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Email Workflow Sequences for Shopify and E-Commerce Stores Part.1

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As a Shopify store owner, email marketing is one of the best tools on offer to help you retain customers and build relationships with potential clients. When compared to other digital marketing options, you’ll find that it offers the highest ROI and encourages more repeat purchases. The key to a successful email workflow is to find campaigns that work for your audience. Keep reading as we share some of our top email marketing ideas so you can set up email workflow sequences to build your customer base this year.

A Lead Nurturing Series (An Email Workflow Sequence)

Lead nurturing is a critical email marketing practice for Shopify store owners. You’ll use this type of email workflow to push your customers through your sales cycle. Only a very small percentage of customers are ready to purchase immediately, but about half of them will buy something in the future. Instead of focusing all of your time and energy on the small group who are ready to part with their money now, you need to nurture the others, so they choose your Shopify store when it’s time to purchase.

A good lead nurturing email series could look like this:

Educate your subscribers

The first email in the series can offer more information about your industry. For example, if you are a skincare company, consider educating your customers about the top types of products to improve various skin conditions.

Emails-based on-site browsing

Use your Shopify store history to send a final follow-up email that is based on their initial communication with your site.

Introduce your brand

The next email focuses on sharing more about your brand story. You can use this to build your connection with your audience and share why you are a better choice than other companies.

Share stories

Customers are far more likely to buy from a company who they can connect with. Share stories about how your products have changed other people’s lives in the third email in the series.

New Customer Email Workflow

A brand-new customer needs a slightly different approach to guarantee they’ll return to your Shopify store. Start with a welcome email to begin, before checking in a few days later to see how their purchasing process was so far. Two days after the product arrives, you’ll want to check in again and see if it has arrived and if there are any concerns so far. This can then be followed with a feedback or review email a few days after, which can offer valuable feedback for your email marketing team. Following that, it’s time to move on to securing their future custom. A time-sensitive promotion email is the best way forward, which you can send a second reminder of the following day. You’ll need to ensure the promotion is very limited so that they act quickly and return to your company straight away instead of shopping elsewhere.

There are so many different ways to use email marketing as a Shopify store owner. By using a combination of the email workflow sequences we shared here today you can convert new customers to paying ones. We highly recommend creating templates that you can use over and over again so you don’t spend hours sending emails. In our next blog, we will expand more on this topic and how to use email sequences for how to welcome new customers, repeat customers as well as what to do when you have customers who have abandoned cart. With these tips, we hope that you’ll quickly see a huge improvement to your sales when you apply all of these techniques this year, helping your Shopify store to have its best year yet in 2022. Seems like too much? Contact us today and we can help you set up your next email campaign! 

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Take Your Shopify Store to the Next Level: Our Top Shopify Apps for Increasing Conversions

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As a Shopify store owner, there are many tools out there to help you increase conversions. There’s no denying that competition is stiff online, and the past year has been incredibly challenging for business owners. By using the Shopify apps we share below, you’ll find that you can boost your sales in no time at all.

Privy- Shopify Apps To Send Emails & Messages

Privy is one of the top eCommerce marketing platforms out there for Shopify store owners. It offers you the ability to send emails and SMS messages all from one place. On top of that, you’ll find that it’s a great option for running contests and building your email list. We really appreciate that it offers you the chance to record your Shopify conversions directly related to your Privy efforts. You’ll see your hard work pay off in no time at all.

Zipify

Building an attractive landing page is one of the key ways to convert customers to purchase your products or services. Zipify is a landing page builder which offers you templates that are proven to convert. The team at Zipify uses their own experience growing a successful eCommerce business to create the tools that Shopify owners need to enjoy an easier and more profitable life as a business owner. It’s suitable for first-time store owners and more experienced professionals and will help you to make the most of your Shopify store.

Social Photos – Shopify Apps That Links To Your Instagram

A picture is worth a thousand words. It’s crucial that you update your site and social media accounts with attractive images. Social Photos offers you the chance to curate social media photos of your products. This is particularly useful for apparel and home goods stores. By encouraging your customers to share your photos with this Shopify app, they will help to boost both sales and interest in your business. This app integrates with Instagram, so you can moderate your feed and have full control over your posts and tags.


GroWave

GroWave is one of the most impressive Shopify apps, which provides you with all of the tools you need in one place. It combines reviews, social proof, loyalty and rewards, and a wishlist feature. The loyalty and rewards features are ideal for anyone looking to increase the lifetime value of each customer. You can work to give each of your customers the VIP treatment, which will boost their loyalty to your brand. GroWave also helps you to simplify the buying process by offering you the chance to send personal reminders about sales, price drops, and items running out of stock on your site.

We know that increasing Shopify conversions is one of the biggest challenges for Shopify store owners. By using these Shopify apps, you’ll have all of the features you need to support you on your journey to increasing your conversions over the next few months. If you need help deciding what Shopify Apps to add to your website or need help installing them you can book a call with us here!

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​​How To Incorporate An Authentic Give-Back This Holiday Season

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The holidays are the perfect time for giving back to the community. While it is fairly easy for individuals to come up with ideas for giving back through charities, brands can sometimes find the opposite.

“Why”, you ask?

Most brands want to give back to something that they genuinely care about while being aligned with their company’s mission.

But why is giving back to the community so important for brands? Consumers love to support brands that make it their mission to give back to the community. Consumer’s perception of your brand can change for the positive if you can make a positive impact in your community.

During Thanksgiving planning, our clients, Food In Motion, reached out to us to let us know that they wanted to give back to their community. Together we were able to determine causes that were close to them and that aligned with their business. ⁠

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Food in Motion partnered with Welcoming Arms, a non-profit organization that gives back to low-income families in Aurora, Ontario. ⁠

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For every 10 Thanksgiving Meal Packages sold, Food In Motion donated 1 Thanksgiving dinner to a family of 4. ⁠

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By advertising their holiday special and their partnership with Welcoming Arms, Food In Motion was able to surpass their sales goals. All while being able to donate 16 hot Thanksgiving dinners to families in need in Aurora. ⁠

A great place to start when trying to figure out what to donate would be asking your team for their input. See if there are any potential causes that they are passionate about for giving back to the community.

Here’s a list of potential ideas that you, as a brand can adopt for a little holiday give-back this season.

Reach Out To Another Brand With a Similar Mission

Head to social media to find out what other brands share missions similar to yours. Partner up with them to create exciting ideas for giving back to the community. This can also you to grow your network while doing something great for causes you feel avidly about.

Gifts That Give Back

Another great initiative for a holiday give-back would be to purchase client gifts from brands that also support a cause. Bonus points if they are local!

Not only will you be supporting another company but you will also be playing an active part in helping them achieve their ‘giving back’ mission.

Donating Your Services Or Products

Yes, you can also give away free products or services to those in need. Ask yourself if there are families/businesses in the community who were impacted by the pandemic that can benefit from your product or service. Work with your team to see what you can do to help support them, without spreading yourself too thin (especially if you are donating a service).

There are many ways to give back to the community this holiday season So, if you are unsure about how you can do an authentic holiday give-back, contact us today to set up a call where we can go over causes that are important to both you and your brand while helping you figure out a give-back plan that is sustainable for your business.

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