Ecommerce Growth Tips

Shoppers are impatient. Every additional tenth of a second it takes a store to load can drop conversion rates by 7%. Can you imagine how much money a Shopify store owner could lose over a 2-second delay? Slow websites provide bad user experiences. This alone causes people to turn away...

Getting started in eCommerce can be tricky. Even with all the wonderful eCommerce software like Shopify and WooCommerce, it still takes hours of setup even if you're tech-savvy. What if you just want to start selling online without all the hassle? Thankfully, PayPal has a very user-friendly option for entrepreneurs...

Social media can be a great way to market your Shopify store – but only if you know how to use it. You can reach new customers, build relationships, and grow your brand – but only if you go in with a plan. That’s why a good social media strategy...

Is the economy in a recession right now? It depends on who you ask and has proven to be a surprisingly contentious question. But no matter what, you can prepare for the maybe-happening, maybe-not-happening recession by focusing on recession-proof products. Weirdly, some items just seem to sell more when the...

Subscription boxes seem unstoppable now. But as recently as 2010, the business model barely existed. Rather, it was around 2011 when subscription boxes started to take off, with brands like BirchBox, Dollar Shave Club, and NatureBox becoming household names. From 2011 to 2016, the subscription box industry grew nearly 100%...

Running a small business can be a disorienting, confusing experience, regardless of how much experience you have. It's tough to know where to turn for timely and useful information, reliable data, and time-saving software. That's why in this week's post, we're going to share some of our favorite helpful websites...

People don’t spend long on web pages. A 2021 report by Contentsquare says the average time users spend on a web page is 54 seconds. That means if you want to succeed in eCommerce, every element on every page needs to count. In this guide, we’ll give you eCommerce website tips and tricks to help you do exactly that.

Setting up an eCommerce shop looks easy because of tools like Shopify and WooCommerce, as well as sales channels like Amazon. In many ways, it is easier than before. But then again, so is getting lost in the crowd.

The holiday rush is great for eCommerce. But what do you do when it’s done? How can you turn one-off holidays into steady post-holiday eCommerce sales?

That’s a big question and there are a lot of ways you can answer it. In this guide, we’ve compiled a list of tips to help you do just that.

Below, you will find 23 suggestions on how to achieve steady post-holiday sales, broken down into actionable tips. By following these tips, you can ratchet up your post-holiday sales and lock in continued growth for your eCommerce business.

The holiday season is a wonderful opportunity for eCommerce businesses to shine. It’s a time when shoppers are eagerly looking for gifts, deals, and festive spirit. If you’re smart about how you handle holiday promotions, you can pick up a ton of new customers, some of which you might keep for a long time!

To help you do that, we’ve made a list of 31 proven holiday promotion ideas. Take some of the ones you like and they will help your eCommerce store thrive this coming holiday season!

Ecommerce is exciting because you can sell practically anything to anyone. The internet makes that possible! But actually getting people to make purchases and keeping your eCommerce conversion rate up – that’s harder than it looks.

Your conversion rate—the percentage of visitors who make a purchase—is a critical metric for your online store’s success. Improving it can unlock tremendous growth and profitability.

Words sell. But only if you use them well. Ecommerce copywriting is a tricky skill to master, but the basics are easy to understand.

Well-crafted copy can be the difference between a sale and a lost opportunity. A successful product line and a dud. A thriving business and a dead one.

In this article, we’ll teach you how to make your copy more persuasive so you can win customers and keep them loyal.

Want to get organic traffic to your store so you can make some sales? Ecommerce search engine optimization, or SEO, is how you do that.

Optimizing your website for search engines will help increase visibility, attract potential customers, and improve your chances of turning those visitors into buyers. 

SEO can be broken down into a bunch of smaller disciplines. There’s technical SEO, which is about your site’s speed, structure, and security. Then there’s on-page SEO which is focused on making individual pages more searchable. Then there is content marketing and link building, which is about making pages people want to read and then getting those pages in front of readers.