Plugins, Networking, and Open Source Spirit at WordCamp Asia

Robert:
Hi everybody. Welcome to do the Woo. I’m Robert Jacobi and we’re broadcasting from WordCamp Asia 2024. I’m happy to have as a guest Rytis from Omnisend. Just tell us a little bit about you and why Ominsend is here.

Rytis:
Yeah, so Omnisend is a marketing automation which does email SMS and web notifications for anyone who primarily sells online. So we started with traditional retail selling physical goods. So for already sometime we help those who are WooCommerce to generate more sales and to communicate with their existing customers. But we just launched our WordPress plugin, so basically any WordPress website can use Omnisend and of course those who do sell anything like LMS charity donations, some subscription payments can now benefit from Omnis.

Robert:
It’s email marketing, email retargeting.

Rytis:
Yeah, correct. You can send both bulk emails, whatever marketer or business owner things are, and as well as automation automations, of course we encourage everyone to use. So basically you set up all the triggers if someone visited your website but did not completely purchase, so did not fill in the form. For example,

Robert:
Card abandonment, huge issue always. Yeah,

Rytis:
Probably is the most famous, but let’s say in Omnisend and part of cart abandonment, we have browse abandonment as well. So even those people who did not add anything to the card, but we visited specific products or even specific block posts and specific pages on the topics, you can easily retarget those people via email, SMS or push notification we probably sent.

Robert:
It’s brilliant. And you’ve obviously had a very focused product on WooCommerce for a while. How does that work with WordPress in general then? What’s the difference between the, I guess the original WooCommerce focus now with WordPress? Probably

Rytis:
A broad answer. So Omnisend is made for e-commerce, but just definition of e-commerce is really being broad. So let’s say with any learning management system there is transactions, online transactions that are happening. So really it can be used because it’s e-commerce, charity donations when there’s another area, those are nonprofit organizations, but we still have transactions. We have to communicate with their donors and to remind them that we can donate repeatedly and send post purchase or post donation emails et ceteras like application is now absolutely unlimited and any other website can use leads to collect subscribers via form. So just sell bulk campaigns, this matter, your school, a small business, having a website, et cetera.

Robert:
No, that’s excellent. And you have attended Word Campe for it, you’re actually a sponsor for I think the first time at WordCamp Asia.

Rytis:
Yeah, correct. This is a new experience for us being a sponsor and we have sponsored quality EAPs, but the award camp, big WordCamp is first for us, so really having a booth here.

Robert:
Very nice and large booth actually.

Rytis:
Thank you.

Robert:
You guys really went top of the line for the sponsorships.

Rytis:
Kudos to the colleagues. Yeah, I know it’s of course Sponsor gives a new experience, but I really liked so far, so for any businesses, it doesn’t matter if you are a service provider or maybe an agency, et cetera, I think it’s really worth considering at least sponsoring and maybe starting with smaller booth, but being present at Work camp and even if you are not sponsoring. So for the listeners, I would really encourage to visit at least one of those three major work camps

Robert:
Global, the flagships, yeah,

Rytis:
Yeah, the flagships or the Asia or the States or Europe at least once per year. It’s really worth being there because it’s a great sense of community

Robert:
Here. The community is amazing. As usual. As we wrap this up, what’s the best way to find out more about Omnisend and connect with you?

Rytis:
Yeah, so omnisend.com. It’s the best way to find us and by the way, for VU users, we have a really great offer now. So 30% off, it’s only Google the discount code which can be used and you can find it on our website as well. And personally myself, so I love LinkedIn, probably this is the most preferred mind network and of course all good email.

Robert:
Of course, email. Thank you so much, Rytis, it’s great to have you at workcamp. Asia, thanks for joining us on do the Woo. Thanks, Robert, chao.

Ray:
Hi, I’m Ray Morey and I write the Repository weekly email newsletter for WordPress for people who are hardcore to WordPress and want to know what’s happening in the community. WordCamp Asia has been incredible. I’ve had so many just amazing conversations with people. It’s crazy how you can run into people in the hallways and just have straightaway these just in-depth conversations with people about everything and everyone is being so willing to share their experiences and advice and I’m so excited to come to another WordCamp soon.

Brian:
This is Brian Rothsztein from Uniseo based in Canada and I’ve came all the way across the world to WordCamp Asia and I have to say meeting people around here has been fantastic. If you know me, you know that I love to socialize with everybody, really get to know people, get to see what the products are, what the latest plugins are, really find out about everything that has to do with WordPress and the WordPress community. But the socialization aspect and seeing how things are run out here is just fantastic. WordCamp Asia has been a fantastic experience. I highly recommend it to anybody who wants to come to any major WordCamp or any small WordCamp even locally. Really a great experience.

Sarah:
Hi, my name is Sarah. I’m a WordPress user here at the WordCamp in Asia this year. And I have to say my favorite thing about being here is just the feeling I get being around everybody who is just so involved in what they do and it just sparks all this motivation and creativity for me that it just makes me want to jump in full force.

Ace:
I’m Ace. I’m from the Philippines and WPFusion and yeah, I love meeting new friends here in work of Asia 2024. It’s been really great so far.

Anita:
Hi, I am Anita Chen from Taiwan. So it’s my first time to attend work camp. And so what I love about this is that it’s the first time I saw a camp gathering a lot of developers and a lot of volunteers who engage in the event without asking for any payback. And I can see that in south there. And what we are here is that we try to attract more digital talent to Taiwan to show them how welcome that we want them to be here.

April:
I’m April, I’m from Florida. I work with WPpopupmaker and the highlight of this event has been the swag and networking.

Daniel:
I’m Daniel Eiser from Florida. In the US I run Code Atlantic that’s is most popular for Pop-up Maker and my favorite part of this event was the Freemius party. I met a ton of great other product authors and had a blast.

Charney:
I’m Charney and I’m from India and I am here with StellaWP. It’s an amazing brand and has eight brands under that. And I think what I enjoyed the most of being in Webcam Asia is being on my stall because it’s my first international WordCamp Asia and making these really cute buttons with the superpowers that anybody who came at the stall wanted to color. . And yeah, I think that was really amazing meeting new people. Oh my god, I have all colleagues from all over the world and we are always meeting virtually, but it was such a great opportunity and time to meet all of them in person. So I’m pretty thrilled about it and really looking forward to the next one.

Frederick:
So I’m Frederick Coleman and I’m from the US and I work for Blockonomics. I was here for WordCamp Asia last year as well. And I think the great thing about WordCamp Asia is that it’s a place where a lot of new people that you don’t see at the word camps in Europe and us get to come together, new people interact with them and being able to see some new ideas and that’s great.

Christina:
So hi, my name is Christina. I’m from Lithuania and I am from hosting and I was in WordCamp Asia this year and I loved about being together with my friends who are actually becoming my family. So just hugging all of them after seeing them was a great experience this year.

Hassan:
Hey, I’m Hassan from Bangladesh. I came here to represent rocket.net and I’m actually loving the environment here. The atmosphere is great and the people are awesome. The best moment for me was meeting our clients here who uses rocket.net. They were loving the product and they were like, I love your product. And the T-shirt design, our T-shirt like Google and the team of Google and Element Shirt, they loved our design, so it was great to showcase the product. I love, I love briefing rocket.net because it’s my product. I love this product. So yeah, it’s going great.

Horia:
Hi, I am Horia I’m from Romania and it’s been great to show our latest product Cobio AI to people here at Work Peja, it’s also great to explore this different culture and this beautiful country. Yeah, it’s been a great work camp so far.

Jack:
Hi, my name is Jack and I am here from WPFusion and my highlight was reconnecting with friends that I get to see at each WordCamp and going to Tasty restaurants with them.

Jim:
Hi Bob, I am Jim Ross. I am from the Philippines and I’m the training lead in level app. We provide support for WordPress plugin and teams. And the highlight for me for this WordCamp WC Asia 2024, of course number one, the swags and of course the talks. Yeah, I really like the topics and of course later the after party I’m looking forward for the after party. Yeah, I enjoyed last year’s after party, so I’m expecting that the after party later would be great as well.

Michelle:
Hi, I am Michelle Freschette. I am the director of community engagement for StellarWP and the executive director of Post Status and I spoke this year at WordCamp Asia about inclusion and allyship. And the highlight of the entire event is all the people that I get to see when I travel to Asia and the love that I have for all the people here. I’ve had just a wonderful time and the warm welcome reception has been amazing.

Mike:
I’m Mike, I work with Automattic and I’m in the VIP division. It’s actually my first WordCamp, not only my first WordCamp Asia and probably my favorite part has been just connecting with the people and the community, although I do work for Automattic, which sort of are the creators of WordPress or involved in the creation of WordPress. Yeah, I’m not that plugged into the community, so it’s been really nice to connect with everyone while I’m here.

Zunaid:
This is Zunaid from rocket.net and I’m from Bangladesh. And the thing is I am loving work camps right now. The thing is I’ve been to work in Nepal, it was amazing and work in Asia . It has lots of people from different parts of the world with amazing people, amazing sponsors, and loving the environment here and it has been a pleasure to be here. Thank you.

Olga:
I’m Olga from San Petersburg, Russia. I am full stock WordPress developer and this is my main job and I’m also contributing to WordPress core and different other teams a lot. Right now I’m calling it for test this release. I hope it’ll be well because it’s coming near and about this conference I liked most, of course panel I was taking part in about women’s in tech and I think everyone should listen to it and not only listen, but take actions and think how you can be part of this initiative and make things to the better future, not only for women, but for everyone. And this conference is awesome because we have people from almost all over the world. It’s wonderful.

Pania:
Hey, I’m part Pania from Krisha Web. I’m from India and I’m here for the first time in WordCamp Asia. We are the VIP agency partner and WordCamp Asia. I would like to thank all the organizers and the sponsors to organize an excellent WordCamp. The arrangements, the sponsors areas as well as the speaker sessions are really very good. I really enjoyed meeting people, networking especially I’m a big fan of do the the bob, the man he’s behind the success of others. I’m following really well to him. Thank you so much. All the wishes to everyone. Thank you.

Erika:
I’m Erika from Canada. I work at Woo and my favorite part of WordCamp Asia 2024 is connecting with the community and having the chance to get together in person again.

Pi:
Hello, I’m Pi and I’m a developer advocate here at Woo. And my favorite part about WordCamp Asia has been connecting with developers and eating vegan food.