Jan Buerge has owned her store for 35 years, but never made a serious effort to sell online until ... [+] now.
When the pandemic forced Jan Buerge to shut down World's Window, the Kansas City clothing and accessories store she opened 35 years ago, she jumped into crisis mode.
Buerge is one of thousands of mom-and-pop shops who have turned to the online sales platform since the pandemic closed their doors, sending the number of new Shopify-powered stores soaring 62% between March 13 and April 24. These outlets, along with the one million merchants already using Shopify, boosted gross merchandise volume 46% to $17.4 billion in the first three months of the year.
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Now, Shopify merchants can quickly turn their catalogs into shoppable Pins
A new app makes it much easier for Shopify merchants to create shoppable Product Pins in Pinterest.
The dedicated Pinterest app in the Shopify app store enables merchants to upload their product catalogs to Pinterest . It can automatically update products for Product Pins on Pinterest daily and add tagging to be able to track and measure performance. There is also an ads interface to run promoted Product Pins.
How Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke has created a new model of Canadian billionaire | National Post
Millennial billionaire Tobias Lütke, 39, makes quite a character under his trademark newsboy cap.
With a name like a Die Hard villain and a reputation for predicting the future, he runs the most valuable company in Canada, which he famously built out of a snowboard website.
His success in hosting the retail operations of businesses from multinational corporations down to kitchen table operations has marked him as a visionary long before Shopify had the market capitalization of nearly $120-billion to back it up. But much of it will be new to the average Canadian.
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Shopify has pledged to redirect investments to assist merchants during the COVID-19 pandemic while also reporting strong Q1 results.
The e-commerce giant reported total revenue for Q1 2020 of $470 million, a 47% percent increase year-over-year. Net loss was $431.4 million or $0.27 per share. Adjusted, non-GAAP net income was $22.3 million, or $0.19 per share, in comparison to $7.1 million -- or $0.06 per share -- in Q1 2019.
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It helps merchants adapt and rebuild the future of retail, they say. And, it assists merchants in building and refining a solid omnichannel strategy.
Shopify's POS will bring in-person and online sales into one convenient location. The system helps sellers stay resilient and flexible, the company says.
Hence the importance for omnichannel retail solutions. Omnichannel retailing brings together a store's physical and digital shops. So, customers can connect to a retailer's online and physical shopping platforms seamlessly.
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