Create and Sell Online Courses via Shopify

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Online learning has been growing in popularity over the last few years. The barriers to set up online courses have been reducing where it is no longer large organizations or institutions who are able to create these courses.

Online learning allows providers to share their knowledge at a low cost, and allows learners access to this low-cost learning from anywhere and at any time. In this post, we’ll take a look at a couple of ways you can use Shopify to sell online courses. Read More…

3 Email Marketing Tips for Shopify Stores

US online shoppers

Email marketing plays an important role in a brand’s growth. A majority of people still prefer emails for commercial communication, and 81% of US online shoppers are more likely to make additional purchases due to receiving emails. In this post, we go over 3 email marketing tips for your Shopify store that you can quickly implement and start connecting with your customers.

We’ll take a look at how you can get email subscribers, automate emails, and create some simple campaigns. Read More…

Customer Happiness – November 2016

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Hello! Today we’re taking a look at our customer service team’s performance metrics for November. Our happiness reports give us a way to continuously?evaluate our performance and to share our goals publicly each month.

In November, our goal was?to improve our?average response times while maintaining our 100% happiness rating. Here’s how November?compared to our October?report: Read More…

Customer Happiness – October 2016

happiness report

Today we’re taking a look at our customer service team’s performance metrics for October. Our happiness reports give us a way to continuously?evaluate our performance and to share our goals publicly each month.

In October, our goal was?to bring?happiness ratings back up to 100% and maintain our?average response times. Here’s how October?compared to our September report: Read More…

November App of the Month: Shopify Products on Facebook Messenger

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Facebook Messenger is one of the most popular chat applications in the world. According to a report by Statista, the app had roughly 1 billion monthly active users as of July 2016. This makes Messenger an ideal platform for social selling through Shopify.

In this post, we’ll take a look at how you can use the Messenger app by Shopify to sell products directly through Facebook Messenger, and enable store chats and notifications within the messaging app. Read More…

Prepare Your Shopify Store for Black Friday and Cyber Monday

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With the holiday season approaching, it’s time to get your store ready for the sales and promotions, if you haven’t already. Shoppers tend to do almost half of their holiday shopping online. This means that you can capture part of these sales by promoting sales on your Shopify store.

In this post, we’ll take a look at five tips you can use to boost sales during Black Friday (November 25) and Cyber Monday (November 28) this year. Read More…

How to add Pricing Tables on Shopify Stores

pricing table that Shopify uses

For some eCommerce stores on Shopify, there are products and services that are similar to each other, but have tiered pricing. This tiered pricing typically reflects the number of features that are included in that tier. By default, customers would have to go to the individual product page to see what these features are. However, you can make their life easier by adding pricing tables on Shopify to give an overview and comparison of these features.

What am I talking about? Here’s an example of pricing table that Shopify uses to show their plans.

In this post, we’ll take a look at why and when you can use pricing tables, and do a quick walkthrough of a free app that allows you to add pricing tables to your Shopify store. Read More…

October 2016 App of the Month: Reduce Checkout Fraud

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Many challenges arise as your online business grows. One of them is dealing with fraudulent transactions. This is when a fraudulent credit card is used at checkout. This can cause a lot of havoc by disrupting your inventory numbers, automated shipping, causing chargebacks, etc. However, Shopify store owners have a free way to start reducing fraudulent transactions on their store.

In this post, we take a look at online fraud statistics and do a quick walkthrough of the Fraud Filter app by Shopify. Read More…