This year I tried to save lettuce seeds from my garden. We grew a few plants we liked, let them go so seed, and then harvested the seeds. I found a few different how-tos on what to do but the first three times I tired it, the seeds wouldn't germinate...
Since upgrading the heating and air in our house last year, I've had more control about the temperature my office is. As I start to feel too cold or hot I can turn it on, without having to adjust the whole house's temperature. The problem is that it replies my...
Savvy marketers will calculate their Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) to make sure they are acquiring customers cheaply enough to turn a profit. Most of that goes towards upfront costs like advertising or paid deals, leaving very little to actually retain a customer. Which is silly because retaining the customer will...
One way to evaluate which products to promote is to look for the ones that create more repeat buyers. To do this, you'll want to calculate the Repeat Purchase Rate for each product, preferably based on the first order. Repeat Customer Insights does this for you automatically in the First...
Your products have a few purposes but two important ones are: contribute to your Shopify store's profit satisfy the customer so they come back and buy again later Satisfying the customer vs making the customer happy is a whole multiple-article discussion that we'll leave for now. Getting a customer to...
As a follow-up to my article about which segments to focus on, you can take a more precise approach. Each cell in Repeat Customer Insights' Customer Grids is about 4% of your customer base. (The grid isn't strictly 4% though due to how the algorithm works but it's good for...
Figuring out how online customers end up in your store is valuable. Find inexpensive sources that create the best customers and you'll be on your way to a sustainable marketing system. Normally stores will look at the Site Content in Google Analytics to find which pages receive the most traffic....
October. The month of bags of candy, leaves changing color, and the rush to get everything done before the holiday sales season starts. If you're feeling stressed or overwhelmed, try this to reduce the pressure: Pick two projects or campaigns that you want to succeed. Focus your time on them....
Here's a list of various marketing assets that you can build or might have already. Remember, a marketing asset is something that can be reused that will improve your store's marketing. These are clear marketing assets: Website with relevant content Educational article or story Email list that provides value to...
Continuing the conversation on marketing assets, sometimes you might miss ones that you already have because you think they aren't reusable. I've seen people set the bar so high that they'll only count things that will run forever without any further work. Those are passive marketing assets and are rare....
Each tip includes a way to improve your store: customer analysis, analytics, customer acquisition, CRO... plus plenty of puns and amazing alliterations.