Shopify Entrepreneur Weekly

Hey there, Shopify fans 👋

First of all, thank you all for your engagement on our app review platform! It is now buzzing with now reviews for the most used apps out there. You can find some pretty awesome insights on different apps you won’t find anywhere else.

We would really appreciate it if you could review 3-5 apps you're using. We've recently made some improvements to review form. It's now shorter and won’t take more than 5 mins.

Bonus: It's also a great way to boost your SEO strategy with a strong backlink from us for free 😉 Click here, find the app you want to review and click "Write a review" in the upper right corner.

Check out our support packs if you are looking for an easy and stress-free way to handle your development and design tasks. We offer 10, 25, or 50-hour buckets that you can use for all your design, development, performance, and optimization needs.

Thank you and see you next week,
Lidia from HeyCarson

🧩 Shopify product updates

📖 What we are reading this week

Based on the most recent survey findings…

• 64% of Americans are planning to take advantage of holiday sales to shop for themselves, not just for gifts.

• Younger shoppers prioritize in-person shopping experiences more than older age groups.

• Cyber Monday is emerging as the biggest American shopping holiday, with 61% of holiday shoppers considering making purchases.

The real question how can you and other merchants actually put this data to use in real life? Dive into this article for some insights.

🛠 Themes version updates

★ Maker by TroopThemes – Version 8.3.1 [November 15, 2023]
★ Beyond by TroopThemes – Version 3.3.1 [November 15, 2023]
★ Emerge by TroopThemes – Version 6.3.1 [November 15, 2023]
★ Blockshop by TroopThemes  – Version 9.3.1 [November 15, 2023]

Troop themes has released 2 major updates in the last two months, bringing major improvements across their catalog of themes. The first update introduced four new sections to help communicate your brand story: "Shop the look", "Scrolling content", "Countdown" and "Image comparison". This release also brought in animation effects theme-wide adding more dynamism throughout.

Just in time for BFCM, they released their latest update, bringing the addition of the "Overlay group", a convenient location in your theme's settings to help you configure a brand new "Popup" section with support for newsletters, promotions, and GDPR cookie banners. The "Popup" section gives you precise control over who and when it's triggered and introduces a new way to prevent multiple popups interfering with each other. The "Overlay group" also includes a new "Age verification" section for stores looking to sell age-restricted products.

🚨 New theme alert

Artist by Aoloha – Powerful solution for digital sellers: Membership logins, audio/video.

🔌 App we like

I wanted to mention that Loox app received 12 new reviews on our listing just last week. It's definitely worth highlighting!

Loox is an awesome app that works wonders for brands. It helps build trust, boost conversion rates, and increase sales with visual social proof. Automatically collect authentic photo and video product reviews and display them on beautiful, fully customizable widgets, without slowing down your site.

Don’t just take my word for it. Check out these honest reviews yourself. And here's the best part – you can give it a try with a 14-day free trial. Just click here to get started!

💡 Optimization tip

CTA Area Tip:

• Product descriptions mention the size of the model and the size of the shirt the model is wearing (only for apparel)

• Interactive selectors are used for quantity selection instead of dropdowns (the price and quantity are changed in real-time, without triggering a page reload)

↗️ Drop us a message here if you'd like it implemented for your store

👀 Overheard on LinkedIn & Twitter [X]

🖼 Photo of the week

People walk across the Bow Bridge at sunrise in Central Park as trees turn color, on November 2, 2023, in New York City.