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Improve Page Speed With Lazy Load

Page Speed Deferred Loading

When considering your site’s health and performance, the subject of site page speed comes up pretty immediately. It’s important to your users, it’s important to Google, and it should be important to you. This information is all over the internet, so we won’t get too in-depth in this post. But to make sure we’re all […]

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Advanced Shipping Calculator To Drive Conversions

Advanced Shipping Calculator

Basket shipping calculators and estimators have found a place in almost every Miva store these days. But in our opinion, they aren’t quite performing up to snuff. So the Glendale developers have come up with a solution to help you drive conversions. If you keep up with our blog posts (hint: you should!), you’ll know […]

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Shipping and Its Impact on Customer Retention

Shipping and Customer Retention

Shipping has a love-hate relationship in the world of eCommerce. It also plays a huge role in customer retention. It’s absolutely necessary, and it’s what makes online shopping so convenient for consumers. To-door delivery, across states, countries, and oceans, sometimes in a matter of hours. It’s a pretty outstanding example of modern technology and logistics, […]

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Progressive Web App To Guide Your User

Progressive Web App

Whether you’re creating a smooth path to the checkout, or you’re providing resources and manuals, guiding your user is always a good thing. It helps them view you (and your brand) as a trustworthy member of your industry. So maybe you read the title and thought, “Oh great! A progressive web app to help!”. If […]

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Site Evaluation To Keep You In Shape

Site Evaluation

You’ve probably never done a site evaluation before, and possibly didn’t know you should have one done. You go to the doctor for a physical, you take your car to the shop for a tune-up; you take care of the important things in your life. Why wouldn’t you do the same for your website? Whether […]

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Buy-Now-Pay-Later: The Return of the Layaway Model

buy-now-pay-later services

Layaway is a term that you probably haven’t thought or heard about for a long time – potentially since the late ‘90’s. It largely fell out of fashion in the 1980’s with the emerging pervasiveness of credit cards. As credit cards became commonplace in most homes in America, the buy-now-pay-later model became largely discarded. Not […]

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Selling Custom Products in Your Online Store

Selling custom products online

Do you remember when Mars Inc. had the genius idea of offering custom printed m&m candies?  They capitalized on the idea of unique all the way back in 2004, in the infancy of eCommerce. The trend of getting customized products has only grown since then. Shoppers have the chance to make a mark on their […]

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Retail Subscription Services

Subscription Services

In the last decade or so, subscription services have blossomed into a hugely profitable industry. Reaching a staggering $10 billion in 2019, and experiencing a compound annual growth rate of almost 60%, the subscription model is proving to be one that is here to stay. While about 25% of adults are already signed up for […]

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Modify Zinrelo to Suit Your Needs

Glendale Zinrelo modifications

Are you struggling with retaining customers? Trying to close the gap between customer acquisition and customer retention? We’ve touched on it before; loyalty points are a powerful tool to promote… well… loyalty. There are a multitude of ways to offer points and rewards to customers who engage with your business. One of our favorites is […]

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Ensure Legal Accessibility in One Step

Braille Writer and a laptop demonstrating web accessibility

If you don’t have a disability that might hinder your experience, you may not even realize that accessibility on the internet is a real problem for a lot of people – 15% of the population. […]

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