Top 7 Mistakes to Avoid When Starting Your First Online Store
New store owners have a lot on their plate when it comes to running their online stores. Design and Development of the store, inventory management, customer satisfaction, payments, and shipping are only a few tasks that take up valuable time when starting out. Only between 5 and 10% of online stores succeed long term, and...
Top UX Design Tips that Help Drive Online Sales
The design of your online store plays a significant role in long-term e-commerce success. Yet it entails more than aesthetics. Each merchant must find ways to improve all conversion metrics for long-term success. You need to know what to track, what the numbers mean, and how to optimize the user experience to improve the key metrics.
eCommerce in the Metaverse
Retail giant Walmart has been spotted silently moving into the realm of virtual shopping with digital currencies. Earlier this year, CEO Doug McMillon stated "We are continuously exploring how emerging technologies may shape future shopping experiences." Walmart's move into the metaverse (proven by a slew of new patents and filings mentioning "virtual goods" and "digital currencies") might...
Why Video is Crucial in eCommerce
Video - for better or worse, has become a part of your life. In recent years, almost all major social media platforms have made the shift to video over static images - the current biggest social media platform in the world, TikTok, consists exclusively of short and easily digestible videos. Other social media giants...
Print On Demand with Shopify and Printify
The idea of starting a print-on-demand business is one that many people find enticing. This business strategy alleviates several problems that up-and-coming online stores might experience, including carrying inventory and back-breaking setup costs. You've heard the success stories, now the question is, why aren't you doing it? There is no better time to...
How To Bridge The Gap Between Ecommerce And Retail
"Many thought ecommerce spelled the beginning of the end for physical stores. But now it’s clear that digital platforms and offline stores are not competitors, but allies who complement each other’s capabilities." Even though online stores offer clear advantages like being able to accept mobile payments, easily access user reviews, and conveniently check stock...
Shopify Email Launched Globally
Shopify has announced the launch of its new email service, Shopify Email. It is free of charge for all their merchants until the 1st of October 2020. This is good news for all shop owners, as up to this point one had to use other 3rd party email service providers. No respectable store owner...
The Complete Searchanise Review
The Advanced Search Plugin for Shopify, Woocommerce, BigCommerce and more Overview One of the pillars of a successful e-commerce store is giving your customers what they are searching for. Many sites take this for granted. Store owners are so familiar with their own products, that they fail to...
