How to Increase an E-Commerce Business on Shopify

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How to Increase an Online Business on Shopify — Free Ebook | Ergonode
Free ebook · Ergonode

Your Shopify catalog wasn't built to hold this many products

Duplicated stores for every market. Manual edits, one product at a time. A media library at risk of disappearing overnight. This ebook shows what's actually capping your Shopify catalog — and how a PIM fixes it.

175countries selling on Shopify
$496Bin Shopify sales to date
#3most-used ecommerce platform
Chapter 1 · E-commerce in 2022

The pandemic didn't just grow ecommerce. It changed what running a store requires

Today's world is heavily automated — we buy, distribute, and sell products remotely, with almost no human involvement at any single step. The ebook opens with a simple observation: the pandemic accelerated ecommerce development by at least five years, and advertising costs are rising while campaign effectiveness declines.

To compete in that environment, every ecommerce owner needs to be mindful of the trends and adapt to new technologies — while still keeping a human element in the process. That's the tension the whole ebook is built around: empowering the creativity of ecommerce teams in product catalog enrichment, instead of drowning them in repetitive data work.

Illustration of online shoppers browsing products remotely
Chapter 1.2 · Why Shopify

Shopify opened the door. It didn't promise to organize what walks through it

Shopify is a shopping cart ecommerce software built for global expansion — anyone can set up a store and sell physical products, services, or memberships from it. The ebook lays out exactly how big that opportunity already is.

175 countriesBusinesses in 175 countries have sold through Shopify.
$496B USDTotal sales made by Shopify merchants to date.
3rd largestShopify is the 3rd most-used ecommerce platform worldwide, behind only WooCommerce and Squarespace.

"Many sellers find it challenging to manage multiple products on Shopify without an organized system. To address that, product information management (PIM) has become an increasingly popular solution."

Chapter 1.3 · What a PIM actually is

One place to collect, manage, and enrich every product — before it ever reaches a channel

DEFINITION

"A PIM, or Product Information Management, is a software that provides a single place to collect, manage, and enrich your product information, create a product catalog, and distribute it to your sales and eCommerce channels."

How it works, according to the ebook

Data comes in from your ERP — prices, identification, everything. A PIM enriches it with units, attributes, categorization, photos, accessories, and translations. Then it distributes clean, complete product data out to every channel you sell on.

Diagram showing data import from ERP, enrichment inside a PIM, and distribution to online store, mobile, marketplace, and catalogue

// data import → enrichment (units, attributes, photos, categorization, accessories, translations) → distribution

Ergonode dashboard screenshot showing product totals, simple products, products with variants, and grouping products by language
Chapter 2 · Why Shopify needs a PIM

Two problems get bigger the more your store grows

If you sell on Shopify, you've probably hit this: translation management meant preparing a completely new store for every new market, and your product base had to be duplicated for each one.

On top of that, if your products carry multiple variants or extensive technical parameters, managing that assortment inside Shopify alone becomes a real challenge — one spreadsheet or app at a time.

Chapter 2.1 · Who needs a PIM for Shopify

If any of this sounds like your store, the ebook says it's time

You sell on multiple markets
You have many additional sales channels, like Amazon
Your assortment needs extensive content and technical parameters
You're facing various product data errors
Your content team has grown, and you can tell it'll keep growing
You want your product data secured on a platform of its own
Ergonode product card screenshots showing coat, watch, and pet food listings with editable attributes
Full contents

The ebook, laid out like a catalog

Fitting, given the subject. Every chapter of "How to Increase an Online Business on Shopify" — indexed the way Ergonode indexes a product catalog.

SKUChapterPageStatus
CH-01 E-commerce in 2022The needs of an ecommerce business · Why Shopify, and what it is · What a PIM system is p. 3–6 Complete
CH-02 Why you need a PIM for ShopifyWho needs a PIM for Shopify · Why Ergonode PIM is the best solution p. 8–10 Complete
CH-03 The benefits of Ergonode PIM with ShopifyFull control of your data · Avoid pitfalls in editing · Multi-language · SEO · No additional apps p. 12–17 Complete
CH-04 Satisfied customersReal Shopify sellers already running their catalog on Ergonode PIM p. 18 Complete
Chapter 2.2 · Why Ergonode PIM

An all-in-one tool for your PIM work

Ergonode PIM is described in the ebook as the heart of your product content team — a simple, ergonomic way to create, manage, and distribute product information to multiple channels.

01

Product Designer

Design predefined product templates for product families with drag-and-drop, so new products launch with the right set of attributes from the start.

02

Easy catalog management

Search and manage products in gallery or spreadsheet view — the latter built to feel like the Excel-style workflow your team already knows.

03

Kanban view

Turn your catalog into a Kanban board to assess how complete your products are at each stage of your workflow, at a glance.

04

Easy translations

Manage multilingual catalogs with personalized columns for specific attributes and translations — multiple languages at the same time.

05

Smooth workflow

Set as many statuses as you need and add rules so the workflow is designed around how your company actually operates.

See it running live

The ebook covers each of these in more depth. A live demo shows them on your own catalog.

Chapter 3 · The benefits, in detail

Five concrete ways Ergonode PIM changes running a Shopify store

This is the core of the ebook — five numbered sections, each one a specific pitfall of running Shopify alone, and what changes once a PIM sits in front of it.

3.1

Full control over your data, in one place

Your store on Shopify is hosted on Shopify's servers — and Shopify permanently removes store data when an account closes, making it hard to switch platforms. With Ergonode PIM, your data lives in one place you control, and it doesn't disappear when your business changes. You also stop needing to set up a whole new store just to enter a new market.

3.2

Avoid pitfalls in product editing

No more reviewing products one by one — choose which products and variants to upload to Shopify, with high-quality content ready right away. Make bulk updates without errors, keep your media library untouched when removing a product, get fine-tuned edit permissions, and let images crop automatically to a uniform ratio.

3.3

Multi-language options

Translate product information from your PIM straight into your multilingual Shopify store. Synchronize stock, price management, multi-currency, and language adaptation to run multiple stores based on the currency and language selected at export.

Product name translated into Polish, English, and German
3.4

New opportunities for SEO

Input keywords from the very start, before your product ever launches on Shopify — so pages arrive with keywords already populated, on-page and off-page. Built-in content grading helps you catch anything you're still missing.

3.5

You don't need additional applications

The Shopify app store makes it easy to over-install: unneeded apps slow the store, hurt conversion, and quietly add up in cost. Ergonode PIM replaces a pile of plug-ins with one system for managing your product catalog.

Chapter 4 · Satisfied customers

Hundreds of teams already run their catalog on Ergonode

The ebook closes by pointing to real Ergonode customers — here's a fuller look at the businesses running their catalog on it today.

Grid of Ergonode customer logos including Sportano, Miron Violetglass, Komfort, and dozens of other brands

We believe a PIM can help you improve your ecommerce business on Shopify

Ergonode PIM makes sure the products in your store are ready for success — read the full ebook for every detail, or skip ahead and see it running on your own catalog.

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