805 Shopify Testimonials

"Shopify has been instrumental in helping achieve our vision of a unified brand operations. We can leverage insights to scale our brand efficiently, and are able to offer standout buying experiences online and across over 100 stores."

“We’ve got a solid portfolio of products but there is a large online audience that does not know about them. The plan is to get the word out while also introducing new products.”

"We wanted to be able to get in front of our customers when they’re looking. So we relaunched Search & Discovery and have seen incredible results."

“Hell, I remember running heavy machinery when I was 9 or 10 years old. I was on summer vacation, working from 7:30 in the morning till 4 in the afternoon. There’s nothing like making things, starting with raw goods and then seeing how they become this final product. It's fun, it's fulfilling.”

“When we decided to launch the running groups, we saw an opportunity to start monetizing the business. It just went viral. That's when we started ramping up production of our merchandise, which has been really how we've sustained the organization for this long.”

“Why don’t I make my own store and start selling a product I care about instead of working really hard to sell stuff on other people's store."

“The winter coat had never been reinvented, because it's always been good enough for everyone, no one's ever had a reason to put in the hard work and the blood, sweat, and tears to make it better. I had a reason. I didn't want people to wear animals anymore. So, that was my inspiration for working harder at creating a better coat, that everyone would love whether they care about animals or not.”

“They said, ‘Here's $70,000. Here's a bunch of stuff you don't know. You have 3 weeks to do this, and it's a month before your wedding.’ I was working 22 hours a day for like 8 days in a row. My arms stopped working, because I was shoveling and sweeping in the cold. I thought it was carpal tunnel, but it was actually stress-induced spasms. Then my mom called and said my grandmother had just died. Everything was happening all at once, and things just kept going wrong. After that experience, I realized I could pretty much do anything. This business honestly didn’t seem like much of a risk after that.”

“I loved being in the recording studio; I loved vinyl and the entire process of making a record. I was like: We should do something like this. So, we took a big risk and just started doing it.”

“It was on my fortieth birthday and I received this hundred thousand dollar order! I bought eight microwaves and I made about eight tons of soap in my kitchen. It nearly killed me physically. Of course, what happened then – because I already owned these four stores and eight franchises – was that I realized that I didn't need to buy the soap from the supplier anymore. I just quite liked making it, so that’s what I did.”

“I needed an outlet. I started writing a whole bunch of my past stories down on MySpace—like what was I going to do, yell it from a building? I was just using it as a creative outlet and a bunch of people gravitated towards the things that I was saying because, back then, not a lot of people were really being transparent online.”

“We moved to California at the time of the recession. We were creative people but couldn't really find creative jobs so we opened up an online shop as a small hobby business. From there, we grew it for a few years until we saved up enough money to travel. But we didn't want to drain all of our savings to do it. We had an idea inspired by food trucks – maybe we could do a mobile retail store. At the time, we really couldn't find any examples of anyone else doing it.”

“In all of us, there is a desire for self-expression. We really wanted to put ourselves out there and see if it stuck."

“I wasn't interested in selling one card at a time, so I researched the wholesale industry and learned that I needed to target the retail buyers to get the volume of sales that I wanted.”

"Shopify POS is super intuitive. As we hire folks who may not have retail experience, there’s no complex instruction manual. Compared to traditional point-of-sale systems, it’s very simple."