We recently talked about the pros and cons of using Shopify to set up your online store. Today, we are going to go over some common mistakes we often see when it comes to Shopify.

1. “I have a Shopify store, customers will follow”

The Shopify platform offers amazing features that can help you scale your business at a faster pace. However, If you think that Shopify will magically send customers your way, think again.

Continue reading Common Shopify Mistakes (and how to avoid them) at Smash Creative.

Content Ideas For The Holiday Season

It’s never too early to start planning your holiday content! If anything, the earlier you start planning your holiday content strategy, the better you’ll set yourself up for a successful Holiday season.

To prepare for the holiday season, you typically supplement your content with Holiday themed posts, feature limited edition products and create tailored newsletters and campaigns. The holidays are the ideal time to create engaging content inspired by the season.

Continue reading 5 Easy Content Ideas For The Holiday Season at Smash Creative.

Let’s start with the basics, what is an instagram bio?
An Instagram bio sits beneath your profile picture and it is used to describe your page.
This space includes:

• A display name
• Page category
• Pronouns
• 150 character description
• One external link
• Contact information

Why does your instagram bio matter?

A good Instagram bio can mean the difference between a visitor hitting follow, or walking away.

Continue reading How to create a winning Instagram BIO at Smash Creative.

First things first, what is Shopify?

Shopify is an e-commerce platform that allows people to build their own online store.

It’s quite straight-forward and easy to use – to set up a basic store you don’t need crazy tech skills or a big budget. This makes Shopify a fast and affordable way of creating your online store.

How Easy Is Shopify to Use?

It’s not the easiest platform out there but, as we mentioned, it is fairly straightforward.

Continue reading Pros and Cons of Using Shopify at Smash Creative.

How can people get excited about the wonderful stuff you have to say if they don’t even know you exist?

There are so many ways to connect with potential readers, and hopefully you’re already using some of them – posting on social media, you’re building an email list, etc.

This article is about one of the most simple and powerful ways to boost connection to readers on the internet, and that is getting found when people search online.

Continue reading How Do I Get Readers to Find my Blog Using SEO? at Smash Creative.

In the fast-paced world of digital entrepreneurship it’s all about efficiency and consistency. As a blogger, content creator, influencer, or business owner it is important to be able to deliver quality material to our audience consistently.

Whether you want to streamline your content creation process, improve customer service, or automate your marketing efforts there are a lot of tools out there to help you accomplish this. But which ones are right for you?

Continue reading 8 tools to help speed up your work! at Smash Creative.

Getting ready to launch a new blog or website?

Congratulations — you are amazing! Launching a website is an exciting time. You’ve put in a lot of hours – and now it’s time to reap the reward!

However, it can also be a stressful time. How do you know that you haven’t forgotten something important? Did you set up something incorrectly that might cause problems down the line? Ok, now breathe!

Continue reading Website Launch Checklist at Smash Creative.

Here at Smash, one of the first things we tell our clients is … you need to set up a mailing list! (If you haven’t done that already, please put it on your to-do list.) But the thing is, just because you have a mailing list, it doesn’t mean it will magically grow.

Email marketing gets a lot of props for being a low maintenance channel… but it needs love too!

Continue reading 3 Easy Tips to Grow Your Mailing List at Smash Creative.

Here at Smash we deal with this question all the time. Many of our clients come to us trying to figure out if their website just needs a few updates or a complete makeover.

The beauty of technology is that it’s always evolving, but this also means your website needs a bit of TLC every once in a while. It might seem overwhelming to keep up with all the latest plugins and updates, but the good news is that you don’t have to.

Continue reading Is your website outdated? at Smash Creative.

Did you know that Pinterest is one of the largest search engines in the world? It is! And we believe you should be using it to gain new traffic as a blogger. We even believe that this could be far more important than your SEO. The reason being, there’s a higher chance for your target audience to come across your content on Pinterest than a general Google search. Not to mention Pinterest traffic usually displays a higher session duration, which means they will be browsing your website longer.

Continue reading Increase your blog traffic with Pinterest at Smash Creative.