Author: Joe Warnimont

Sending an email to a client or potential customer is one of the easiest ways to show your professionalism and overall branding.

Although it's easy and free to setup an email with Gmail or Yahoo, you look far less credible. That's why a free business email address is required.

For example, a business email address looks something like this:

[email protected]

Therefore, people see that you're a legitimate company, and they can even view where your official website is located. Not only that, but Gmail, Hotmail and other free accounts often get sent to the spam box if you're using them for an email marketing service like MailChimp.

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If you've never heard of SEMrush, I would recommend you rush on over there. The website manages the complicated facets of spying on your competitors and understanding what they're doing right and wrong. This comes in play for all ecommerce stores, since SEO, backlinks and other referrals provide most of the traffic you receive.

Overall, the SEMrush program delivers an online search engine for you to paste in a website URL and see all sorts of metrics and reports about said website.

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After an extensive review spread over many weeks, we feel that CrashPlan is the best online backup service at the moment as it has the strongest all-around tool-set compared to all other cloud backup services. After that, we have Backblaze, then followed by the ever so sleek and minimal Carbonite service. But that begs the question: What is a cloud backup service and who is it for? Before delving into all of the details, it would be prudent to understand how an average cloud backup affects your life or your company. The short version goes like this: You have tons of files on your computer, some personal, others for business. Lots of the files might have sentimental value or they might actually contain information that could put your financial security at risk. Companies also store sensitive information in those files, or customer records that must be held onto for legal and custom service purposes.

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One downside of going with a third-party payment gateway is sometimes you end up being redirected to that third-party's website.

That's not the case with Shopify and Bigcommerce, but sometimes people want to insert PayPal or certain legacy payment systems that push customers away from your site.

SecurionPay, on the other hand, has no redirections, and it does more than just collecting payments from your customers. I like this news, since it gives companies an incentive (other than transaction fees) to go with a payment gateway.

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When I think about the search bar when building an ecommerce shop, my immediate reaction is, “Looks fine.” It's funny because before I started getting educated by some smarter folks, I figured a search bar was the most basic of tools, one that had minimal effect on overall conversions. Boy was I wrong. After implementing a few more advanced search bar tools, I began realizing just why Google has an edge over Bing. Search modules matter, big time.

In fact, an incredible number of people who come to your site go straight for the search bar. This means you want to wow them, or at least make like a sports referee and avoid getting noticed (because of the smoothness of the search). Therefore, I would recommend not being satisfied with your current search integration, especially if using Shopify. So many other apps are available to improve your experience. As an example, we found an app called Algolia For Shopify.

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Shopify has mainly been known as an “out-of-the-box” ecommerce solution, with a monthly payment plan and beautiful dashboard for managing your products, payments, shipping configurations and more. You've always had the opportunity to signup for the Shopify Lite Plan ($9 per month) in order to embed Shopify Buy buttons on your website. In short, running a Shopify store on WordPress has always been available. However, it's recently gotten easier with the addition of a Shopify WordPress plugin.

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