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• $0 to $1,000 in a Day: How to Create a Community That Keeps Buying and Buying From You - Ecommerce pro Trevor Chapman shares a secret that doesn't take a lot of work but yields huge results.
  Topics: keeps, day, shares, create, work, video, trevor, using, buying, entrepreneurs, virtual, ecommerce, chapman, yields, community.
• 10 Reasons To Drop What You Are Doing And Register For Imagine—NOW - It’s that time of the year again: Imagine 2019, now in its 9th year, taking place May 12-May 15 in Las Vegas. And, in case you didn’t know, it is the premier commerce event. The goal is simple—to inspire, advance, educate and foster collaboration among the e-commerce community.
  Topics: community, best, join, magento, commerce, know, doing, imagine, share, drop, reasons, ecommerce, imaginenow, register, youll.
• 12 Open-Source Ecommerce Platforms You Should Consider for Your Online Store - Looking to use one of the best open-source ecommerce platforms to create your online store with? Check out our roundup to find the top 12 options.
  Topics: online, free, platform, community, opensource, youll, platforms, consider, wordpress, support, ecommerce, store.
• 15 Sports and Outdoor Brands with Action-Packed Ecommerce Site Designs - Professional snowboarder Travis Rice once said, “I wouldn’t even call snowboarding a sport. For me it’s just a way of…
  Topics: value, ecommerce, actionpacked, experience, community, customer, product, brand, designs, content, examples, site, customers, outdoor, way.
• 4 Reasons Why You Need to Start a Social Community to Promote Your Business - If you put your social community at the heart of your marketing efforts, content becomes a pathway to more meaningful interactions with your audience.
  Topics: products, businesses, audience, social, content, reasons, community, promote, communities, start, business, need, topic.
• 4 Ways to Create Deeper Connections With E-Commerce Customers - Just because consumers are online doesn't mean you can't form meaningful relationships.
  Topics: dont, create, business, products, ways, help, ecommerce, customers, community, build, deeper, connections, world, right.
• 5 Brands Using Social Media To Grow Buzzworthy Online Communities - Every marketer is focused on bringing attention to their product or service by growing a strong following. But not all realize the effects building and nurturing an online community can have on your brand. Social media marketing has evolved and the need to build relationships with your followers has never been more important.
  Topics: social, community, users, customer, using, brand, buzzworthy, communities, brands, grow, online, live, customers, media.
• 5 Ways Ecommerce Brands Create Strong Communities - Consumers have their pick of online retail sites. Make yours irresistible to even the most skeptical of the bunch by forging a tight-knit community of brand supporters.
  Topics: brands, ways, online, business, youre, create, ecommerce, company, community, brand, way, consumers, communities, build, customers, strong.
• 8 Ways That HubSpot Engaged Its Online Community with Employee-Inspired Content - This post is a part of Made @ HubSpot, an internal thought series through which we extract lessons from experiments conducted by our very own HubSpotters. Consistent content creation is a cornerstone of community growth. To keep your community members returning regularly, they need to see new things each time they return.
  Topics: ways, community, team, employeeinspired, content, questions, members, amas, support, hubspot, product, customers, online, engaged, feedback.
• 9 of The Best Facebook Groups We've Ever Seen - Let's face it: the way people are using and interacting with Facebook is shifting. The same can be said for businesses, too.
  Topics: using, groups, group, community, great, facebook, best, marketing, members, weve, instant, seen, share.
• A Farewell Message from Mark Lavelle - "I’ve had the great privilege of helping guide Magento to where it is today."
  Topics: cloud, magento, community, commerce, experience, message, clients, farewell, partners, grow, adobe, lavelle, product, mark.
• Alibaba launches Luxury Soho, a digital fashion community and outlet centre - Alibaba has launched a new platform Luxury Soho, targeting young, value-conscious aspirational shoppers, and helping high-end brands quit surplus inventory.
  Topics: digital, ways, consumers, china, online, fashion, able, outlet, centre, luxury, community, stores, alibaba, products, soho, brands, launches.
• Allegro Gadane, platform for buyers and sellers, launched - The popular Polish marketplace Allegro has launched its own social website, called Allegro Gadane. It shouldn’t be compared to the likes of Facebook or Twitter. It’s more like a social platform for sellers and buyers to exchange opinions, ask questions and solve problems. Allegro created the platform Allegro Gadane to… Continue reading
  Topics: platform, launched, buyers, questions, selling, website, webinar, sellers, gadane, allegro, community.
• Amazon donates $1 million to DC organizations helping those impacted by COVID-19 outbreak - Amazon announced this morning it’s making a $1 million donation that will be split among four Washington, D.C.-region community foundations that are working to support vulnerable populations during the COVID-19 crisis. The groups, ACT for Alexandria, Arlington Community Foundation, Community Foundation for Northern Virginia and the Greater Washington Community Foundation, will each use a portion of the million dollars […]
  Topics: support, organizations, outbreak, donation, community, impacted, helping, area, techcrunch, covid19, foundation, million, dc, amazon, donates, food.
• An Inside Look at Moderating our Private Community - Today our not-so-new community manager, Padraic Ryan, joins me at the Klaviyo:BOS event to give us an inside look at what goes on behind the scenes of our private online community. He explains what it was like going from a community member to joining the team and what surprised him most about the transition. Listen [...]
  Topics: youderian, surprised, ryan, inside, choose, joining, community, online, padraic, transition, look, right, private, moderating.
• Announcing the 2019 Community Spirit Award Winners - You’re going to Vegas, baby!
  Topics: announcing, community, nominations, going, youre, winners, magento, imagine, award, spirit, awards, recipients.
• Announcing the Magento Association Task Force - We now have a key team of Magento community members in place who will help lead and establish the new Association
  Topics: announcing, community, association, task, force, meet, spirit, work, team, smithbucklin, magento.
• Are you ready for Magento #SQUASHTOBERFEST 2018? - Contribute to any pull request or issue validation during October, and your work will count towards some swag
  Topics: swag, tasks, qa, work, ready, squashtoberfest, magento, love, validate, weve, community.
• Bankrupt Maker Faire revives, reduced to Make Community - Maker Faire and Maker Media are getting a second chance after suddenly going bankrupt, but they’ll return in a weakened capacity. Sadly, their flagship crafting festivals remain in jeopardy, and it’s unclear how long the reformed company can survive. Maker Media suddenly laid off all 22 employees and shut down last month, as first reported […]
  Topics: dougherty, magazine, revives, bankrupt, maker, faire, company, hope, tells, community, model, money, techcrunch, reduced.
• Building Community with a Remote Team - A remote workforce has always had its advantages, such as access to a large pool of top-notch talent. But the coronavirus pandemic has forced many companies accustomed to physical offices to start working remotely.
  Topics: video, building, example, going, question, open, physical, team, remote, social, community, office.
• Building a Brand: 6 Ways to Grow Your Brand on a Limited Budget - This article has 6 tips to help you start building a brand that will set you apart from the millions of other online businesses.
  Topics: budget, grow, branding, publication, business, voice, brand, ways, social, community, media, best, limited, building, businesses.
• Building an Ecommerce Business, Part 17: Growing a Community - An engaged, passionate community around an ecommerce business can drive referrals, loyalty, and repeat sales. But developing that community is not always easy. This is episode 17 in my series on building an ecommerce business from the ground up. For this installment, I spoke with Andrew Youderian, the founder of EcommerceFuel, a popular community of ecommerce merchants.
  Topics: value, merchants, ecommercefuel, building, members, growing, private, community, ecommerce, started, business.
• COVID-19 Guidance for Meetup Organizers - On Wednesday, March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic and advised people everywhere to “make a plan in preparation for an outbreak of COVID-19 in your community.”  Also on Wednesday, the WordPress.org Community Team published their recommendations for organizers of WordPress Events and Meetups. Our Recommendations We recommend that […]
  Topics: woocommerce, world, wordpressorg, organizers, covid19, team, wordpress, virtual, guidance, support, community, meetup.
• Closing the Social Distance: How These Businesses Are Creating a Sense of Community During COVID-19 - The effects of COVID-19 have impacted independent businesses everywhere. We checked in with six of them to see how they’re adapting while staying connected to their communities. From a fitness studio to a direct-to-consumer fashion brand to a cult favorite restaurant, these businesses share what it’s like to constantly adjust their operations and communicate through a crisis. More
  Topics: social, closing, distance, art, businesses, covid19, artists, classes, creating, team, women, online, community, velasca, sqirl, sense.
• Community and Competition: Inside the Mind of a 19-Year-Old Founder - In high school, Mateo Galvez was a self-professed troublemaker. Then, at 16 years old, something changed. He “woke up,” he says, and started his motivational apparel business, LOTTA WORLDWIDE. Through hard work and the help of his supportive family, Mateo, now 19, is about to celebrate three years in business. More
  Topics: really, way, business, competition, im, understand, lot, inside, mind, founder, 19yearold, work, community, lotta, mateo, think.
• Community, Commerce, and Commitment at MagentoLive Europe 2018 - Check out the coolest moments from Barcelona
  Topics: europe, commitment, adobe, experiences, mleu, ideas, partners, commerce, community, magentolive, shantanu, magento.
• Evolution Of Cloud Tooling – From Black Box To User-Friendly, Extendable Solution - The latest release of ECE-Tools, Magento's powerful cloud deployment and configuration tooling, now offers extensive configuration and customization capabilities, while also keeping all Magento deployment best practices in mind, to help users avoid issues and downtime. Read more.
  Topics: cloud, hotfixes, extendable, tooling, solution, black, deployment, magento, ecetools, userfriendly, users, community, evolution, box, experience.
• German ecommerce software Shopware focuses on the UK - Shopware, one of the most popular ecommerce software providers from Germany, is moving more and more into the international markets. The company is increasingly present in other countries, with the launch of its first office in the UK coming soon. Shopware isn’t the biggest ecommerce software provider in Germany, as Continue reading
  Topics: uk, source, german, software, focuses, germany, ecommerce, web, shopware, company, growth, community.
• Getting more people to open your emails - We’ve aggregated the world’s best growth marketers into one community. Twice a month, we ask them to share their most effective growth tactics, and we compile them into this Growth Report.
  Topics: founders, posts, emails, marketers, getting, rates, plus, marketing, techcrunch, tactics, open, community, growth, lot.
• How Being Purpose Driven Kept This Business Going - Eryn Eddy personally spray painted shirts for fans who supported her music as a way to spread positivity and connect with those who connected with her work. Evolving from a personal passion project, Eryn launched So Worth Loving, an apparel and lifestyle brand to facilitate a supportive community that embraces the past and empowers for the future. In this episode of Shopify Masters, Eryn shares how she found her drive, runs a purpose-focused business, and builds a supportive community. More
  Topics: started, kept, worth, driven, im, purpose, music, business, going, community, think, didnt, loving, youre.
• How Building an Offline Community Can Help Your Online Marketing - UCLA scientists found that sixth graders who went five days without using a smartphone or digital screen were better at reading human emotions than those who stayed online. As evident by UCLA's study, offline communication is critical for maintaining relationships.
  Topics: help, community, product, building, communities, customers, business, marketing, online, offline, event, events.
• How Elogic Became a Magento Solution Partner: 5 Lessons Learned - Elogic shares the five points that transformed their business and may help you transform yours.  
  Topics: ecommerce, program, solution, learned, lessons, magento, developers, reach, partner, community, elogic, business, best.
• How a 7-Figure Swimwear Brand was Built on a Secondhand Sewing Machine - Roxelle Cho was an active expecting mom who surfed during her pregnancy. As her body was changing, she was inspired to make her own swimwear that had a better fit. Using a second-hand sewing machine, Roxelle launched Fused Hawaii and built the swimwear brand into a seven-figure business. In this episode of Shopify Masters, Roxelle Cho shares her personal journey of overcoming hurdles, finetuning Facebook ads, and creating a sense of community for her customers.More
  Topics: group, things, secondhand, facebook, built, 7figure, im, dont, machine, brand, thats, community, business, lot, sewing, swimwear, feel.
• How to Build an Online Community of Like-Minded Entrepreneurs - Four easy ways to amplify your impact.
  Topics: members, entrepreneurs, facebook, group, online, share, build, value, likeminded, marketing, community, tips.
• How to Launch a Successful Online Community: A Step-by-Step Guide - It's no secret that the way people buy has fundamentally changed over the years. These days, people are conducting their own research, reading product reviews, and seeking out recommendations before making a decision, and online communities are beginning to play a role in this process.
  Topics: consider, platform, community, communities, members, users, launch, stepbystep, online, content, forum, guide, successful.
• How to get people to open your emails - We’ve aggregated the world’s best growth marketers into one community. Twice a month, we ask them to share their most effective growth tactics, and we compile them into this Growth Report.
  Topics: growth, marketers, worlds, emails, community, marketing, yc, youre, founders, techcrunch, companies, open, tactics.
• How to get your ads working, and whether PR is worth it - Julian Shapiro Contributor Share on Twitter Julian Shapiro is the founder of BellCurve.com, a growth marketing agency that trains you to become a marketing professional. He also writes at Julian.com. More posts by this contributor How to work with top influencers and avoid ad blockers The secret of content marketing: avoid high bounce rates We’ve […]
  Topics: tactics, working, youre, marketers, companies, community, marketing, ads, testimonial, founders, techcrunch, customer, pr, worth, growth.
• Introducing the Technology Partner Contribution Program - To further support Partner contributions to code, special projects, and the entire community, we are expanding with a new Technology Partner Contribution Program
  Topics: contributors, community, contributions, contribution, partners, projects, technology, program, special, partner, magento, introducing, support.
• Magento Association Seeks Candidates for Board of Directors - Would you like to help oversee the community program?
  Topics: seeks, candidates, community, association, serve, magento, directors, candidate, members, inaugural, board.
• Magento Association: Great Progress In 2018 & Looking Forward to New Highs In 2019 - December updates from Ben Marks
  Topics: highs, progress, task, forward, charged, great, community, board, input, magento, world, force, looking, candidates, association.
• Magento Community Diverse Speaker Training - Bringing the Adobe For All mission to the commerce industry. Earlier this year we announced that we are working with Jill Binder of DiverseIn.tech to offer an online Magento Community Speaker Workshop.
  Topics: think, took, workshop, magento, public, diverse, speaker, community, training, online, speaking.
• Magento Community Speaker Workshop - Bringing the Adobe For All mission to our industry
  Topics: training, speaker, speaking, diversity, women, workshop, community, magento, youre, great.
• Magento Imagine at Adobe Summit: Bigger and Better Than Ever - Join us in Las Vegas as we mark the tenth anniversary of the conference.
  Topics: summit, community, share, adobe, commerce, bigger, sessions, training, caesars, imagine, better, magento.
• Magento Innovations Lab Teams Up With Amazon Web Services (AWS) - We are excited to invite developers and partners to imagine new possibilities on Magento by embedding AWS innovations into their Innovations Lab submissions.
  Topics: innovations, aws, developers, developer, services, innovation, web, community, lab, teams, partnership, amazon, magento.
• Magento Introduces the Mobile Optimization Initiative for Merchants - Community-driven project with PayPal, HiConversion and 15 system integrators tackles the mCommerce gap
  Topics: introduces, magento, retailers, merchants, mobile, community, optimization, initiative, buying, experience, system, checkout.
• Magento Marketplace Security Update - At Magento, we believe transparency with our global community of merchants, partners, and developers is important. Accordingly, we want to share a security update.
  Topics: marketplace, update, security, help, updateon, types, ensure, vulnerability, community, issue, magento.
• Magento Masters Attending Adobe Summit 2019 as Commerce Influencers - Follow along to get insider access and perspectives on the event
  Topics: linkedin, software, adobe, influencers, community, wagento, ecommerce, events, magento, summit, attending, masters, experience, commerce, founder.
• Magento Masters Spotlight: Alessandro Ronchi - Get to know Magento Master Alessandro Ronchi, COO at Bitbull
  Topics: masters, alessandro, magetitans, events, magento, italy, spotlight, ronchi, know, things, event, started, im, community.
• Magento Masters Spotlight: Andreas von Studnitz - Get to know Magento Master Andreas von Studnitz, Co-Founder at integer_net
  Topics: games, von, doing, masters, thing, spotlight, stuff, magento, developer, studnitz, andreas, really, community, think, things.
• Magento Masters Spotlight: Carmen Bremen - Get to know Carmen Bremen, Magento Certified Developer at Neoshops.de
  Topics: spotlight, thing, dont, world, bremen, thats, community, cologne, carmen, know, im, magento, really, masters.
• Magento Masters Spotlight: Gabriel Guarino 2018 - Get to know Gabriel Guarino, Senior Magento Engineer at Shero Commerce Inc.
  Topics: think, spotlight, work, master, masters, gabriel, good, really, presentation, working, lot, magento, community, guarino.
• Magento Masters Spotlight: Guido Jansen - Get to know Magento Master Guido Jansen, Senior Digital Consultant & Customer Experience Optimization Specialist at Vaimo
  Topics: magento, great, guido, spotlight, meet, event, thats, community, product, online, really, masters, association, jansen.
• Magento Masters Spotlight: Joseph Maxwell - Get to know Magento Master Joseph Maxwell, CEO at SwiftOtter, Inc.
  Topics: thats, community, know, spotlight, maxwell, way, really, masters, joseph, able, help, magento, contribute, working.
• Magento Masters Spotlight: Miguel Balparda 2018 - Get to know Miguel Balparda, Community Developer at Nexcess
  Topics: miguel, balparda, know, really, thats, nice, developer, talk, spotlight, actually, magento, community, dont, masters.
• Magento Masters Spotlight: Rebecca Brocton - Get to know Magento Master Rebecca Brocton, Lead eCommerce Specialist at Jaguar Land Rover
  Topics: uk, really, youre, masters, know, grizzly, magento, spotlight, brocton, rebecca, community, kind, im.
• Magento Masters Spotlight: Riccardo Tempesta - Get to know Magento Master Riccardo Tempesta, CTO at MageSpecialist
  Topics: riccardo, masters, think, technical, community, im, spotlight, say, know, developer, magento, best, tempesta.
• Magento Masters Spotlight: TJ Gamble - Get to know Magento Master TJ Gamble, CEO & Founder at Jamersan
  Topics: thats, magento, really, community, help, know, spotlight, grow, youre, masters, going, tj, gamble, event.
• Magento Masters Spotlight: Tom Robertshaw - Get to know Tom Robertshaw, eCommerce Evangelist at Space 48
  Topics: robertshaw, doing, master, magento, im, really, kind, tom, masters, know, lot, think, spotlight, community.
• Magento Masters Spotlight: Vijay Golani - Get to know Magento Master Vijay Golani, VP of Development and Magento U Trainer at Wagento
  Topics: spotlight, magento, golani, masters, different, community, vijay, event, started, wagento, im, plus, attend.
• Magento Masters Spotlight: Vinai Kopp 2018 - Get to know Vinai Kopp, Freelance Magento Developer and Trainer
  Topics: developer, say, master, spotlight, vinai, know, masters, im, work, really, right, kopp, magento, community.
• Magento Masters Spotlight: Óscar Recio - Get to know Óscar Recio, Magento Lead Developer at interactiv4
  Topics: problem, magento, spotlight, need, master, solve, óscar, recio, project, say, masters, sell, community, teach.
• MagentoLive Australia 2019 Registration Now Open - Grab your ‘Early Bird’ rate tickets before they sell out
  Topics: magento, business, ecommerce, community, share, registration, australia, open, sessions, breakout, speaking, magentolive.
• MagentoLive Australia Is Officially the Hottest Commerce Event in Asia Pacific! - The conference celebrates record-breaking attendance
  Topics: pacific, event, magentolive, partners, magento, asia, community, australia, adobe, commerce, customers, mlau, officially, hottest.
• Meet the 2019 Magento Masters: Makers - Makers actively engage with others, sharing ideas, insights, and constructive feedback
  Topics: magento, based, meet, community, selected, contributions, github, makers, masters, speaking, master.
• Meet the 2019 Magento Masters: Mentors - Mentors help to educate and develop resources for the Magento Community
  Topics: masters, working, contributions, helping, magento, mentors, community, master, selected, based, meet.
• Meet the 2019 Magento Masters: Movers - Movers are Magento’s top advocates and ecosystem thought leaders 
  Topics: magento, meet, community, developer, working, technical, movers, masters, ecosystem, selected, github.
• Meet the 2019 Magento Masters: Qualified Alumni - Qualified Alumni continue to contribute year over year
  Topics: community, alumni, based, organizing, meet, contributions, master, masters, qualified, selected, magento.
• Meet the 2020 Magento Masters: Makers - Makers actively engage with others, sharing ideas, insights, and constructive feedback. Read more.
  Topics: makers, masters, based, meet, community, github, master, maintainer, magento, contributions, selected.
• Meet the 2020 Magento Masters: Mentors - Mentors help to educate and develop resources for the Magento Community. Read more.
  Topics: masters, mentors, contributing, community, magento, master, based, working, contributions, meet, selected.
• Meet the 2020 Magento Masters: Qualified Alumni - Qualified Alumni continue to contribute year over year. Read more.
  Topics: organizing, masters, master, speaking, community, magentocentric, magento, alumni, meet, qualified, selected, contributions.
• Meet the Entrepreneurial Women of Social Change - What do a vegan butcher, a book publisher, and a tampon designer have in common? They’re all entrepreneurs dedicating their lives to causes close to their hearts. Meet the women of social change.More
  Topics: nonprofit, inspired, life, social, meet, struggled, entrepreneurial, employment, design, women, change, community, told, products.
• Meet the World’s Top Magento eCommerce Developers - As an open source platform, nothing is more critical to Magento’s success than its community contributions. Case in point: Magento Solution Partner Atwix. Read more.
  Topics: biggest, contributors, atwix, open, magento, developers, contributions, worlds, meet, contributor, ecommerce, slava, community.
• New Community Insider Program is Now Accepting Applications - Together, we can enrich our global ecosystem by fostering community and product innovation
  Topics: developers, commerce, insider, program, help, ecosystem, community, provide, magento, accepting, individual, applications.
• Online community theAsianparent raises Series C to add e-commerce and expand into new markets - TheAsianparent, Southeast Asia’s largest online community and content platform for mothers with 23.5 million monthly active users, announced today that it has raised a Series C led by Fosun Group, the Chinese conglomerate. The amount was undisclosed, but a person familiar with the deal says it was between $10 million to $30 million. E-commerce giant […]
  Topics: content, asia, raises, theasianparent, business, million, expand, c, series, mahtani, community, southeast, ecommerce, online, markets, techcrunch.
• Online shopping guide SMZDM surges 44% on China stock market debut - When Chinese internet companies seek initial public offerings, they tend to look to the United States, where rules for profitability are less strict. SMZDM, an online shopping guide that few people outside China have heard of, has joined a small rank of internet startups that are trading on public markets in mainland China. SMZDM, short […]
  Topics: wu, public, content, online, debut, china, million, yuan, techcrunch, guide, ecommerce, surges, users, stock, smzdm, community, market, chinese, shopping.
• Phillip Jackson Returns as Imagine 2019 Master of Ceremonies - We are delighted to announce that Magento Master Phillip Jackson will return to the Imagine 2019 stage as the Master of Ceremonies.
  Topics: phillip, master, community, youre, magento, worlds, york, ceremonies, jackson, imagine, experience, returns, working.
• Pivoting During COVID-19: How One Entrepreneur Is Supporting Fellow Business Owners - Now is a time for resilience and ingenuity. Many of us must adapt, pivot, and find new ways to grow. In today's interview, we chat with Kelly Bergeron, a resident of Cornwall, Ontario, who, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, sprung into action to help small businesses in her area.More
  Topics: pivoting, fellow, local, really, owners, covid19, gift, community, supporting, need, entrepreneurs, dont, lot, businesses, entrepreneur, business, think.
• Pomelo Cares programme launched to aid coronavirus fight - Asian omnichannel fashion brand Pomelo has launched Pomelo Cares, an initiative to support the community and frontline medical sector during the coronavirus pandemic.
  Topics: red, support, community, masks, ways, aid, programme, campaign, spread, fight, cares, pomelo, social, launched, coronavirus.
• Selling to a Private Facebook Group - Penalty Box is a private Facebook group that was created completely from word of mouth, with no paid advertisements or paid marketing. Here to discuss the fascinating story of how this community came to be is founder Drew Laine. Listen in as he shares interesting aspects of the business, including the metrics they track, how they [...]
  Topics: paid, using, box, group, private, community, youderian, marketing, facebook, laine, penalty, selling, drew.
• Shopify's First Flagship: Why We Opened a New Space for Business Owners in Downtown L.A. - Shopify’s new location in L.A., situated at The Row in downtown, is a unique, permanent space designed for business owners. Our first flagship provides Shopify product training and education, guidance for growing your business, and community events designed to bring business owners together. Here’s why we built it.More
  Topics: merchants, shopifys, downtown, row, help, entrepreneurs, community, business, shopify, support, opened, owners, space, la, flagship.
• Supporting Our Solution Partners and Developers During These Unprecedented Times - Learn more about our new program to enable our Solution Partners to plan for recovery and rapidly scale back normal operations once customer project demands pick up in the future
  Topics: features, magento, supporting, adobe, times, community, program, developers, solution, unprecedented, partners, partner, engineering.
• Thank You to the Top 50 Contributors in 2018 - Keep an eye out for great contributions from these community members and be sure to thank them for all they’ve done!
  Topics: community, thank, wrote, youve, masters, thousands, theyve, contributors, magento.
• Thank You to the Top 50 Contributors in 2019 - Recognizing contribution efforts across the Magento community. Read more.
  Topics: magento, india, contributors, netherlands, thank, poland, community, germany, wrote, japan, ukraine, usa.
• The 8 Types of Social Media Community Managers (+ Job Descriptions) - In the last decade, the need for social media managers has boomed. According to the U.S. Department of Labor statistics, this trend is not slowing down any time soon. The role of a social media manager or specialist is categorized within the "Advertising, Promotions, and Marketing Manager" sector of the labor force, which is projected to grow by 10% before 2026.
  Topics: job, managers, social, community, manager, descriptions, role, leads, content, company, types, able, need, media.
• The Art of Reinvention: How One Founder Found Her Purpose in the Middle of a Pandemic - Like many small business owners around the world, Moorea Seal is scrambling to answer the question “What now?” For her, collective grief is compounded by personal loss. But she’s been here before. Many of Moorea’s successes have been born out of tragedy, and now she’s pivoting her business, in the midst of a pandemic, to help others.More
  Topics: store, purpose, reinvention, community, life, pandemic, founder, business, retail, art, online, moorea, things, shes, middle, space.
• The Best Forum Software for Creating an Online Community in 2019 - In the Internet's 40-year history, forums haven't lost their importance. Today, forums are still significant opportunities to build an online community, and allows your audience to connect in a place where they know their interests are shared.
  Topics: courtesy, users, forum, help, customers, best, software, invision, forums, online, community, creating.
• The Future Needs More Black Businesses - Investment in Black-owned businesses is a path towards closing the racial wealth gap, strengthening communities, and creating economic opportunities for everyone. The future, therefore, relies on Black entrepreneurs. But systemic racism and centuries of oppression have created barriers to funding and ownership. How do we build a future that includes more Black businesses?More
  Topics: capital, entrepreneurs, wealth, william, needs, community, black, gwen, business, jannah, future, businesses.
• The Magento Association Is Now Established, Staffed, and Ready to Get to Work! - We are proud to report that we completed our 2018 mission
  Topics: established, community, important, members, volunteer, task, inaugural, ready, board, work, association, staffed, magento.
• The Qualities of a Powerful Word-of-Mouth Marketing Strategy - Many businesses think that if their product or service is spectacular, it will speak for itself; they'll need very little marketing effort for it to take off. But in reality, any companies that seem to have achieved remarkable growth in this manner do indeed have phenomenal products. But it only appears to have been achieved with little or no marketing effort because their fame and fortune was won through word-of-mouth marketing.
  Topics: mouth, audience, product, wordofmouth, community, influencers, marketing, powerful, social, strategy, youre, qualities, service.
• The Ultimate Guide to Community Management - In today’s highly digital and connected society, it’s funny to think people can still feel disconnected from others. With so many people who communicate online, behind screens, this connected world can actually feel rather lonely at times. This goes for personal relationships as well as business relationships — specifically between brands and their customers as well as brands and their employees. So, what is it that has people feeling a disconnect to others and the companies they do business with? A lack of community.
  Topics: content, community, management, social, members, audience, brand, type, customers, ultimate, media, guide.
• The Ultimate Return On Investment: Online Communities - What if you could get a 6,469% ROI on your marketing efforts? This is the average ROI that online communities…
  Topics: customers, members, brand, steps, product, community, need, youre, online, examples, building, member, communities.
• This 84-Year-Old Grandmother Serves Comfort and Community Through Livestreamed Cooking Classes - In the past month, Nonna Nerina and granddaughter Chiara’s cooking classes made the leap from an offline experience to online streaming. From their small village in Italy, she and her grandmother invite people from all over the world into their virtual kitchen to learn to make pasta from scratch. And recently, they had their best revenue month yet—even as the entire country remains on lockdown.More
  Topics: 84yearold, community, nonna, cooking, nerina, grandmother, classes, world, livestreamed, village, serves, comfort, chiara, brent, pasta.
• Use Facebook Groups to Promote Your Ecommerce Business - Ecommerce businesses can use Facebook groups to help potential customers, build strong reciprocal relationships, and encourage sales. Maintaining or contributing to a Facebook group is a form of both social media ...
  Topics: ecommerce, group, marketing, groups, going, content, facebook, build, community, questions, promote, business, need.
• Use dynamic CTAs to close more B2B leads - B2B leads typically require multiple touches before they become customers. You can help leads move quicker through your funnel by dynamically adjusting the landing page content they see.
  Topics: tactics, sales, ctas, community, techcrunch, marketing, growth, dynamic, leads, close, thats, b2b, worlds, offline, retailers, process.
• Vanguard: How A Tribe Called Red Brought Activism to the Dance Floor - In our final episode of Vanguard, we speak to Bear Witness, co-founder of A Tribe Called Red, a Canadian DJ collective that blends hip-hop and EDM with traditional powwow drums and vocals. As a teen, Bear was part of the local rave scene. He began to wonder what raves would look like if they had a more focused goal. In response, he created A Tribe Called Red. More
  Topics: red, community, things, indigenous, thats, floor, tribe, activism, dance, know, voiceover, really, called, night, brought, vanguard.
• What Is Local PR and How Does It Work? [Examples] - Let's face it — building brand awareness isn't the easiest task for a marketer. Trying to be a big voice in a field of so many is nothing short of difficult.
  Topics: national, public, work, examples, does, relations, brand, pr, community, podcast, positive, local, press.
• Why Building a Community Prevents Subscription Cancellations - Adrian Wood went from making music on his laptop to producing for the likes of 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, and Eminem. He's also the CEO of Modern Producers, and shares on Shopify Masters how he built this online digital assets company and its subscription service with a loyal fanbase. More
  Topics: cancellations, really, community, think, music, youre, subscription, building, prevents, lot, products, business, producers, obviously, kind, podcasts.
• Why Telling Stories is More Important Than Ads - Roller derby wasn’t just a workout for Micki Krimmel, it offered a sense of empowerment and inspired her to start Superfit Hero, an inclusive and body-positive apparel line. In this episode of Shopify Masters, Micki Krimmel shares her approach to building a community that makes people feel welcomed in the fitness world.More
  Topics: sort, lot, thats, really, important, right, community, think, ads, kind, telling, dont, product.
• Your Small Business Saturday Guide: Tips, Tools, and Statistics for Local Companies - It’s safe to say that 100+-year-old Lammes Candies is already a household name in Austin, Texas.  After opening in 1885,…
  Topics: shop, small, customers, sure, holiday, shoppers, tips, local, community, statistics, business, businesses.
• ‘I Am Capable of Doing This’: How One Entrepreneur Built a Brand, Community, and Her Confidence - When it comes to starting her online store, entrepreneur Courtney White admits she probably started things the wrong way round. As well as working a full-time job and being a parent (to both children and dogs), Courtney has always run small businesses. But while she had success with her other […]
  Topics: build, things, built, really, courtneys, brand, finer, customer, confidence, courtney, community, entrepreneur, store, dandy, customers.