Limited features Even if you are new to website creation, it may be difficult to find tools that allow you to design a very custom site. With WordPress, you can use an editor such as SubText or Cms42 but even they offer limited functionality. For example, these platforms lack good controls for styling links, which […]

Too many images in my shop Images are one of the most important components to a website’s performance. When people visit your site, you want them to quickly understand what they’re looking at and how it relates to what they’re doing. Too many images can prevent someone from leaving a comment or buying something, so […]

Pay upfront fees In order to use Shopify, you will need to pay an installation fee and ongoing licensing costs. You can avoid the initial cost by having others set up your account for you, but then you'll have monthly maintenance charges. Rather than paying once and getting access forever, try each month spending money […]

Earn Money by Introducing Customers to Your Products One of the things that makes Shopify different from other online sellers’ platforms is that we pay you for promoting your products (through algorithms that our systems have put in place). When you create an account, you will be provided with a “My Product List” which includes […]

Loading Your Site Takes Forever Every time you load or create pages (events, products, etc.) it sends an information request to the server which can take up to several minutes depending on how many people are already on the website. Also, if you have multiple sites under one domain name (you do), then everything will […]

Access your shopify account Once you’ve created an online store using shopify, it’s time to make it live on the internet! But first, let’s talk about unsubscribing. You can subscribe to things here and there. There are lots of ways to do this, but we’ll get into that in the next section. For now, just […]

The effects of social media on retail sales Digital technologies have changed the way we get our content, both big and small. YouTube and Facebook are only two examples of how technology is driving changes in the content industry, with more to come. More and more people are using social networks to find information, shop […]

Create your product plan After you have created your product, schedule some time to create a product development plan. This should detail how much software will be released, when, and for which platform. Put down when you expect the release dates to be, as well as what’s going to happen in each stage of development. […]

Create products that customers want One way to do this is by making customer surveys and listening carefully to what people are saying. A lot of revenue-generating ideas can be found online in blogs and articles. You can also create survey questions for your own polls, like “Are you going to buy from us?” or […]

Bad management A lot of companies get themselves in trouble by focusing on profits instead of customers. They try to be all things to everyone –– products, services and more products. This over-extended brand tries to attract one type of customer then loses them when they don’t need or want what it offers. Customer service […]