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Backup your Shopify Site

Backup your Shopify Site

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Adding Yotpo Reviews to Shopify

Adding Yotpo Reviews to Shopify

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How to add an image, link, youtube, reorder navigation

How to add an image, link, youtube, reorder navigation

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How to limit user access in shopify Shopify

How to limit user access in shopify Shopify

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Who are your favourite customers?

Who are your favourite customers?

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Our young Judo champion in the news again

Our young Judo champion in the news again

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Join us - eChic is hosing Shopify's first ever Sydney Meetup

Join us - eChic is hosing Shopify's first ever Sydney Meetup

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How to create a sexier address for your facebook page

How to create a sexier address for your facebook page

Does your web address currently look like:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/uddleduck/305809026115969

It isn’t exactly catchy.

 

You can change your facebook page address to something easy to remember like facebook.com/eChicWeb

 

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How do I add a Shopify facebook store? AKA How do I add a Shopify Shop to my facebook page.

How do I add a Shopify facebook store? AKA How do I add a Shopify Shop to my facebook page.

Shopify makes it really easy to embed products directly into your shop's facebook page.

If you'd like to see a pdf version of this blog post, complete with screen shots, please click here.

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Photo Editions by George Fetting

Photo Editions by George Fetting

You have been soooo patient and we can't thank you enough.
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The eChic guide to writing better product descriptions

The eChic guide to writing better product descriptions

The eChic guide to writing better product descriptionsWriting effective product descriptions is key to ensure the visitor to your site becomes a customer.

To do this it is vital to ensure that all their potential questions are answered. They won’t buy if they have unanswered questions no matter how great the product and site looks.

Here are a few key considerations when writing your descriptions:

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Make your product photos better with Shopify's built-in image editing tool

Make your product photos better with Shopify's built-in image editing tool

If you have an ‘ooops’ moment when you’ve already loaded the images and discover they need to be cropped or enhanced, Shopify has a handy built in editing tool that you can use which offers the following effects:
Make your product photos better with Shopify's built-in image editing tool
Make your product photos better with Shopify's built-in image editing tool
Read this article to find out how to use it to make your product images better
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What is a hashtag  and why would I use one?  #WhatIsAHashTag

What is a hashtag and why would I use one? #WhatIsAHashTag

If you use social media the question 'what are these # all about?" may have crossed your mind.


Fear not, all will be explained.

WhatIsAHashTag

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Bella & Lace - Kate Pearson

Bella & Lace - Kate Pearson

The thought of doing my web site made me so anxious but you all made the process so easy.
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Morale building Monday

Morale building Monday

Efficient businesses have fun too.

Here are some fun ideas for a team builder or lunch time morale moment, courtesy of our after school science and technology programme.

Office Catapults

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If you read only one blog this week, make it this article on eCommerce legalities

If you read only one blog this week, make it this article on eCommerce legalities

Shopify has just put together a really useful country by country guide to law for online shops.

Check out the legal ways to maximize the potential of your brand while complying with the laws applicable to you.If you read only one blog this week, make it this article on eCommerce legalities
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Monique Arnheim - Reed Online Retailer Case Study

Monique Arnheim - Reed Online Retailer Case Study

Thank you so much for all your help on this project.
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Pet Friends Bush Fire Appeal

Pet Friends Bush Fire Appeal

We helped Dr Chris's charity rapidly put together a website to accept donations for vet care for pets burnt and lost during the recent 
Blue Mountains bush fires.
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Tracey Taylor

Tracey Taylor

Hi Kim,

Thank you so much for all the effort you put into class. I really enjoyed coming to class each week. It's a joy you see someone so commited, passionate about they do.

All the best,

Tracey Taylor

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Great Bikes

Great Bikes

Thank you for all the work done to make our website more presentable and professional.
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4 ways to turn visitors to your website into buyers

4 ways to turn visitors to your website into buyers

4 ways to turn visitors to your website into buyers

How to make your website SELL not just look pretty.

4 key ways to think about why users do or don't purchase.

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Sometimes great photos just happen

Sometimes great photos just happen

Sometimes great photos just happen

I asked Natalie at elverddesigns.com to tell me who took this wonderful image for her site. The response was a bit of a surprise

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Trevor Badelt – TB BUILD – Friendly, honest and professional building and carpentry services

Trevor Badelt – TB BUILD – Friendly, honest and professional building and carpentry services

Kim Carruthers was essential to developing our web site, without her we would never have undertaken the project at this time. Her gentle encouragement and skill made the process unfold with ease.
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Holly Sherman, HOLLY JEAN – Gorgeous, stylish, practical gifts for mother and child

Holly Sherman, HOLLY JEAN – Gorgeous, stylish, practical gifts for mother and child

Kim was recommended to me by a friend in my women in business group.  It’s been so refreshing to work with someone who explains things in ‘real terms’!  I already had a website for my business but I wasn’t happy with the e-commerce component. 
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Nichola Zammit, The Gallery Shop – gorgeous Art work and Homewares with an Aboriginal and Fair Trade twist

Nichola Zammit, The Gallery Shop – gorgeous Art work and Homewares with an Aboriginal and Fair Trade twist

Working with Kim on building our new website was a true pleasure. I have and will continue to highly recommend her!
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Are you afraid of your customers?

Are you afraid of your customers?

Why getting out there and daring to interact with your customers (scary I know for us web denizens) is essential for your eCommerce business.Are you afraid of your customers?
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Is your About Us Page letting you down?

Is your About Us Page letting you down?


Is your About Us Page letting you down?Do you know how many of your clients look at your ‘about us’ page? On most websites it is either the 2nd or 3rd most visited page on the site. Ask yourself ‘Is my ‘About’ page selling for me?’ then fix it!
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Beware emails and cold calls advertising SEO services - and how to get REAL traffic instead

Beware emails and cold calls advertising SEO services - and how to get REAL traffic instead

If you are anything like me you get several emails a week offering SEO services that seem too good to be true. The answer is that in many if not most cases, they are.
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What are your new year's resolutions for your website?

What are your new year's resolutions for your website?

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Some tips for getting a good product photo

Some tips for getting a good product photo

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Were you looking for eDemystified?

Were you looking for eDemystified?

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A really good article about Merchant Accounts and Payment Gateways

A really good article about Merchant Accounts and Payment Gateways

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Social Media– Listening to your customers

Social Media– Listening to your customers

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Selling your designs in small runs on lots of different things

Selling your designs in small runs on lots of different things

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Always open?

Always open?

Your shop is closed. Even you need to sleep sometime.
A customer is standing in front of your shop window admiring something in your shop window.
How easy are you making it for your client to buy that product right now?
I hope you at least have your web address printed on your shop window.
But you can make it even easier.

QR codes on window

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Using excerpts when blogging - improve your search engine ratings (SEO)

Using excerpts when blogging - improve your search engine ratings (SEO)

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