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How to Use Collections as SEO Honeypots
Collections are groups of similar products in Shopify that help merchants organize and filter their products into different buckets.
An Overlooked Klaviyo Email Flow
A valuable email flow that often gets overlooked is the post purchase email series. When a customer buys the item and gets the order confirmation there is a peak of excitement. Then when the produc...
How Do I Determine How Much Inventory I Should Carry?
First off, this is really hard for businesses across the board to figure out. It’s part art and part science. I’ve seen several companies go bankrupt because they ordered too much based on the curr...
When is it Time to Outsource Marketing vs. Learning to DIY?
As a business owner there are so many things that become your job. My general rule of thumb for outsourcing in general is - delegate the parts of the business you hate doing, when the business has ...
Heatmapping Analysis 101
Heatmapping is a way to analyze your website’s traffic. It will show you the differences between how you think people should use the website vs. how they actually use it. I like using Hotjar but a ...

'Star Trek Official Shop' Website Test Drive
Why did I agonize over purchasing a Chateau Picard hoodie from the official CBS merch store?
Strap in 'cause we're going to space in this entirely unsolicited screencast of a 38-year-old man buy...
Overlooked opportunities for brands in the bracket of, $0-$100k, $100k-$1MM, $1MM-$5MM
$0 - $100K
Nail the cornerstone of your messaging and positioning. Who’s buying this? Why are they buying it? What pain am I solving? When you understand and can communicate that, then you can tar...
The who, what, when, where and why of ad creative
Who
In house or outsource? You could do both! The most successful ad accounts we’ve worked on did the creative in house, but that just isn’t realistic for everybody. Maybe you start by outsourcin...
Influencer marketing do’s and don’ts
Do
Only spend money you are prepared to lose. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t.
Find someone who can be an authority figure or content marketing partner to build a relationship with.
Do your due...
What are the first things you should be outsourcing?
This will vary from one entrepreneur to another depending on what excites you the most about your business. Outsource whatever you don’t want to do or aren’t good at. Nine times out of ten, you wil...
What are some gross margin benchmarks for successful e-commerce stores?
There are a lot of variables to consider that make it difficult to come up with hard and fast numbers. In my client experience, these are some light guidelines based on the type of e-commerce store...
Do scarcity and urgency apps work?
Yes, instilling scarcity and urgency with your customers 100% works, but you need to be authentic and do it right.

New Year's Resolutions for Your Shopify Business
Resolution One: Plant a content marketing garden as a SEO play The best way to organically increase your website traffic is to get creative with the..

NUGGS WEBSITE TEST DRIVE
An unsolicited EatNuggs.com teardown– it's "the Tesla of chicken."
Nuggs, rebranded as Simulate this year.
Since starting in early 2019, chicken nugget replacements a bit over a year ago, the c...

Gymshark Website Teardown
Gymshark is a British fitness clothing and accessories brand started in 2012 by Ben Francis and Lewis Morgan when they were 19 years old. In August 2020, US private equity firm General Atlantic p...
How to Promote Without Discounting in Shopify
High end brands don’t go around offering 20% off or coupon codes. Here are a couple options in those scenarios.
Improve your Klaviyo Email Welcome Series with these tips
I consider a successful welcome series around five emails plus a shadow newsletter.
What’s a shadow newsletter?
Let’s say you’ve been operating for two years. You’ve sent out a lot of newsletters,...

The Problem with PageSpeed
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What We're Doing Differently for 2020 Black Friday
I anticipate that everything will be happening way earlier this year. People are at home and shopping online vs retail. Shipping is at its peak and there are already delays within the logistical pr...
Which Shopify Cart Type is Best: Drawer, Page, or Modal?
The most important thing you need to consider is how clear it is for the customer that they have taken an action. They clicked and something happened.

Minor League Baseball (MiLB) Store Teardown
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Website Teardown: Marconi Foods
A spicy website teardown of Chicago condiment institution Marconi Foods

Bombas Website Teardown
Watch an ecommerce expert spend $50 on socks in this exciting screencast.
Founded in 2013, Bombas is an apparel brand that originally sold socks and began selling T-shirts in 2019. For every ite...

Pit Viper Sunglasses: An Absurd Shopify Store Teardown
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