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Whether you're a brand new freelancer with a limited marketing budget, or an agency with millions to spend, marketing is the lifeblood of any business. Shopify Partners Marketing Manager Courtney Symons and four Shopify Partner panelists met up online to discuss marketing best practices for freelancers and agencies. 

In this article you'll learn:

• Marketing tips & insights from industry leaders.
• Suggestions for various tools and process that can help you with your marketing efforts.
• The largest challenges faced by partners and merchants.

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It's that time of year!

Any holiday features you’ve built for clients have likely been live for weeks. Now it's time to sit back, relax, and take a peek at what other businesses have been up to this holiday season.

We've highlighted 10 stores built on Shopify (with the help of Shopify Partners) that show the best of what this holiday season has to offer.

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Effective product page design needs to immediately convey the value of the featured product. You should show people exactly what it looks like, tell them exactly what it’ll feel like, and make them believe it’s something they absolutely need to own.

In this article, we’ll cover:

• 10 product pages that will inspire your next client project.
• What makes each featured page great, so that you can apply these best practices to your next product page design.
• Which information is most important to highlight on product pages.

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At Shopify, we have many tutorials and introductions to Liquid, our open-source, Ruby-based template language. Liquid is the backbone of Shopify themes and is used to load dynamic content on storefronts.

Our Shopify Partners work with Liquid all the time, and we thought it might be useful to seek out some of their favourite tips and tricks to working with Liquid. Below are a collection of some of our favourites.

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We're sure you’re familiar with the feeling. A deadline is looming; a client awaits. You know your brain has the capacity to dream up a beautiful solution to the problem you’re trying to solve, but it’s just. not. happening.

Discover how to identify creative blocks, and learn expert strategies that will help you carve a creative path forward when you’re stuck at a standstill. 

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After building a relationship and fulfilling an initial contract with a client, why say goodbye? 

We've created a free guide outlining how to keep earning client income with on-retainer contracts and upsells. Read on to get your free copy.

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In this free webinar hosted by Rebecca Maiorino — Commercial Manager of Shipping and Fulfillment at Shopify — will walk you through the Shopify Shipping solution, and give you a first glimpse at some of the new features we’re introducing to make shipping better for our merchants.

During this session, we will cover:

• A Shopify Shipping walkthrough to get you familiar with the product.
• Who can use Shopify Shipping.
• Carrier calculated shipping — what it is, and why your clients want it.
• Other important shipping information you need to know.

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It's summer, and that means fantasizing about spending days on end at the cottage or beach. But choosing to take a holiday as a freelancer can be difficult, because of one looming fear: how am I going to escape from work?

In the interest of providing baby steps, we’ll walk you through three types of vacations and how to take them:  

• A working holiday
• A moderately unplugged getaway
• And a full-fledged vacation

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Shopify’s 5th Annual Build A Business Competition just launched – and this year, Shopify Partners have a larger role to play than ever before.

We’re officially launching the Shopify Partners Build A Business Competition.

If you win, you’ll take home $10,000 USD for your work customizing or creating a theme for a winning Build A Business merchant. 

Learn more about how to get in the running, and hear from one of last year's winners.

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