By now, you have probably started working on your website and are starting to list products. You’ve probably noticed some areas of the Product Listing Page that you don’t need. For example, since I sell vintage items, I don’t use SKUs or Barcodes for my products. Therefore, I use those […]
How-To Articles
One of the Most Important Settings for Your Store
I hope that headline caught your attention! While you want to strive for great content on your product pages within your product descriptions, an even MORE important place to perfect SEO for your store is your store TITLE and store META DESCRIPTION. What you type as your store TITLE and META DESCRIPTION […]
Convince Your Visitors to Buy More
Whether you are still in the process of building your website, or already have it up and running – I thought this was an interesting article – 13 Persuasion Techniques to Convince Ecommerce Visitors to Buy More. It includes concepts that you can incorporate into your website at any stage. Check […]
A Shop Policy Page is a Must
Just like your shop policies in your Etsy shop, a Shop Policy page is a must for your own website. As you are working on setting up your store, make sure to create a Shop Policy page. Your policies can be the same as what you are using on Etsy, […]
QUICK TIP: How to Get a Count of How Many Items Are Listed in Your Shop
If you are an Etsy shop owner, you know how many items are listed for sale in your shop through the Listing Manager, and even on the shop pages themselves. In Shopify, there is no count of the number of items listed for sale. But, there is a trick you […]
Your “About” Page is Important
When you’re setting up your store, be sure to spend some time working on your About page. Having a well-written, interesting About page gives your visitors more confidence in your online store, and can actually encourage them to buy from you. Your visitors want to know who you are, and […]
QUICK TIP: Make Your Email Address on Your Website a Link
Every ecommerce website NEEDS contact information in some easy-to-find place. Customers will have a higher level of trust when visiting your website if they know they can contact a live person. The themes within Shopify have a place where you can add your contact information – usually in the Footer (Online […]
Helping You Make Your First Sale on Shopify Using Facebook Ads
In 2005, I started my own online store using the Yahoo Ecommerce platform. What a BLAST it was for me to have my own website (my first) for selling products and shipping them worldwide. I ran that business up until 2014, when I decided to focus all my time on […]
Ecommerce User Experience
This article How to Improve Your Ecommerce Store’s User Experience (and Pay Less to Sell More) has some really good information in it to think about as you are designing your store from the beginning, or modifying your established store. Here are couple key take-away’s from this article that I found most […]
FREE TOOL: Grammar and SpellCheck with Grammarly
Using proper grammar and avoiding typing errors when typing product descriptions, About pages, store policies, shipping pages, etc. not only looks more professional (instilling a greater level of trust in your website visitors), it also makes reading your text easier. This free tool called Grammarly can be added to your […]