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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. -
13 Logo Galleries for Inspiration - A logo is an opportunity to establish your brand and convey your company’s unique identity. A logo gallery can help via examples and inspiration. Here is a list of helpful logo galleries.
Topics: site, community, designers, curated, showcase, logo, world, design, gallery, inspiration, galleries, logos. -
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 Content Marketing Ideas for January 2021 - January 2021 can represent a beginning for content marketers to build communities, stream live videos, write about national holidays, report industry news, or visually expose interesting industry data. Content marketing is the act of curating or creating content such as articles, podcasts, videos, and graphics.
Topics: industry, business, ideas, national, day, marketing, stream, content, river, community, live. -
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. -
A YouTuber's Journey Of Launching Products Based on Community Feedback - Youtuber Joe Andrews, has been creating content on haircare and style for over a decade. As his community grew, Joe decided to create hair products based on the feedback that individuals shared with him and launched BluMaan. In this episode of Shopify Masters, we speak with Colin Chik, who’s the current CEO of BluMaan to hear how Joe and the team launched a company based on community feedback, how manufacturers can be your mentors, and why working with micro-influencers is a great investment.More
Topics: youtubers, community, lot, really, journey, based, product, thats, actually, things, feedback, hair, products, group, launching. -
Alibaba launches Luxury Soho, a digital fashion community and outlet centre
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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. -
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 Is Key in Building a Multimillion Dollar E-commerce Company - Community-focused programming helps create a cult of loyalty for your e-commerce company.
Topics: ecommerce, building, value, members, key, member, communities, community, business, teams, brands, companies, multimillion, company, dollar. -
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. -
Crypto-driven marketplace Zora raises $2M to build a sustainable creator economy - Dee Goens and Jacob Horne have both the exact and precisely opposite background that you’d expect to see from two people building a way for creators to build a sustainable economy for their followers to participate in. Coinbase, crypto-hack projects at university, KPMG, Merrill Lynch. But where’s the art? “Believe it or not, I used […]
Topics: marketplace, raises, cryptodriven, value, creators, zora, price, community, market, token, economy, artists, build, sustainable, creator, way, 2m, rac, techcrunch. -
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. -
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. -
Happy WooCommerce Day - Say hello to WooCommerce Day: A day to give back to the incredible WooCommerce community and to celebrate all the store owners, site builders, extension developers, partners, friends, and families at its core. For its inaugural year, we’re keeping the celebration simple: we’re offering 40% off everything in the WooCommerce.com Marketplace. What better way to […]
Topics: empower, inspiration, youre, commerce, ecommerce, woocommerce, day, happy, inspire, community, members. -
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 Brands Like Google, Twitch, and Sephora Built Brand Communities — and How You Can, Too - Over the past few decades, companies, marketing departments, and c-suites have used the term "community" to refer to a smorgasbord of ideas, from wide-ranging organizational investments — such as neighborhood events or charity partnerships — to online forums and even simple email lists.
Topics: sephora, relationships, google, built, brands, local, members, twitch, community, food, brand, beauty, communities, groups. -
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 Working with Partners Actively Engaged In Magento's Community Engineering Program Can Benefit Merchants - Magento's Community Engineering program has allowed the team at Atwix to be more involved and play a role in the development of new features on the Magento roadmap, contribute to performance improvements, and extend Magento capabilities. Read more.
Topics: work, community, magentos, benefit, partner, release, working, actively, engaged, engineering, magento, merchants, partners, experience, contributing, program. -
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 Community-Centric Virtual Events, According to Moz's CMO - As you're probably well-familiar at this point, 2020 has brought with it plenty of disruption and change.
Topics: build, virtual, events, community, experience, sessions, cmo, attendees, event, according, mozs, support, communitycentric, speakers, different. -
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 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 Diverse Speaker Training - What is Coming Up In The New Year - As we start the new year with hope and energy, let’s take a moment to reflect on the year that has passed. It was a year filled with many challenges, yet also one with highlights to celebrate. An important one being Magento’s continued dedication towards diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Topics: speaker, workshop, diversity, welcoming, help, magento, events, training, event, community, diverse, coming. -
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 Community vs Enterprise vs BigCommerce: What’s the Right Choice for Your Business? - For many, the name Magento goes hand in hand with ecommerce. The open-source platform, now owned by Adobe, is written…
Topics: bigcommerce, enterprise, source, need, vs, magento, community, commerce, open, platform, security. -
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 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: 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: 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: 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. -
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. -
Offerman Woodshop & WooCommerce: Community, Craft, Quality - Nick Offerman works with more than words. He’s also the founder of a woodshop with unwavering standards. Catch a glimpse of the magic behind the online store.
Topics: community, wood, products, woodshop, work, ows, offerman, shop, quality, site, woocommerce, craft, custom, product. -
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. -
Our New Ecommerce Community for Growth - CommerceCo by Practical Ecommerce is for exceptional folks who work in the ecommerce business — be it retail, B2B, or a brand — to learn, share, and grow. It's our new exclusive community for experience ecommerce professionals.
Topics: growth, commerceco, community, retail, practical, work, member, leader, host, ecommerce, help. -
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
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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. -
Purpose with Profit: Meet 9 Socially Responsible Founders Creating Change Through Business - Beyond meeting customer needs or filling a market gap, socially responsible founders are creating movements through their businesses. Learn how nine socially responsible businesses and social enterprises are striving to create employment opportunities, reduce carbon emissions, share knowledge, and more. More
Topics: products, founders, meet, responsible, business, lauren, profit, communities, way, socially, creating, change, community, social, purpose, coffee, started, patrice. -
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. -
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 Big Plans of One Small Business Owner—and the Diagnosis that Won’t Stop Her - At just 24 years old, Keisha Greaves discovered she had limb-girdle muscular dystrophy. As the symptoms began to progress, she thought her dream career in fashion would never be realized. Now, she runs her own t-shirt business, Girls Chronically Rock, and inspires young people in the disability community to follow their own dreams.More
Topics: wont, stop, diagnosis, keisha, chronically, plans, fashion, rock, small, disability, work, girls, big, community, ownerand, thought, business. -
The ECF Benchmark: A Performance Index for Store Owners - How can we arm the “rebel force” or smaller merchants with the similar AI and data sets that Amazon has? In this episode, Jake Cook, co-owner of Tadpull.com, explains this and more. Listen in as we cover topics such as the benefit of creating an index, what metrics an index tracks, and how this can […]
Topics: performance, index, cook, usa, metrics, benchmark, store, help, community, ecommercefuel, youderian, going, van, owners, jake. -
The Fight for Independents: Why Entrepreneurial Spirit Is Rising Against All Odds - Promising data emerged at the end of 2020 that shows new business creation is soaring. Against all odds, why is entrepreneurial spirit peaking during a time that all but conspires to crush it? It's simple—when we cheer for the underdogs, they can win.More
Topics: tools, rising, business, spirit, satish, odds, entrepreneurial, fight, independents, pandemic, small, work, community, businesses, communities. -
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 Pros and Cons of Blog Comments [+ Does It Matter for SEO?] - As any blog owner will tell you, "Should I enable comments on my blog?" is one of the first questions you'll ask yourself as your content starts to grow.
Topics: matter, post, comment, community, blog, seo, posts, does, readers, pros, blogs, content, comments, cons. -
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 Guide to LinkedIn Groups - You know LinkedIn — the professional, polished, responsible sibling of the social media sphere.
Topics: community, ultimate, work, join, linkedin, groups, social, network, guide, group, members, profile. -
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 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. -
Why these co-founders turned their sustainability podcast into a VC-backed business - When Laura Wittig and Liza Moiseeva met as guests on a podcast about sustainable fashion, they jibed so well together that they began one of their own: Good Together. Their show’s goal was to provide listeners with a place to learn how to be eco-conscious consumers, but with baby steps. Wittig thinks the non-judgmental environment […]
Topics: wittig, products, sustainability, product, brightly, podcast, startup, techcrunch, turned, vcbacked, commerce, cofounders, sustainable, strategy, community, business, investors. -
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
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When it comes to starting her online store, entrepreneur Courtney White admits she probably started things the wrong way round, until she learned about the importance of building a brand around your business. As well as working a full-time job and being a parent (to both children and dogs), Courtney […]
Topics: things, customer, brand, store, really, build, community, confidence, courtneys, built, entrepreneur, dandy, customers, finer, courtney.