Bundle Products on your Shopify Store

Published at December 30, 2015December 29, 2015 In Category Shop Tips Tags: marketing, product bundles Leave a comment

In our last post for the year, we will discuss how you can bundle products to increase your average order value, enhance the customer experience, and raise the profile of new products on your Shopify store.

As holiday shopping winds down, and you prepare for new inventory, bundling products together is one way of selling or clearing-from-inventory less popular items. In this post, we will go over the advantages of bundling products, and two apps that can help you bundle products on Shopify. Read More…

Pros and Cons of Offering Phone Service

Published at December 16, 2015August 2, 2019 In Category Shop Tips Tags: customer service, phone Leave a comment

Customer support is an important part of building your Shopify store. Since customers cannot touch-or-feel your products before they purchase, or talk to a physical salesperson, most online stores provide a contact form for customers to get in touch with questions. You can take this support to another level by including a phone service for your store.

Before you start offering phone customer service, there are a number of things to keep in mind to ensure that it helps your store, rather than detracts from it. In this post, we look at the pros and cons of offering customer service via phone for your Shopify store, as well as some services and apps you can use to get started. Read More…

December 2015 Edition: Top Shopify Apps

Published at December 10, 2015December 9, 2015 In Category Shop Tips Tags: free apps, Recommendations Leave a comment

In this edition of top Shopify apps (most of them FREE), we take a look at how to diagnose and fix SEO issues on your store, automatically display different currencies, and give a quick view of products in your store. Read More…

Upsell and Cross-Sell Products on Shopify

Published at November 18, 2015August 2, 2019 In Category App Review, Shop Tips Tags: cross-sell, Recommendations, sales, upsell 3 Comments

Upsell and cross-sell opportunities on your Shopify store can boost sales and lead to a better customer experience. Upselling and cross-selling is an important way to increase average order value.

These can also improve customer and user experience on your store site by making related products easier to find. If done right, upselling and cross-selling make recommendations to customers about products they would or should have bought anyway. This ensures that customers don’t have to create a separate order for related items on your store because they weren’t aware, or search for these products on other vendor websites. Read More…

Create Gift Cards for Your Shopify Store

Published at November 5, 2015November 4, 2015 In Category Shop Tips Tags: digital products, gifts, holidays Leave a comment

Retail sales usually pick up going into the holiday season at the end of the year for most stores. In our post about how to prepare your Shopify store for the holidays, we covered a number of things that can help you boost sales. In this post, we will go over how to sell gift cards on your store to boost sales, especially while preparing for the holidays.

Gift cards are easy-to-create digital products that you can set up on your Shopify store if you are on the Professional or Unlimited plans. In this post, we cover why gift cards are important in your product line-up, how to create them for your online store, and a quick overview of how to create them for the Shopify POS system. Read More…