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Subscriptions work best for products people use up or want regularly, at a margin that survives a subscriber discount and the cost of delivery.
Shopify Subscriptions is free, but it needs a supported payment gateway, a theme that supports sections and blocks and a published cance...
If your Shopify store's only email sign up is a footer form saying "get updates", you are leaving your most valuable marketing channel almost unused. Across the stores we have built and optimised, the difference between collecting 20 to 30 subscribers a month and collecting 300 to 400 comes down to...
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Month one is foundations: tracking, email capture and flows, one or two social platforms, and basic SEO. Month two switches on traffic. Month three measures and scales.
The highest impact first month action is email capture with a welcome flow behind it. Of the last 50 startup st...
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Shopify handles sitemaps, canonical tags and clean URLs for you. Titles, collection copy, product descriptions, structured data, speed and content are still manual, and that is where most of the ranking opportunity sits.
Collection pages are the biggest untapped opportunity on mo...
Email is the one marketing channel a Shopify store fully owns. Across 198 client stores we work with, email accounts for a median of 30% of total revenue, yet many stores still send the same newsletter to everyone and wonder why the channel stays flat.
This guide explains how to optimise your Shop...
Repeat customers are the cheapest growth available to most Shopify stores. You have already paid to acquire them, they already trust your checkout, and they already know whether your product works. Yet many stores we audit send a thank you email, perhaps a review request, and then nothing until the...
Your Shopify store's design is not decoration. It decides whether visitors trust you, how quickly they find the right product, and whether they reach checkout or leave for a competitor. The good news is that the changes that matter most are rarely dramatic: clearer navigation, stronger product pages...
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A specialist Shopify agency consistently outperforms a generalist working across five platforms, because the expertise is deeper rather than wider, and it usually costs the same.
Ignore anyone still advertising "Shopify Expert" status. Shopify retired that brand in December 2023,...
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The Shopify Partner Program has five service tiers: Registered, Select, Plus, Premier and Platinum. Registered is free to join, and the other four are earned.
Tiers are earned on commercial impact: the revenue a partner brings to Shopify plus a minimum number of new merchants. No...
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Shopify retired its 0 to 100 speed score in January 2024 and replaced it with a web performance dashboard built on real visitor data.
The old score came from Google Lighthouse, a lab simulation. Shopify itself said Lighthouse scoring failed to represent real world experience.
W...