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About the Author
Mitch (@mitchellharper) is the co-founder and CEO of BigCommerce. Way back in 2007 he built what eventually became BigCommerce as you know it. Today he runs the company alongside Eddie and along with our 100+ team members, is passionate about helping businesses succeed with e-commerce. Mitch spends time between our Sydney and Austin offices and is giving the keynote at TechConnect 2012 in Sydney on April 19th. |
Howdy! Things have been extremely busy for us the last few weeks with BigCommerce 6 progressing nicely. It’s looking to be an absolutely amazing release and I’ve just posted a progress report on our community if you’d like to read it. I hope you’re as excited as we are about the big “6-0″.
It also appears that we’re not the only ones excited about BigCommerce 6 and also SocialShop which has garnered a huge amount of attention since it was launched as part of BigCommerce 5.6.
What seems like an almost insatiable interest in BigCommerce by the media has kept me busy with interview after interview over the last few weeks. Who knew that by simply listening to your customers and building the features they need, you could get the attention of TechCrunch, Forbes, PracticalEcommerce and others? 
Anyway, today I just wanted to share some recent media coverage about BigCommerce with you. You can see all of our media coverage on our “In the News” page but here are a few of the most popular posts from March and April (so far) 2010:
- Small Business Technology: 7 best practices for selling online
- Huffington Post: Would you go grocery shopping on Facebook?
- TechCrunch: BigCommerce turns to Facebook to socialize online storefronts
- PracticalEcommerce: Cart of the week: BigCommerce (there’s a podcast interview too)
- AllBusiness: Doing sales right: Baby & Me Gifts guides us to Facebook success
I hope you enjoy reading the articles. If you’d like more regular BigCommercey goodness and you’re not currently our fan on Facebook, why not take a few seconds to fan us? Our team post all sorts of cool stuff on our Facebook fan page, like:
- Screenshots and design mock ups of new features we’re working on
- Real-time progress updates on new releases
- Links to articles and blog posts (both ours and others) which can help you grow your business
- Answers to your questions about marketing, ecommerce and BigCommerce
- Other stuff which just makes Facebook more darn interesting
Check out our BigCommerce fan page (almost 600 fans in just a few months!) and click the “Become a fan” button.
If you’re more of a YouTube person then take a look at our YouTube guru channel which has dozens of educational videos and is about to hit 500,000 views and 6,000 subscribers (hooray!). There’s lot of (what I think are) really cool videos that I’ve recorded. In the videos I show you how to:
- Market your ecommerce business on a shoestring budget (using the same strategies we have)
- Differentiate your business from your competitors so you can win more customers
- Implement amazing customer service to increase repeat sales
- Rank at the top of Google with easy SEO strategies
- Other strategies you need to grow your business without breaking the bank
Check out our YouTube guru channel
Sorry for the shameless Facebook and YouTube plugs but I wouldn’t recommend them if I didn’t think they’d help you grow your business faster so you can spend more time relaxing and less time working. We’ve learned a lot of stuff over the last few years and I feel it’s only right to share what we know with you so you can grow your business too, and that’s what we do on Facebook and YouTube.
Anyway, thanks for reading and I’ll speak with you again soon!
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