Once upon a time, visiting a Shopify store—or any ecommerce outlet—meant that customers had to drag out their wallets. It was a cumbersome process. Browse an online store, pull out the credit card, enter in 16 digits into the payment gateway, and hope that you didn’t get one wrong.
And from a business perspective, this was a horrible way to do things. After all, reducing buyer friction should be the name of the game.
If you're reading this blog post, you'll know that there are many challenges to running your own online store; one is handling the storing, packing, and shipping of your products.
When you’re still a tiny business selling products from your home, you might be able to manage this yourself. However, once your order numbers grow and you want to expand your inventory a big way, this suddenly becomes a more significant challenge.
Whether you work alone or with staff, the fulfillment process is bound to take heaps of time away from other, more important, money-making tasks.
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Learning how to create an online course takes some research. It’s not common for online course builders to offer free plans, and even then, you’ll often find that certain tools like email marketing and custom domains are removed from the free plans.
Yet, it’s important to have the option to run an online course for free; it allows you to test if a course has any potential before expanding and spending any money on it. In this tutorial, we’ll explain exactly how to create an online course for free, with the right tools and tips to get you on your way.
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The market for live chat software is predicted to increase to $1.7 billion in 2030. Couple this with LiveChat’s own studies that show that “customers expect to chat online with businesses,” and the takeaway is clear: failing to provide this service can put you behind your competitors.
So, if you’ve yet to offer customers live chat support, you’ll be pleased to hear plenty of affordable, easy-to-use live chat software is available.
Hopefully, by the end of this article, you’ll be better able to choose the right software for your business. So, stick with us as we aim to answer the question: how to choose the best live chat software?
Let’s dive in!
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