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— Kurt Elster, Ecommerce Strategist, founder of Ethercycle, and a top Shopify Plus Expert.
Past issues
Shopify Dispatch Issue #131 - Micro conversions, In stock products
Leverage Micro Conversions to Close Sales Not every customer will be ready to buy on their first exposure to your store. That's why having alternative, micro conversions are important. Why you should be promoting your in stock Shopify products One benefit of Google's Rich Snippets is that in stock products...
Shopify Dispatch Issue #130 - Google Pay, Increase customer lifetime value
Introducing Google Pay for Shopify Shopify just announced an integration with Google Pay for stores. This could boost mobile sales on Android devices if you use Shopify Payments. How to Increase Customer Lifetime Value (CLV): Pay More Now, Get More Later Johnathan Dane writes about different ways to use your...
Shopify Dispatch Issue #129 - Growing your store, Speedy sites
10 Retail Experts Share Their #1 Tip for Marketing and Growing Your Store While targeted at retail stores, there are plenty of good ideas that can be adapted to ecommerce in this article from 10 retail experts. A lot comes back to the customer's experiences and interactions with you. How...
Shopify Dispatch Issue #128 - Customer experiences, Tracking channels
Ecommerce Customer Experience: Mastering Acquisition and Retention Even with a poor customer experience you still might win a sale, but they'll remember that experience and shop elsewhere next time. Zee Aganovic describes five areas to focus on to improve the customer experience for repeat sales. How to Track Overall Marketing...
Shopify Dispatch Issue #127 - Leading indicators, Relations between metrics
Why Leading Indicators in Ecommerce Are the Key to Success & How to Find Them Herbert Lui gets into leading indicators and why they are important to find if you want to be able to forecast and anticipate the future. Customer Acquisition: Interplay Between Metrics Though it's dense with information,...
Shopify Dispatch Issue #126 - Checkout optimizations, Boosting organic search revenue
How (and Why) to Optimize Your eCommerce Checkout Experience As the last stage of your funnel, it pays to optimize your checkout flow. In this article by Cart Hook, they look at a study from Baymard to make a handful of checkout optimizations. 4 Ways to Increase Revenue from Organic...
Shopify Dispatch Issue #125 - Funnel data analysis, Conversion tips
Ecommerce Data Analysis for Optimizing Your Online Funnel In this article, Doug Crowe goes through three phases of your funnel and shows how to use data and analytics to optimize each phase. 14 ways to improve your ecommerce conversions on Shopify Ross Allchorn has put together things a Shopify store...
Shopify Dispatch Issue #124 - Landing page funnels, How development helps SEO
eCommerce Sales Funnels: A New Trend for Big Growth In this article by Kathryn Aragon, she describes how to design a landing page funnel to use with paid traffic. 6 Ways Web Developers Can Improve SEO Jill Kocher Brown created a list of six things your web developer can do...
Shopify Dispatch Issue #123 - Transitions, A/B testing
Transition Kevin Hillstrom writes about how ecommerce companies are failing to make the changes they need to transition to how things work now. The Complete Guide to A/B Testing Shopify has created a guide to A/B Testing targeted at beginners. Though they did bury a key point that should stop...
Shopify Dispatch Issue #122 - Ecommerce analytics, Shopify blogging
Ecommerce Analytics at Scale: The Art and Science of Data Analysis for Growing Sales Brad Smith has written about how to use ecommerce analytics to grow your store. It includes some examples of how to get the data from Shopify and what to do with it. I have to mention...