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3 Reasons Why You Should Move Your Online Shop To Shopify

Why move your shop to Shopify? 3 key reasons why our clients have chosen to move from Etsy to Shopify and why you might consider it too.

There are several options out there that can help you create an online shop for your business, hobby, or extra revenue stream. After helping several clients set up their online shops, migrate shops from one platform to another, and maintaining shops, one thing is clear: We love Shopify! Shopify is an amazing tool for most product based businesses and gives you as a shop owner several key advantages over an online marketplace like Etsy.

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When Clients Can’t Come To You

7 ideas that can help any business connect with customers, boost sales, and increase visibility when you can’t physically meet.

With physical distancing being the most effective tool in containing the novel coronavirus, many smaller businesses are seeing a decrease in new and returning clients. This is especially true for businesses who service local clients. What are some quick ideas for boosting your sales and visibility over the next couple months?

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We have a new name! Welcome to R + R Creative Co.

So the question has been asked: Why a new brand? Well, we've got a new team (Welcome Mark!), new services and some products too, so we feel we’ve outgrown the slightly restrictive Make Her Social name. While we do still work primarily with women and creative business owners, we don't only do social media (and we didn’t limit ourselves to social before either...but people assumed this because of our name!). We have loved helping with many parts of your brand touchpoints, and want to continue to focus on that.

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How to create an animated .gif for your Instagram feed using Photoshop

I’ve received a couple of questions about how to create GIFs for Instagram. There are many ways to do this, but my favorite is to use a program I’m already familiar with — Photoshop. In Instagram, you can’t upload a normal GIF file. It won’t animate. So, in order to make your animation work on Instagram, you will have to create a movie file, namely an .mp4 file. Photoshop can help you create that!

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