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Ecommerce Trends 2020: Everything You Need To Know

Ecommerce trends 2020: we’ve outlined 8 of the top trends that will help your business become everything you dream that it could be!

What Is CBD Distillate? And Other FAQ From Your Customers

Since the CBD market is expected to increase astronomically in the next two to three years (by an estimated 700%!) the competition will be fierce, so building a dynamic website and working with an agency with an innovative marketing solution will be your key to beating the odds and creating a thriving CBD eCommerce store.

Are Google Ads Worth It? 6 Fatal PPC Mistakes (And How To Avoid Them!)

Lots of people ask, are Google Ads worth it? Many people make big mistakes when launching and managing their Google Ads campaign, and miss out on some of the enormous benefits. Check out our tips for avoiding six of the most common mistakes that will kill your Google Ads campaign.

How Much Does It Cost To Maintain A Website? The Honest Truth About Site Pricing

With the ever-evolving organism of website building and development, it’s pretty clear that you can’t just build a website, set it up to function, and then forget that it’s there. Having a website takes maintenance, time, energy, innovative thinking, and, yes, money. We are here to break down some of the costs you may encounter when building your website, and answer some of your questions about how much it will cost to maintain that site once it’s built.

How To Launch Your CBD Business Website [In 2019]

Since the CBD market is expected to increase astronomically in the next two to three years (by an estimated 700%!) the competition will be fierce, so building a dynamic website and working with an agency with an innovative marketing solution will be your key to beating the odds and creating a thriving CBD eCommerce store.

How To Sell CBD Oil Online [Infographic!]

Looking into how to sell CBD oil online? With the CBD market estimated to expand by 700% in the next two years, there are a few things you should think about to make sure your CBD website stands out from the crowd. Here are our best tips and tricks to ensure the success of your CBD website.

What Are Backlinks? 5 Link Building Methods That Work

If you’re a part of the web world, you’ve heard about backlinks. But do you know what they do and how they drive traffic to your site? In this post we will unpack exactly how useful backlinks are, and just how to get them.

3 Website Popup Designs That Actually Work [NEW!]

Websites with popup notifications consistently outperform sites without them. They can increase revenue by as much as 2100%, and we’re here to tell you how.

How A Coupon Marketing Strategy Could Radically Increase Your Sales In 2019

Coupon marketing strategies have been a crucial, and growing, part of eCommerce marketing since the dawn of the internet. By the time the internet came around, coupons were certainly nothing new. Since the first ever coupon strategy launched by Coca Cola in 1887, coupons have been a successful strategy for advertising your brand and increasing your conversion rate.

Here are our top tips for launching your own successful coupon marketing campaign in 2019.

4 Things You Didn’t Know About Google Search Console (And How It Could Be Working For You)

4 Things You Didn't Know About Google Search Console (And How ItCould Be Working For You)The number one factor that can dramatically increase your conversion rate is having more people visit your website. Attracting traffic to your site is a process that can include a...

5 Best Practices For Website Navigation Bar Design (And What Not To Do)

If we’ve learned anything in eCommerce, it’s that small things make a big difference. Here’s 5 best practices for structuring your website’s navigation menu.

ADA Compliance Website Guidelines (For 2019 And Beyond)

ADA Compliance Website Guidelines (For 2019 And Beyond) Many website owners are finding themselves battling accessibility lawsuits. 2018 was a record year for number of lawsuits filed for ADA website compliance issues, and 2019 is already on track to break that...

How To Launch Your Marketing Campaign (Plus 3 Tips For Google Ads)

How To Launch Your Marketing Campaign (Plus 3 Tips For Google Ads)Launching a new marketing campaign can be incredibly exciting. It's a major move for your eCommerce business. You've created a product people love, and you've put attention, care and energy into your...

How To (Successfully) Market And Sell CBD Oil Online [NEW]

How To (Successfully) Market and Sell CBD Oil Online [NEW]Congratulations on launching your new site! You've crossed one of the major hurdles. But launching your site is only step one; step two is marketing your new site. In order to successfully sell CBD oil online,...

What is Merchandising? Using Google Analytics Data to Showcase Your Top Products [2019]

What Is Merchandising? Using Google Analytics Data To Showcase Your Top Products [2019]Have you ever heard the word "analytics" and broken out in a cold sweat? As intimidating as it sounds, analytics is an incredibly simple tool that has been working wonders in the...

Recover Sales With Abandoned Cart Emails (In 3 Easy Steps)

Recover Sales With Abandoned Cart Emails (In 3 Easy Steps)You've finally done it. You've started your online business. You've figured out your inventory. You've got traffic. You're making sales. But did you know that you're still losing 75% of your business? How, you...

5 Tips For Increasing Your Conversion Rate

Five Tips For Increasing Your Conversion RateIf you're a small business owner with an eCommerce website, you've probably already thought about different ways you can boost your conversion rates. Well we're here to help. In this blog post we will share the top five...

How To Write Search-Friendly Ecommerce Product Pages

How To Write Search-Friendly Ecommerce Product Pages Product pages are vital for converting visitors into sales. They’re the final step before the checkout phase, and outstanding product content can convince even the most skeptical online shopper to part with their...

Epic Websites Integrated with Amazon Payments

Don't Settle For Less Optimize Your Business Goals and Objectives An important part of Conversion Rate Optimization is streamlining your entire purchase funnel, and making it as easy as possible for customers to buy. This includes, among other things, offering the...

Tips and Tools to Help with Your Link Building Campaign

SEO is an invaluable channel that should be considered in your digital marketing strategy. SEO allows you to be found organically for specific search terms in order to feed your funnel with unpaid traffic. While paid approaches are important, depending on SEO is a...

5 Questions Our Clients Ask When Moving from Shopify to Bigcommerce

So you’re thinking about moving your online store from Shopify to BigCommerce? At epicShops, we’ve been creating our clients’ e-commerce websites exclusively on the BigCommerce platform for over nine years (since Day 1 of BigCommerce!). Because, in our opinion,...

Increase your sales with optimized website images

Optimizing your product images for your website is essential for conversion rate optimization. Follow the guidelines below for optimized website images that will maximize you online sales. 1. General best practices 2. Image size 3. Search Engine Optimization 4....

Using ‘Cart-Level Discounts’ for your Online Store Promotions

For shops looking to reach their online audience with occasional promotions, Big Commerce’s Cart-Level Discounts provide a number of ways to customize your special offers. For example, you can reward your biggest spenders with a free add-on once they’re...

Incorporating Conversion Rate Optimization with SEO

Oh man, people love the term "SEO." It’s a buzzword that many know they want, and they’re scrambling to get it. And for good reason. Search engine optimization is what's going to improve your search ranking and drive visitors to your site. If someone types in “best...

Beginner’s CRO Guide: 10 Tips to Maximize Conversions

Are your visitors converting into sales? What does your site's user experience feel like? With some simple Conversion Rate Optimization strategies, you can boost your sales and morph your website from "just-okay" into a money-making machine. If your eCommerce website...

Convert Browsing Customers into Sales with epicBloom Abandon Browse emails

epicBloom's email re-marketing service will help you reach your customers in the right place at the right time. With Abandon Browse emails, you'll notify your customers if they've left your site without making a purchase, making it easy for them to see what they're...

Search Engine Marketing Success

What's Your Search Engine Marketing Strategy? Our goal at Epic is to create the best floral websites in the world! We also want to be a one-stop shop for those in the floral industry regarding all things marketing. So we partnered with Marketing 360, one of the top,...

Your site’s status and health

In order for us to make it easy for our epicFlorists to see how their sites are performing (if it's down/slow, and what measures are being taken to fix the problem), we made it easy for you to check right here on the Epic site. Click 'Clients' up top and then 'Check...

The future of buying flowers online, will your business be ready?

The future of the retail floral industry. Will your online business be ready? Google I/O is an event that features highly technical, in-depth sessions focused on building web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open web technologies such as Android,...

epicFlowers Future 2016

The Future of eCommerce Main Video New Back Office Communicating With Max About a New Funeral Site epicBloom the Future of Online Marketing

In-store Search Analytics – Another Awesome epic Feature

Did you know with an epicFlowers site you can see what people are searching for within your website, and then use that to your advantage to improve conversion rates? Knowing what your customers want - and better yet, what their behaviors are - is critical to your...

epicFlowers Fails again, but that’s a good thing!

Without risk, there is no reward. And when we fail, we learn and make it better. We at epicFlowers strive to optimize our florists' websites to have the best conversion rates. Following conversion rate best practices, scientific research on our part, and ignoring our...

epicFlowers Doesn’t Just Build Websites

How do we make epic websites perform better? That's the question that keeps the epicFlowers team up at night. We at epicFlowers are dedicated to you, our customers. We are constantly researching and testing innovative ways to make your eCommerce website better and...

A basic guide to maximizing Conversion Rate Optimization

You are a conversion rate optimizing champ; you just might not know it! In your shop, what do you do to make sure certain retail items sell? If you're selling plants in your shop, you know by using best practices, grouping your plants will sell more plants. You put...

Make the customer want to come back – Sustain the CLV (customer’s lifetime value)

A visitor to your website has converted into a purchasing customer. Congratulations! That is, of course, a critical first step. What do you have in place on your website that is designed to make them want to come back? What strategies can you use to make...

Mother’s Day Conversion Champion

Of our epicFlorists who converted the most visitors into buyers the week leading up to and including Mother's Day? Was it a medium to large shop, or someone even larger? Nope. It was little 'ol Enchanted Florist converting an amazing 24%! While many variables...

Coupon Popout Recovery Tool

This handy FREE addition to your epicSite displays a coupon (you set the terms) whenever a visitor is about to "bounce" or leave your site. As the mouse creeps toward the address bar or the back button, POP! out comes the coupon suggesting they stick around a little...

Urgency Clock Banner – Another Solid Conversion Tool

We at epicFlowers are always pushing for more ways for more florists to convert more sales and make more money. Our latest useful and FREE code to add to your header of your site is the Urgency Clock Banner. This notification tool clearly allows visitors to your site...

Rathbone’s Flair Flowers Redesign!

Take a look at Rathbone's Flair Flowers new look! This family owned florist located in Jenks Oklahoma is a pleasure to work with. Matt Rathbone wanted a fresh functional look and chose one of our popular new layouts, the Cluizel. There is ample space for a grab your...

Know More About your Customers with Built-In Florist Ecommerce Tracking and Analytics

Knowing your customer base is the focus of online marketing. By knowing your customers, you can more easily engage with them and provide the products and services they want, creating a lost-lasting and loyal relationship. You already understand your customers pretty...

Using Testimonials Effectively Increases Credibility and Conversions

Before making a purchase online, what do you normally do? Go to Amazon.com to compare prices and reviews? Look up YouTube videos about the product? Ask friends and family what they recommend? We've all done it. In fact, according to Google the average shopper in 2011...

Easy Checkout Process Keeps Customers Coming Back

There's nothing more frustrating than a horrible online checkout experience. After finding the perfect product at a decent price, only to be forced into creating user accounts, newsletter signups you weren't asked about and no payment options - it's more than enough...

Recovering Abandoned Carts Can Help Your Business Grow and Retain Valuable Customers

You have a beautiful website with great products that you've spent tons of time perfecting. You have an SEO and Marketing strategy and everything is looking good. Customers are browsing your eCommerce website, adding products to their cart - and leaving!? Shopping...

Pinterest can help raise awareness, increase traffic and make loyal fans of your business!

Pinterest is a visually compelling social media network. It is a great way to share and discover new interests and ideas, but it is also an effective marketing tool for businesses, especially online florist websites. At first glance it may seem like an unusual...

epic Blog Websites Help Engage Customers

So, you have a great eCommerce website, but you want a place to showcase your designs and creativity online while engaging your customers...? An epic Blog Website is what you need! An epic blog Website is the perfect sidekick to your eCommerce website. eCommerce...

epic Mobi Makes the Mobile Experience more Profitable

Whether you're looking into making your website mobile friendly or you want to update your current mobile website, epic Mobi is what you need. Every epic website is mobile friendly by default, but with epic Mobi your website is mobile's BFF! Seriously! epic Mobi is...

epic Updates Makes Managing Your Website Easier

Running a business is time consuming, especially during the holidays. Now you have a second business model, your eCommerce website. There's no time to change banners, edit products, update coupons and categories. epic Updates does this for you! Think of it as your own...

Bonnat Layout

The Bonnat layout is a very elegant and simplistic floral website design layout. The front page focuses on the banner and products. From the get-go online shoppers can get a taste of the beautiful arrangements offered by your online e-commerce florist. There are no...

Amedei Layout

The Amedei website layout is a great eCommerce layout for florists. It's not too flashy and gets straight to the point - driving sales and making money! The combination of our epic horizontal navigational menu and quick link buttons, online shoppers can easily find...

New Amano Layout

Introducing our new 'Amano' Layout. This is a more modern layout featuring a large eye-catching banner, great for sales, promos, anything you want the online floral shopper to see. Large, easy to see buttons appear next to the banner for quick links to the most...

One more feature that makes us the #1 in floral eCommerce technology

More speed, more sales — your epicWebsite is now powered by the Bigcommerce CDN *this entry was taken from our partner's blog bigcommerce.com About the Author: Soren Harner is the Vice President of Engineering here at BigCommerce. He works with our engineers,...

Epic Updates

During busy holidays there is no time to change products, create new banners, and make seasonal coupons. Epic Updates makes maintaining your website a breeze! For just $159/month we do the work for you. It is your personal website concierge service. If you have a...

Website eCommerce Conversion Rates: I’m obsessed and learning more all the time.

The conversion rate isn't only about the user experience on the page. The price is also a factor as well as page load times, email marketing as well how well the consumer trusts and likes your brand. So when people come to your site organically looking for a site to...

The importance of knowing and improving your website’s Conversion Rate

First let's define conversion rates: The percentage of how many people visited your site versus how many of them bought something. For example, 100 people came to your site today, 10 people bought something, your conversion today was 10%. There are some important...