Some entrepreneurs are quick to claim the easiness of making money on the internet, but take heed: 90% of new online stores fail within their first four months of launching—a dismal statistic that speaks to the difficulty of entering ecommerce.

So if you’re trying to open an online store on Shopify or another platform, it only makes sense to do your due diligence. In other words, research those outliers that have succeeded. Look for patterns and commonalities in the stores that have prevailed, and continued to prevail, over time. 

There may not be a universal secret sauce for guaranteeing your store’s success. However, by carefully studying some of the most impressive Shopify success stories on the web, you’ll certainly get a better idea of what works and what doesn’t. For starters, we’ve gone ahead and rounded up seven Shopify stores worth checking out.

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Over the past year, Influencer marketing has been a great resource for many companies, no matter how big or small they are. There are many benefits from doing influencer marketing, the main one being the possibility of reaching out to an audience that is quite difficult to do with other types of marketing.

That being said, finding the right content creators is not an easy task. Sometimes, these types of campaigns might not have the results the brand is expecting, due to the selection of influencers. Choosing the correct influencer who brings authenticity to your brand will be key in order to get good results for your campaign. It’s not just selecting influencers who have a good amount of followers; there are many other variables that need to be considered in this process.

In this article, we’re going to deep dive into a key component of SEO and link building – outbound links. We’ll discuss what they are and how its prudent use can boost your SEO initiative. In the end, we discuss the role they play in the overall context of a healthy link profile.

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