Best Ecommerce Tips and Strategies for 2024

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Ecommerce transactions continue to trail brick-and-mortar retail sales. The momentum and the future is however decisively in ecommerce’s favor. Smartphones bring convenience that favors ecommerce.

Nevertheless, the existence of great opportunity is not a guarantee of success. Like their physical counterparts, ecommerce businesses fail.

There is a lower barrier for entry which makes the competition intense. Getting it right requires tapping into the experiences, knowledge and best practices modeled by those that have made it.

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16 Best Free Shopify Apps on the Market (2023)

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There are tons of free Shopify apps out there. Some are great, while others not so much. The good news is that Shopify does a wonderful job of filtering out the bad apps with reviews and moderation.

If you're unfamiliar with Shopify, start by reading our Shopify review. Once that's complete, you'll start to understand why Shopify is so popular as an ecommerce platform. One of the main reasons is because of its app selection.

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10 Must Read Shopify Tips & Resources. (Mainly) For Beginners

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There are tons of resources and tips out there to help you make the most of one of the most popular ecommerce platforms on the market in Shopify. This blog has touched on tips and resources for ecommerce users before. Maybe you remember this list of general tips for ecommerce websites that we put together a while back.

In this article, we are going to list the top 10 resources and offer a whole range of Shopify tips. The article will focus mainly on beginners and will give you a great entry point to the ecommerce world.

Each point will highlight some key takeaways from the articles as well as a link to the resource so you can do some further reading.

If you still need convincing as to why Shopify is a great option for your ecommerce store, then check out our thorough review of the Shopify platform.

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40 Free Photos Sources to Make Your Great Content *Epic*

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One of the most important parts of a website is without a doubt the photos that are being used on the website. Images are important if you want social sharing, visitors, ‘likes’ and center stage in the virtual world. A website with images of a poor quality is doomed to get fewer visitors and conversions than a website with stunning images. If you are worried that finding amazing images for your website might seem like a time consuming chore, then fear not,  there are tons of tools to help you fix this aspect too and here are my favorite 40 such sites:

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Remarketing & Retargeting – Best Practices for Ecommerce Site Owners

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On average, online stores manage to convert just 3% of their visitors into customers. That’s just 3 sales out of 100 visitors.

Now, getting all these visitors on your website takes time, and costs money. How you wish you could have had at least 5 – 6 sales out of 100 visitors that land on your website?

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How to Use Pinterest for Ecommerce

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There’s a lot of talk about Facebook and Twitter and quite a couple of other social media networks out there, but rarely we talk about Pinterest for ecommerce in the same sentence. And yet, if you think about it, a social platform filled to the brim with beautiful, eye-catching, good quality images might actually do the trick. There are more and more reasons that should convince you this one is a winner. You can see them with your own eyes. Below, I just want to share some useful info, and dispose of tips I came across recently. They should help you improve (or set up) a Pinterest marketing strategy:

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