Shopify Ideas and Tips

Breaking Down a Conversion Driven Shopify Store – Hickies.com

As many of you already know, Printkeg utilizes Shopify for e-commerce for a number of reasons. Over the weekend, I discovered a company, Hickies, that provides a shoelace replacement solution. To my pleasant surprise, Hickies also utilizes Shopify, and their website was so impressive and…

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How To Improve Cart Abandonment When Using Shopify

When viewing cart abandonment in the orders area of Shopify, I often cringe because I just can't help myself from tallying up those "missed" dollars. Cart abandonment is the reality of e-commerce so don't let it drive you too crazy. Fortunately, we are going to…

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Testing Download Speeds of the Top Shopify Apps

As an avid Shopify shop owner, I constantly trial different apps in hopes to discover new ways to better convert and serve customers. To my disappointment, I have removed many apps due to the slowness ramifications or effect on download speeds, inhibiting a visitor's experience.…

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Our Favorite User Friendly Shopify Apps

A while back we wrote an article titled "6 Shopify Apps We Couldn’t Live Without" listing and describing crucial apps that we depend on so much, we wouldn't be able to use the Shopify online e-commerce platform without them. That article did not cover the apps that…

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Starting an Online Company From Almost Nothing – Our Story

What a ride it's been this past decade. Starting a new business is difficult, time consuming, nerve wrecking and absolutely marvelous. Today, I finally share a long overdue story of how my business partner and I created a fun and profitable online print company known…

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SEO Tips Shopify Storeowners Must Know

Before starting Printkeg, I built up a strong history in web development and SEO providing those services to hundreds of clients of my own for most of my adult life. Presently, I still do a little web consulting, but I remain more focused on maintaining…

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5 Major Pitfalls of Shopify

First and foremost, I want to clearly state for the record that our company is a firm proponent of the e-commerce platform, Shopify. We utlize the platform for two stores and our web development sister company, IDM Print, strongly recommends it to prospective clients searching…

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6 Shopify Apps We Couldn’t Live Without

Shopify, the very popular e-commerce website platform, has a fairly extensive app market. Most large e-commerce providers provide an ecosystem for third party developers to create apps that improve or enhance the platform's overall abilities. In Shopify's case, the app market is large, but required,…

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5 Reasons We Chose Shopify As Our E-commerce Platform

Our company currently operates two websites using the Shopify e-commerce platform, Printkeg and Comic Pop, and we've evaluated many others such as BigCommerce and Volusion. In the past, our founders developed our e-commerce website and customer support area from scratch and continued to customize as needed,…

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