5 Website Fails That’ll Tank Your Sales (and How I Stop Them)

I started working on sites years ago when my dad needed help with his hardware store’s old page—taught me what can break.

Five things I’ve seen kill sales:
Site going down—a candle maker lost a whole holiday weekend of orders once.
Cart glitches—a baker couldn’t sell cakes because orders wouldn’t go through.
Ugly layouts—a consultant’s site looked so outdated people didn’t trust it.
Hacked pages—a florist had random ads popping up.
Slowdowns—a gear shop lost customers from lag. The candle maker called me when her site wouldn’t load—I checked her hosting, saw the server was down, and got her provider to reboot it.
The baker’s cart was a plugin conflict—I disabled them one by one via FTP til it worked, then updated the bad one.
The consultant’s site just needed a new theme—I installed it and tweaked the settings.

Took a day each, but they were fine after. Learned a lot helping them out.

What’s your site done that hit your business?