So, you’ve decided to start an e-commerce business. And better still, you’ve chosen to host your online store on Shopify, one of the best e-commerce solutions.
Shopify isn’t only reliable and easy to use, it offers pretty much every feature you might need as an e-commerce business owner.
Make your online store the best it can be with these easy-to-install Shopify plugins.
Shopify plugins:
ShopConnection.
Let us guess, you want to attract customers to your business. That’s usually priority number one when launching an online store. After all, without the customers your business might not exist. So how do you attract customers? Your business needs to be seen on each of the social media networks.
ShopConnection is a Shopify plugin that integrates easily with your store and offers your customers an easy way to share your products across their social media platforms. If you want to stick with the basic, free services, you’ll be able to add share buttons for Pinterest and Tumblr (the biggest shopping focused networks). Their paid plan allows for you to connect
Chimpified.
You probably know this already, but email marketing is a huge part of attracting and retaining customers. And if you aren’t doing it already, you probably should be.
MailChimp is one of the easiest email marketing providers out there. And their app, Chimpified, follows suit. It’s a free Shopify plugin app, and it’s easy to install.
If you’re not using MailChimp, some other apps to consider are Madify from Mad Mimi, Contactify from Constant Contact, and Campaignified from Campaign Monitor.
Yopto.
If you saw our post all about getting customer and product reviews, then you already know a little bit about Yopto. If not, this app helps you gather more customer and product reviews. Basically, this app makes it easy for your customers to leave a review and share your store on social media.
How it works. Any new customers will automatically receive an email after their purchase prompting them to leave feedback.
Fliptabify.
Establishing a prominent Facebook presence is hugely important for your business. This application lets you add a tab to your existing Facebook page allowing your customers to flip through your inventory from your page!
You can upload unlimited products with their basic free plan to as many Facebook pages as you want. If you want to encourage more engagement from page visitors, opt for their power plan. It’ll keep some of your products hidden until the visitor “likes” your Facebook page.
Recomatic.
To make the shopping experience better for your customer, install Recomatic. This app, which costs $24/monthly, adds a recommendation module that automatically uses past order data to recommend products to your customer. It uses tags, product descriptions, titles, and categories to feature the most relevant products to your customers.