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Boston Shopify Meetup

A free meetup for e-commerce and Shopify store owners around Boston. Learn what's working for other local stores, ask your questions, and leave with something you can use the next morning.

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Boston skyline across the Charles River
Cost
Free
Where
Usually CIC Cambridge
Registration
Eventbrite

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Past Boston meetups

Talks, slides and notes.

Open any meetup to see the agenda and download what was shared.

6 meetups since 2018

2024

1 meetup

  1. E-commerce growth strategies: live store reviews (online series)

    Online
    Details

    Five 45-minute online sessions, every other Tuesday from September 10 to November 5, 2024, reviewing attendees' stores live: UX, design, SEO and conversion.

    Sessions

    • September 10
    • September 24
    • October 8
    • October 22
    • November 5
    Meetup.com event

2023

2 meetups

  1. Shopify store audit, live

    Online
    Details

    A live-streamed audit of a real attendee's Shopify store: theme customization, app integrations, functionality and performance.

    Meetup.com event

  2. Shopify Meetup Boston: SEO for revenue and customer experience

    CIC Cambridge, 245 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
    Details

    Back in person at CIC Cambridge: SEO that grows revenue rather than rankings, and what customer experience looks like at scale and in e-commerce.

    Agenda

    • Welcome, badges and networking
    • SEO for revenue: grow your business, not just your rankings — Dale Bertrand
    • Customer experience at a Fortune 500 company
    • Customer experience in e-commerce — Justin Porter
    • Breakout sessions and closing thoughts
    Meetup.com event Eventbrite

2019

2 meetups

  1. Shopify Meetup Boston: link building, BFCM and store operations

    Boston, MA
    3 files

    SEO link building, Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales strategy, and keeping store operations and backups in order.

    Agenda

    • SEO link building — Dale, Fire&Spark
    • Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales — Debra and Maddie, Digital Retail Partners
    • Store operations and backups — Justin Porter
    Recap

    Materials

  2. Shopify Meetup Boston: customer experience

    Boston, MA
    2 files

    What customer experience means for an online store and how to put it into practice with Shopify apps and processes.

    Agenda

    • Introduction to customer experience — Anthony Bannister
    • Implementing customer experience in the Shopify ecosystem — Justin Porter

    Sponsored by Fire&Spark and ShopClerk

    Recap

    Materials

2018

1 meetup

  1. Boston Shopify Meetup: SEO case studies and holiday prep

    CIC Cambridge, 5th floor café, 1 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
    Details

    An evening at CIC Cambridge on e-commerce SEO and getting ready for the holiday season, followed by breakout sessions to get questions answered.

    Agenda

    • 6:00 Networking
    • 6:30 Welcome — Dale Bertrand
    • 6:40 E-commerce SEO case study — Kara Tardif
    • 6:55 Isaiah Bollinger, Trellis
    • 7:10 Holiday season SEO — Dale Bertrand
    • 7:25 Breakout sessions
    Meetup.com event

What to expect

How an evening runs.

  1. 01 · 6:00 pm

    Arrive and meet

    Grab a drink and a seat. Talk to the people at your table about what's working in their store.

  2. 02 · 6:30 pm

    The talk

    One focused topic on running a store: shipping, email, product pages, apps, reporting. Practical, with examples you can copy.

  3. 03 · 7:15 pm

    Open questions

    Bring a real problem from your store. The room and our developers will take a swing at it.

  4. 04 · 8:00 pm

    Wrap up

    Slides and handouts go up on this page after the meetup, so you don't need to take notes.

Questions

Before you come.

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01 Who are these for?

Anyone who runs or works on an online store: owners, marketers, operations. Most people in the room sell on Shopify, but you don't have to.

02 Is it really free?

Yes. Registration on Eventbrite is free. It tells us how many chairs to set out.

03 Is this a sales pitch?

No. We're a Shopify agency and won't pretend otherwise, but the talks are about running your store, not hiring us.

04 Do I need to bring anything?

A question from your store, if you have one. A laptop is optional.

05 Where is it?

Recent Boston meetups have been at CIC Cambridge, 245 Main Street, Cambridge. The venue for each date is listed with the event.

06 Where do I find slides from a past meetup?

On each location's page under Past meetups. Open the meetup to download its files. If something's missing, ask us and we'll send it.

07 Can I present or host one?

Yes. We're always looking for store owners, app partners and local businesses with something useful to share or a room to share it in.

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