Use the live chat feature to quickly connect with a Shop Local coach
May 9, 2024
Your Shop Local Store has an updated feature: You can live chat with a Shop Local coach. All Shop Local members have access to live customer service seven days a week.
With the live chat feature, a Shop Local coach can quickly answer your questions and solve any problems your business may have.
Please follow the steps to access this feature:
Log in to your Shop Local account.
Roll over Management at the top of your page. In the drop-down menu under "Shop
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How Shop Local's software quickly added Home Décor items to the online store for a popular College Station boutique
May 8, 2024
Shop Local welcomes new member Sabi Boutique in College Station, TX. Sabi Boutique has joined the Shop Local software platform to grow its online business. This fashion, accessories, and home decor shop is a destination for women to indulge and pamper themselves.
Sabi Boutique saved $3,020 and 4 weeks in labor on website product maintenance through the Shop Local platform. They have chosen Shop Local to expand their online store’s home decor and tabletop assortment. They will also offer...
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In April, brands raised their prices 7% on 2,379 products.
May 7, 2024
In April, brands raised their prices on 2,379 products, producing an average price increase of 7%. If a retailer didn’t make these changes, these price increases would cost their store 7%.
Thankfully, indie stores using Shop Local have the updated price for these 2,379 products. They don’t lose 7%. The stores receive the updated prices instantly via our Syncing service.
About the Syncing Service
Syncing is a free service for retailers that is paid for by partner brands. ...
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Cheers to National Small Business Week!! Let's celebrate our local retailers who bring charm and style to our communities. Thanks for all you do!
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How registrants can add a link at the top of their The Knot website leading to their registry at your store.
April 26, 2024
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: Your registrants can now share their registry at your store on The Knot more easily.
By default, The Knot lists manually added registries at the bottom of the page. The Knot lists registries from big-box names, like Target and Crate & Barrel, at the top of the page. Unfortunately, this makes it harder for gift givers to find your store in a registrant's list of registries.
There isn’t a way to change the page order to have the ...
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At Shop Local, it's our job to help find ways to grow your online business. Part of that job is researching different registry software to see if it could be a good fit for your store.
If you offer a gift registry service, you may have heard of MyRegistry. MyRegistry is a third-party universal registry service that seemingly integrates with your primary website, stating that they "offer a suite of technology solutions [for retailers] that boost revenue, engage customers, and reduce ...
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Indie stores have the best chance of ranking highly in Google when they use Shop Local. Merchants know this because of their page 1 rankings in search tests, such as for Florida results.
These Shop Local retailers located in Florida appear on page one of Google due to their Shop Local Store:
We'll be at the Dallas show Thursday, June 20 and Friday, June 21, 2024. We'd love to meet with you and hear about your business.
Are you a brand or sales rep that uses Shop Local?
If so, we put together the following materials for sales reps and brands. Please share these materials with your retailers. Please print these for use during the show:
1. A flyer to sign up a retailer for the service. We have 111 partner brands, and you'll likely see your brand on this sheet. Here is ...
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How to quickly browse a brand's collections and departments in an expanded view.
April 24, 2024
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We made it easier to view and browse through all of a brand's collections and departments. The Collections page now shows a navigation menu on the left side of the page with a brand's collections and departments.
Previously, one could only click on "Collections" or "Departments" in the main navigation to view all collections and departments a brand offers. With this update, one can quickly view all collections and departments on one...
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How the Syncing service helps retailers receive updated prices to avoid losing money.
April 23, 2024
Stores that have a Shop Local Store use the Syncing service to save time and money on product maintenance. After a brand loads their products to their Shop Local account, the products are Synced in real-time to retailers' Stores.
The brands do their respective maintenance work by adding and updating the products—saving the retailer from having to do it. Part of this maintenance includes updating prices for items to ensure they are up to date. By updating prices, brands help ...
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Over the past three decades, LAFCO has honored a commitment to quality and honesty.
Each home fragrance and personal care creation is not merely a product, but a testament to the artisanal excellence derived from the earth’s most generous offerings. These ingredients, curated from every corner of the globe, come with stories as rich and complex as their scents.
How an invitation from Syncing brand Mackenzie-Childs helped this retailer offer 2661 more products in only one day
April 22, 2024
We are pleased to announce that Olive Branch Gardens in Wallace, North Carolina, has joined Shop Local to grow their online business. Olive Branch Gardens is a florist and gift store with a limited selection of MacKenzie-Childs products on their primary Shopify website.
Olive Branch Gardens saved $2,740 and 4 weeks in labor on website product maintenance through the Shop Local platform. They have chosen Shop Local to expand their online store assortment and offer a gift registry program.
Starting the day with a business book helps the mind awaken and perform during the day.
April 21, 2024
I start each workday looking at notes I took when I read $100m Offers by Alex Hormozi. I read the notes, then assess how I can put them into action on our platform. I may add additional notes on top of the existing notes. I may grab a cafe napkin and doodle a feature on it.
These notes have directly benefited our platform: We have used them to launch new features, more clearly explain our services, and overall ensure we're performing our duties for clients.
When we compared our registry service to other registry software, we found 17 unique ways that our registry service helps gift givers, registrants, & merchants. Many other registry services don’t offer these 17 features below.
6 Ways Our Service Helps Gift Givers in Ways That Other Services Do Not
Gift Giver’s Experience (E.g. Friend or family member giving a gift)
The gift giver can easily find the registrant’s gift list because the service helps merchants rank
How Shop Local helps 4 retailers rank on page 1 of Google in Tennessee
April 18, 2024
Indie stores have the best chance of ranking highly in Google when they use Shop Local. Merchants know this because of their page 1 rankings and how they beat big-box stores in search tests, such as for Tennessee results.
These Shop Local retailers located in Tennessee appear on page one of Google due to their Shop Local Store:
Carol Schroeder recently shared how local shops help our communities and their environment. I liked the excerpt below from her post:
”Returns are one example of something local shopkeepers do better than Amazon and other giant web retailers. The e-commerce return rate is estimated to be two to three times that of brick & mortar stores – averaging a shocking 20%-30%. According to The Guardian, a returns platform “recently calculated that only 50% of ...
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