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Top 15 Sales Goals for a New eCommerce Business

If you’re yet to establish your eCommerce store as a force in the market, generating your first sale(s) can seem like climbing a mountain. However, as the old adage states, “The journey of 1000 miles begins with 1 step.” and so the best thing store owners can do, is to focus on the small sales goals in order to build something big.

Now, that’s all very well, but in terms of eCommerce, what exactly do those early sales goals look like, and what incremental “wins” can you set yourself in order to climb the ladder of business success?

With a view to setting the record straight, we have documented 15 sales wins that your eCommerce store can aim for.

26 Quick Ways to Improve your Store (With Examples)

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Managing an online store is like spinning plates. While the first iteration of your site might have been state of the art, if you don’t keep your eye on the ball, it doesn’t take long for the market to move on and for your eCommerce site to get left behind.

More to the point, if you have been left behind, bringing your online site, and all of its sales channels, up to standard, can seem like a mammoth task… but it doesn’t have to be.

So, in the spirit of keeping your site on its A-game, here are 26 eCommerce store updates that you and your support team can implement quickly, courtesy of the CommerceGurus team.

Be sure also to check out 17 Product Page Best Practices (with examples) for tips on improving your PDPs more specifically.

eCommerce Customer Service Platforms

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Customer service is at the heart of all business, and eCommerce companies are no different. As a result, in order to maximize customer loyalty and streamline the customer experience, the vast majority of eCommerce businesses rely upon the function of online customer service software.

But what exactly does eCommerce customer service software offer – and which is the right one for your business? To help answer these questions, CommerceGurus has produced the following guide to 13 of the best eCommerce customer service software packages.

eCommerce Listings Pages – 10 Top Examples

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One of the keys to a successful eCommerce store is reducing user bounce rates (customers entering your website and rapidly returning to search engines).

Essentially, the longer you can keep site visitors on your listings/product pages, the more likely they are to convert from passive users to proactive customers. But how exactly can you refine your product listings pages to minimize bounce rates and maximize user interest and conversion rates?

eCommerce Copywriting

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It’s often said that marketing is the greatest art form of the 21st century, and so, in order to ensure that their eCommerce website fulfills its potential, online store owners need to tap into the marketing power of eCommerce copywriting.

Yes, high-quality eCommerce copy can help drive a potentially unlimited amount of traffic to your online store and, crucially, help to convert that traffic into sales. So, what copywriting tips and tricks can you use to transform your content into a lucrative art form?

Shoptimizer 2.5 and CommerceKit 2.0 Revealed – Huge Update!

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We’re thrilled to announce the arrival of Shoptimizer 2.5 which includes version 2.0 of our CommerceKit plugin – the all-on-one conversion solution for your WooCommerce store.

This is a major new update and forms a key part of making Shoptimizer the de-facto tool to create a world class eCommerce store with WooCommerce.

This update includes features which ordinarily would require the purchase of multiple plugins, costing hundreds of dollars. Instead, they’re all in this feature-packed update! We’ve wrapped an incredible amount of functionality within Shoptimizer and CommerceKit. We think it’s a game-changer when it comes to WooCommerce.

There are a lot of new features to discuss so let’s get started!

Do you want a whopping $50 off Shoptimizer for WooCommerce?