How to Change Your Shopify Store Name in 4 Simple Steps
If you’re just starting out with Shopify, you may have used a placeholder name for your new store until you and your buddies cracked open a few beers or a bottle of wine and started brainstorming name ideas for your new baby! Sooner or later, you’ll want to change the Shopify store name from ABC…

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Free Shopify Email Audit
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Free Shopify SEO Audit
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Free Shopify Ads Audit
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[2020] Best Shopify Translation Apps Reviewed
Ecommerce entrepreneurs all share one thing in common. “How can I sell more?” Whilst your ecommerce business may be doing well in your home country, there is one guaranteed way to increase your revenue streams – by selling internationally. One of the key steps in achieving this goal is to translate your website. If you’re…

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[Instagram loop giveaways] Grow your followers 10X overnight & sell more
Click here to see our loop giveaways for this month! What could you do with 230,000 more Instagram followers? In May 2019, Kylie Jenner and Scott Disick participated in a loop giveaway where the prizes were 9 luxury bags and $20,000 cash. The participating brands watched as their profiles gained a whopping 230,000 followers from…

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Langify vs Weglot: Choose the best Shopify translation app
Looking for the best Shopify language app, look no further than Weglot. Learn more in our comparison below. With 25% of the world’s population now shopping online, the global online ecommerce industry is big. Looking further to 2021, that international ecommerce industry is expected to make up a huge 17.5% of retail sales worldwide. Shoppers…

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How To Create A Shipping Policy Template That Helps Online Sales (with Examples)
The dog eat dog nature of eCommerce means online retailers need to optimise all aspects of operations, marketing and product design to keep sales volumes growing and margins healthy. Whilst a few years ago you could get away with throwing up a standard shipping policy, in today’s competitive landscape the shipping policy, and how its…

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Ecommerce Shipping Best Practices To Increase Sales
Applying the best practices possible when shipping is an important part of E-commerce strategy for any online shop, as it directly impacts the success of your business. Having a robust plan and executing it well could and should be a game changer for you. Update your ecommerce legal documents including shipping policies and GDPR compliance…

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Shopify SLL Free Install & Activation
Shopify’s announcement in 2016 that the site was to roll out free SLL certificates for all of the online stores using its proprietary platform (that numbered more than 800,000 sites as of 2018) was met with universal acclaim. Indeed, Shopify added that merchants who subscribed to the Shopify Plus platform would get the added benefit…

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Ecommerce Facebook Ads: 7 Essential Strategies for Marketers
According to Facebook’s Q1 2019 Update, the social network now has 2.37 billion monthly active users. This data alone can be enticing for small businesses to put up a Facebook page and run some ads. However, you might be wondering how much you can get out of a Facebook ad. The answer: It is virtually…

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8 Best Shopify Affiliate Marketing Apps
Wanting to venture into Shopify affiliate marketing? Well, you inevitably have to make use of the most suitable Shopify affiliate marketing app. We have identified seven of the best apps for your consideration. Follow our discussions below to learn about them and how each of them may help you out.

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Custom Shopify Theme vs Template [With Costs]
Planning and managing a Shopify theme design and development project can be challenging even for the most experienced ecommerce entrepreneurs and teams. So if you’re creating your first store, redesigning your Shopify theme or replatforming to Shopify, this guide will help you check all the boxes and find success in your Shopify theme project. We’ll…

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Reduce your Cart Abandonment By Up to 60% with SMS Plugins
Let’s say you are running a successful online store powered by Shopify. You’ve got your inventory sorted, garnered some traffic and prospects love to come back. But your sales numbers aren’t where you wish them to be? You are not alone – the average cart abandonment rate is 69.89%. Massive, isn’t it? Let me do the…

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[9] Best Converting Shopify Themes 2018 (Inc Premium Pricing, Free & Dropshipping)
Shopify is undeniably one of the best e-commerce platforms in the market. Apart from the user-friendly interface and apps that make it easy to implement functionalities, Shopify also features hundreds of themes that can give your development a running start. However, not all e-commerce themes are built the same. While it’s true that most of…

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Ecommerce PPC: Best Practices for 2019
When it comes to PPC, 2018 was definitely the year of radical changes. Google AdWords is now Google Ads. And, with the new name, numerous new features have been introduced. Amazon has become Google’s major rival, as businesses are shifting up to 60% of their PPC budgets to it. There is also Bing that has increased…

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[Shopify Plus Pricing Plans] December 2018, Contract Length, Apps, SLA , Multisite & More
What is the cost of Shopify Plus? If you’re a Shopify business bringing in $1-2M in revenue annually, you may begin to require additional support, customization, and functionality features to meet the increasingly complex needs of your growing business. At this point, perhaps you’ve considered upgrading from a regular Shopify plan to Shopify Plus, Shopify’s enterprise…

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[6] Places to find Shopify help & support Online
No matter how much experience you have running an ecommerce storefront on Shopify, there will come a situation where you won’t be able to solve an issue on your own, and you will be forced to find some form of support. Fortunately, one of the biggest advantages Shopify has as an ecommerce platform, is the…

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Best attribution model for ecommerce using Google Analytics
How to Perform An Attribution Analysis Using Google Analytics Selling products or services online has many similarities to in-person sales. But it can be argued that determining exactly how a conversion occurred, or conversion attribution, isn’t one of them. Think of it this way. If you own a store, and a customer comes in and…

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[10] Effective Instagram Growth Tips For Ecommerce
Instagram is one of the most popular social networking sites in the world which has become a great content marketing, networking and audience engagement tool for brands and businesses. The brands that want to get the most out of this social network need to gain a massive following. Your followers represent the number of people…

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[Complete Guide] Instagram Story Templates For Ecommerce
Perhaps we should start by asking ourselves what template for Instagram is. Story template is one of the many company’s innovative ways of enabling people to socialize and popularize their products. Since most content published is visual, it can be said to be a new modern way of displaying things using visuals. Source With increased…

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Best Ecommerce Welcome Email Examples
Do you usually pay attention to the letters you receive from companies upon registering for their services? These are welcome emails – the most important email the customer will get. The purpose of these letters is to get the customer to be excited about using the company’s services and to make a positive first impression of…

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[4] Shopify Facebook Store Examples
In this post you’ll find four Shopify Facebook store examples to inspire your social shop! If you run an eCommerce store, you may have already come to realize that social media visitors do not have the same high intent to purchase as search engine visitors. That is, the engagement and conversion rate among Facebook users…

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Ecommerce Email Marketing Statistics: Numbers You Need to Know
Ecommerce businesses can use a variety of tools to boost revenue, including social media, but one that should definitely receive attention is email marketing. Email marketing is relatively easy and relatively inexpensive with a good return on investment. It can bring benefits like weekly subscribers, generally high open rates, and an increase in website traffic….

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[10] Awesome Instagram Marketing Strategies For Shopify
Recently Instagram made an astonishing revelation that it is now catering to 1 billion users, as a result, its potential to reach the right audience has also increased multifold. Exceptional visuals, innovative business marketing tools, adding never-seen-before features to the stories are some of the things that have attributed to its sudden spurt of growth. From…

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Mailchimp vs Klaviyo For Shopify
Email marketing is a powerful way to drive traffic to your Shopify store, build relationships, and generate revenue. Before you can reap the benefits though, you need to choose the right ecommerce email marketing software. With so many options available, it can become overwhelming. That’s why today we’ve narrowed it down to two, Klaviyo and…

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Combining Shopify and Google Tag Manager to Boost Your Store Success
Shopify is one of the most popular and powerful ecommerce shopping cart and ecommerce solutions, and it can integrate with one of the most influential website data tools available to online businesses: Google Tag Manager. You’ve likely heard of both and seen some people struggle to combine the two and create a powerhouse ecommerce platform….

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How to Create a Killer Instagram Profile For Ecommerce
So you have realized the benefits of using Instagram to promote your brand, draw in new customers and engage with existing customers. You know why being on Instagram is a good thing (more than 500 million Instagram accounts worldwide are active every day, and 80% of accounts follow a business on Instagram), but do you…

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[Instagram Ecommerce] 5 Steps to Create Sales
Most people and businesses have a love/hate relationship with social media. Maintaining, enhancing and promoting our social media accounts can take up so much time in our days, especially if you’re following about 20 different how-to guides that end up flooding your mind with hashtags techniques and linkback strategies. However, for the majority of businesses,…

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7 E-commerce SEO Best Practices
Let’s start with statistics. The latest survey shows that 51% of Americans prefer to shop online in 2018. What is more, 96% of Americans have made an online purchase in their life, 80% in the past month. It’s clear as a day: if your business doesn’t have a website, you are losing a bunch of customers….

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Do Shopify email popups hurt or help your ecommerce conversions?
May I ask a small favor? Google pop ups. I bet you will see results like, “How to block pop ups” or “5 easy steps to stop pop ups.” Are pop ups really that terrible? If yes then why do so many retailers and marketers keep using them on ecommerce websites? Errr, maybe because they…

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Facebook Marketing Strategy Write Down a Plan And Get Success
Social media have by far the biggest marketing influence and potential nowadays. With millions of active users, digital networks like Facebook or Instagram represent a genuine generator of brand awareness – but only in case you can design an adequate marketing strategy. Each minute, users post more than half a million comments on Facebook, adding almost 300…

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8 Great Examples Of Ecommerce Facebook Ads
We’ve all done it — clicked on a Facebook ad or video, barely aware of what we are doing. It seems we are all drawn in by Facebook content as we scroll through our newsfeeds at night. Before we know it, we’re fully immersed in a video, getting worked up over a cause with like-minded…

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[2018] Best Shopify Stores For Theme Design Inspiration
Here are some of the best Shopify themes we have created from scratch, use them as inspiration to create your new Shopify theme. ByCharlotte The Citizenry Nice Martin Athletic Greens Sebbys Clothing Rugemporium Fashion Music Friends Elizabetta Aija Bags Haute Hijab Bfyne Anna Kemp

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[5 Step] Ecommerce Email Marketing Strategy
An eCommerce email marketing strategy is vital if you want to stay relevant to your customers. It can help keep them in the loop and serve as an aid to move your product more effectively. But there are still many who don’t take advantage of this fact. Worse yet, those who do often fail to…

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Shopify SEO Tools & Apps To Generate More Traffic [Quick]
This post is really quite self-explanatory from the title. It does exactly what it says on the label! I take you through the Shopify SEO tools, apps and tips provided by Shopify and also cover some other, great external tools you can use to generate more traffic for your Shopify store. Why are these tools…

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Shopify Facebook Ads Tutorial To Grow Your Store Today
If you’ve got a Shopify store that’s struggling to be seen, one of the best ways to grow it is via Facebook ads. In this article, we outline why and how you can build a Facebook sales funnel, so that you don’t lose all your money on a weak ad campaign.

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Shopify Clothing Stores That Attract Sales
Here are some popular clothing store at Shopify: The Ghostly Store This is a good one with a clean outlook that would help you to get familiar with all the optimistic features. Negative Here, you can explore the feasible options that come out as the best one with Shopify. Norwegian Rain It’s a beautiful clothing store…

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Shopify Store Examples To Inspire Your Ecommerce Website Design
Starting an online business can be a little nerve-wracking. There are so many things to deal with. Shopify is the leading platform of choice for developing online shops and can help you to do it in a much easier and simpler way. People prefer Shopify because of its flexible admin and powerful app store. Every ecommerce…

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10 Powerful Shopify SEO Tips [That Work Fast]
Are you looking to set up a new ecommerce store or improve the SEO of an existing store on Shopify?
It’s important not only to use the right ecommerce platform but to optimise it for search. The bottom line is that before you can take people on an amazing shopping experience, they need to be able to find your store and discover what you’re selling.

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6 Ecommerce Email Marketing Tips For Your Shopify Store
Email is one of the smartest ways to connect with your customers. You can be sure that almost everyone who is online will have an email address and this address will possibly stay with them for years. In a way, it is much more reliable than the home address of the prospect.

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7 Ways To Instantly Increase Your Ecommerce Traffic & Sales
As an ecommerce marketer or entrepreneur you are always looking for new ways to drive traffic and sales to your store. Some sales channels prove profitable and others don’t, the truth is you’ve got to test and refine your marketing strategy to learn which channels are best for your brand. With this in mind we’ve…

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