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We’re very happy to (re-)welcome another teammate to the ShopStorm family — welcome Emily Moss!
Emily has had a history working with our team on a freelance basis since ShopStorm was a few months old, and we were sad to see her leave to focus on other endeavors last year. She’s now rejoined ShopStorm as our team lead, and will be focusing on taking our apps to the next level. Read More…
Time for another happiness report! Our monthly reports let us evaluate our support team’s response times and ratings throughout each month and share them with merchants using our apps.
Our goals for April were to focus on lowering response times and to improve happiness ratings. Here’s how April Read More…
A number of major brands use a header bar to display useful and relevant information to their online shoppers. If you have a Shopify store, you can take advantage of this very visible area even if it isn’t a part of your store’s theme. You can accomplish this through a number of free and paid apps.
In this post, we will go over how a header bar can enhance your online store, some ideas of what you can include in the bar, and list a few simple Shopify apps you can use to add the bar. Read More…
Blogs are becoming an essential part of eCommerce stores. Shopify store owners can use blogs to provide industry or product information, give product tips, showcase user-generated content, provide customer service, and more. Blogs are versatile in how they can be used. But, as your post library gets bigger and bigger, it can become hard for customers to find older posts that are relevant to their interest. This is where the free Related Blog Posts comes in.
In this post, we will go over how related blog posts can help enhance your blog, and how to install and customize the app. Read More…
As your Shopify store grows, creating new and unique content can start taking up a lot of your time. One way to help get unique content on your store is through product reviews. Reviews are extremely helpful as they provide information about your products from a user perspective. This helps build trust in potential customers, and can also improve search optimization.
In this post, we’ll go over four ways you can encourage customers to provide product reviews, and look at a few Shopify apps that can be used for review management. Read More…
Shopify recently announced the launch of a new Shopify plugin for WordPress. The plugin neatly packages the Buy Button so that you can embed Shopify products on WordPress sites without using any code.
In this post, we’ll quickly explain the Shopify Buy Button, and walk through the settings and set up of the new Shopify plugin for WordPress. Read More…
Our happiness reports let everyone get a look at how our customer service performs in a given month, and today we’ll be looking at March’s metrics.
Our goals for the month were to increase happiness and satisfaction ratings, along with maintaining average response times. While we met the goal for satisfaction ratings, we weren’t able to meet our goals for response times.
Here’s how March Read More…
A Shopify store may not be your first or only presence online. Many people build a following on external sites or blogs before thinking of selling products online. Even after starting a Shopify store, some people may want to continue their presence on external sites or blogs. In such cases, you don’t always have to send people over to your Shopify store to purchase products. You can start selling your products on external sites by embedding the Shopify Buy Button on those sites.
In this post, we will go over how to set up the Buy Button for your Shopify products, and the advantages and limitations of using the button. Read More…