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What Is CBD Distillate? And Other FAQ From Your Customers

What Is CBD Distillate? And Other FAQ From Your Customers

Since the CBD market is expected to increase astronomically in the next two to three years (by an estimated 700%!) the competition will be fierce, so building a dynamic website and working with an agency with an innovative marketing solution will be your key to beating the odds and creating a thriving CBD eCommerce store.

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How to Improve Your Customer Loyalty And Retention

How to Improve Your Customer Loyalty And Retention

In order for your business to succeed, you need to know how to attract customers. But even more importantly, you need to know how to keep them coming back. Here’s our step-by-step guide on building a successful customer retention strategy using a customer loyalty program.

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How To Drive More Traffic To Your Website For Free

How To Drive More Traffic To Your Website For Free

Have you been wondering how to drive more traffic to your website for free? The good news is, you don’t have to be an SEO expert or a marketing whiz to drive more traffic to your website. Here’s our top tips for how to drive traffic to your website for free!

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How To Advertise On Facebook For Free In 2019: Our Top Tips

How To Advertise On Facebook For Free In 2019: Our Top Tips

How excited would you be if we were to tell you how to advertise on facebook for free!? Thanks to a little change in Facebook’s algorithm this year, we are finding new and exciting ways that we can teach you how to advertise on facebook for free in 2019. That means an open platform of eager consumers just waiting to buy your product… at absolutely no cost to you! 

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How Long Does It Takes SEO To Work (And Do I Really Need It)?

How Long Does It Takes SEO To Work (And Do I Really Need It)?

As a team that specializes in SEO, we get a lot of questions about it. Lots of people what to know the cost, benefit, and outcome of implementing SEO practices in their website.

One of the most common questions we are asked is “Does my website really need SEO?” and a second question quickly follows: “How long does it take SEO to work?”

If you’ve found yourself questioning “What is SEO?” or “Does my website really need SEO?” or even “How long does it take SEO to work?” then you’ve come to the right place. 

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How Much Does It Cost To Maintain A Website? The Honest Truth About Site Pricing

How Much Does It Cost To Maintain A Website? The Honest Truth About Site Pricing

With the ever-evolving organism of website building and development, it’s pretty clear that you can’t just build a website, set it up to function, and then forget that it’s there. Having a website takes maintenance, time, energy, innovative thinking, and, yes, money. We are here to break down some of the costs you may encounter when building your website, and answer some of your questions about how much it will cost to maintain that site once it’s built.

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How To Launch Your CBD Business Website [In 2019]

How To Launch Your CBD Business Website [In 2019]

Since the CBD market is expected to increase astronomically in the next two to three years (by an estimated 700%!) the competition will be fierce, so building a dynamic website and working with an agency with an innovative marketing solution will be your key to beating the odds and creating a thriving CBD eCommerce store.

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How To Sell CBD Oil Online [Infographic!]

How To Sell CBD Oil Online [Infographic!]

Looking into how to sell CBD oil online? With the CBD market estimated to expand by 700% in the next two years, there are a few things you should think about to make sure your CBD website stands out from the crowd. Here are our best tips and tricks to ensure the success of your CBD website.

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Increase your SEO, become a blog pro!

How do you write a good blog and why is it a good for business? Before the how lets start with the why.  It helps drive traffic to your website It helps convert that traffic into leads.  It helps establish authority.It...

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What Is CBD? A New Product On The Rise.

What Is CBD? A New Product On The Rise.

What Is CBD? A New Product On The Rise.In 1937 the hemp plant was banned from US production and selling with the passing of the Marijuana Tax Act, but since the recent passing of the Farm Bill in 2018, it has opened the door for scientists and researchers to study the...

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How A Coupon Marketing Strategy Could Radically Increase Your Sales

How A Coupon Marketing Strategy Could Radically Increase Your Sales

Coupon marketing strategies have been a crucial, and growing, part of eCommerce marketing since the dawn of the internet. By the time the internet came around, coupons were certainly nothing new. Since the first ever coupon strategy launched by Coca Cola in 1887, coupons have been a successful strategy for advertising your brand and increasing your conversion rate.

Here are our top tips for launching your own successful coupon marketing campaign in 2019.

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ADA Compliance Website Guidelines (For 2019 And Beyond)

ADA Compliance Website Guidelines (For 2019 And Beyond)

ADA Compliance Website Guidelines (For 2019 And Beyond) Many website owners are finding themselves battling accessibility lawsuits. 2018 was a record year for number of lawsuits filed for ADA website compliance issues, and 2019 is already on track to break that...

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How To (Successfully) Market And Sell CBD Oil Online [NEW]

How To (Successfully) Market And Sell CBD Oil Online [NEW]

How To (Successfully) Market and Sell CBD Oil Online [NEW]Congratulations on launching your new site! You've crossed one of the major hurdles. But launching your site is only step one; step two is marketing your new site. In order to successfully sell CBD oil online,...

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Recover Sales With Abandoned Cart Emails (In 3 Easy Steps)

Recover Sales With Abandoned Cart Emails (In 3 Easy Steps)

Recover Sales With Abandoned Cart Emails (In 3 Easy Steps)You've finally done it. You've started your online business. You've figured out your inventory. You've got traffic. You're making sales. But did you know that you're still losing 75% of your business?  How, you...

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How To Get Customer Reviews (Our Complete Guide For 2019)

How To Get Customer Reviews (Our Complete Guide For 2019)

How To Get Customer Reviews (Our Complete Guide For 2019)How do you get customer reviews?  Why do customer reviews matter?   How can online customer reviews increase my business?  These are all questions that many business owners like you are asking themselves....

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Important SEO Trends

Important SEO Trends

Important SEO TrendsIn today's eCommerce world, search engine optimization (or SEO) has proven to be one of the most useful and innovative tools for internet marketing and increasing your sales. But SEO is always changing and growing, it's a constantly evolving...

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5 Tips For Increasing Your Conversion Rate

5 Tips For Increasing Your Conversion Rate

Five Tips For Increasing Your Conversion RateIf you're a small business owner with an eCommerce website, you've probably already thought about different ways you can boost your conversion rates. Well we're here to help. In this blog post we will share the top five...

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SOREDI Launch | Talk: Successful e-Commerce 101 Q&A

SOREDI Launch | Talk: Successful e-Commerce 101 Q&A

SOREDI Launch | Talk: Successful e-Commerce 101Q & AOn April 10th, our CEO and founder, Brandon Kirkland, had the honor of participating in a local discussion forum titled "Launch | Talk: Successful e-Commerce 101".  Here are some of the most valuable questions...

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SOREDI Launch | Talk: Successful e-Commerce 101

SOREDI Launch | Talk: Successful e-Commerce 101

SOREDI Launch | Talk: Successful e-Commerce 101On April 10th, our CEO and founder, Brandon Kirkland, had the honor of participating in a local discussion forum titled "Launch | Talk: Successful e-Commerce 101".This discussion panel was hosted by SOREDI, or Southern...

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epicBloom Emails Have A Fresh New Look!

epicBloom Emails Have A Fresh New Look!

Good News epicBloom Users, Your Email Campaigns Have A Fresh New Look Our Epic team works tirelessly to bring our clients fresh new options for marketing their businesses online. We're excited to announce a new look for all epicBloom e-mail marketing campaigns this...

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Our Partner At Floristware Is Offering A Design Scholarship

Our Partner At Floristware Is Offering A Design Scholarship

FloristWare Is Pleased To Announce The James LoweMemorial AwardIn his honor, and with the blessing of his family, FloristWare is pleased to announce the James Lowe Memorial Award: $2,500 in financial support to help a designer attend the AIFD Symposium.Wilmington DE -...

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How To Write Search-Friendly Ecommerce Product Pages

How To Write Search-Friendly Ecommerce Product Pages

How To Write Search-Friendly Ecommerce Product Pages Product pages are vital for converting visitors into sales. They’re the final step before the checkout phase, and outstanding product content can convince even the most skeptical online shopper to part with their...

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Welcoming Jill, Our Newest Epic Team Member

Welcoming Jill, Our Newest Epic Team Member

Meet Jill Yoder, Epic's new Content Marketing Manager.   We are excited to introduce our newest member of the Epic team, Jill Yoder. Jill is joining our team to add a fresh spin to our blog and social media department.    "Hello everybody! I’m Jill Yoder, and I am so...

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An SEO Story: Anderson Pallet & Crate Case Study

An SEO Story: Anderson Pallet & Crate Case Study

Pallet & Crate Manufacturer Changes Business Name, Changes Online Strategy Anderson Pallet & Crate called on epicShops to build a website that reflected their new ownership and operating team -- and then get it found on the web. When Anderson Pallet &...

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Epic Websites Integrated with Amazon Payments

Epic Websites Integrated with Amazon Payments

Don't Settle For Less Optimize Your Business Goals and Objectives An important part of Conversion Rate Optimization is streamlining your entire purchase funnel, and making it as easy as possible for customers to buy. This includes, among other things, offering the...

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A Florist’s Story: Rose & Blossom Case Study

A Florist’s Story: Rose & Blossom Case Study

Florist increases holiday sales by 5x in four yearsBigCommerce built-in features and epicShops custom apps provide a stable, conversion-ready platform for big company growth.When Rose & Blossom, an independent florist in Spokane Valley, WA, joined epicShops in...

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New! epicShops is now a BigCommerce Preferred Partner

New! epicShops is now a BigCommerce Preferred Partner

We are excited to announce epicShops is now a Preferred Partner at BigCommerce! We’ve been designing e-commerce websites using BigCommerce’s platform for over nine years, building online stores that convert visitors into sales. By combining our love of...

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New! Epic Monthly Webinar Series

New! Epic Monthly Webinar Series

Each month, we'll dive into a topic that helps you better understand your online store. Whether it's adding Pop Card messages, choosing your product add-ons, or developing your customer rewards program, we'll show you all the functionality and how-tos of the new...

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Tips and Tools to Help with Your Link Building Campaign

Tips and Tools to Help with Your Link Building Campaign

SEO is an invaluable channel that should be considered in your digital marketing strategy. SEO allows you to be found organically for specific search terms in order to feed your funnel with unpaid traffic. While paid approaches are important, depending on SEO is a...

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Welcoming Matt, Our Newest Epic Team Member

Welcoming Matt, Our Newest Epic Team Member

Meet Matt Sutterfield, Epic's New Customer Support Manager   We’re happy to introduce our newest Epic team member, Matt Sutterfield. Matt joined us in December to kick our customer service and support into high gear, and his new role includes help desk support,...

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Increase your sales with optimized website images

Increase your sales with optimized website images

Optimizing your product images for your website is essential for conversion rate optimization. Follow the guidelines below for optimized website images that will maximize you online sales. 1. General best practices 2. Image size 3. Search Engine Optimization 4....

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Welcoming Ezra, Our New Epic Intern

Welcoming Ezra, Our New Epic Intern

Ezra comes to us with lots of enthusiasm and a drive to learn all about the ins and out of website development and design. We've partnered him with our tech department and he's busy at the help desk and behind the scenes, jumping on new projects daily, giving support...

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Using Product, Category & Page Descriptions for SEO

Using Product, Category & Page Descriptions for SEO

  This is Part III in our series about setting up your online store to skyrocket above the competition when it comes to SEO. If you want to learn more from epicShops about SEO, read: Part I: How to Optimize Your Blog Posts for SEO Park II: Working with Bloggers...

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How Florists Can Work With Bloggers for Great PR & SEO

How Florists Can Work With Bloggers for Great PR & SEO

The flower market has steadily evolved over the years into a billion-dollar industry. From weddings to birthdays and funerals to graduations, flowers have become one of the most popular celebration staples. Brick-and-mortar florists and budding entrepreneurs are...

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How to Optimize Your Blog Posts for SEO

How to Optimize Your Blog Posts for SEO

Blog posts can also function to bring in new visitors, by making your site visible to search engines. In order to attract new traffic, however, you’ll need to do more than create content your readers will enjoy – you’ll also need to optimize blog posts to attract...

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Incorporating Conversion Rate Optimization with SEO

Oh man, people love the term "SEO." It’s a buzzword that many know they want, and they’re scrambling to get it. And for good reason. Search engine optimization is what's going to improve your search ranking and drive visitors to your site. If someone types in “best...

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Beginner’s CRO Guide: 10 Tips to Maximize Conversions

Beginner’s CRO Guide: 10 Tips to Maximize Conversions

Are your visitors converting into sales? What does your site's user experience feel like? With some simple Conversion Rate Optimization strategies, you can boost your sales and morph your website from "just-okay" into a money-making machine. If your eCommerce website...

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What epicFlorists Have Been Saying….

Our Epic clients are rad (that's right, we just said rad). And they're more than just clients - they're our partners in success, because their eCommerce well-being is ours, too. That's why we're trusted partners for 100+ happy retailers. eCommerce is our life, and...

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What Our Partners Are Saying: Epic Testimonials

What Our Partners Are Saying: Epic Testimonials

Our Epic clients are rad (that's right, we just said rad). And they're more than just clients - they're our partners in success, because their eCommerce well-being is ours, too. That's why we're trusted partners for 100+ happy retailers. eCommerce is our life, and...

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Share your story out loud with Professional Animated Videos

Share your story out loud with Professional Animated Videos

Animated videos can provide creativity and flexibility that live video lacks. No expensive recording equipment, models or on-site visits necessary – instead, we blend custom scenes, characters and concepts to relay your message in a way that’s fresh, engaging, and (if...

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Epic’s newest partner: Remarkety

Epic’s newest partner: Remarkety

Traditional email marketing is a thing of the past - with Remarkety’s service, you have the power to resell to your existing customers by sending messages to their inbox they actually want to read! We’ve teamed up with Remarkety to provide Epic’s latest service,...

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Epic UI/UX Competition at Zeal

Epic UI/UX Competition at Zeal

The goal of the meet-up was to create a new User Interface for one of our latest website innovations, Pop Cards. We designed the competition, presented the rules, and offered cash prizes to the winning team. A big thanks to the people at Zeal and Rogue Tech Hub for...

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Search Engine Marketing Success

What's Your Search Engine Marketing Strategy?Our goal at Epic is to create the best floral websites in the world! We also want to be a one-stop shop for those in the floral industry regarding all things marketing. So we partnered with Marketing 360, one of the top,...

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Your site’s status and health

In order for us to make it easy for our epicFlorists to see how their sites are performing (if it's down/slow, and what measures are being taken to fix the problem), we made it easy for you to check right here on the Epic site. Click 'Clients' up top and then 'Check...

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NEW PARTNERSHIP, NEW SERVICE AND FREE TO ALL EPICFLORISTS

Coming April 1st, we're not fooling.   ... world's leading plugin library that make tools for better websites.  Add stunning wedding image galleries, forms, media galleries, and much more to your website. Fully customize and style your plugins without leaving...

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Funeral Home and Florist Webinar

Webinar Details: What: Explaining how Funeral Home Florist Co-op websites work and how they make you money. When: Monday, March 21th, 3pm EST Where: http://join.me/epicflowers More Info: Click here for more information.

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The epicFlowers 2016 Valentine’s Guide

T h e   e p i c F L o w e r s   2 0 1 6 Valentine's Guide. Stay sane online with our help. Frequently Asked Questions: How do I change my cut off time, block a day from delivery and turn my website completely off?Click here for the video answer. How do you quickly...

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epicFlowers Future 2016

The Future of eCommerce Main Video     New Back Office     Communicating With Max About a New Funeral Site     epicBloom the Future of Online Marketing    

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Field of Flowers New Chic Redesign

We're pleased to announce a new website layout for Field of Flowers! Field of Flowers, your local florist, delivers flowers across South Florida. 1.800.963.7374 (800.96.FRESH) Field of Flowers was founded in 1990 by Donn Flipse, a third...

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In-store Search Analytics – Another Awesome epic Feature

Did you know with an epicFlowers site you can see what people are searching for within your website, and then use that to your advantage to improve conversion rates? Knowing what your customers want - and better yet, what their behaviors are - is critical to your...

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epicFlowers fails again, but that’s a good thing!

 Without risk, there is no reward. And when we fail, we learn and make it better.   We at Epic strive to optimize our florists' websites to have the best conversion rates. Following conversion rate best practices, scientific research on our part, and...

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epicTool Box Webinar

Visit the epicToolbox HERE   Webinar Details:  What: Discussing how to use the epicToolbox and why it's so awesome. When: Thursday, January 15th, 1pm PST  Where: http://join.me/epicflowers  

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Rewards Camp’s – Online Customer Loyalty Webinar

Visit Reward Camp HEREWebinar Details: What: Discussing how to increase a customer's lifetime value through Reward Camp's, an online software that rewards florists' customers when they buy online When: Wednesday, January 7th, 8am PST Where:...

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Free SEO Tools for Florists

MOZ helps the world with search engine optimization and offers free tools to help florists rank better within search engines. Below are Moz's free tools to help you out. If you need help deciphering any information below contact Strider SEO for more help. Open Site...

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Customer reviews can increase sales up to 76%

The 4 ways epicFlowers and Yotpo reviews will increase your sales Yotpo.com enables flower shops to generate more reviews for their products in a simple and effective way.  Mail After Purchase  Yopto will automatically email your shoppers, at a set time after...

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Rine’s Florist since 1915

Rine's Florist Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania Florist 317 East Bough St. (570) 374-1953 www.rinesflorist.com We are pleased to provide a new site for the classic Flower shop Rine's Florist & Greenhouses, family owned and operated serving Selinsgrove and the Greater...

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epicFlowers Doesn’t Just Build Websites

How do we make epic websites perform better? That's the question that keeps the epicFlowers team up at night. We at epicFlowers are dedicated to you, our customers. We are constantly researching and testing innovative ways to make your eCommerce website better and...

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A Basic Guide to Maximizing Conversion Rate Optimization

You are a conversion rate optimizing champ; you just might not know it! In your shop, what do you do to make sure certain retail items sell? If you're selling plants in your shop, you know by using best practices, grouping your plants will sell more plants. You put...

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Local SEO Checklist with Tips and Education

The DIY SEO Cheat Sheet Follow the advice below; it's imperative to your local SEO success SEO Checklist: Step 1. Sign up and verify with: Google Analytics Google Webmaster Tools Bing Webmaster Center   Step 2. Local search is likely to drive the...

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epicFlowers Recommended Website Apps for Florists

Another thing that makes epicFlowers better than any competitor is we have A LOT of apps already built into your site. We have gone through all the website apps that epicFlorists can choose from on BigCommerce's website and created a page of recommendations.  Besides...

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GoTime Tool Box …coming soon!

The goTime Tool Box is a set of tools that integrates with BigCommerce stores. It helps stores convert higher, add to their customer lifetime value and offers consumers a better buying experience. Alert Bar! - Instantly add any type of communication to your site in...

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Welke’s House of Roses-Milwaukee Funeral Flowers

Welke's House of Roses-Milwaukee Funeral Flowers Milwaukee's Funeral Florist 2 Locations: 1020 Legion Drive, Elm Grove, WI 5528 W North Ave, Milwaukee, WI (877) 211-7673 www.milwaukeefuneralflowers.com This unique site focuses solely on sympathy arrangements for the...

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Parkside Flowers & Gifts

Parkside Flowers & Gifts Roseburg Oregon Florist 405 SE Oak Ave Roseburg, OR 97470 (541) 672-0228 | (800) 972-9534 www.roseburgoregonflowers.com New epicFlowers Website

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Mother’s Day Conversion Champion

Of our epicFlorists who converted the most visitors into buyers the week leading up to and including Mother's Day? Was it a medium to large shop, or someone even larger? Nope. It was little 'ol Enchanted Florist converting an amazing 24%! While many variables...

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The Grand Bouquet Florist

Arroyo Grande Florist 2 Locations 1139 E. Grand Ave. (805) 489-4891 & 150 W. Branch St. (805) 489-2834 Arroyo Grande, CA 93420 arroyograndeflorist.com New epicFlowers Website

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York Flowers

York Flowers 2 Locations: 5023 Wisconsin Ave NW Washington, DC 20016 (206) 363-1150 50 State Cir Annapolis, MD 21401 (410) 268-3341 yorkflowers.com New epicFlowers Website

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Coupon Popout Recovery Tool

This handy FREE addition to your epicSite displays a coupon (you set the terms) whenever a visitor is about to "bounce" or leave your site. As the mouse creeps toward the address bar or the back button, POP! out comes the coupon suggesting they stick around a little...

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Urgency Clock Banner – Another Solid Conversion Tool

We at epicFlowers are always pushing for more ways for more florists to convert more sales and make more money. Our latest useful and FREE code to add to your header of your site is the Urgency Clock Banner. This notification tool clearly allows visitors to your site...

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Rathbone’s Flair Flowers Redesign!

Take a look at Rathbone's Flair Flowers new look! This family owned florist located in Jenks Oklahoma is a pleasure to work with. Matt Rathbone wanted a fresh functional look and chose one of our popular new layouts, the Cluizel. There is ample space for a grab your...

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Bussey’s Flowers, Gifts & Decor

Bussey's Flowers, Gifts & Decor 2 Locations: 250 Broad Street Rome, GA 301601 (706) 234-1040 302 N. Main St. Cedartown, GA 30125 (770) 748-4055 busseysflorist.com New epicFlowers Website

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Epic Sites Just Keep Getting Better!

While our competition is still trying to figure out how to integrate Pinterest to their client's websites, we're playing in the big leagues.  For example, on the marketing side, epicFlorists have access to a Traffic Engine, which is a step-by-step marketing wizard...

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Prom LIVE! Interactive Prom Floral Webinar!

Join Us for Free: Prom Webinar Tuesday March 11, 2014 Register Today!! www.pioneerwholesaleco.com/events or call: 888-234-5400 Join Vonda LaFever AIFD, PFCI and Daniel Fisher PFCI for this exciting, LIVE and INTERACTIVE prom floral session.This session includes both...

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Valentine’s Day Tips & Tricks from epicFlowers

Choose a Vday FAQ you might have below & Click It I'm done taking orders, how do I turn my site off? How do I check my orders via an Android App? TIP #1 Front page product display Showcase a product on your front page: Login and under the Products Tab, click View...

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Easy Checkout Process Keeps Customers Coming Back

There's nothing more frustrating than a horrible online checkout experience. After finding the perfect product at a decent price, only to be forced into creating user accounts, newsletter signups you weren't asked about and no payment options - it's more than enough...

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