Shopify articles - Page 109

Segment based on what customers do, instead of what they say

Individual customer behavior is hard to detect. People say the craziest things sometimes and trying to make sense of it will be frustrating. But when you can look at groups of customers, trends and patterns can appear. Customer segmenting tries to group similar customers together. It can be by demographics,...

Pretty bad predictions: Portland snow in summer

While waiting at the dentist recently, my phone alerted me about some snow starting. In Portland. In summer. When it was 59 F outside. Predicting the weather is difficult but there are rare predictions and crazy predictions. Predicting snow at sea level when it's 59 is a crazy prediction. That's...

Another Google bug: Invalid value type for field "availability"

In the first few months of 2019 Google released a bunch of new reports for Search Console for structured data. Along with the new reports come various new bugs. Bugs in Search Console are nothing new, I've discovered and written about several of them over the years. With the new...

When Facebook goes down, does it drag your Shopify store down with it?

It's important to attract customers using more than one marketing channel. In March 2019 the entire Internet saw Facebook suffer an outage. This also took down Shopify's Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram sales channels, effectively stopping any traffic and sales from them. If that was the only marketing channel you used,...

SEO keywords in Shopify

A JSON-LD for SEO customer was asking about keywords in their store: Is there any more need to have actual key word pairs, etc, in the code of your site? I know that was an early to late 90s thing, where people were bombing their html with the keywords they...

Key performance indicators for single-purchase products

Repeat Customer Insights focuses on repeat customer metrics but one customer was asking about what to look for with new customers: This may seem like a strange question but do you have any suggestions for an app/methodology/dashboard to capture New Customer Insights? Traffic and conversion metrics are going to be...

Optimize a New Customer Welcome campaign

When it comes to repeat customers, getting the second order is the hardest thing. Most stores I review for Repeat Customer Insights are limited by their one-time customers failing to convert to two-time customers. It's an industry-wide phenomenon. Breaking through that wall can really make a difference though. Once a...

Create a New Customer Welcome campaign

One high leverage email campaign for Shopify stores is the New Customer Welcome campaign. Usually its the newer stores that are missing this, though even popular and established stores lack them too. With a New Customer Welcome campaign you're trying to start off a customer relationship on the right foot....

It's not a SEO problem, it's a lack of content problem

Many Shopify stores are under-equipped for SEO. One of the main purposes Google exists is to help people search for information. Facts, statistics, opinions, essays, documents, images, videos, etc. That's all lumped into the boring term: content. The first step to Search Engine Optimization is having something that people want...

"Extremely happy with this new tool now one of my most valuable in our site"

Last week a Repeat Customer Insights customer left me this review about the Cohort report: COHORT ANALYSIS automatically created from your store is unbelievable and a must-have for any startup focused on growth. Extremely happy with this new tool now one of my most valuable in our site! The Cohort...

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