Don't set a deadline for a deal or offer and then plan to extend it at the last minute. Some marketers have latched onto this idea as a way to turn up the urgency pressure on customers. Force customers to buy before a deadline, then give others more time, all...
With the year wrapping up soon, now is a good time to promote gift cards. In order to get the best result you'll want to put them in multiple places: main promotion on homepage your announcement bar e.g. at top of every page prominently in your major collections You'll also...
With Christmas fast approaching, much of the winter holiday sales season is wrapping up. But don't forget about your business customers. There's still two weeks left in the year and many businesses like to make year-end purchases for tax reasons. This might be your standard B2B pitches but could take...
Just a few minutes ago, Ilana Davis asked me if I wanted a cookbook someone was offering for free. My reply was full of snark but got me thinking: No thanks. That's for people who like cooking, not eating. Having already read that book, I was familiar with it enough...
While this time of the year can be stressful, it's important to keep quality up. We've had a number of packages screwed up this month. One with no padding (and damaged product leaking out), one missing tape on the bottom, one with a soaking wet box and no liner (and...
Nearly every store has holiday customers who only buy in December. You probably won't be able to convince them to buy more frequently but you can get them to buy every year. What you'll want is a kind of anniversary campaign. This will email them once or twice every December...
With holiday shipping deadlines approaching, this week is the time to be sending out "last-minute" order messages to customers. It's also a prime time to contact any VIP or repeat customers who haven't ordered this season yet. For them you can position it as a year-end loyalty deal as some...
An easy tactic to increase your Average Order Value is to create a collection of low-cost products. These will be products that are $2, $5, or maybe up to $10. You can manually curate them to include easy-to-ship and high-profit products or you can use Shopify's smart collections include everything...
The past few weeks I've experienced a ton of different ordering and checkout processes. Many of them were frustrating and full of errors. In today's Tiny Tip, you should check your own checkout. This should only take you five minutes. If it takes longer, that's a sign of urgent problems...
The past couple of weeks I've been listening to a lot of cover songs. I like them because they are familiar but also have a touch of surprise. Especially when they cross-genres. This idea of taking something that works and tweaking it to make it unique works well with ideas...