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A Few Of Our Favorite Shopify Apps

A list of Shopify Apps we’ve tried and how they can benefit your online store.

Shopify is our #1 pick when it comes to building an online shop. It’s a secure and easy-to-use platform for online shop owners and it provides several built-in tools needed to run an online store. However, if you want to add a special feature, you will need to find, install and configure a Shopify app that works with your online store.

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Information Alerts For Online Shops

Our 3 suggestions for where to place important information alerts on your website.

Need to let your customers know important information about your products, shipping delays or your holiday deadlines? What about if you go on vacation? If you’re a one or two person company, what do you do with your shop when you want to go on vacation and no one is around who can help you create and package orders? Although you can pause your store, you don’t want to lose any sales just because you’re going away!

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Thinking of Opening a Shopify Shop?

5 things you should know before you open your shop.

So you’ve decided to open an online store and you’ve decided to do it on Shopify. Congratulations...we believe you’ve made the right choice! Shopify is one of the best platforms out there to build your online store. They only do shops and have thousands of shops running on their servers. They take care of security, which is incredibly important when you have an online store. And, because they have so many stores on their platform, their features are some of the best out there.

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Why Your Site Isn’t Converting

Our collection of reasons why websites don’t perform and what you can do about it.

Most of our time at work is spent designing, coding, learning, or talking with entrepreneurs. When we first meet with a business owner who already has a website, it’s almost a certainty that they mention wanting to generate more traffic or improve traffic conversion. Here is our collection of reasons why a website might not be living up to expectations and what you can do about it.

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How To Choose Your Online Platform

Deciding which platform to use to create your website isn’t always easy.

Where your website lives (its ‘home’) will depend on a few things such as, what your business is, what type of website you want to have (do you plan on offering products or are you only selling services or are you just showing your work?), and how much backend work you want to put in. There are so many options available!

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3 Reasons Why You Should Move Your Online Shop To Shopify

Why move your shop to Shopify? 3 key reasons why our clients have chosen to move from Etsy to Shopify and why you might consider it too.

There are several options out there that can help you create an online shop for your business, hobby, or extra revenue stream. After helping several clients set up their online shops, migrate shops from one platform to another, and maintaining shops, one thing is clear: We love Shopify! Shopify is an amazing tool for most product based businesses and gives you as a shop owner several key advantages over an online marketplace like Etsy.

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