The other day I was emailing with a JSON-LD for SEO customer about how Google crawls a new Shopify store and I realized that I've never wrote about crawl budgets here. It's time to correct this now. Google's crawler is a program that crawls the internet. Which is just a...
Last week I bought one of those wifi-enabled security cameras to keep an eye on the outside. We started testing it and it wasn't even mounted yet before it caught a pair of people wandering into our backyard. Then two days later, it caught someone dumping trash on a street...
There are about 1,030,000,000 webpages about increasing your store's Average Order Value. (Thanks Google) Pretty popular topic right? It's a good activity if you have nothing else to do, but in reality there are 1,000s of other things you could be doing instead of increasing your Average Order Value. So...
The other day a customer of Repeat Customer Insights mentioned to me how limited Shopify's order and customer export. Chiefly that they are capped to only 9,000 records per export. This was news to me. That means when you have more than 9,000 customers you'd have to manually export them...
Once you've built up trust with customers, they are more likely to buy faster and more frequently. Normally repeat purchases should occur sooner and faster as a customer is more familiar with your brand. e.g. the third purchase will happen sooner than the second. It's recommended to compare how the...
Boiled down to it's fundamentals, your Shopify store needs only two things: Traffic Conversions Handle those and you're good. But if one is lacking or weak, your store suffers. Traffic is one that's talked about ad nauseam. GooPinBook's business is around getting you to pay for that traffic (and it...
Recently while digging through past emails, one caught my eye: Gift Guides for early shoppers. This was sent out on October 8th. October Looks like some retailers have already started their holiday marketing campaigns. Is yours ready? You still have time to install JSON-LD for SEO and receive Rich Results...
I'm amazed at how fearful Shopify stores are of email marketing. Sure there are examples of stores running some crazy complex system, but that's not required. You don't need an elaborate strategy or marketing automation. All the growth hacks, workflows, and flowcharts are optional (and useless in many cases). All...
Near where I live is a street full of high-rent retail. There is a ton of foot traffic in the area so the rents are probably justified, but not every business can make it work. The high-quality bakery? Absolutely. Line out the door and around the block. The artisanal tea...
In data-heavy reports like Repeat Customer Insights' Cohort Report it can be difficult to understand what the data is telling you. That's why the report uses shading in addition to the values. The shading is automatic and makes it easier to spot changes, trends, and outliers without having to read...
Each tip includes a way to improve your store: customer analysis, analytics, customer acquisition, CRO... plus plenty of puns and amazing alliterations.