Powering tens of thousands of online stores including major global retailers such as General Electric, Amnesty International, CrossFit, Tesla Motors, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Foo Fighters and GitHub; Shopify’s success story started in 2006 with one online store owned by the founders themselves.
Shopify provides a much-needed service to small businesses and independent sellers who would like to sell their products online without having to go through the agony of developing an online store by themselves or contracting someone to do what they have only a very humble knowledge about.
Users of the ready-to-use-without-any-technical-background online stores provided by Shopify have been praising its e-commerce tools, excellent technical support and beautiful design. Shopify has over 600 apps in the app store and its sleek design makes it almost pleasurable to use the platform and if you have any issue, Shopify’s support team are at your service 24\7.
It might be useful for you to check out similar turn-key ecommerce solutions such as BigCommerce and Volusion to understand how online store providers work.
Here’s why you should definitely try Shopify:
High speed service
Your customers are not going to wait for more than a few seconds. Shopify keeps your store-Website fast and integrate it with payment providers well in order to ensure payment.
Marketing
Shopify enables you to create landing pages easily, an essential feature for marketing campaigns such as email and AdWords. And if you know a little bit about SEO, you can add custom tags and meta descriptions to optimize your Website for search engines and improve search results. Shopify offers you a set of Webmaster tools as well as the ability to create sitemaps.
Customized design
You don’t have to be a professional designer or developer to have a cool theme. Shopify provides tons of custom themes that you can buy; moreover, if you’re a designer or have a specific design in mind, a professional designer can still play around and achieve that.
All in all, Shopify will save you time and give you peace of mind while you focus on creating and improving your products.
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Shopify makes selling things online easier than ever
Updated 05 August 2014