About Joe

Joe's an app developer, +10 years Shopify developer, eCommerce entrepreneur, and the creator of Automator Apps. Outside of tech he's into travel, trees, music, books, and comedy 🌲

Add a Tip Option to Your Store for Extra Revenue + Staff Rewards

2022-05-17T10:59:18-06:00July 18th, 2021|Marketing Strategy|

I recently got a feature request from a user of Order Automator app to be able to automatically tag customers when they left a tip in Shopify.

This got me thinking of some ideas to:

  • Reward cool customers
  • Generate a new revenue stream
  • Generate a staff profit sharing model

Reward Cool Customers

Getting new customers is hard, getting […]

Project: Theme Build + Migrating a Site to Shopify + Making it Faster

2021-07-06T13:37:01-06:00February 14th, 2021|Case Studies, Themes|

Project summary

Graphene X creates high quality apparel sustained by materials science.

They came to us because they wanted to migrate their online store from Wix to Shopify.

We set up a Shopify site for them, kept the same design as their existing site, and optimized their theme for performance.

Highlights

  • Matched the […]

Shopify Partners Caught Stealing and Being Fraudulent

2021-05-11T07:40:08-06:00December 21st, 2020|Case Studies|

Updated March 1, 2021

Would you trust a thief with access to your online store and data?

Would you trust an app that posted fake positive reviews and attacked competitor apps with fake negative reviews?

In a store in the digital world, criminals with access to your store can steal or exploit customer data, delete your themes […]

Automatically Tag Customers Based on Order Behavior

2020-12-14T12:58:29-07:00December 14th, 2020|Apps|

You can tag your customers to organize them and market to them based on their behaviors like repeat buyers, bought product X, etc.

Some ideas for tagging customers

  • Tag Repeat customer for customers that have ordered more than once
  • Tag $200+ for customers that have spent more than $200 on an order
  • Tag VIP for customers that have spent […]

Speed Boostr on the Ecommerce Fastlane Podcast

2020-12-14T12:55:45-07:00November 24th, 2020|About, Podcasts|

If you’re a Shopify store owner and haven’t heard of the eCommerce Fastlane podcast, give em a listen.

I had a conversation with Steve the host recently, mostly about optimization but also a sprinkle of business philosophy. Here’s the episode if you want to check it out to get some ideas + […]

7 Creative Marketing Ideas for the Holidays

2020-12-14T12:56:09-07:00October 24th, 2020|Marketing Strategy|

I brainstormed with a Shopify store owner the other day on ideas to get holiday sales poppin’. 🎉

We came up with a bunch of ideas, and some I thought pretty unique, so I shared with our email list (join at the end of this blog post if you haven’t yet 😃).

It got good reception so […]