Category: Software
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How to Be Productive
In today’s fast-paced world, being productive is crucial for achieving success in both personal and professional life. With numerous tasks competing for our attention, it’s easy to get bogged down and lose focus. However, by implementing a few simple yet effective strategies, you can significantly boost your productivity and accomplish more in less time. How…
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10 Tech Investments for Small Business Owners
The world of business is evolving rapidly. Technology has become the cornerstone of success for small businesses, giving freelancers and solopreneurs a chance to face off against larger, more established brands. The good news is that most forms of technology leveraged by larger brands are both accessible and affordable to small businesses as well. From…
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Influencer Marketing
Why Influencer Marketing? At threddies, we’ve dabbled with adding influencer marketing to our repertoire for some time. We’ve always had mixed experiences with it. One of the biggest issues that a small marketing team faces, involves managing the ‘influencers’. How can you easily see what’s working and what’s not? How can you tweak the influencer…
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Updating Custom Shopify 2.0 Themes
Most of my Shopify using clients tend to use an existing Shopify theme rather than create an entirely new theme for themselves from scratch. This is a great way to get a store up and running fast. Some use the freely provided themes from Shopify, while others pay to use a special theme created by…
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How To Be a Great E-Commerce Business (Customer)
If there’s one thing that 2020 has taught me, it’s that most people are terrible small business customers. Sure, people like to claim that they are small business supporters, until you actually look at their behavior as consumers. These behaviors make them very far away from being the ideal small business customer. It’s likely a…
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Updating Customized Shopify Themes
Note: this article specifically deals with updating Shopify themes that predate the Shopify Online Store 2.0 themes. I have amended this post with the process that I use based on Shopify Dawn here. Most of my Shopify using clients tend to use an existing Shopify theme rather than create an entirely new theme for themselves…
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Google Shopping Actions with Shopify
At Google Marketing Live on May 14th, Google announced a radical revamp of their Google Express shopping service. Even before this announcement, I was working with Google to get Threddies approved and setup using Google Shopping Actions. Google Shopping Actions (GSA) is a mechanism for exposing your products for purchase to the Google Assistant via…
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Shopify Webhooks Driving AWeber
This post is a solution to a problem I had with the AWeber Shopify integration. To get the most out of this post, check out the original problem here. …the continuation… Being that I was spending 30+ minutes every day manually solving this problem, it was important that I had a MVP solution quickly. I…
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Ghost in the (Google Cloud) Shell
One of the perks of being a technologist that is not tied to a traditional 9 to 5 is that you have immense freedom in terms of where you can complete your ‘work’ from. I’ve always toyed with the digital nomad lifestyle… but it’s kind of ridiculous when you need to lug around an insane…
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Annoying Time Sink of the Month…
Every day there is an annoying thing that I MUST do. It annoys me that I need to, but as part of running a professional business it must be done. I discovered the issue about a month ago and have been doing this job manually every day since… all the while thinking about a solution…