TheGenieLab Blog
Great news here at TheGenieLab! We’ve just been certified by Shopify as approved design and development experts. We’ve been working with Shopify for many years, so we’re really excited to have our expertise recognized and recommended by this fantastic eCommerce platform. They have also featured us on their website! What is Shopify? Not sure what all the fuss is about? You should give Shopify a look. It’s a slick cloud-based, hosted system for eCommerce sites that looks good and performs even bet
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The online marketing industry, and in particular inbound organic marketing, has a huge variety of APIs that you can take advantage of for free starting right now. Pretty much every repetitive or monotonous task has been developed in some clever way and packaged up into an API product for paid or free use. Many SEO APIs
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Did you know that China is shortly set to become the world’s #1 when it comes to eCommerce? The online market in the world’s most populous country has grown exponentially in the last few years, some five times as fast as in the US, and experts expect it to be officially more lucrative when industry statistics are released this year. Here are some other notable statistics about eCommerce in China: Chinese shoppers pay attention to reviews. It’s important to facilitate user reviews in the West, bu
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Getty Images, the world’s largest photo agency, has made 35 million of its images – including pictures of John F Kennedy, Barack Obama and David Beckham – available for free. In an effort to combat piracy and prevent its images being shared across the internet illegally, the agency’s new embed feature allows blogs and Twitter accounts to embed its images completely free of charge. The photos, which won’t be watermarked, will be embedded using a code that links back to Getty’s website and credits
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It’s a common misconception that Twitter doesn’t represent a good return on investment. For small start-up businesses it’s an excellent way to reach potential customers and grow a brand. The so-called ‘social media scientist’ Dan Zarrella is an expert in all things social. He’s published a number of ways that both small start-ups and established brands can extend their reach using Twitter on his blog. How can your brand get noticed among the millions tweeting every day? Here are some of his best
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