5 reasons why you should try GIMP to make simple marketing graphics

Starting from the beginning, I was reluctant to use Photoshop to make my graphics. I still remembered Adobe CS4 was about US$1,500 in 2010. It’s so expensive that costed me almost 1 month of salary. (Yes, you could hire me very cheap at that time)

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6 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Making Your Facebook Posts

Sweepstakes, sales, quiz, giveaways, mystery box, coupon… Everyone is leveraging Facebook to build the customer base today, whether selling clothes, toys, gadgets or other digital goods.

For all users of SPO, I have visited their stores one by one. Many new users will receive my touch-base email to talk about their stores. I will like their Facebook pages and subscribe to the newsletters occasionally. It’s always interesting to see how our users are doing promotion to drive their businesses.

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7 ways for Shopify store owners to share better posts on Facebook

There were some stunning facts released recently from Facebook:

As of the third quarter of 2016, Facebook had 1.79 billion monthly active users. Furthermore, as of that quarter the social network had 1.57 billion mobile MAU

Source: Statista

The user number is reaching a quarter of the world population. On top of this we have seen that there are plenty of ecommerce success stories from the platform, how store owners use Facebook shops to make a huge seasonal sales or how a Facebook group build a strong community to sell very well against a specific niche. So the benefits from integrating ecommerce and social networks can be extremely powerful. While it is free to open a Facebook page or group, it can be very challenging and time consuming to build up a hype for your business.

So here are 7 tips on helping you maximize the post reach on Facebook by little skills. All it takes is your patience to work on content with no magic.

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