CheckoutWeekly/TaskHusky Curated Newsletter #2214

She Sells Shoes … On Shopify

Yo - Spring is the crazy season here in the Midwest. In case some of you are unaware, the spacious TaskHusky offices are located in southern Michigan. That means the weather in the springtime is literally insane. In early April it can be snowing today, 80 degrees tomorrow, and then have a freeze warning the day after that. If we’re lucky we’ll have a total of seven beautiful Spring days spread out across three weeks.Then it’s mosquito season.Anyway … Easter is this weekend and it’s rare to have a snow after that. Time to give ‘Ol Man Winter the boot, so to speak. Soon there will be no more ice to clog the gutters and we can put on our sandals, pump up the kiddie pool, and sling some burgers on the grill ‘cuz summer’s coming.Speaking of boots, clogs, sandals, pumps, and slings … this week’s Shopify target sells a LOT of all of them in their signature funky urban style. Let’s meet them, shall we?And yes, all those puns make me feel like a heel.Happy Selling,Zach

You Can Be Next!

Well, not “you” exactly. Who wants to get a newsletter about ”you,” right? But if you have a Shopify site and want that site to be front and center in an upcoming TaskHusky Checkout Weekly newsletter this is kind of cool.

Here’s the deal … we have spent the last few years focused on the larger Shopify stores. That’s great and all, but I thought it would be cool to give a few “normal” sites a load of free advice and such. And I will do just that. But keep in mind that I tell marginally humorous jokes and poke fun at everything. So, well, you get the idea.

Just reply to this email and say

“Tear me down Zach!”

and I’ll put you on the list for an upcoming issue.

This Week’s Shopify Teardown Target: JeffreyCampbellShoes.com

JeffreyCampbellShoes is all about youthful, urban chic shoes. They sell their fashion-funky footwear on their site, all three social media platforms,

, and through a slew of resellers, specialty shops, and department stores like Nordstrom and Macy’s. They sell a LOT of shoes.

The Shopify Theme That They Use

The Icon theme from our friends at We Are Underground is a great Shopify theme for selling fashion. It’s clean, responsive, and focused on visuals. A great way to let the colors and styles sell for you. JeffreyCampbellShoes uses this theme. And the best part is that it is a rather low-priced premium theme.

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What They Do Well

This might sound unglamorous, but this site is less about doing a few things special and more about doing nothing bad. Everything is tight and buttoned down. They did not waste money or time on fancy display tactics and code-heavy tracking tools. They focus on the basics and making those basics as clean and fast as possible. This is a very smart approach.

The website is rather understated as compared to their social media posts. This is on purpose. To my eye, JeffreyCampbellShoes considers their REAL store to be the social media platforms and the Shopify site is just the back office … the business end.

What Needs to Be Improved

The checkout process is fairly smooth, but the Express payment code is loading way too slow — especially in the shopping cart. I sat there and started at the screen waiting for it to finish rendering for more than 2 minutes before I gave up. So, the question is after all that delay whether “express” payment is still happening. This should be fixed.

See … they kept it simple. The simpler something is the harder it is to break.

The Shopify Apps They Use

We used our top-secret Shopify scanning tools to determine that this site is using the following apps and plugins:

  • AccessiBe — Accessibility monitoring app for compliance.

  • Preact — Customer support.

  • SMSBumo — Text based marketing.

  • Cover Pics — Instagram feed as social storefront.

  • Back in Stock — Inventory alerts.

  • SEO Manager — Just what it sounds like … SEO tool for Shopify stores.

  • Bugsnag – The app that snag bugs … in software. Seeing this app EVERYWHERE these days.

  • Yotpo — A very popular review app.

  • AfterPay — Installment payment option.

  • ShopifyPay/PayPal/ApplePay – These are Express payment options. Love ‘em all.

  • Boomerang – Performance analytics. Just a little piece of code, actually.

  • Flickety – Touch responsive image carousels.

That’s only a dozen or so additional apps. It’s very impressive that there are so few.

Marketing Stuff They Do

JeffreyCampbellShoes posts a LOT on social media. They favor the organic posting route on

(290k followers),

(951k followers), and

(15.5k followers). There are well over a million unique follows among those, and that is a way-good base to build a business on. We cannot find any direct Facebook ads, but they even have an extensive, separate

, so we suspect that any social ads are being run by an agency and referral program.

We can get our hands on a bunch of search ads that they are running, so as we do what we do, here are 3 samples so you can see how they do it.

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