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From 0 to 0.1: the Journey of Bootstrapping a Small Ecommerce Plugin to a Scalable Business (Part 1)

This post comes after Why did we develop a small Shopify App? Since 16/12/2016 Our Shopify App – SEO Product Optimizer (SPO) had launched on Shopify App Store. We were happy that our works had finally released to the public. This was a very exciting moment to see how the market reacted to our concepts.

Originally we planned to finish the app within 3 months. We made it within 2 months… However Shopify App Team took around 3 weeks to finish reviewing our app to beta testing. We spent the extra time on testing and pre-marketing. Finally we finished reviewing on 15/12/2016. Phew! We could search it on the Shopify App Store.

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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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A New Year Gift – Introducing Terminal: A Web App to Enhance Facebook Sharing in a Breeze

We noticed that many Shopify store owners were having problems in Facebook share. To optimize how it looks when someone share your website, liquid code in your theme is required to change. However it may be hard for non-techie owners to change coding. So we come up with a solution for you.

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Why did we develop a small Shopify App?

Back in 2009, SillyCube Technology Ltd. was developing a web app called Howdycard (Shut down in 2012), which can design and deliver 3D ecards on the fly.  The project failed because the demand fluctuated through out the year. In hot seasons like Christmas or New Year, we can see 20,000 active users in the month. However there are very few users sending ecards during other time. Not to mention it’s hard to convert the free users into paid customers.

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3 tips about picking the right product name from hundreds of similar products

A common question about SEO is how to pick a suitable product name if I got many similar products. As a store owner, should I just copy and paste the product name or what should I do to have a good SEO result? Let me give you a tip about that.

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