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workfromhomeyoutuber · 5 years ago

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EVELO Electric Bicycles: Marketing Manager Position at An D2C Electric Bike Company - Full Time

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Hello there!

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We are looking for a bright, ambitious individual who want a job with direct impact and responsibility to join our team. Flexible work environment, competitive salary, up to 4 weeks of paid vacation, and stock options.

=== WHAT’S THE JOB? ===

Managing our website content (changes, updates, new content, etc.)

Growing our email list and overseeing email marketing campaigns

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Brand management - manage how we position ourselves and talk to our customers through all mediums.

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=== WHO YOU ARE ===

We’re looking for a professional who is communicative, enthusiastic and wants to get their hands dirty. As a small team, it’s important that you are willing to wear more than one hat and do what’s necessary to get the job done.

Experience with at least 3 or 4 out of the following 5 marketing disciplines: Paid Search, Email Marketing, PR, Content Marketing, SEO. Must be able to demonstrate specific examples.

Possess a data-driven mindset - you know that any strategy needs to be backed with numbers, tracked carefully, and driven by data.

Enjoy working remotely and have the ability to set and meet deadlines.

Have experience working with marketing budgets between $150K - $500K / year.

Experience working with Shopify and with at least 2 out of these tools: Klaviyo, Google Analytics, Ahrefs, SEMRush

You can live anywhere in the world, but must have experience working with U.S. consumers. Must be available at least 70% during regular U.S. business hours. You need to love what you do, have opinions, work well in a team, and get excited about marketing & growth. Bonus: a great sense of design & UX, and enough to be dangerous with HTML/CSS.

=== BENEFITS ===

Work remotely from anywhere.

Competitive salary - starting at $65K/year.

3 weeks vacation 1st year, increased to 4 weeks from Year 2. Plus about 8 holidays.

Equity share - you’ll receive stock options after 1 year with the company.

Work in a meaningful industry at a company that improves the lives of its customers.

Free electric bike if you're in the U.S.

=== I'M INTERESTED ===

Great! We'd love to hear from you. To apply, please follow these directions: 1. Please send an email to [email protected] with the subject line: Marketing Manager Position 2. Include: a. Cover letter or a short 1-2 minute introductory video b. Resume / CV 3. Responses to the following questions: a. What are the 2-3 of the best marketing tactics you've implemented in your previous positions? Please describe. b. When it comes to marketing, what do you consider yourself great at? Pretty good at? Would prefer to delegate and pass on to others? c. Where are you located and what has been your experience with remote work? d. Please describe how you envision a typical day as a Marketing Manager at EVELO to look like? Feel free to base it on your past experience. We look forward to reviewing each and every application and will get back to you shortly with the next steps, if it seems like a good fit. Thank you!

To apply: [email protected]

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constructionaccounting · 6 years ago

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0304: Why Trade Shows Are Important To Your Construction Business (Featuring Seattle Home Show Spring 2019)

This Podcast Is Episode Number 0304, And It Will Be About Why Trade Shows Are Valuable To Your Construction Business (Featuring Seattle Home Show Spring 2019)

Organizations and industries, no matter the career discipline, is fully invested in coordinating and taking part in conferences, summits, expos, and exhibits. Industry trade fairs are remarkably relevant to construction company owners because it leverages traditional marketing practices without being intrusive (because your target market comes to you), fosters real, solid relationships, and promotes camaraderie among your associations.

Trade shows humanize your brand and company and add value to your business in general because it is:

Experiential

There’s a reason why global companies capitalized on the emotional connection; it’s more than just the product - it’s the experience. As Randal puts it, the homeowner doesn’t want the drill, but she wants a hole in the wall to hang the picture frame. Consumers’ emotions play a significant role in influencing their decisions. This is your chance to incorporate the touch-and-feel element to your brand. A great first impression and a memorable booth don’t end after arranging and fixing your displays; it only starts there. Engage your attendees by making your booth interactive and fun. Note that some people bring their whole family with them – like me (big ticketed items, remodeling, and upgrades are most likely decided by couples – some with children in tow) so please be mindful and patient with the little ones, consider this when setting up your exhibit.

Educational

Tons of new products and equipment are being released in the market every year, whether it is a machine or software for your business system. Keeping up with the latest construction technology and innovation is essential to your company’s further advancement. Spending your time learning new trends and emerging industry tools is never a bad idea. It's also a great opportunity to educate your audience by making your demonstrations informational, hands-on and dynamic. It establishes authority and trust that you’re the go-to expert in town. Keep in mind that some attendees have no particular interest and are just there to look around, show off your products and highlight your services and how it could make their everyday life more comfortable. They might end up with something they have no idea they need until they met you.

Entrepreneurial

As a business owner, nothing will raise and keep your spirits high than being surrounded by like-minded people who took the big step to put themselves out there and showcase their products and services. You and your staff will certainly develop personal traits and interpersonal skills while networking and collaborating with a group of people. An industry-specific local event like this is an excellent way of creating formidable connections and building positive relationships among your community.

In conclusion:

Investing your time and money to increase your brand awareness and market to high-quality leads could potentially work in your favor especially when done strategically. There’s no better place where you can meet and greet your prospective clients, mingle with construction industry leaders, gain feedback from the live audience, and lay your construction company roots locally than at industry fairs. Of course, consider the advantages and disadvantages when deciding to exhibit in a trade show. As with all other businesses, there are always benefits and risks to deliberate and discuss with your team.

The Seattle Home Show is the Northwest’s largest consumer home show held in downtown Seattle at CenturyLink Field Event Center during Spring and Fall. The exhibit features hundreds of builders, remodelers, and interior designers. I brought my family along with me to support local business owners and companies who have taken their time to showcase their products and services. I have huge appreciation to all who participated and attended this event.

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As competition between Walmart and Amazon intensifies, the acquisition of Shopify’s merchant marketplace, may be the boost that the Walton family’s juggernaut needs to move ahead.

In May this year, Amazon published its small business impact report in which it disclosed that there are 20,000 small and medium sized businesses that make a million dollars or more in sales on its platform

Amazon boasts about 5 million third-party sellers on its marketplace today, with an estimated 100,000 sellers hopping onboard every month.

At 100,000 sellers a month over the next 5 years, there could be an estimated 11 Million sellers on Amazon’s marketplace by 2023.

E-commerce intelligence firm Marketplace Pulse estimates Amazon’s Gross Merchandise Volume or GMV for 2018 at $280B, set to triple over a 5-year period, concluding that the marketplace contribution to Amazon’s GMV would surpass 70% by 2023.

Combined with Prime and FBA, this high-level picture sounds like Amazon can afford to not worry about its marketplace. But an uneasy trend seems to simmer within its 5 million cohort. Looking at Feedvisor’s survey of Amazon marketplace merchants from 2017 and 2018 and some interesting trends surface.

Marketplace merchants are looking to keep their advertising costs low and are worried about rising fees one the Seattle-based company’s e-commerce platform. They’re also concerned about competition coming from Amazon as it continues to launch its own brands. Indeed, 60% of merchants told Feedvisor in 2017 that they planned to diversify to other channels. Walmart emerged as the most preferred channel, followed very closely by Shopify and eBay.

About 10% of those surveyed in 2017 was making a million dollars or more in annual sales. A year on, this figure is up by 90% to 19%. One can tell where these first-time millionaires are heading when we see that Walmart today supports 9% more Amazon merchants than it did in 2017.

In its pursuit for parity with Amazon, Walmart has clearly overtaken eBay in merchant preference. The latter supports 12% fewer Amazon merchants today than it did in 2017 and is closely trailed by Shopify and Jet.com.

Shopify is one of Canada’s biggest tech success stories.

Can Walmart afford to be conservative?

Walmart’s marketplace has 18,000 sellers, 36% of whom make at least $2 Million in sales – all of whom sell on Amazon!

With its e-commerce business struggling to see gains since 2016 when it acquired Jet.com, Walmart has recently been making the waves with its string of partnerships and acquisitions. In May, it announced that it was partnering with Postmates and Doordash for expanding its last mile delivery of online grocery.

In what seemed to be a rebuttal to Amazon’s private label push, Walmart acquired Bonobos, Shoebuy, Modcloth, and Moosejaw. It also announced in May that it was adding 4 fashion brands to its kitty.

While it continues to be hard-fisted about who sells on its marketplace, a trend seems to be emerging wherein Walmart is not just competing with Amazon but is also striving to bring reputed retail brands under its banner and attempting to re-shape consumer perception of it being low-price and inexpensive.

Walmart may be second in line to Amazon but it has its cons. Its process to qualify a third-party seller is more stringent. Sellers need to request an invitation to join and must fulfill certain quality requirements pertaining to product mix, price point, and fulfillment.

Unable to differentiate among millions of sellers on Amazon and faced with rigorous screening from Walmart, the best bet for Amazon’s third-party sellers to diversify seems to be to set up their own store.

They can either create their own website or set up a store on an e-commerce platform like Magento or Shopify .

Shopify – The network is bigger than the software

Shopify, the e-commerce platform for small and medium-sized businesses isn’t too far behind eBay and Walmart in merchant preference.

A seller can set up her own store on Shopify’s basic version for as little as $29 a month. It also has a premium version for a $2000 monthly fee called Shopify Plus aimed at Enterprise-level sellers and wholesalers. An estimated 3600 merchants have already bought into Shopify Plus and among them are popular logos such as Tesla, Kylie Cosmetics, and Budweiser.

Shopify has an estimated 600,000 merchants on its e-commerce platform and has seen its merchant base grow annually in excess of 100% since 2014.

What particularly makes Shopify attractive – and gives it an upper hand over marketplaces like Walmart – is its third-party network of developers, photographers, digital marketers and designers that merchants can leverage for their business. Shopify today is a more turnkey platform than Walmart! Of all digital commerce revenues in 2017 – totaling $2.3 trillion, Shopify sellers’ GMV was 1% worth $26 billion, which shows just how important Shopify is next to Walmart.

Analysts are betting big for the next 10 years despite its recent volatility in stock price.

Around the same time when Amazon published its small business impact report, Shopify announced that it would open a brick-and-mortar store in the US by the end of summer this year to provide in-person advice and consulting services to its customers.

Such a showroom would also provide Shopify the opportunity to cross-sell its hardware products to merchants who are looking to go brick-and-mortar.

For these reasons, Shopify will continue to attract more merchants and will become more important in the days to come and as it does, it will get noticed by the big players – Amazon & Walmart.

Shopify and Amazon share history

Shopify partnered with Amazon in 2015 as its preferred migration partner for webstore merchants. Many Shopify merchants already sell on Amazon; they have the option to use Amazon’s FBA and Payment gateway. And more than 50% of Shopify’s 3600 odd ‘Plus’ merchants sell on Amazon as opposed to less than 1% who sell on Walmart.

Clearly, the preference for Walmart.com is abysmal among Shopify merchants.

At a market cap of $17B, Shopify can be acquired by Amazon without much hassle. While this may not be on Amazon’s cards considering the call it took 4 years ago to shut its webstore business and the ease with which it gets inbound interest from the long tail e-commerce companies (which forms 90% of the independent e-commerce companies base), Walmart should start figuring in Shopify into its strategic plans.

When your competition is Amazon, nothing is enough

In its SEC filings for the fiscal year ended January 2018, Walmart said that it is looking to increase investments in grocery and technology. Much of Walmart’s moves in these spaces continue to come across as reactive responses to Amazon.

Recently, in its overseas battle against Amazon, Walmart acquired a 77% stake in India’s ‘Flipkart’ for $16B.

In what could be seen as a long overdue answer to AWS, it revealed its own cloud network

It has also kickstarted efforts to take on Amazon Go. With FBA and Prime seeming invincible, Walmart will never be able to catch up to the giant. But, it can prove to be a serious rival if it decides to acquire Shopify.

(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Why Shopify?

The non-Amazon destination

Today, eBay has more Amazon merchants on its platform than Walmart does. However, Walmart is picking up pace and is evidently becoming more attractive.

Between 2017 and 2018, the percentage of Amazon sellers on eBay reduced from 65% to 52%. At the same time, Walmart and Jet.com combined saw an increase from 17% to 25%.

Given 2018’s stats, if Shopify were to become Walmart-owned, about 42% of Amazon’s sellers today, would be selling via either Walmart, Jet or Shopify. This would bring the difference between eBay and Walmart (Jet & Shopify included) down to 10%, in turn narrowing the competition gap between Walmart and Amazon.

Interestingly, there were rumors in 2017 that eBay was planning to acquire Shopify. The stocks reacted positively but there were no signs that eBay was interested in such an acquisition.

The perfect complement

The fundamental difference between Walmart and Shopify is that the former is a marketplace while the latter is an e-commerce platform.

It is hard for a seller with no distinct brand identity to differentiate herself on a marketplace unlike on a platform. As revenue channels, they are both necessary for a merchant’s omnichannel strategy.

While Amazon will rule the roost in the marketplace arena for a long time to come, merchants should start betting on Shopify. This acquisition will be an opportunity for Walmart to write its story in a market that Amazon tried and quit.

Shopify does not get you shoppers and Walmart does not get you the support services. As a combined entity, their value proposition becomes very compelling.

The apparent weakness is an actual strength

Shopify is not without faults. As with all e-commerce platforms, the majority of their e-commerce merchants are long-tail with little to no revenue. But critics including Andrew Left of Citron Research fail to understand that long-tail is sort of a deal pipeline to identify sellers who are likely to grow and contribute significantly to the revenue.

A study of Shopify’s marketplace will validate their claim that the merchants are there for the value of a ‘one-stop platform and extended services’ and not just for Facebook data of their shoppers.

As Brian Stoffel put it in his article, “The moat is strong and growing, even as recent protests have tested the company”.

Shopify’s long-tail merchant base isn’t a weakness. It’s the pipeline that Walmart should value. It could be Walmart’s answer to Amazon’s merchant acquisition spree.

The neighborhood store is actually a Shopify Store

Shopify is an e-commerce platform provider but that’s no reason to dismiss it as a competitive threat to Walmart. Both target merchants and both are focused on making them sell online albeit differently.

Walmart handpicks merchants. Shopify doesn’t.

Walmart is a legacy brand and has a perception problem in the market. Shopify is a born millennial, like Jet.

Walmart is competing with Amazon on multiple fronts. Amazon closed its webstore business and switched to an integration with Shopify!

Walmart has no equivalent to FBA. Shopify’s merchants can opt to have their merchandise fulfilled by Amazon.

Brett Andress of KeyBanc Capital Markets drives home the importance of Shopify – “Emerging brands on Shopify are getting larger, and more established brands are gravitating to Shopify to be more nimble”.

While Walmart continues to shop for private label brands in a bid to throw a new spin on its brand identity, it needs to look a few yards away. There are 600,000 of them. Either Walmart could hope for them to come list on its marketplace someday or make itself the very technology that powers their business.

Shopify is known for its ability to attract e-commerce merchants. Its tools – like the name generator, domain name generator, to name a few – are subtle retention hacks to get intending sellers hooked onto its platform. Should a seller decide to sell her business, Shopify has an exchange on which she can list her store for sale. On the partner front, developers, marketers, designers have helped create many success stories, while writing their own. Overall, it seems like the stickiness is here to stay.

With e-Commerce still 12% of global retail trade and with an expected growth rate of 47% over the next 3 years, Shopify is well positioned to capture a lot of the e-commerce upside. The neighborhood grocer is now more likely to open on Shopify or sell on Amazon than at the neighborhood. This is also why it makes sense for Walmart to acquire one of the two default portals of entry into e-commerce.

To compete with Amazon, it needs to make moves that shift the ground beneath the foot and Shopify acquisition could be one of those bets still open.

Can Walmart afford it?

The retail analysts’ consensus is that Walmart needs to expand its e-commerce base, as the default for the younger demographic shopper is still Amazon. Walmart’s marketplace strategy, so far, hasn’t been about becoming that default.

Shopify is a credible option to expand its e-commerce base. Shopify was recently chided by activist investors like Andrew Left for being over-reliant on the top 10% of the merchant base.

There are about 4500 e-commerce companies with 100M+ revenue out there and Shopify’s entry into the enterprise commerce market is a reactionary response to the inherent weakness in its own business model (of over-reliance on mid-market and longtail e-commerce companies). The problem for Shopify and to an equal extent Magento, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, and PrestaShop is that the enterprise e-commerce is the territory of Hybris, Demandware, NetSuite etc.

The tough phase for Shopify would be when its mid-market cash cow customers migrate to Hybris or WebSphere or Demandware. It has to backfill from its growing long tail unless it competes head-on with IBM, Adobe, Oracle NetSuite, Demandware or Hybris. This is one of the reasons Magento aligned with Adobe.

The problem for Walmart in making this acquisition though is Wall Street’s view that it’s a mature business with steady returns. Amazon, on the other hand, continues to treat e-commerce as a business which is in its Day 1.

You could observe the pressures Walmart has had in the past. It took Walmart over 2 years to finally pull the lever on the Flipkart deal, which is going to drain billions from its cash reserves (notwithstanding the revolving credit of $5B it has raised to fund the deal).

With the current market cap of $17B, Shopify isn’t pocket change. But for reasons mentioned above, Shopify’s growth will be tested. Expanding GMV of existing merchants is easier than conquering the enterprise market, especially if it aligns with Walmart.

Walmart’s cash reserves are under $10B making it a relatively expensive pursuit likely needing a leveraged buyout and the market isn’t new to such deals. Amazon, on the other hand, has $265B to deploy, but it’s a buy that it doesn’t need. And that sums up Walmart’s predicament as a challenger to Amazon.

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Walmart acquiring Shopify is no longer a laughable idea

Sujay Seetharaman Contributor

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Sujay Seetharaman is a Customer Success Manager and a Market Analyst at eCommerce market intelligence firm PipeCandy

As competition between Walmart and Amazon intensifies, the acquisition of Shopify’s merchant marketplace, may be the boost that the Walton family’s juggernaut needs to move ahead.

Amazon boasts about 5 million third-party sellers on its marketplace today, with an estimated 100,000 sellers hopping onboard every month.

At 100,000 sellers a month over the next 5 years, there could be an estimated 11 Million sellers on Amazon’s marketplace by 2023.

Shopify is one of Canada’s biggest tech success stories.

Can Walmart afford to be conservative?

Walmart’s marketplace has 18,000 sellers, 36% of whom make at least $2 Million in sales – all of whom sell on Amazon!

In what seemed to be a rebuttal to Amazon’s private label push, Walmart acquired Bonobos, Shoebuy, Modcloth, and Moosejaw. It also announced in May that it was adding 4 fashion brands to its kitty.

They can either create their own website or set up a store on an e-commerce platform like Magento or Shopify .

Shopify – The network is bigger than the software

Shopify, the e-commerce platform for small and medium-sized businesses isn’t too far behind eBay and Walmart in merchant preference.

Shopify has an estimated 600,000 merchants on its e-commerce platform and has seen its merchant base grow annually in excess of 100% since 2014.

Analysts are betting big for the next 10 years despite its recent volatility in stock price.

Such a showroom would also provide Shopify the opportunity to cross-sell its hardware products to merchants who are looking to go brick-and-mortar.

For these reasons, Shopify will continue to attract more merchants and will become more important in the days to come and as it does, it will get noticed by the big players – Amazon & Walmart.

Shopify and Amazon share history

Clearly, the preference for Walmart.com is abysmal among Shopify merchants.

When your competition is Amazon, nothing is enough

Recently, in its overseas battle against Amazon, Walmart acquired a 77% stake in India’s ‘Flipkart’ for $16B.

In what could be seen as a long overdue answer to AWS, it revealed its own cloud network

(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Why Shopify?

The non-Amazon destination

Today, eBay has more Amazon merchants on its platform than Walmart does. However, Walmart is picking up pace and is evidently becoming more attractive.

Between 2017 and 2018, the percentage of Amazon sellers on eBay reduced from 65% to 52%. At the same time, Walmart and Jet.com combined saw an increase from 17% to 25%.

Interestingly, there were rumors in 2017 that eBay was planning to acquire Shopify. The stocks reacted positively but there were no signs that eBay was interested in such an acquisition.

The perfect complement

The fundamental difference between Walmart and Shopify is that the former is a marketplace while the latter is an e-commerce platform.

Shopify does not get you shoppers and Walmart does not get you the support services. As a combined entity, their value proposition becomes very compelling.

The apparent weakness is an actual strength

As Brian Stoffel put it in his article, “The moat is strong and growing, even as recent protests have tested the company”.

Shopify’s long-tail merchant base isn’t a weakness. It’s the pipeline that Walmart should value. It could be Walmart’s answer to Amazon’s merchant acquisition spree.

The neighborhood store is actually a Shopify Store

Walmart handpicks merchants. Shopify doesn’t.

Walmart is a legacy brand and has a perception problem in the market. Shopify is a born millennial, like Jet.

Walmart is competing with Amazon on multiple fronts. Amazon closed its webstore business and switched to an integration with Shopify!

Walmart has no equivalent to FBA. Shopify’s merchants can opt to have their merchandise fulfilled by Amazon.

To compete with Amazon, it needs to make moves that shift the ground beneath the foot and Shopify acquisition could be one of those bets still open.

Can Walmart afford it?

Shopify is a credible option to expand its e-commerce base. Shopify was recently chided by activist investors like Andrew Left for being over-reliant on the top 10% of the merchant base.

Via Jonathan Shieber https://techcrunch.com

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Expression On-line Might Limit Impulsive Purchases

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50% off #Shopify Power: Build An Ecommerce Website- $10

Shopify Setup Guide |Learn Shopify From A Proven Expert | Import Amazon Product | Integrate With Etsy and eBay | Grow!

All Levels, – Video: 2 hours Other: 0 mins, 48 lectures

Average rating 4.5/5 (4.5)

Course requirements:

Basic Comfort With Online Tools Such As Paypal Basic Comfort With Photo Editing With Photoshop Elements or Other Photo Tools Ability To Pay The Monthly Shopify Cost, It’s Not Free You Need To Set Up A Shopify Account To Fully Complete The Lessons In This Course

Course description:

***The Highest Rated Shopify Course On Udemy***

Shopify Power: How To Build A Website, Sell Your Products, And Grow A Business On Shopify. Taught by award winning CEO and Adjunct Professor of Marketing at Northwest University – Jason Miles.

About The Instructor & His Authentic Credibility On This Topic: Together with his wife, Miles has sold millions online and their popular shopify website (Pixie Faire) has even been featured by Shopify as one of the sites premiere success case studies. Miles shares their insider tips, techniques, short-cuts and hard-won lessons acquired as they personally set up and built their Shopify site, which currently transacts 40,000-50,000 orders a month and serves over 1 million pageviews.

Who Is This Course Designed For? Students should have a basic understanding, or willingness to learn web-building, such as having previously set-up a blog. They should also have the time, patience, and willingness to implement the lessons and details taught in this course. Students should already have a product, product idea, or product plan. If you have a private label product you sell on Amazon, or are an artist, crafter, or seller of unique items – and need a fully functional ecommerce website – then this course will be of value to you.

You May Find This Course Too Basic If… If you are a professional site builder, ecommerce professional, or seasoned web veteran, then many of the topics will be familiar to you, maybe too familiar. But the insider tips, App recommendations, walk-throughs, and additional Shopify specific details related to site functionality will still be of value.

Full details How To Understand The Shopify Ecommerce Platform How To Set Up A Beautiful Shopify Website Quicky & Easily How To Add Additional Features Through The Shopify App Marketplace How To Set Up Products Including Integration With Amazon, Etsy, and other selling sites How To Collect Money Via Shopify How To Integrate Email Marketing For Long-Term Relationship Building, Traffic, and Sales How To Integrate Social Media Into Your New Shopify Website How To Use Shopify Reports & 3rd Party Analytics Tools To Maximize Profit

Full details Take this course if you’ve decided shopify is the right ecommerce website platform for you Take this course if you’re ready to work hard to build your Shopify website Take this course if you have a moderate amount of technology comfort particularly with photo editing using tools like Photoshop Elements Don’t take this course if you cannot take photos, write sales copy, or don’t have a basic comfort with online tools

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“Looks good” (Mark McManus)

“This was a excellent course and learned a lot A++++” (Troy Phillips)

“Nice general overview of the shopify platform. Many nice tips to improve your website success.” (Mahmoud)

About Instructor:

Jason Miles

**Jason is the author of the bestselling Pinterest Power, Instagram Power, and Youtube Marketing Power, all available in bookstores worldwide and published with McGraw Hill. ** In 2008 Jason & Cinnamon Miles founded Liberty Jane Clothing at their kitchen table and began selling One-Of-A-Kind handmade items on eBay. Cinnamon was the artist with a penchant for designing on-trend doll clothes and Jason was the marketer helping during the evennings and weekends. His day job was as a professional fundraiser in Silicon Valley. They used social media to scale their fans, followers, and customers and quickly became eBay Powersellers, ultimately selling millions online via their own websites. How? In 2009 they began selling digital downloads on their own website. In the first month they sold 11. But sales quickly grew and other designers began asking them if they could publish their patterns on the site too. From 2010 to January 1, 2014 Miles served at Northwest University in the Seattle area. As the Senior Vice President of Advancement he managed the Fundraising, Marketing, and Human Resources departments. That year they also founded of Sew Powerful, a 501C3 charitable organization focused on combating extreme poverty in Zambia. The Google Foundation has become their largest donor and they’ve received worldwide support for their innovative Sew Powerful Purse program and creative efforts to combat extreme poverty in Ngombe Compound – the worst urban slum in Lusaka Zambia. In 2011 Miles founded the Marketing On Pinterest blog to document their work on the popular social media site and two weeks after launch he was offered a three book deal with McGraw Hill Professional. Each book has been a bestseller and can be found on Amazon as well as in bookstores worldwide including North America, Korea, Australia, India, and Europe. In 2013 Jason & Cinnamon launched Pixie Faire (a marketplace built on the Shopify platform). Pixie Faire has quickly become the Internet’s largest doll clothes pattern marketplace with over 70 designers and over 1.5 million patterns downloaded. It attracts raving fans from both the toy and sewing world. The site averages 40,000 to 50,000 pattern downloads a month. Jason is an award winning marketer having earned the All-Star Award repeatedly for Email Marketing & Social Media Integration presented by Constant Contact. On January 1, 2014 Miles retired from the 9-5 world to focus on the growth of his company and charity. His corporate career included twenty years of work in Human Resources, Fundraising, and Marketing. His work has been featured in Forbes, The Huffington Post, Wharton Magazine (of the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Business), IBM’s Connect Chat, CNET, MSN’s Business On Main, Social Media Examiner, Profnet, PRNewswire, and other premiere publications. He is an Adjunct Professor of Marketing at Northwest University and regularly present for the American Marketing Association (AMA) as well as at other industry leading events where he presents on the topics of social media and ecommerce. He spends quality time mentoring and coaching others, kayaking, traveling to Africa, and helping Cinnamon teach the pre-school class on Sunday mornings at Renton Christian Center in the Seattle area. Jason’s passion is to serve and help others, which he brings to his teaching and speaking projects. His unique experience as a Senior Marketer at a University as well as a start-up kitchen table entrepreneur give him a unique ability to connect with a wide range of learners. He’s sold millions online, but is most passionate about the start-up phase, branding, social media, and the transformational power an online business can have in the lives of hard working people as they turn their dream into reality with proven techniques and practical online marketing strategies.

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50% off #Shopify Power: Build An Ecommerce Website- $10

Shopify Setup Guide |Learn Shopify From A Proven Expert | Import Amazon Product | Integrate With Etsy and eBay | Grow!

All Levels, – Video: 2 hours Other: 0 mins, 48 lectures

Average rating 4.5/5 (4.5)

Course requirements:

Course description:

***The Highest Rated Shopify Course On Udemy***

Shopify Power: How To Build A Website, Sell Your Products, And Grow A Business On Shopify. Taught by award winning CEO and Adjunct Professor of Marketing at Northwest University – Jason Miles.

Full details

Reviews:

“Looks good” (Mark McManus)

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Jason Miles

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Which One Of These Design to Code Services Do You Use?

Most web designers lack development skills.

Even those who have those skills, generally prefer to stick to the aesthetics, and leave the coding and testing up to the developers. Working with a tool like Photoshop makes life easier for both parties, since transferring PSD files is often all that’s involved.

Designers like to be kept in the loop however. And developers often have questions needing answers. Or they have suggestions on how certain aspects of a design might be modified to produce a better product.

Finding the right developer involves more than looking for one having the expertise. Transparency is important; as is choosing a developer who treats you as a partner.

This is true whether you work for a web design agency that has numerous projects underway at the same time, or if you’re a freelancer who typically works on one project at a time.

Where then, do you find the best design to code services?

Look no further.

PSD to Many Things

PSD to Manythings will take your PSD files, and convert them into almost anything you want; HTML5/CSS3, Bootstrap, WordPress – etc. If your project is a website, you’re obviously covered. The same is true for mobile devices including standard Android phones, iPhones, or even a large iMac display. If you know a designer who uses Sketch instead of Photoshop, PSD to Manythings serves Sketch users as well.

As you have a right to expect, the code you receive will be responsive and W3C validated, and the team takes special care to maintain the sematic code structure required to achieve an optimized SEO score. Once coding is completed, the development team cross checks the resulting website on all the major Android and iOS powered devices.

The team takes pride in delivering high-performing websites, and guarantees a page speed score that will keep the users, and the search engines, happy. They don’t work to a rigid set of standards either. Recognizing that the technology is ever-changing, they constantly search for the best coding standards available.

Direct Basing

Working with Direct Basing is about as easy as it gets. A visit to their website is all it takes to get a rough cost estimate. Having done that, simply upload your files to Direct Basing. The team will take a look, and give you a quote; and they guarantee there will be no surprises. Direct Basing is transparent about their pricing. Once you give them your go-ahead, you can expect to receive your code online at or before the agreed-upon deadline.

Direct Basing can save you money by allowing you to take on more design work during the time you might otherwise spend coding. They can save design agencies money as well, by eliminating any need for them to hire a full-time developer.

If converting PSD to HTML5 or responsive HTML5 is what you need, you’re set. The Direct Basing team’s services also include slicing and coding PSD to WordPress.

Xfive – Developers Who Care

Xfive, formerly XHTMLized, is a joy to work with. If the percentage of return customers (83%) means anything, their customers must be a highly-satisfied lot. You won’t see it of course, but when they finish your project, there’ll be high fives all around. The Xfive team enjoys celebrating success, which happens to be a constant occurrence. Xfive is very much a team of developers who care.

Whether you work with Photoshop, Sketch, or AI, members of the Xfive team will convert your design to a modern, fully functional frontend.

You’ll be working with a team that’s been involved in frontend and backend development for 10 years. When you submit your design, you’ll be treated like a partner, and not like just another paying customer. Whether you’re a member of a large design team, or a team of one, Xfive likes to think of themselves as being a natural extension of your team.

In addition to their offices in U.S. (San Francisco, Seattle), Poland, and Australia, Xfive has a global network of developers, so time zone difference is never a problem.

Design to Code by Netlings

Netlings is an India-based web development studio that is well known for its expertise in frontend development and WordPress integration. Their focus is on PSD to HTML, Email, Shopify, WordPress, and Ruby on Rails. They will however, accept your design in any of the common formats, and convert it to semantic, SEO-friendly and W3C compatible, responsive code.

Netlings takes on everything from ultra-large projects to any of your small stuff that needs attending to.

Things to Check Before Submitting Your PSD Files

Web design pros take great care to make certain the PSD files they submit will be complete from the developer’s point of view. In spite of their best intentions, mistakes or omissions can sometimes occur. When something is missing or incorrect, it inevitably adds to the development time; and consequently, the cost.

Common sources of errors or omissions include working in a hurry-up mode, the re-emergence of a bad habit, or even a bit of laziness. These situations can happen to anyone, which makes it important to check how you are organizing the elements of your design as you go, and giving your files a final check before handing them over.

Even if mistakes are inevitable, they can be caught in time and eliminated if you follow these simple practices:

Make certain that everything needing a name, has a name. Layers, for example, must be named. A new Adobe CS6 Photoshop feature provides search functionality for your design layers. There is therefore, no reason to neglect naming each one. By doing so, you’ll make the developer’s job just that much easier.

You also should check to see that changed states in your Photoshop design have been appropriately named and highlighted. It’s mostly a matter of establishing a simple naming and color convention; and sticking to it. This is especially important when your design contains multiple states, such as can occur during the hover state of a button.

Check to make sure you’ve properly defined and identified rollover states; action states of call to action elements and links. It’s better to do this early, instead of doing it as an afterthought.

Are blend modes present in your files? They can be useful to shorten image processing times, but they need to be eliminated. Blend modes cannot be recreated in CSS. If you neglect them, or leave them in on purpose, you can expect some unintended results, since the affected website images will not display as intended.

Content flexibility should be checked. In the course of development or subsequent maintenance, you may wish to add text, or change an image. Make sure you’ve left room to do so, and you haven’t boxed yourself, or your developer, in. It’s rather commonplace for a developer to have to adjust content in one place or another.

Include special elements such as special fonts, logos, and supporting content, in an assets folder that accompanies your PSD file. It will prove to be a time-saver, and the developer will appreciate it.

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89% off #Shopify Power: Build An Ecommerce Website Using Shopify – $10

Shopify Ecommerce Website Course |Learn Shopify From A Proven Expert | Integrate Shopify With Amazon, Etsy and eBay

All Levels, – 2 hours, 48 lectures

Average rating 4.7/5 (4.7 (159 ratings) Instead of using a simple lifetime average, Udemy calculates a course’s star rating by considering a number of different factors such as the number of ratings, the age of ratings, and the likelihood of fraudulent ratings.)

Course requirements:

Course description:

***The Highest Rated Shopify Course On Udemy***

Shopify Power: How To Build A Website, Sell Your Products, And Grow A Business On Shopify. Taught by award winning CEO and Adjunct Professor of Online Marketing at Northwest University – Jason Miles.

How Is This Course Different? This course includes analysis, opinions, techniques, short-cuts, and tips from the instructor that you won’t find on the help pages of Shopify, or in other Udemy courses. It’s not a how-to install set-up guide which you can find for free via Shopify – it’s a unique and systematic framework for planning and launching a Shopify site in a step-by-step method that will prepare you for long-term ecommerce success.

Warning, Web Professionals – You May Find This Course Too Basic. We do not cover creating custom themes or working in Liquid (the code language of Shopify). This course is intended for entreprenuers, marketers, brand owners and small business people – not developers.

Note: If all you want is a step-by-step guide on how to install a certain Shopify Theme as you’re setting up your Shopify site, this isn’t the course for you. You can get those types of videos (for free) from the theme makers. So that content is not included in this course.

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“I’d have to go back and see what the course promised/offered. It is a decent overview if you are brand new to the whole shopify paltform and ideas, and you want the lay of the land. There were a few things I learned, yes, but many of the topics covered were very short, compared to other courses. For $15-20 not so bad. This is not a “how to do course” this is a “what it is course”” (Elizabeth Keating)

“Instructor is very knowledgeable. He is easy to understand and keeps you motivated. I can’t wait to be successful in Shopify! I hope he has more courses in Udemy.” (Lauren)

“Si necesitas un overview de los aspectos mas importantes de Shopify este es tu curso . No entras en detalle sino es una guia de lo que se puede hacer con Shopify. A mi me has gustado bastante.” (Jesus Formentin)

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