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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses are left with an uncertain future. Many brick and mortar businesses have closed their doors indefinitely (some will reopen, others not so lucky), and retailers are looking to ecommerce to secure their brand a future.
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Online resources to help guide your ecommerce business through this pandemic
There is some help to get you up and running quickly, to support your community, and to aid us all in getting through Covid-19 times.
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Credit cards are no longer the payment option of choice. Here's what our store needs to do to cater to your customers now.
Shopify store automation apps free up your time, prevent errors, and create a better customer experience.
The question on the minds of everyone running an Ecommerce business at this time of year is ‘Am I ready for Black Friday?’. As Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Halloween, and the Festive Season are looming, you need to be absolutely sure you can cope with the influx of sales without compromising on the quality of your customer service. You also need to have all your marketing ducks in a row to capitalise on this phenomenal opportunity to boost your online sales.
Do you know what areas of your home page get clicks? How about what pages nobody scrolls down? Heat maps help you make the most of your store layout.
Is remote working all it’s purported to be? Well… in short… at least for me and my current team, yes.
Locally or globally, paying it forward is appreciated by potential customers. And it isn't hard or expensive to set up.
Turn your transactional emails into a standalone sales channel and see repeat business spike. Leave no stone unturned when it comes to ways of increasing your conversions, especially if they can be processes that tick over nicely all on their own.
How do you develop a list of what needs to be done on your Shopify store? Once you have the list, how do you get it all done?
Premium Plus (or Premium+) is how we refer to the Turbo theme by Out of the Sandbox.
Not because of Shopify's Plus plan for merchants —although that is who the theme was originally created for— but because if a paid-for theme in the Shopify theme store is referred to as a 'premium' theme, then...
You ticked all the boxes when you set up your ecommerce website, you spent time and resources on good marketing channels, and you’re getting loads of targeted traffic, but you’re not seeing the sales numbers you’d expect.
Learn how to avoid the strong possibility of building a house of cards and instead lay a solid foundation for your Shopify store.
A slightly belated notification, but here is our third appearance on The Unofficial Shopify Podcast where Kurt and Ross talk about how customizable Shopify really is. The misconceptions around the concept and some of the truths about how capable the platform truly is are discussed in this 41min chat.
We fix pain points for Shopify ecommerce stores. And one of the most common pain points is time spent answering emails or on phone calls about products and returns. We feel ya', Customer Service teams. Let's fix this.
Kurt Elster ofEthercycle and Ross Allchorn talk about the basic things to have in place for your ecommerce store.
Can you take professional (enough) photos of your products with a smartphone?
According to Shopify,you can but being a born skeptic, I needed more solid proof that it can be done, so we set out to test the theory and not only to see if it is possible, but if it is possible to do on a budget.
