I ruthlessly unsubscribe from almost all newsletters. Eric’s one of a select few that I look actually forward to opening because it has proven itself consistently valuable for Shopify merchants.
— Kurt Elster, Ecommerce Strategist, founder of Ethercycle, and a top Shopify Plus Expert.
Post-Purchase Communications: Expert Tactics to Stay in Touch With Customers Alexandra Sheehan has collected several ideas about how to contact your customers post-purchase to improve your customer relationships. New Features, New Categories: Selling on Amazon with Shopify Just Got Easier Shopify has updated their Amazon channel with more categories and...
The Beginner's Guide to Ecommerce SEO While it gets into more complex SEO advice, this article from Shopify on ecommerce SEO can give you some ideas on how to setup SEO for your store. I will say they over-emphasize keywords and rankings though, which have been weakened with the rise...
The Beginner's Guide to Getting More High Quality Traffic Getting traffic to your store is one of the top problems that every Shopify store faces, but it's just as important to attract high quality traffic. 1,000,000 visitors to your site doesn't mean anything if 0 of them buy. 13 Cognitive...
500,000 Shopify stores and growing First, a big congrats to Shopify for powering 500,000 stores. For comparison, that's double the amount they ended 2015 with. Hopefully that means more improvements and features for everyone over the next 18 months on the way to 1,000,000. Psychological pricing: A secret sauce to...
Introducing the New Merchant Overview Dashboard Shopify is beginning to release a new merchant dashboard with more data and charts. Though I have to wonder if all of this will lead to better behavior, or just data overwhelm. The Top 4 Reasons Users Abandon Their Carts and What to Do...
Introducing the Black Friday - Cyber Monday Health Check Tommy Walker over on the Shopify Plus blog has just released a guide to get ready for Black Friday/Cyber Monday. I've only scanned the report but it looks like there's some good recommendations in it, even for non-Plus stores On-page SEO...
Introducing Checkout On Your Own Domain Starting later this month, every Shopify store is going to be able to have checkout on its own domain which could be a nice boost to conversions. Integrating Shopify, Google Merchant Center, and JSON-LD for SEO in order to effortlessly run product ads I've...
How to Get Better Traffic, Free with Semantic Data Yesterday Kurt Elster published the podcast he and I recorded on SEO, Semantic Data, and how they can help Shopify stores. If you wanted a summary what I'm been working on day-after-day for the last six months, this is the best...
Our 7 best tips to get more product reviews and boost your sales Customer reviews of your products can be a source of invaluable social proof, one that most customers expect now. Bill Widmer has written about how to get more product reviews over at the Bold Commerce blog. 5...
Overview of Rich Snippets, their jargon, and how you can get them for your Shopify store Keeping up with Google Search's products and tweaks can be a full time job, one that you need to do very well if your store gets a decent volume of traffic from SEO. Mix...
Each tip includes a way to improve your store: customer analysis, analytics, traffic, SEO, customer acquisition, Rich Results, CRO... plus plenty of puns and amazing alliterations.