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    Two letter .ca in the wild

    I used to own canadacomputer.ca back in the day. Used to get 5 - 8K visitors a month.
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    .CA Carbuyers.ca - $7,500 USD

    It's been fairly quiet on the sales front in 2022 for me.
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    .CA Carbuyers.ca - $7,500 USD

    I usually don't post my sales, but here is one. Carbuyers.ca - $7,500 USD. Sold through Godaddy/Uniregistry brokerage. Originally registered in 2006, so took a while. :)
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    French language sites

    For our e-commerce sites, which are n English, our sales from Quebec have always been very low. This has been consistent from the start. As Maple Leaf said, the fraud has been higher in Quebec than in any other province. Our experience has not been as bad as MapleDots with fraud, but still...
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    Post COVID Ecommerce slowdown?

    We also have seen a slowdown. As you said, the war could be a strong contributor to it. People do not like uncertainty or feeling insecure. Hopefully, it ends soon. The world does not need possible WWIII hanging over their heads.
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    Post COVID Ecommerce slowdown?

    Probably a bit of all of it. Mind you, most retail stores have been open for quite a while now in some form. I think inflation always has an impact on discretionary purchases. With most or all of the government COVID programs done, that could have an impact on online and brick and mortar...
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    Post COVID Ecommerce slowdown?

    The story is about Shopify but has some great info on the trends in e-commerce with COVID coming to an end. "Investors, however, fear the company can’t sustain its growth as shoppers return to more normal buying patterns. Those concerns intensified last month when Shopify said it had...
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    Your Developed eCommerce Sites

    WordPress/WooCommerce is like any online platform; you have to be diligent. Keeping it updated, uninstalling unused plugins, using third party protection, including Wordfence, Sucuri, Cloudflare and the such. In terms of plugins, use ones from reputable companies that update them regularly, and...
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    Your Developed eCommerce Sites

    Good idea, thanks!
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    Your Developed eCommerce Sites

    This latest site was just under $7,000 CAD. It was a "redo" of the original 3-year old+ site, with all new code from top-to-bottom. Lots of issues come up when you start with new code again, but we have got through most of it. Next up with be a CRO Audit to see where it can be improved from a...
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    Your Developed eCommerce Sites

    Thanks for the tip! I always welcome constructive suggestions!
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    Your Developed eCommerce Sites

    Thanks! It was time to refresh it after 3 years and it had kind of outgrown my developer. This time I hired a company to redo the site from scratch. It has its own challenges dealing with a company, but you get a new set of eyes on it which can help. We are about 90% through the little bugs and...
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    Your Developed eCommerce Sites

    I know that many domainers here do not develop websites, while some have done quite well at it. I don't see many discussions about it, but would love to see what others are doing and sharing ideas. I'll start; Mian site - https://candycrave.ca/ About 3 years - 3 months old - Just had redone a...
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    HubertFinancial.ca or HappySavings.ca ??

    Not when inflation is 5-7%
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    Trudeau finally make the American News

    I think O'toole's time is almost up. There is hope!
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