecommerce

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The online demand for products is increasing, surpassing an earlier peak of eCommerce businesses worldwide. The impact of the corona crisis has changed consumer behavior and has also created challenges to online selling which no one has imagined before.

If your products frequently go out of stock then you should also maintain a waitlist for customers to keep them connected with your online shopping website.

WordPress Ecommerce provides you everything you need to start selling online. By installing and activating a plugin called Waitlist Woocommerce ( Back in stock notifier ) you can easily track demand for out-of-stock items, ensuring your customers feel informed, and therefore more likely to buy from your website. Once the plugin is activated you can select options from its settings page on your website’s admin panel.

The plugin enables your customers to add their email and product demand using a simple popup form visible on out of stock product pages so that they can be notified when the items they were looking for are back in stock. It sends an email to specific customers as soon as the product arrives back in your stock.

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You Are Safe Only At Your Home

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Safety is your first priority because when you are at risk, your business is at risk, your family and your complete environment is also at risk.

Many states are loosening their stay-at-home policies as they don’t have a workable plan or strategy to run the economy in lockdown or recover from it after lockdowns. This means the businesses will be opening soon, but as the COVID-19 cases are still increasing every day, there’s nothing like coronavirus is gone or going away and you are safe.

Post lockdowns, if not most then many of the businesses are operating in the same old way. Wearing masks, sanitizing the premises, and maintaining social distance cannot be called a new way of doing business. The new way is when you completely leave the old way, the new way is to bring your offline business online and operate from home, the new way is to manage all your business activities on the remote.

Be 100% Sure About Your Safety

Bringing your business online is the best, workable safety measure to implement because you can stay safe only at your home. Any offline business structure can never be called a hundred percent safe and secure.

Offline business models will experience a reduction in sales. At the same time, they will have to comply with the safety and social distancing guidelines, they will have to make new policies to keep their staff and workers safe, provide sanitizers and masks to the team, install partitions between staff and customers, ensure bathrooms are stocked with soaps and disposable towels and make sure every new entry is following all safety guidelines. They will have to manage all these new expenses and work on new management policies at the time when their business is going real down.

Still, they will never be a hundred present sure about their safety loopholes, and every new coughing or sneeze by someone will make them wonder about the spreading COVID-19 infection.

Feel Safe About Yourself, Your Family And Your Business

Hence, it is much better to bring your business online and feel safe about yourself, your family, and your business. If your business type stops you from operating online then make necessary changes to it, adopt new and leave old, pivot in your business and build a new stream of income as people’s personal outlet and do whatever is necessary because now you know what is more important for you.

Design a new structure of your business that can be operated from home, and if some offline activity is necessary then reduce the number of people to work at a given time or limit it to one, this is the big advantage of a small business that most of the things can be managed by an individual himself.

Start By Following Four Fundamentals Of Sangkrit

Start by following Sangkrit’s four fundamentals of cleaning your private space, cooking your vegetarian meals, programming your world, and blogging your business. To blog your business simply register your domain name, then subscribe to Managed WordPress.

If you are in the selling business then subscribe to WordPress Ecommerce to start selling your services, appointments, products, or anything else in an online store that can be managed from your smartphone. Moreover, you may also extend your WordPress installation to collaborate with your team online and assign important tasks to them.

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What To Do When Social Distancing Is Denouncing Your Small Business?

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Some businesses are facing a much harder time in finding an online way of doing business to stay out of debt and difficulty. Such businesses include salons & spa businesses, individual barbers, teachers, instructors, event organizers, house management, home care services, individual experts such as plumbers & electricians, etc. The solution for them is to stop waiting for the crisis to end in order to meet clients in person. Instead, they should start coaching people online by blogging their business.

Start Training People Online

For instance, the barbers should get away from grooming and styling other people and start coaching their expertise online simply by blogging their business. The same can be done by artists, yoga instructors, gym and fitness instructors, craftsmen, electricians, plumbers and many other types of self-employed individuals, etc to make people easily learn necessary things or the subjects they are interested in, online from their home simply by following specific blogs.

Blog Your Business

To start a blog all you need is to register your domain name, and subscribe to Managed WordPress to start blogging your expertise. You may also make some video tutorials from your smartphone and embed them in your blog posts via YouTube or VideoPress.

You May Offer Some Paid Content

You may keep most of the content free of cost and make money from Google Adsense (Google it to learn more). Additionally, you may offer some premium content with a detailed set of instructions, videos, and images as paid posts. This can be easily done by installing and activating Pay For Post plugin in your Managed WordPress blog. This can be helpful in generating quick money from your old customers who already admire your services.

Startup As People’s Personal Outlet

The income from your blog might take some time to build up so in the meantime you may pivot in your business and start-up as people’s personal outlet. As a people’s personal outlet you can help other businesses to come online, you can easily do this by using Managed WordPress.

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Start Selling Products Subscription For Recurring Income

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The overall value of a subscriber is much more than a general shopper. Selling subscriptions helps you to build a reliable source of income with recurring value. Subscription is not just limited to digital services but now you can use it on your eCommerce website for physical products also.

The consumer needs essential items on a regular basis so by offering a discounted or un-discounted product subscription you will help your customer to get his products delivered on first priority, without making him select and checkout the same products every month. This will help you to engage your customers and you will make money every month.

Starting a subscription-based eCommerce website is easy, simply register your domain name, subscribe WordPress Ecommerce, complete the quick start wizard then log in to the admin panel and add your products.

Screenshot showing the Quick Start Wizard of Ecommerce

You can offer subscriptions on individual products as well as bundled products. Simply navigate to WooCommerce -> Settings -> Extensions page to enable and set up a subscription option on your WordPress Ecommerce website.

You may also offer a discount to your prospects as an inducement for subscribing. To automatically charge subscription amount from your customers every month, you will need an online payment method, this can be enabled from WooCommerce -> Settings -> Payments (Tab). You can also use the free payment gateway such as PayPal or other payment options such as Pay On Delivery or Direct Bank Transfer if in case you don’t want to use other payment gateway services.

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How To Collaborate With Your Team Online From Your Website?

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Business communication is a critical requirement that can be effectively managed online from within your WordPress site. If you have a WordPress Website or running an online store with WordPress Ecommerce, you can easily set up an internal communication system to talk to your team and collaborate with them online from your home.

As discussed, you can establish async communication with your customers simply by blogging your business and interacting with them from the comment section after every blog post on your website, this works for public interactions. Apart from this, you can also share private blog posts only visible to your team members to establish internal communication within your website.

Share Private Blog Posts For Internal Communication

This can be done by visiting the ‘Add New’ post screen from the admin panel of your WordPress site, switching to the ‘Document’ menu on the right side followed by clicking ‘Visibility’ under the ‘Status & Visibility’ section. Here you can either set the post to private i.e. visible only to site members or password protected.

Asynchronous communication is the best way of managing your team on the remote. As that doesn’t require both parties to be present online at the same time. A Private & Protected blog post is another example of this. By sharing private posts you can start private discussions between your team members, assign tasks to them, send updates, and make your people focus on given tasks.

Establish A Dedicated Online Communication System

This is another option that can be implemented either by starting a new WordPress site for internal communications or a subdomain-subdirectory based WordPress installation to work on side of your main website.

Once you are subscribed to Managed WordPress or have installed it manually on a subdomain of your website then simply log in to the admin panel to install-activate the P2 theme. Once the theme is activated, you can add new members on your website by visiting Users -> Add New page.

P2 theme transforms any WordPress site into a frontend based live discussion platform as shown in the given screenshot

The theme is installed, users are added, now visit the front-end of your website for posting and interacting with your team members. You may visit Make WordPress Core to see how a P2 implemented remote working system looks like.

Live discussions over the P2 theme are dynamic enough to manage all small and big interactions with your team from within your WordPress site.

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What do You need To Change In Your Life Forever?

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The working of any system gets tested during the time of crisis. So don’t depend on the industrial age systems as they have failed during this time of crisis. It includes offline businesses, malls, working in the office, schools, colleges, and everything else that encourages the gathering of people.

So What You Need To Do Now?

Simply start by following Sangkrit’s four-fundaments of cleaning your private space, cooking your vegetarian meals, programming your world, and blogging your business as that prepares you well to stay at home and do business on the remote.

Businesses Must Close Their Office & Startup Online

If you are a business owner then close down your office, bring your business online, blog your business, or start selling online with WordPress Ecommmerce.

Make use of async communication by blogging your business, use live discussions after each blog post, or build an internal communication system on your WordPress site.

The Unemployeds Must Stop Looking For Employment

If you are an unemployed individual then stop looking for employment, instead, switch to home-employment. Start working as a people’s personal outlet and help other businesses to come online.

The Self-Employeds Must Start Blogging Their Skills

If you are self-employed then start blogging your expertise, help people by training them in your blog posts, provide paid guidance on video calls for fixing or installing equipment, etc, take visits only on advance bookings made through your website, and that also by following all necessary measures of social distancing.

The Students Must Stop Following The Institutions Blindly

The present time education system won’t take you anywhere, the scopes in various fields they keep telling you about are in the trashbin of the future.

Following them blindly can pass on the infection to you and then to your family and most importantly if they have already failed in this time of crisis then there’s no need to depend on them for the future, as the working of any system only gets tested during the time of pressure.

So opt for online courses, learn WordPress to make and sell websites from home, blog your business and build domestic entrepreneurship by working as a people’s personal outlet, because bringing every business online is the biggest ongoing business.

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Close Down Your Office & Start Working From Home

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If face-to-face interaction is the best way to transmit complex business ideas then it is also the best way of transmitting deadly viruses too. Hence, the most responsible decision you can take now is to bring your business online and start working from home. You already have the technology, remote work was in use even before the appearance of SARS-CoV-2.

Start by following Sangkrit’s four fundaments of cleaning your private space, cooking your vegetarian meals, programming your world, and blogging your business as that prepare you fully well to stay at home, build your business online to work on remote.

Working in an office has now many deadly disadvantages as,

  • You are not slowing down the progress of infections in society
  • The office environ makes you, your people, your customers and your family more vulnerable to infection
  • If in-case someone gets infected, the person can more easily pass that on to everybody else

So, you must close down your office and start to work online in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. This is easy, the big businesses of the internet have already done so – Google, Twitter, and Amazon have closed down their offices whereas Automattic, the team behind WordPress uses a distributed system of working from home. If they can do so, you can also.

Simply register your domain name, subscribe to WordPress Basic, or WordPress Ecommerce as per your business requirement to bring your business online and start serving your clients from your home.

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Start Your Food Delivery & Pickup Service From Home With WordPress Ecommerce

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WordPress Ecommerce is a one-stop solution for all kinds of online selling. It can be easily extended and customized as per your business requirement. If you are a restaurant or individual planning to sell dishes or simply tiffin boxes from home, you can make use of it to start your own food store website with home delivery or pickup service.

If you are good in cooking you may also use it to serve the people in your locality simply starting your eCommerce website, cooking dishes in your house kitchen, enabling people to order it online on your website, and then pick-it-up from your house gate.

How To Start Your Food Store Website?

Registering your domain name, subscribing to WordPress Ecommerce is sufficient enough to start selling your dishes and other food items such as home-made sauce, pickles, sweets, cookies, bread, and snacks, etc from the admin panel of your website and if you want to extend it with more restaurant-specific features then simply install the free plugin – Food Store – Online Food Delivery & Pickup.

Extending WordPress Ecommerce To More Specific Features

Once the plugin is installed and activated on your eCommerce website, the settings can be managed from the admin panel of your website via newly added ‘Food Store’ on the side menu.

The plugin extends the minimal functionalities of WordPress, WooCommerce, and converts your restaurant store into an instant food ordering hub with available menu, and pickup options for customers so that they can collect their parcel at a suitable time they prefer.

It extends your WordPress Ecommerce website with all restaurant-related options such as flexible frontend display and tagging your food items with veg marks etc. It uses core WooCommerce features to set up the cart and checkout with various payment gateways.

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If you are doing business online then use your expertise to help other businesses in this time of crisis, you can help them to register their domain, make a website using Managed WordPress to start doing business online. This way you will also build a second more secure source of income for yourself.

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Enable Your Salesmen To Place Client Orders On Your Ecommerce Website

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The businesses that rely on salesmen and network marketing may enable their salespersons to manually place orders for their clients directly on your WordPress Ecommerce website and then ask clients to complete the payment.

For enabling your salesmen to manually add orders, first, add them to your website from the admin panel Users -> Add New page and then they would be able to place orders by following these steps.

  1. Login to the admin panel and navigate to WooCommerce -> Orders
  2. Click Add New, and the Single Order page will appear
  3. Input customer details, add line items, apply coupons, fees, then calculate totals
  4. Set a status for the new order. For Example – If the order needs to be paid, use “Pending payment” status
  5. Click the ‘Save’ button

Next, use order actions dropdown to email order details to the customer with payment instructions. Orders having a “Pending payment” status can be paid through the payment link, direct bank transfer, or whatever payment method you are using.

If the customer is new and unregistered on your website, he can proceed as a guest, as anyone with the link will be able to view the payment page and pay for his order. Whereas if the customer is already registered, then he can view the order by logging into your website.

In case your salesman has already received the payment and delivered it to you then you may change the order status to processing and start with your shipping process.

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Blog Your Business To Establish Async Communication & Rely Less On People

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Asynchronous communication, also known as async communication is a communication that doesn’t require people to be present on any side at the time of carrying out discussions which can be customer support, inquiry, or any other type of online conversation.

An email is an old example of async communication whereas video calls and phone calls are not asynchronous, they are called synchronous as they require both parties to be present on phone at the same time.

Async communication is better as it can work across numerous timezones and it promotes writing which is open for anyone searching for it to read, plus it empowers people to continue any discussion by adding anything useful or posting a new question.

Async Communication For Consumer Support

When you register your domain name, subscribe to Managed WordPress to start blogging your business, the readers i.e. your prospects may start a conversation simply by commenting on your blog post. You can resolve their queries by replying to them, and others may also add their value to it. Such conversations always remain visible online after your blog posts (until you delete them) and are helpful for others facing similar issues or having the same queries.

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It helps you to establish a system and rely less on people as you don’t need a 24hour working helping or subscribe to a customer support service. There are many startups that don’t provide phone-based customer support. Instead, they use a mechanism of async communication and they are successful.

Async Communication Remains Available For Others To Read

The comments on your blog posts remain available for others to read. Suppose you have shared a blog post on a new project, product or service, and carried out all your important discussions on your post itself. The good thing is, it will always remain available on your website and when someone new joins your team, he can easily know all your thoughts and decisions regarding that project simply by reading your post and the discussion after it.

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And the best thing is it can be edited from the admin panel of your WordPress site, you can update post, your thoughts on comments and everything else as per your present time requirement.

Blogging Is Best Form Of Async Communication

Other systems such as email, document sharing, and social media posts can also be called asynchronous but their biggest limitation is that they are not open to the public, anyone searching for similar issues on Google will not be able to see the conversations which you are running on some other website. As a blogger, your main objective is to bring people on your website so that they can view your services and products. So that you can make offers. So that you can earn money by using some cost per click program such as Google Adsense.

How To Blog Your Business?

Simply register your domain name, subscribe to Managed WordPress or WordPress Ecommerce (if you are in the selling business) to start blogging your business on your domain. Moreover, you may also make use of WordPress to help other businesses come online and build a second source of income for yourself as a people’s personal outlet.

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Offering Contact-Free Delivery & Pickup To Your Customers

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Let your customers choose between home delivery or store pickup or a curbside pickup. As some of your customers may be unable to leave their house at all or would prefer to have their parcel home delivered. Others might be already out for some essential work and want to pick up their order themselves.

But at the same time, it is important to remember and follow all rules of social-distancing. WordPress Ecommerce allows you to provide a no-contact pickup and make scheduling easy by allowing your customers to select a pick-up date and time that is convenient for them. This will help you to meet all reasonable product delivery requirements of most online shoppers.

To keep yourself, your family, and your customers safe you may create a sign on your shop or home front (wherever you are providing store pickup) directing your customers to the specific spot where their bags are kept with their name on it. So that they can simply collect their baggage and leave.

For customers selecting home delivery, you can offer a leave at door option to provide a contactless home-delivery of products with necessary social distancing.

Anybody from anywhere can start selling anything online simply by registering his domain name and subscribing to WordPress Ecommerce, it works for grocery shops, departmental stores, restaurants, electrical & electronics, boutiques, service providers, and any other business that is not yet selling online.

You can use it as a people’s personal outlet and help other businesses to come online. Thus, generating a new source of income for yourself.

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Selling Pre-Bundled Product Packages In Your WordPress Ecommerce Website

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You can create a package of essential products and sell them as a bundle in your WordPress Ecommerce website. This way you can sell both individual product items separately or combine similar products offering deals with an unmissable mix of items to your customers online on your website.

There are various free plugins which you can install in your WordPress based WooCommerce website or WordPress Ecommerce system to create a bundle and assign as many simple products you want.

You may use YITH WooCommerce Product Bundles, simply install and activate it on your website to create products bundles from ‘Add New’ product page, or you may use WPC Product Bundles for WooCommerce which is coded for shop owners to create amazing deals that combine several products to put together for online sale.

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Accept Online Payments In Your Ecommerce Store Without Any Payment Gateway Service

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On your WordPress Ecommerce website, you can accept online payments without subscribing to any third party payment gateway service. In addition to Pay on Delivery, and PayPal, Direct Bank Transfer, or Bank Account Clearing System (BACS), is another free payment option that allows you to accept payments of your orders directly in your bank account.

You can easily enable it by logging-in to your WordPress Ecommerce admin panel, navigating to WooCommerce -> Settings page, and turning-on BACS option listed in the ‘Payments’ section.

Once the option is enabled, you can set it up from the same page by clicking the ‘Set Up’ button and entering your Direct Bank Transfer details with instructions (optional) for your customers.

When your customers will attempt to buy products on your website, they will be asked to send the payment directly from their bank account to your bank account. They can do this either by using their internet banking account or the smartphone app of their bank.

The gateway requires no payment to be made online from your website which makes it more secure. Your bank account details show up during the checkout process, on order received page as well as an email is also sent to your customer.

The orders placed using Direct Bank Transfer are automatically set on hold until your customer clears the payment, you acknowledge it and process their orders from the admin panel of your WordPress Ecommerce website.

So all you have to do is, whenever a new order comes in, simply verify that you are paid before shipping that particular order and marking it as under process or complete.