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Building an online store has never been easier. These days, there are tons of tools to help you get started, including a wide range of ecommerce store building solutions and ecommerce platform options. However, it’s often difficult to figure out which service you should be using. MORE
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“To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.” ” – Thomas A. Edison. Before the age of digital disruption, scarcity played in a big role in determining retail’s winner and losers. MORE
Opting for Shopify as an ecommerce platform and page builder has its advantages. Not only does Shopify offer a full online store with advanced marketing tools at an affordable monthly rate, but the themes and apps for designing and extending your store are often free or rather inexpensive. MORE
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Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on May 15, 2013, and has been updated for completeness and accuracy. It may surprise you but, yes, URLs are case sensitive.
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2020 will go down as one of the most disruptive years for humankind as we’ve had to adjust the way we work and go about our day-to-day lives.
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What is MMS and SMS marketing and how does it work? In this post, you’ll learn how to use text message marketing to grow your ecommerce store along with real examples and data from my online shop. When I first heard about SMS marketing, I was extremely skeptical.
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Seventy-two percent of consumers use voice search through personal digital assistants, and 25% of consumers have made a purchase using a digital assistant.
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Building an online store has never been easier. These days, there are tons of tools to help you get started, including a wide range of ecommerce store building solutions and ecommerce platform options. However, it’s often difficult to figure out which service you should be using.
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In a 2018 report, Adthena discovered that Google Shopping ads drove 76.4 percent of retail search ad spend. With that in mind, here’s some good news: On April 21st, 2020, Google made Google Shopping free for merchants in the U.S.
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Opting for Shopify as an ecommerce platform and page builder has its advantages. Not only does Shopify offer a full online store with advanced marketing tools at an affordable monthly rate, but the themes and apps for designing and extending your store are often free or rather inexpensive.
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Before your product listings can sell on eBay, people need to be able to find them. That’s where eBay SEO can help. SEO, which stands for search engine optimization, is the practice of making your listings more appealing to the algorithms that determine which pages show up in search results.
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