Growth hacks — advice and tutorials to help you build a business
Below you’ll find some recent articles we’ve written to help you grow your business. You’ll find these in our blog too, alongside our product reviews.
New: check out our in-depth guide on how to start a business.
Blogging
How to Increase Your Blog Traffic — in 10 Simple Steps
In this article, we share 10 simple ways you can increase traffic to your blog posts — fast!
August 27, 2021
What is Inbound Marketing?
What is inbound marketing? Find out in our in-depth guide to this important technique for growing a business.
August 8, 2021
E-commerce
Shopify SEO — How to Optimize Your Shopify Store
Shopify SEO: read Style Factory’s in-depth guide to optimising a Shopify store for the major search engines.
October 28, 2021
How to Make an Online Store — the 6 Key Steps to Starting a Successful Ecommerce Business
How to make an online store — and generate sales with it. A step-by-step guide to getting started with ecommerce.
October 15, 2021
How to Start a Shopify Store — 15 Simple Steps
A step by step guide on how to get a successful Shopify store off the ground.
September 19, 2021
How to Buy a Shopify Store using Exchange Marketplace — Step-by-Step Guide
How to buy a Shopify store using Shopify Exchange: some top tips for a successful purchase.
September 16, 2021
Bigcommerce Announce Free Online E-commerce Event, ‘Make it Big’
News about a free e-commerce event from BigCommerce that features contributions from some of the world’s best-known e-commerce experts.
July 28, 2021
BigCommerce SEO — 10 Essential Tips
BigCommerce SEO — an in-depth guide to making a BigCommerce store rank highly in search results.
July 14, 2021
Email marketing
How to Create a Newsletter (and a Powerful Email Marketing Campaign)
How to create a newsletter — a simple checklist you can follow to create beautiful HTML e-newsletters and effective email marketing campaigns.
October 21, 2021
Autoresponders: What They Are and How To Use Them
Autoresponders — a simple explanation of what they are and how to send them in a way that saves time and generates income.
September 16, 2021
Split Testing — A Simple Way to Improve Open Rates and Conversions
A simple guide to split testing and how it can improve the effectiveness of your digital marketing campaigns.
August 8, 2021
Running an online business
Cyber Security Tips — Key Ways to Protect Your Business from Online Threats
In this post, we share some key cyber security tips that can significantly reduce the risk of your business being compromised online.
October 6, 2021
How to Start a Business — The Essential Checklist
A guide to the key things you need to do when setting up a business.
September 22, 2021
Autoresponders: What They Are and How To Use Them
Autoresponders — a simple explanation of what they are and how to send them in a way that saves time and generates income.
September 16, 2021
10 Key Apps For Startups (2021)
10 key apps for startups — if you’re starting an online business, here are 10 apps you’re going to need to make a success of it.
September 11, 2021
Digital Declutter — 15 Ways to Become More Productive and Less Distracted
Declutter your digital life in 2021 — 15 top tips to reduce distraction and improve productivity.
August 15, 2021
Automate Your Business — Tips to Save Time and Increase Revenue
Automate your business — tips on how to make running your organisation easier, by using a variety of free or paid-for apps to automate a wide range of tasks.
August 14, 2021
SEO
Shopify SEO — How to Optimize Your Shopify Store
Shopify SEO: read Style Factory’s in-depth guide to optimising a Shopify store for the major search engines.
October 28, 2021
How to Speed Up a Squarespace Site — The Essential Checklist
How to speed up a Squarespace site — 9 vital tips on how to make your Squarespace website load faster and perform better in search results.
October 27, 2021
How to Make Your Site More Visible on Google
In this blog post, we share six simple ways that you can improve your site’s search engine optimisation and achieve better rankings in Google.
October 26, 2021
Local SEO Checklist — 10 Key Tips on How to Rank Locally
Local SEO checklist — 10 simple tips that can transform your site’s performance in local search results.
October 19, 2021
Squarespace SEO — The Definitive Checklist
Squarespace SEO Checklist — 17 easy-to-follow steps you can take to make sure your Squarespace site ranks highly in search results.
September 22, 2021
How to Recover from a Google Core Update
An in-depth look at what a Google broad core update is, why it might have negatively affected your rankings, and what you can do to recover.
September 13, 2021
Squarespace
How to Speed Up a Squarespace Site — The Essential Checklist
How to speed up a Squarespace site — 9 vital tips on how to make your Squarespace website load faster and perform better in search results.
October 27, 2021
Squarespace SEO — The Definitive Checklist
Squarespace SEO Checklist — 17 easy-to-follow steps you can take to make sure your Squarespace site ranks highly in search results.
September 22, 2021
Squarespace Pricing — Which Plan is Best for Your Project?
In-depth guide to Squarespace pricing. Which plan is best for your project?
September 16, 2021
Squarespace GDPR Checklist — The 7 Key Tasks
How to make a Squarespace website GDPR compliant — a checklist outlining all the key steps you need to take.
August 14, 2021
Squarespace Templates — How to Choose the Best One for Your Project
An in-depth guide on how to choose the best Squarespace template for your project.
July 26, 2021