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We make LOCAL online shopping EASY!
ThrivingLocally is a marketplace dedicated to supporting and growing Canada’s local small and micro businesses through online shopping of their products, services, food, events, and activities.
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Grow Your eCommerce Sales Local Inspirations
Together we can do this and eCommerce will help The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has deeply impacted the lives of millions of people across the world and local small businesses owners are especially affected by these changes with the requirements for social distancing and “stay-at-home” recommendations causing many businesses to close or drastically scale back operations
April 22, 2020
Business Ideas Grow Your eCommerce Sales Webstore Features
Now your customers can order menu items online! A ThrivingLocally webstore let’s can offer menus items for sale online and we make it EASY. Webstore offers food services with online ordering that helps increase revenue, grows brand awareness, and opens new doors for connecting with customers with options for pick up in-store, Pre-paid Dine in
March 28, 2020
Business Ideas Grow Your eCommerce Sales Webstore Features
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has deeply impacted the lives of millions of people across the world. The event industry is especially affected by these changes, and it requires us to adapt and find creative solutions to the problems at hand. We at ThrivingLocally are here to help support your efforts and ensure that you
March 22, 2020
Business Ideas Grow Your eCommerce Sales Webstore Features
Selling recurring subscriptions online 10 Second Summary… What is a Subscription? Rather than making a one-time purchase, a subscription offers your customers the opportunity to buy your products or services on a recurring basis. You can offer them weekly, monthly, or whatever frequency works best for you and your customers and best of all the
January 21, 2020
Business Ideas
When you think of selling through a ThrivingLocally webstore, what initially comes to mind? Whether it’s local food, t-shirts, soaps, imports, you’re likely thinking about physical products—small businesses creating and curating goods to sell and ship around the world. But when we say “product”, we’re talking about more than just tangible things. Many merchants are
July 9, 2017
Business Ideas
When customers are deciding on a purchase, they start by looking online. A website is your online showroom, where customers can research your offerings and see all the reasons it is right for them. Now imagine that same listing was just a couple of clicks away from being theirs [ADD TO CART]. A well photographed and
April 24, 2017
Local Inspirations
A movement is upon us. It’s a movement that is attracting the local consumer away from large, impersonal big-box retailers and introduces them to the people doing business in the cities where they live. These local entrepreneurs range from growers, makers, brewers, service providers, small scale re-sellers, spas to bakeries to farmer market vendors and
April 8, 2017
Business Ideas
A good guide to follow is your provincial farmers market regulations when it comes to foods. And if you are going to sell your food beyond your city borders or in a commercial supermarket then you enter into a whole new level of requirements. Download VIHA’s Pocket Guide for Temporary Market Foods These are taken from
April 4, 2017
Grow Your eCommerce Sales
You’ve set up your ThrivingLocally shop and now sitting back and waiting for the orders to come rolling in. If you’re still waiting…and waiting…and waiting. Maybe it’s time you stopped hoping for customers to magically appear and do something about it. In this case, that means taking a good, hard look at what you might have been doing wrong
April 4, 2017
Grow Your eCommerce Sales
ThrivingLocally’s checkout process uses PayPal, one of the most accepted payment solutions on the web. Because of this, ThrivingLocally has the same payment protection as PayPal.com. Before entering any personal credit card information, you will be transferred to PayPal’s secure servers. ThrivingLocally will never obtain or have access to financial information. Learn more about PayPal’s
April 4, 2017
Grow Your eCommerce Sales
Social media is always a hot topic for small businesses. There’s always a new platform, a new trick or tactic, or a new tweak to Facebook’s algorithms that keep small business owners on their toes. HEre’s a list of tips to help you get with the social media hype. Trust us, it’ll help you with
August 25, 2016
Grow Your eCommerce Sales
I’ve been receiving a lot of questions from people wanting to know how to sell a service–or are thinking about selling a service–over the web, asking what you need to do differently than those people selling products. “To be truly effective at selling your services directly online you have to package your service into purchasable
April 4, 2016
Grow Your eCommerce Sales
Are you making one of the biggest digital marketing mistakes? “The more gaps in the customers path to action…the more chances you create of losing their business.” …are you creating a “Digital Dead End”? What’s a Digital Dead End you ask? In the digital world of marketing this happens when you leave your customers guessing (or
April 4, 2016
Local Inspirations
There are far more than eight, but here are some of the reason we feel small business can benefit from using the Thriving Locally marketplace. 1. Expose your business locally and nationally As a member of Thriving Locally, your store will be exposed to our base of customers that normally may not have known you even
August 12, 2014