Category: <span>Advice</span>

  • October 27, 2021

Important 2021 Holiday Dates for eCommerce Store Owners

It’s hard to believe that 2021 is almost over! It’s even harder to believe that the holiday season is right around the corner.  With that said, now is the time to get all your last-minute holiday to-do’s buttoned up before the orders start rolling in. By now, you should have your 2021 marketing calendar finalized […]
  • September 28, 2021

Get Your eCommerce Store Holiday Ready with these Tips

Welcome to the 4th quarter of 2021 and what a year it has been for eCommerce. Online sales are higher than ever, more and more people are shopping from their computers and smartphones than ever before due to the pandemic, and there’s no sign of slowing down. Let’s face it, COVID-19 changed the way most […]
  • September 8, 2021

2021 Holiday Season Survival Guide Part 3: Customer Service

As we inch closer and closer to the holidays, by this time you should have your inventory beefed up, your holiday sales planned out with a corresponding marketing calendar, and your warehouse primed to handle the increased demand that is just a few weeks away. But there’s one more thing we need to touch on […]
  • July 23, 2021

Having a Sale? Create Deal Pages to Get Extra Attention from Google!

Hooray for the holidays! Especially this year when online shopping is expected to blow estimates out of the water. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a new wave of people who just recently made their first online purchase. And we all know that online shopping is like a piece of candy, one bite and you keep […]
  • July 15, 2021

2021 Holiday Season Survival Guide Part 2: Site Search

Welcome to the second installment of our Holiday Survival Guide. Previously we discussed shipping challenges that eCommerce store owners may face this season due to unprecedented package demand coupled with the lingering impacts of COVID-19. Today we’re going to discuss an often-overlooked element of the shopping experience – site search. Believe it or not, many […]
  • June 20, 2021

2021 Holiday Season Survival Guide Part 1: Shipping

It may be June and your sights are probably set on the summer vacation plans you have coming up, but there’s also something you should be looking forward to… the holidays! There, I said it. Yes, it’s time to start thinking about the holiday shopping season that gets underway in less than five months. The […]
  • May 27, 2021

Yahoo! Business Mail Access Following a Site Migration

With more and more Yahoo! Store owners coming to us to migrate them to another eCommerce platform, such as BigCommerce or Shopify, we occasionally run across some unique situations that need to be mitigated before launch. One of the more common ones has to do with Yahoo! Business Mail. While the majority of Yahoo! Store […]
  • May 12, 2021

Use the BigCommerce Promotions Manager: Advanced Editor to Create Promos that Convert

eCommerce store owners know the best way to lure customers in is to give them a deal that is irresistible! Whether you’re offering free shipping over a certain dollar amount, a bonus gift with purchase, a percentage off with a coupon code, or some other deal, these all contribute to higher conversion rates. BigCommerce store […]
  • April 29, 2021

For Sale: Yahoo? Our Thoughts on the future of Yahoo! Store

You may have seen or read an April 28, 2021 report in the news speculating that Verizon may sell some of its media assets, one being Yahoo!. Verizon purchased Yahoo!, including Yahoo! Small Business which powers several thousand eCommerce stores, in 2017.  Since then, many in the eCommerce space wondered what the fate of the old, […]
  • April 17, 2021

Core Web Vitals: Important Information for eCommerce Store Owners

When it comes to creating an optimized experience for your shoppers, there are many things to consider. From visual elements such as site design and page layout to behind-the-scenes things such as speed and page weight. All of these, regardless of whether they are customer-facing or not, are key factors not only for conversion but […]
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