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How to Build a Shopify App: The Complete Guide
There’s never been a better time to build a Shopify app. Millions of merchants across the globe build, scale, and manage their businesses on Shopify. Apps play a critical role in their success by empowering them to meet the unique challenges and needs of their business. In this guide, you’ll learn the six stages of app development you need to know to create and launch a successful app on Shopify. Let’s get started.
The Complete Guide to Web Design Project Management for Developers, Designers, and Marketers
Client projects are the lifeblood of your business. The bigger and more complex your projects become, the more important it is to develop project management skills, too.
In this guide, we’ll walk you through the five areas of successful project management for web design and development projects.
Scoop Our Strategies: Shopify’s Remote Work Systems
Many businesses and agencies of all sizes have pivoted to working remotely. Even for seasoned remote workers, a new wave of challenges arise as clients and teammates shift to work from home.
For years, Shopify has embraced a hybrid model of both remote and in-office work. But in an effort to flatten the curve in respect to COVID-19 and continue building the future of commerce, Shopify went fully remote in March 2020 for the foreseeable future.
In this article, we share some of Shopify’s best remote work tips and strategies that you can leverage as your teams and clients go fully remote.
How to Build and Launch an Impactful Online Workshop
As a Shopify Partner, you already have some in-demand skills that you use in your business every day. Delivering an online workshop to existing and potential clients allows you to reach more people and share your expertise to demonstrate that you are a trusted partner who can help guide your clients. With your knowledge, they can learn new skills that will help them in their businesses.
In this article, we share some of the most important tools and strategies to consider as you build and launch your first—or next—online workshop.
Tips on How to Transition Your Brick and Mortar Clients Online
COVID-19 is changing the way your clients run their businesses. With social distancing policies in place, many brick and mortar shops are shutting their doors and considering new ways of working. For many, this means transitioning to ecommerce.
In this article, we look at how you can help your clients survive and ultimately thrive in this new commerce reality. Here’s what to consider as you help move your clients' brick and mortar businesses online, fast.
Announcing the Winners of the 2020 Shopify Commerce Awards
It’s time to celebrate the best in the business! In late 2020, we asked the Shopify Partner and Developer community to submit their most impactful web design and development work to the 2020 Shopify Commerce Awards competition. Learn more about the winners by category.
Everyone is a Writer: The ROI of Good Grammar
No one, on any team, at any level of the organization, should be indispensable. Depending on who you talk to, that’s a controversial thought.
Don't get stuck in the tar pit of "indispensability." Read on to see what this means for your written communication skills.
Digital marketing strategies for startups
Lyndon Johnson, founder of Comms.Bar, a niche public relations and marketing firm for entrepreneurs, shares surprising insights for small business owners about to launch their first digital marketing campaigns.
This piece originally appeared on Rogers Business Forum: https://businessforum.rogers.com/small-business/posts/digital-marketing-strategies-for-startups-4962525
Operating in the cloud | Small Business
Making the most of cloud services to help grow your small business.
Ditching the Desk – Going Mobile | Small Business
Learn more about the "appification" of small business and how you and your fellow entrepreneurs can benefit by joining the mobile tribe.
Lived It | Susan Preston | Female Funders
Susan Preston is a multi-passionate entrepreneur and investor who founded Seraph Capital Forum, the first all-women’s angel investment group in the United States.
We sit down with Susan to discuss her fascination with entrepreneurs and new ideas, what motivated her to found an all-women’s angel investment group, and integrating angel investors as an organic part of the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Lived It | Joanne Wilson | Female Funders
Joanne Wilson is the co-founder of the Women’s Entrepreneur Festival, an angel investor, and prolific blogger (Gotham Gal). As one of the most seasoned Female Funders in the industry, she’s passionate about investing in women and their businesses.
In this interview, we sit down with Joanne to talk about her start in the angel investing and learn from some of her best investment strategies, from deal flow to her thesis. She tells us how to make a deal your own.
What to do if a wild animal finds its way into your backyard
Client: Intact Insurance