Shopify Turbo Theme - How much is it really worth? The Shopify Turbo theme by Out of the Sandbox has long been regarded as one of the most feature-packed themes available to Shopify merchants. In this blog, Blend Commerce provide access to their Shopify Turbo Theme Calculator. Read more
Why You Should Use Langify To Set Up Shopify Multi Language What's the best way to ensure customers in your key markets can easily understand your offering? Find out Blend’s advice for setting up Shopify Multi Language. Read more
Shopify FAQs In order to help answer some of the key questions asked by Shopify merchants and those looking to build a Shopify store, we've put together a list of some of the key questions and answers on Shopify below. Read more
Is Shopify Safe? Shopify offers businesses a simple, but powerful platform to sell their goods and services online. One of the key questions asked by many looking to join the platform tends to be around safety and security. The team at Blend Commerce have put together a range of reasons why the answer is 'Yes'. Read more
How does Shopify work? If you're thinking about using Shopfiy as your e-commerce platform, you won't be alone. With over 500,000 merchants across the globe, Shopify is fast becoming the e-commerce platform of choice. Read more
How to build a Shopify Site Have you been thinking about creating an online site with Shopify? Perhaps you've sourced an incredible product or designed a new local service and you're ready for the next step. If this sounds like you, this short text and video guide will show you to how to build a Shopify site, or as its more commonly know, a Shopify Store. Read more
How to create a Shopify Store Understanding how to create a Shopify store from scratch is one of the biggest challenges for many entrepreneurs looking to sell with Shopify. From choosing the best Shopify plan for your business to choosing a Shopify Expert developer, there are many questions to answer. In this blog, we address all the big questions. Read more
Our guide to Shopify store email notifications Here at Blend Commerce, we sometimes tend to focus on parts of Shopify that often get overlooked elsewhere. One such area is Shopify store email notifications. As you’ll probably be aware, the standard notifications from Shopify tend to be a little bland - both in terms of their content and in terms of their design. Read more
4 ways to get Pinterest working for YOUR shopify store If you still think that Instagram and Facebook are the be-all and end-all of social media marketing tools, think again. Read more
Can a blog really help my Shopify store? If you’re reading this then you are probably asking yourself the same question we once did. Will a blog really benefit my business? Especially as it’s a Shopify store. With over 77% of Internet users reading blogs, it’s no wonder that businesses who include them are seeing 126% more lead growth. The answer then, is a big fat YES. Read more
5 reasons you should work with a Shopify expert When launching your Shopify eCommerce website, you want to do everything you can to increase... Read more
Shopify Turbo Theme: Why we only work with Out of The Sandbox. Whilst we’ve been official partners a little while, Blend Commerce will now ONLY ever use themes by Out of the Sandbox for our Shopify store setups. In this blog, we look at the reasons why, and explain some of the key benefits using the Turbo theme for Shopify merchants. Read more
Why your product page sucks...and how to fix it. So you’ve got great traffic, YAY, strong products, YAY, but your conversion rate is lower than an ant’s limbo pole, BOOOO. Time to throw in the towel? No way. After working with over 100 Shopify store owners, just like you, we’ve seen how product pages are often overlooked by many Shopify entrepreneurs. To help, we’ve put together 5 key tips on how to boost your conversion rates by making changes to your product page, along with some examples from our recent work. Read more
What should you expect from a social media manager? As any entrepreneur will tell you, the biggest challenge is having to ‘spin many plates’. Sourcing products, accounting, tax, marketing - all fall to you. It’s stressful right? In the world of ecommerce where marketing is driven by social media, this can be a key component of how you spend your day. Read more
How to turn your Facebook Page into an email magnet According to procurious.com, 73% of millennials identify email as their preferred means of business communication. Whilst we know that social media is an important part of driving ecommerce sales, email provides a whole bunch of opportunities to sell and build relationships with cli Read more
7 things you NEED to know about Instagram. With Instagram now averaging over 400 million active daily users, it’s high time to start getting more involved with one of the favorite social platforms of millennials. In fact, over 50% of all Americans aged between 18 and 29 are active users on Instagram. Jeez. Read more
How to find your Shopify target market in 3 hours Finding the target market for a Shopify store sometimes can get overlooked in the early stages of a business. You find the perfect product, you have an idea for a name and logo and before you know it, your life! But with so much competition in the online marketplace, it's essential to ensure that your Shopify store development, design and marketing are strictly aligned to your target market. Read more
5 steps to create a super sweet Shopify blog. We’re on a mission to make Shopify Blogs more ‘Jazzy’. Barry Manilow is not the answer, but how do you drive traffic with a Shopify Blog and keep visitors there? Well, here’s Blend Commerce’s 5 steps to creating a super sweet Shopify blog. Read more
Why use a Shopify blog? Good question. Well, the fact you’re reading this already shows one use. Traffic. Maybe you saw this blog title, it was a question you’ve been asking yourself and you decided to click. Or perhaps you googled it and one of the results was this blog? Without continuing to sound like a smart ass, let's look at why Shopify blogs can be so beneficial for your Shopify store. Read more
What the heck is a sales funnel? Let’s not beat around the bush - who really gets what a Sales Funnel is? I know, right. A sales funnel is a way of finding a huge bunch of people you want to sell your product to, and from that bunch, finding a smaller group who will buy your product. Read more
Five Shopify Frequently Asked Questions from Potential Website Owners If you’re reading this, the chance is you’ll have been thinking about starting your Shopify store for a while. In fact, 87% of our clients tell us that they’ve been ‘thinking’ about a Shopify store for over 9 months. N-I-N-E MONTHS. Read more
Can you pass an e-commerce split personality test? There’s this breakfast place near to my house. Every Sunday, as I pretend to be the young, cool hipster that I’m not, I sit myself down on their uncomfortable metal bench and order the avocado smash with poached eggs. Each Sunday, I’m greeted by a super smiley Swedish lady ... Read more
Shopify Turbo Theme - 7 reasons why we love Out of The Sandbox Choosing a Shopify Theme can be tricky. In this blog, Blend Commerce discuss why the Turbo Shopify Theme by Out of the Sandbox is their Shopify theme of choice. Read more below. Read more
Five questions to help you scope out your Shopify business As you walk through our offices around 3.30pm each day, you can hear three things: the sound of Snickers bars being consumed, in one bite, the sound of the guy next door complaining loudly to his suppliers on his cell and the sound of our consultant’s saying ‘WOAAAHHHH!’ Read more