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type: this-week-with
url: 'https://taylordrayson.com/2025/07/18/tww-s6-e213'
title: 'Season 6, Episode 213'
date: '2025-07-18T13:00:00+01:00'
fields:
  episode: S6E213
  season: '6'
  number: '213'
  topic: 'Introducing Jake Woods - Shopify work - Self-taught, Moving into Marketing and Wordpress - The Leap Of Faith - Moving From an Agency To Self Employed - Being Isolated - Best and Worst Decisions - Saying "No" - One Piece of Advice'
  duration: '33m 19s'
---

# Season 6, Episode 213

Introducing Jake Woods - Shopify work - Self-taught, Moving into Marketing and Wordpress - The Leap Of Faith - Moving From an Agency To Self Employed - Being Isolated - Best and Worst Decisions…

Visiting Jake Woods in Ireland

Main platform is Wordpress, but also a little bit of Shopify

Wordpress is open source and easier to work with

Which is better - depends on what you are selling

Shopify allows only 3 variants of a product

Started in Hospitality, but saw the possibilities of the Internet

Self Taught - and built a simple website which got some attention

Moved into marketing and found Wordpress

Worked for an agency and then went self employed

Taking the leap of faith

Getting a mortgage before leaving the agency

The changes of working for someone else, to working for yourself

White Labelling for others

Getting used to being isolated

Finding like minded people

Bouncing ideas off them

Best and Worst decisions

One piece of advice

What does success look like?

 

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