Month: August 2022

Transform Your Ecommerce Site with a User-Centric Approach
At the heart of the web lies one important thing that it couldn’t run without: the user. After all, what is all this infrastructure and information for, if not for the user? As intuitive as it may seem, it hasn’t...

How to Turn Home Remedies into Products Sold in Over 4000 Stores
Kyle LaFond was a science teacher to middle schoolers. Having grown up on a four-generation family farm, he would often experiment with natural ingredients to create personal care products and also taught his students how to do the same. Kyle’s...

One-Click Checkout is Changing How Shoppers Make Purchases
Do you know what the checkout process on your site is like? How many form fields are your customers required to fill out? Do you allow users to checkout as a guest, or do they have to create an account?...

10 Free Advertising Ideas for Your Business
Advertising puts your business in front of its target audience, influencing them to buy the product or service you’re promoting. While most platforms charge entrepreneurs to reach their audience, it’s possible to get free advertising for your business. Tactics like...

13 Free Publicity Ideas That Will Get Your Business Press
For small businesses, beyond tackling advertising and getting a marketing strategy together, figuring out how to get free publicity is another challenging nut to crack. You need to figure out how to get in front of your target audience. How...

20 Small Business Tips and Tricks to Help Make Your Store Thrive
You might be the world’s most proficient accountant, resume writer or artisanal baker, but your small business will eventually suffer the consequences if you lack business sense. Once you obtain the necessary permits and licenses, get incorporated and offer a...

Online Payments for Small Business Owners: An Overview
Choosing an online payment processing system that doesn’t accept the payment methods your customers prefer is much like speaking Chinese at a Marrakech market: both approaches are unlikely to result in a successful transaction. Similarly, a merchant’s point-of-sale system needs...

Stacked by Suzie Makes a Fashion Statement with BigCommerce
For Suzie Schleifer, CEO and owner of Stacked by Suzie, becoming an entrepreneur was never part of the plan. But after recreating one of her favorite gemstone bracelets, Schleifer unknowingly stepped into what would soon become a thriving family-owned business....

How to Build a Contact Us Page for Your Online Store
It might seem like just another standard link in the navigation menu, but an online store’s Contact Us page is often one of the most under-optimized locations on its entire site. While you’ve probably put a lot of thought into...

Join Us for Make it Big 2022: Virtual Ecommerce Conference
This year’s Make it Big conference is bigger and better than ever, with more speakers, more formats and even more of the cutting-edge insights you need to stay on top of what’s what in ecommerce. Our fifth annual ecommerce conference...