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Why Offering Free Shipping Can Actually Make You Money
Let’s be honest, you get a little bit excited when you see that your favourite online store is offering free shipping right? Even though you are probably spending a fortune with them, you feel like you are saving money because...
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 Allow Customers to Checkout using either Phone or Email Address
You now have the ability to reach your customers through their preferred notification method, eg, email or SMS (mobile phone):  You can allow your customers to checkout using either their phone number or email address. Customers can receive order updates...
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...
How to Setup a Welcome Email Automation in MailChimp with Shopify Discount Code
 If you have an ecommerce website you'll know how essential a good email marketing strategy is to help generate first purchase and repeat sales from customers. You can setup a MailChimp automation, which are free for all MailChimp accounts, to automatically...
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...
Blogging for business: Your questions answered
If you’re a blogging newbie, here are three common questions to consider before you start writing. Hopefully these answers will help you gain the blogging confidence you need to get started. How often should I update my blog? In an ideal world,...
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....
Improve Your Website SEO
This article outlines top tips to improve your website for better lead/sales conversions.To start you'll need: Access to website analytics data Full access to edit your website Experience with coding in particular HTML and CSS Use of all popular browsers...
Getting the Most out of your Website: SEO Tasks and Website Self-Management
This article is aimed at helping Creative Web Designs clients achieve good search rankings for their website - if you're not one of our clients, you might still find some useful tips here to apply to your own website.Now that your website is...