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Shopify How To: Make Large PDFs Accessible on your Shopify Website
If you have PDF documents that you'd like your website visitors to be able to download from your site you can upload them to Shopify (see settings, files in Shopify Admin). By uploading the file a URL will be generated,...
Get More Traffic To Your Website With On Page SEO
There is no point having an amazing website if no one can find it! On page SEO helps the right people to find your website via a search engine. But there are some things that you must do to maximise...
Ace Your Small Business Photography Regardless Of Your Budget
When you have a small business, there are lots of things you need, but you don’t always have the funds to pay for a professional. So you end up doing a lot of DIY. Fortunately, when it comes to small...
Shopify How To: Use Shareable Discount Codes
In mid-October Shopify enabled some new functionality that allows you to create a shareable discount code link.Previously, customers had to remember to apply discount codes at checkout - and if they happened to forget the code or forget to enter...
How to create videos that sell your product
If you thought video is only for big brands with big budgets, think again. We take a look at some tools that will help you create a video in no time, helping you multiply likes and shares.Video marketing has clearly...
Shopify: How to Use the New Image Picker
Shopify have rolled out a new image picker update in the theme editor to all Shopify store owners. This allows you to upload your own images or use free stock images.Instead of the overlay modal, the image picker will show...
10 power tips on increasing sales from social media
Have you set-up your Facebook business page, Pinterest, Twitter, You Tube and Instagram accounts? What next? Are you using them to grow sales or simply become another face in a crowded room?​In this blog we will help you uncover some tips...
Using Free Shipping as a Marketing Incentive for your Online Store
9 out of 10 consumers say free shipping is the number 1 incentive to shop online more.If you can, consider building your shipping costs into your product pricing. For customers buying online, free shipping can greatly influence whether a customer...
How to Remove the "Powered by Shopify" text from your Shopify Store
As developers who are comfortable with HTML we normally remove the 'powered by shopify' text in the code behind. But you can also do this by editing the Language settings of your theme: In Shopify Admin go to Online Store,...
Popular Live Chat Apps
Here is a selection of Live Chat apps you can use in your Shopify store to increase conversions by engaging your customers and answering questions that may be preventing them from completing their purchase.1) Tidio easy to install mobile support option...
Loyalty Apps for Shopify
There are a number of excellent apps that you can use to easily create a loyalty program for your Shopify store. A loyalty program can really help to encourage repeat purchases from your existing customers. Pricing for loyalty apps varies: some...
Five tips for an impressive Shopify homepage
Your Shopify homepage should impress your visitors in a matter of seconds. After all, it needs to inspire them to stay, scroll, and click. Here are five tips for creating an impressive Shopify homepage that stops visitors from hitting the ‘back’...
How to improve SEO on Shopify collection and product pages
Shopify collections (or categories) are often overlooked and thought of as ‘just a container’ for your products. However, they are pages in their own right and show up in Google searches – so it’s a good idea to create them...
How To Create A Simple Gallery For Your Shopify Site
This article details how you can create a gallery using standard Shopify functionality. If you're looking for something more complex or with a specific design, check out this article: Adding Galleries or Lookbooks to Shopify.There will be 3 stages to creating...
Best Online Image Editing Tools
Professional photography on your website is essential. It's what potential customers are first drawn to when they visit your site. If your images are not good quality, distorted or a mix of different sizes and aspect ratios this can negatively...
7 Really Useful Free Apps for Shopify
1) Infinite OptionsIf you'd like to offer personalisation or custom options for your products, for example, monogramming or engraving options, you can create unlimited product options using the Infinite Options app. From text, number, radio buttons, checkboxes to  dropdown menus -...
Adding a Gallery or Lookbook to your Shopify site
You can really showcase your products with a beautiful gallery page or lookbook on your Shopify site. Here are some different options for setting this up:Free Option:Simply create a content page in your Shopify store, and add the images to it....
Top 10 Tips for Setting up an Online Store
The world of online shopping is a very competitive business industry so it helps to have a well thought out plan for your online store design and development.  There are 3 key areas of importance to any website, particularly online shopping...