Free Holiday Marketing Plan Template for Busy Businesses

free holiday 2024 planning template

Holiday Hustle Without the Hassle The holiday season can be a whirlwind for businesses of all sizes. Between managing inventory, fulfilling orders, and keeping up with customer demands, marketing efforts can easily fall by the wayside. This year, take control of your holiday strategy with Mode Effect’s free Holiday Marketing Plan Template! Yes FREE. You…

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Getting BIG User Engagement: Using SEO for eCommerce Store Owners

Introduction Driving traffic to your website is essential, but converting that traffic into sales is the ultimate goal. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a powerful tool not only for increasing your online visibility but also for boosting conversions.  This article illustrates how online stores can use SEO to improve user engagement. It also looks at…

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Using the WooCommerce Conversion Tracking Plugin to Drive Sales

Using WooCommerce conversion tracking plugin

As an eCommerce seller, you rely on tracking your customers’ shopping habits to know the best-sellers, how well coupons are performing, what items resonate among customers in certain demographics and so on.    Most of all, you’re interested in what drives your repeat customers to keep coming back and replicating that success across the board.…

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Exploring eCommerce Options: WooCommerce vs. Shopify

In today’s world of e-commerce, setting up an online store is no longer a daunting task. Thanks to the availability of e-commerce platforms like WooCommerce and Shopify, businesses of all sizes can easily create and manage their online stores with ease. While both WooCommerce and Shopify have become household names in the e-commerce industry, they…

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How to Set Up a New WooCommerce Store

This post was originally posted at WooCommerce.com as a 5-part boot camp series for store owners considering using WooCommerce. If you are starting from scratch, head to WooCommerce.com/start to get a basic site in place. If you already have a self-hosted WordPress site or a WordPress.com site with a Business plan, head to the Plugins section of your…

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Using WooCommerce for Wholesale eCommerce Sites

E-commerce has been incredibly successful for retail or business to consumer (B2C) sales. Online holiday shopping continued to grow last year, hitting an all-time high of $108 billion according to CNBC, nearly 15% higher than 2016 statistics. Outside the holidays, more people than ever continue to shop online for everything from clothing to groceries. Forty-three…

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Re-Platforming to WooCommerce

Here at Mode Effect, we get a lot of inquiries from eCommerce site owners who have outgrown the one-size-fits-all platform they entered early in their online commerce ventures.   These folks have often outgrown their first platform and want their websites to help them compete more effectively in the virtual marketplace. They want to offer…

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Holiday eCommerce Security: Is Your Store Ready for the Hacking Season?

Being a good custodian of your customers’ data is a basic part of running any successful online storefront. Unfortunately, the holidays are a particularly risky time of year for eCommerce security. With all the credit and debit card numbers traveling to and fro, hackers have a smorgasbord of opportunities for data theft. Large retailers like Neiman…

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Is UX killing conversions on your eCommerce store?

A user’s experience on your ecommerce website will have a strong impact on how long they stay on your site, how much they navigate through it, and if they make a purchase while visiting. When it comes to conversions, your user experience is critical. So, let’s dive in and look at four key areas of…

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