{"id":715,"date":"2015-09-14T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=715"},"modified":"2015-09-10T21:03:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T02:03:33","slug":"featured-speaker-andrew-wikel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/featured-speaker-andrew-wikel\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker: Andrew Wikel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"“Hey! My name is Andrew<\/a>, and I am a geek. I’m committed to open source values, and love working with WordPress. I fell in love with WordPress in 2008, and have been working with it in some capacity since then. I am a husband, a father, a WordCamp addict, a coffee snob, lover of things shiny, and a California native in Illinois.”<\/p>\n

Presentation:\u00a0“Gaining (and not betraying) User Trust in e-Commerce”<\/h3>\n

“I work with helping people get their payment gateways set up in WooCommerce<\/a>, so my presentation comes from that angle.<\/p>\n

It really pleases me to see shop\/website owners really nail customer trust, and it’s something that a little bit of effort can really make a marked improvement. Most of the things that I recommend would take less than a couple hours and less than a few hundred dollars to implement, while increasing your customer\/user trust innumerably. ”<\/p>\n

What unique perspective are you bringing to this talk?<\/h3>\n

“Everyone has users. Everyone is looking to get their users to trust them in some fashion; bloggers looking for repeat traffic, shop owners looking for sales, marketers looking for newsletter signups, etc.<\/p>\n

I have some pretty cool insights from working with hundreds of different e-commerce stores, and then also being involved with the implementation of plugins and extensions for WooCommerce, as well as testing new extensions, etc.”<\/p>\n

What’s one really cool thing people will discover during your session?<\/h3>\n

“Sometimes what users and customers are looking at to determine whether they trust your site is not what we think they are. Know the difference.<\/p>\n

(also that this session is probably applicable to much more than e-commerce, although that is the focus)”<\/p>\n

What are you most looking forward to at WordCamp Toronto?<\/h3>\n

“Probably the chance to meet new people, and attend my first Canadian WordCamp!”<\/p>\n

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