Busting sales conversion myths: “A small team won’t cut it”
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Busting sales conversion myths: “A small team won’t cut it”

How can you increase sales conversion today? Should you push more money toward ad spend or hire freelancers? Perhaps you think you need to hire more people to see better sales conversion. We’re here to bust that myth! Now, there’s a difference between being a small team, and understaffed. Online businesses that lack expertise, will…

How to increase your Shopify store speed with on-site improvements
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How to increase your Shopify store speed with on-site improvements

About 70% of purchasing customers say that site speed is a huge influence on their buying decision from online retailers. Additionally, for each extra second it takes a site to load, conversion rate drops by an average of 4.42%. As such, having a fast loading website is essential to delivering a high-quality user/customer experience. Your…

Security pitfalls and experience errors that sink online stores
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Security pitfalls and experience errors that sink online stores

Does your online store have SSL certificates? Is your domain protected from fraud? Does UTM tracking form part of your ecommerce marketing strategy? Have you created a mobile-friendly website, or any website at all?  Store owners tend to be experts in their product, but not security or websites. This is normal and, I’d say, perfect…

A 3-step winback strategy to increase returning customers
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A 3-step winback strategy to increase returning customers

Unsure what an at-risk customer is and why you should target them with SMS or email marketing? Someone to target with a winback strategy would be a shopper who has bought 2 or more times and then stopped purchasing again. By investing in a customer winback strategy, you can: Re-engage inactive customers Improve your customer…

Impactful ways to market your store for Labor Day this year
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Impactful ways to market your store for Labor Day this year

When is Labor Day this year? Too soon probably! There’s never enough time to prepare for this major seasonal milestone, but note that it is on the first Monday in September.  Store owners are currently preparing their Labor Day sales and all the deals they’ll offer. But how can you stand out without Labor Day…

Reasons and solutions when your shop is down
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Reasons and solutions when your shop is down

When your shop is giving you an error message and you’ve checked the Shopify server status to see whether Shopify is down, there are a few things that might be happening.  Here are reasons (and most importantly, solutions!) for why your Shopify store is not working. Before doing anything else after seeing your store is…

How to deactivate Shopify abandoned cart recovery emails and get consent from shoppers to send them SMS marketing

How to deactivate Shopify abandoned cart recovery emails and get consent from shoppers to send them SMS marketing

If you’re refreshing your Shopify store marketing and want to activate a different cart recovery email tool, you’ll need to deactivate the Shopify-owned cart recovery emails within that platform. This avoids you overwhelming your shoppers. First, from Home, go to Automations on the left-hand menu: Next, if you have Abandoned checkouts by Shopify activated, go…