Many members of The Boutique Hub are Shopify owners, so today we are digging into the details of enhancing your Shopify store with Josh Orr, the Founder and CEO of Streamline Retail—and a repeat guest on the podcast! We’ll be answering that burning question that all Shopify owners have: how do you make sure that your store has the highest possible conversion rate based on the traffic coming through?
Listen in as we break down what makes stores convert at the highest rates, what apps you should be using in your Shopify store, and what it really means to value community over competition. We also discuss the importance of being customer-centric (and what that means), the most important elements of any Shopify store, and what metrics you should be measuring when it comes to your site’s overall health.
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What You’ll Learn From Optimizing Your Shopify Conversion Rate
- How Josh views community over competition.
- The importance of being customer-centric.
- How to identify your customer avatar.
- The most important elements of a Shopify site.
- The most important metrics to measure for your site’s health.
- The must-have apps for Shopify.
- The biggest risk factors for eCommerce stores.
- What Josh’s most successful clients have in common.
- How he balances his work life and his personal life.
Resources Featured In This Episode:
- Josh Orr: Website
Favorite Quotes from Josh Orr
“People copy what is worthy of copying.” – Josh Orr [3:50]
“If we don’t go to our customer first, we are setting ourselves up for failure.” – Josh Orr [6:10]
“The first problem to solve is never technology.” – Josh Orr [27:00]
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Original Air Date: November 29th, 2022
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