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1. Optimise your website design: Your website design should be visually appealing, easy to navigate, and mobile-friendly. Consider using high-quality product images and videos, clear call-to-action buttons, and customer reviews to build trust with visitors. Great imagery and strong sales headlines are critical here. This is your shop window. Entice your customers to your products and ensure they know of any offers you have.

2. Prioritise customer service: Great customer service can lead to repeat purchases and positive reviews. Make sure your customers can easily contact you with any questions or concerns and that you respond promptly. Make it easy at all times for your customers to contact you. Try Live Chat tools, and emails and give them a contact number. Most customers will try to get in touch with either questions to fix their issues or to confirm their options at the point of purchase. An instant response will not only gain that sale, but it will help steer that all-important 5-star review.

3. Offer discounts and promotions: Running sales, offering free shipping, or providing limited-time discount codes can attract customers and encourage them to make a purchase. Try steering them to sign up for your offers and mailing list. Once you have them you can easily cross-sale and upsell their purchase.

4. Optimize for SEO: Optimising your product descriptions, tags, and titles for search engines can increase the visibility of your store and attract organic traffic. SEO is not dead despite what the Internet says. Organic search is everywhere and as much as PPC can deliver near-instant results having an SEO plan will help long-term deliver customers search for you.

5. Leverage social media: Use social media to engage with your customers, post product updates, and share promotions. Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest are particularly effective for visual products. Sounds daunting to most as each social network is a language to learn. Have a go! Watch some videos or take some courses there is lots of free information on how to attract the right following. It's worth knowing that each social network attracts different audiences. So find your tribe and talk to them ideally fixing the problems they are experiencing even if they don't know it yet.

While implementing these strategies can increase sales, it can also lead to increased order processing. That's where we, CBF Fulfilment your 3PL (third-party logistics) provider can help.

A 3PL provider can support your business by handling order fulfilment and shipping. By outsourcing these tasks, you can focus on growing your business and providing exceptional customer service. Here are some benefits of working with a 3PL provider:

1. Cost savings: A 3PL provider can often negotiate better shipping rates than an individual business, leading to cost savings. We have a huge rate card covering all Royal Mail, Couriers and Pallet Networks. Talk to us about how we can help steer your orders to be shipped in the most cost-effective way.

2. Efficiency: We have the expertise and resources to process orders more efficiently, reducing delivery times and improving customer satisfaction. Modular processes and teams will help you sleep at night. Plan your marketing rollout with us so we can work with you to satisfy your order volumes from your Shopify store.

3. Scalability: As your business grows, a 3PL provider can scale up fulfilment operations seamlessly, without requiring you to invest in additional infrastructure or staffing. We need to work together to keep all processes robust.