Slides from the 2nd Brisbane Shopify Meetup. Special guest speakers include Mike Angell (Culture Kings), Jerko Grom (Google) and Jason Bowman (Shopify Plus).
4. #ShopifyMeetup
AbouttheHosts
Reload Media is a Shopify Experts agency and Google Premier Partner, having
worked with dozens of Shopify and Shopify Plus sites on all facets of their digital
marketing, including Google AdWords, SEO, Pay Per Click, Social Media and more.
9. Why we use Shopify
1. It scales —>
2. Our developers can’t break it
3. Our developers are forced to
create features that scale
4. The core can’t be changed
meaning integrations won’t break
5. The out of the box customer
experience is world class
6. We don’t need to worry
7. We can operate with less
developers
10. How we use Shopify
ERP PIM Shopify
Shopify
Shopify Ebay
Products
1. Handles PO’s
2. Only has Basic
Product Data
1. Product Data is
expanded
2. New product titles
3. Product Descriptions
4. Images
5. Populates Collections
6. Populates Tags
1. Only tagging is allowed
2. Products never created
12. How we store Product Data in Shopify
1. We use a global meta field called JAN
2. We use this field as we can access it in the product API call
3. This allows us to sync all our products and supplement data in bulk
and not hit API limits.
4. We store the data in JSON format and we have an open source
liquid library to handle converting this in liquid.
5. We use this over multiple meta fields as they are difficult to sync
and at our size it would take over 24 hours to sync changes vs
only a minute with the single field approach.
13. How we use Shopify
ERPOMSShopify
Shopify
ShopifyEbay
Orders
1. Inventory Moves
2. Financial Moves
1. Address Validation
2. Label Generation
3. Order Statuses
4. Wave Picking
5. Android Scanners
6. Pack Stations
1. Only accepts the order
2. We use Shopify Fraud
3. Refunds are done in Shopify
POS
1. Coming 2017
2. Provides Ship from
Store
15. What are our pain points?
1. Shopify Scripts although extremely powerful doesn’t provide
enough CPU resources to run complex best price algorithms.
2. Doesn’t currently support Tokenised payments (Saved CC)
3. Shopify Scripts can not automatically add items to cart. We do
work around this with a front end implementation but creates
increased customer service work when customers don’t
notice that they can add the item.
4. Sections are an awesome features but need to be expanded
to work on other pages than just the homepage. (Looking at
page management outside of Shopify)
18. Google Confidential and Proprietary
Brisbane Shopify Meetup
Jerko Grom
APAC Product & Sales Activation
February 2017
19. Proprietary & Confidential
Australian Retail Ecommerce
2017 estimates
$13B5.3% of total retail sales
Source: Emarketer, jan 2015, Australian Retail Ecommerce Sales to Top $10 Billion in 2015
20. Proprietary & Confidential
90%
“Of Smartphone users aren’t
absolutely sure of the specific brand
they want to buy when they begin
shopping”
Source: Consumers in the Micro-Moment, Wave 3, Google/Ipsos, U.S., August 2015, n=1,291 online smartphone users 18+.
21. Proprietary + Confidential
How many brands
Did consumers consider, before their product
purchase ?
The Consumer Barometer Survey 2014/15
26. Proprietary + Confidential
Image
High quality images are key to
good CTR
Title
Crucial attribute to match search
queries
Triggering, ranking &
visibility
Up to 150 characters allowed
70 visible in your ad
Use Google Taxonomy
Drill down to third level (if
possible)
Recommended: 800x800 pixels
No watermarks or text
Brand + Product + Attributes
(Material, Color, Size, Weight, Quantity)
Furniture > Outdoor furniture >
Outdoor seating > Outdoor
chairs
Google Product
Category
43. Storefront
● Don't let the base theme make all the decisions
○ Make the theme or design your own.
○ Customise it
○ Progressive updates
● Make the experience better for your customer.
○ Talk to customers (often)
○ Personalise, adapt
44. Emails are awesome
● Customise those notifications!
○ Add your own language
○ Add your own brand style
○ Personalise for the customer (Liquid!)
● Carry value and personalise where possible
● Seriously, don't spam and don't buy lists
(We can talk about apps another day)
45. Delivery / Returns
● Your job isn't over once it has left your hands
● Add your brand style into packaging, unboxing and
delivery experience.
○ This can have a remarkable impact in social
sharing from customers
● Talk. Follow up, feedback & reviews
46. Be social on social
● Interact
○ Respond
○ Answer the hard questions
● Don't push a stream of products 24/7. That's not
how people talk (and is boring).
● Push your brand and style - the things that make
you unique (that's interesting)
47. Just be available
● Contact forms are ok (if responded to)
○ Have you considered the language and style of
replies.
○ What about speed in reply?
○ What happens in/out of normal biz hours?
● Is chat, messenger, phone better?
● Don't be perceived as being hard to get a hold of
51. #ShopifyMeetup
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Thanks for coming!