Practical articles on white label development, Shopify, WordPress, SEO and running a leaner, more profitable agency. No filler. No product pitches buried in the content.
Shopify sent us an email a couple weeks ago. Short one. Just told us we’d been recognized as a Select Partner. We’ve been a Shopify Partner since 2017. Select Partner is a step up from that. Shopify doesn’t hand it out for asking. You get it after they’ve looked at your track record and decided […]
The foundation: what Shopify handles and what it doesn’t Shopify takes care of several SEO fundamentals out of the box. The platform generates a sitemap automatically at /sitemap.xml, adds canonical tags to prevent duplicate content issues from product variants, creates robots.txt with sensible defaults, and redirects HTTP to HTTPS. For a new store these are […]
Why typography shapes perception before a visitor reads A visitor lands on a client’s website. Before they read the headline, before they scroll, they have already formed an impression. Part of that impression comes from layout and colour. A significant part of it comes from the typefaces on screen. This is not abstract. Fonts carry […]
Why web development contracts fail agencies Most contract disputes on web projects don’t start with bad faith. They start with assumptions. The client assumed revisions were unlimited. The agency assumed the client would provide content by a certain date. Neither assumption was written down, so when the project ran long or the invoice was disputed, […]
Why this matters for every agency Most agencies have a rough sense of what a good website looks like. Strong design, fast load times, works on mobile. But when you’re delivering ten or twenty sites a year for different clients across different industries, “rough sense” is not a repeatable standard. The gaps show up at […]
Most agency revenue is project-based. A brief comes in, you build the site, you invoice, it ends. Then you start looking for the next one. Care plans break that pattern. A client on a monthly maintenance retainer pays you every month without a new brief, a new pitch, or a new proposal. The work is […]
At some point, every growing agency hits the same wall. A good brief lands. The budget is right. The client is ready to move. And then someone says it: “We don’t have the dev capacity for this.” What happens next shapes the next two or three years of your business. Some agencies hire. Some turn […]
Every agency gets this question. A client has a product to sell, a budget, and a vague idea of what they want. They ask: “Should we use Shopify or WooCommerce?” Most platform comparisons do not actually help you answer it. They list features side by side as if the client will read a spec sheet […]
The conversation most account managers are avoiding At some point in the last year, a client probably asked you what you thought about AI search. Maybe they saw something about Google’s AI Overviews. Maybe a competitor told them they were doing “GEO”. Maybe they just noticed their traffic numbers shifting in a way that didn’t […]
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