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Is It a Good Time for You to Start an Ecommerce Business?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes People thinking of venturing into the online business world are probably asking themselves if this is the right time. The answer based on conditions today is simple: “Yes, it’s a good time to start an ecommerce business.” Online sales numbers have been growing steadily over the years. This makes it increasingly advisable for any brick-and-mortar…

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Ecommerce Jargon: The 48 Most Commonly Used Terms (Updated 2023)

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Reading Time: 12 minutes Do you find yourself running to Google each time you need something defined? Don’t worry! When I was just starting at a university, I had the exact same problem. My teachers would be throwing out terms that might have been familiar to them but were in another dimension for me. Having graduated and mastered common…

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What If You Could Interview All Your Shopify Store Visitors?

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Reading Time: 6 minutes People are discovering your Shopify store. Your marketing channels are coming alive, and your messaging is resonating with potential customers. That’s a great starting point. But how do you know what’s actually working? Further, how do you know you’re not leaving even more conversions on the table? What if you could interview every single person…

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7 Clever Ways to Turn Your Shopify Store Browsers into Buyers

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Reading Time: 9 minutes When I was a student, I worked as a part-time waitress in a local restaurant, trying to make ends meet. I was paying for my small rented room as well as my school fees and expenses, and I would end up with so little money that I was forced to cut costs so that I…

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The 3 Reasons Your Store Needs a Mobile-Optimized Banner

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Reading Time: 6 minutes More and more ecommerce traffic is happening on mobile devices. While desktop still tends to win in total sales dollars, mobile is edging into the lead for sessions. Many customers visit your store on their phone after seeing an ad. Later, after carefully reading through everything on desktop, they complete the purchase. It’s simply a…

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How I Successfully Use Competitor Analysis to Hypothesize Tests

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Reading Time: 4 minutes If you’re anything like I was, you probably spend a considerable amount of time analyzing your competitors’ sites. You may even choose to implement, immediately, all the elements you consider cool enough to have on your own store. Yet after all of your implementations, your store is probably under-performing. Why? A lot of us probably…

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How to Get Quality Customer Feedback to Improve Your Products and Increase Sales!

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Reading Time: 7 minutes Listening to your customers is extremely valuable when you want to improve your business, but a lot of businesses seem to miss the mark or completely ignore their customer base. Whether you have an established business or are just starting out, there will always be something new to learn. We’ll be going over ways you…

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Ecommerce Stores: Breaking Even for Long-Term Success!

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Reading Time: 8 minutes Breaking Even on the Frontend Should Be Your Main Goal with Paid Traffic – using breakeven funnels All successful marketers start with this sales funnel … It’s called a BreakEven Funnel. What’s a breakeven funnel, you ask? It’s not a typical sales funnel (the path buyers travel as they head toward making a purchase). It…

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Five Easy Ecommerce Strategies to Build Trust and Increase Revenue

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Building trust is absolutely essential to a well-performing ecommerce store. If you don’t create a trusted persona, very few customers will make a purchase on your site. Gaining your customers’ trust is especially difficult when your brand has little to no sales—but it’s still very possible. Imagine this: You land on a new store with…

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You Can’t Just Copy Amazon! (Here’s Why)

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Reading Time: 9 minutes Amazon is the titan of the ecommerce world. According to TechCrunch, nearly half of all dollars spent online in the United States is spent at Amazon, and nearly two-thirds of the population of the US visit Amazon.com each month! Naturally, this results in many newer store owners seeing Amazon as the ultimate beacon of what an online store…

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