so the real reason why I switched overfrom Squarespace is because Squarespaceserves me well but I'm ready to have adifferent level of a website hey guysNelly welcome back to my channel foranother video so today about from thetitle why did I just clap that[Music]today I'm gonna be talking about fromthe title of this video which ecommerceplatform should you use so let me talkabout Shopify Squarespace and Wix and Ihave experience with all three of themso it's gonna be my honest review myhonest opinion of which ones I preferwhich one I use now um and which one youshould use maybe for your business solet me just art by saying this can befor boutique owners ecommerce storeowners just an online business ownerwhatever your category is whenever yougot going on you can use one of theseplatforms just to give you moreinformationa ecommerce platform is just a platformwhere it's pretty much a build a websiteFactory and kinda like build-a-bearbecause I could build a website Factoryand everything is pretty much done foryou so your cart is there people cancheck out and submit payment there youcan receive payments there you canupload your products yourself you cankind of like customize your website withprovided templates and so all of theseplatforms provide templates for you theyhave their own special like paymentgateway in a sense you can also link upyour PayPal your stripe and your otherforms of payment but it's pretty muchgood I love all ecommerce platforms Ilike them all to be honest but I likethem all for different reasons okay solet's sign up with the one that Istarted off with so from the jump youguys what I did actually so I startedoff with Squarespace but let me gonnagive you some background because Ididn't just pick Squarespace because Iwant to pick Squarespace right soactually I was one YouTube watchingvideos and a lot of influencers weremarketing or promoting Squarespace so Ikind of have the idea in my mind to useSquarespace one day but also if you knowlike I know Shopify is very very popularand it pretty much has always beenpopular I think because it's like thefirst one it was the first ecommerceplatform right so I was like what shouldI use Squarespace should I use Shopify Iwas actually sold on using Shopify justbecause of I heard so much about itright it seems the most legit but Istill wasn't sure so I always tell mycoaching clients I'm gonna tell you guysthe same thing when you're trying toa ecommerce platform they all offer14-day trials two-week free trials rightso I recommend signing up for all thefree trials for all of them at the sametime sign up for all the free trials andwhich ever one you can build your idealwebsite one or get really really closeto building your ideal website one inthose two weeks that's the one you gowith and it's that simple and I did thatso I really really in my heart of heartsone until you Shopify because it waspopular and all of that but I toldmyself Natalie you got a 14-day freetrial says you need to build thiswebsite in those 14 days and decidewhich one you're gonna keep and I didthat and you guys I could not figure outShopify for the life of me I could notfigure out Shopify I use it now don'tget me wrong and we'll get into thatlater but in the beginning I could notfigure it outI could not just figure out how to buildmy website and that alone stopped me inmy tracks so that's why I went withSquarespace so Squarespace I absolutelyadore it it's my first love I used itfor the first 11 months of my businessit served me beautifully the freshreason why I chose Squarespace isbecause they have pre-made templates soShopify also has templates and so doesWix but the way that's great space doestheir templates is once you choose atemplate you have that template as yourwebsite that's nice because all I haveto do is just go in and click delete ontheir picture and just drag in mypicture click delete on their text andthen drag in my text it makes it sosimple for beginners who are beginningto building websites because pretty muchjust drag and drop okay drag and dropnow Wix is also dragging job right butwhat does a lot of different customizingeffects to it that for me is too much inthe beginning for needs okay for me so Imean it simplistic I need it simple easyto the point as Squarespace gave me justthat y'all it was so easy to puttogether so that's number one forSquarespace that's like my favoritething about that but also the ecommerceside to it is beautiful very simple formeSquarespace is simplistic if you justwant to get the job done and get it doneright and efficient and cute and niceSquarespace is your friend another plusfor Squarespace is if you want abusiness emaillike contact extra co-stars calm but touse your domain you probably want to useG suite and I'll put that there you wantto use G suite so Squarespace is theonly one out of all three here that hasa partnership G suite so that your firstyear you can use it for completely freefor the first year using Squarespace Gsuite is free so Squarespace is amazingfor that ass okay quick pause to thevideo you guys I gotta let you guys knowwhat's coming up super soon so did youguys know did you guys know that I'mactually hosting a 2-day online virtualboutique a building event coming upsuper super soon in September listen youguys if you have not already got yourtickets you need to get them right nowthey are selling out so fast okay it'sgonna be a two-day full-day event whereI teach you guys everything frombuilding launching and making sales inyour online boutique okay if you'rewanting to get in there and get yourbusiness before Black Friday startshoney this is for you do not delay donot procrastinate listen I'm gonna beteaching you guys everything frombuilding your online boutique legallygetting your paperwork done how to brandyour business social media marketingemail marketing building a Shopifywebsite building your email list okayalso talking about how to manage yourtime how to manage your finances how tobecome a full-time entrepreneur so didyou guys budgeting finances inventoryokay seasons how to do discounts andsales and how to make the most sales inyour business so this is good if youhave a business already or if you reallyreally want to get started immediatelyyou guys you will not believe the priceof this click the link down below to getmore information but can I tell you guysa little secret you want to be in VIPcan I tell you why VIP first of all anexclusive premium experience where youget one hour of free coaching from meprivately 101 you'll get a website on itwhen you launch you'll get a socialmedia on it when you launch and afterthe event you'll be with me in a threemonth mentorship for the rest of 2019making sure that you don't just buildyour business but that you build aprofitable business you don't just builda profitable business but you're makingcoins honey and you're actuallyexceeding okay and building a brand andan empire for your legacy so if you'reready to get started click the linksdown below you guys VIhe will sell out this week do not ask meafter this week if you can get VIP theissue will be I'm sorry it's gone get itwhile you can you guys the event issuper soon I cannot wait to see you guysthere and I will see you guys back inour video something that you want to payattention to though if you guys can'tpick out your ideal template so what Irecommend you guys do is before you evenget to the building process of yourwebsitego and get pen and paper and I want youto ask to do a very very rough draft ofwhat your ideal website would look likeso of course you know someone be perfectyou know I'm not an artisanal Bachchanbut it's not gonna be perfect but I wantyou guys to draft out your ideal websitewhat is your homepage look like what isyour shopping page look like do you havedifferent shopping pages for differentcategories map that out because on allof these websites you can choose atemplate that template is customizableto an extent to an extent you reallywant to choose something that reallymatches your already pre-made idea foryour website so you want to go into itwith an idea so it is customizable butto an extent if you don't know how to docoding and all that other mumbo-jumbothen you won't know how to edit youryour website to the full extent so youwant to choose one that's already closeto what you want so the next thing is aShopify now I just ii said all thesethings about Shopify but I use it nowy'all and I love it okayI did not steer me wrong now I love itnow but you know it took me some time totry it out again because in thebeginning I don't know why it was sopetrifying for me it was really reallydifficult for me but once I had mySquarespace built up and I hadexperience building websites chapter 5was like so easy for me right sosomething that I was able to do was Iwas able to transport or import mySquarespace store to my Shopify so maybeyou're like some of my students who kindof want to go like the cheaper route andlike the easier route with Squarespaceand if you do that you're able to easilytransport your website over to Shopifywhen you're ready so one weekend I justsat on my counter said you know let mejust try out Shopify I hear so muchabout it let me just try it out andliterally within an hour I was able totransport everything all my products andactually build my entire website andlike an hour and it was done and I justhave not gone back ever sincenot even intent to you Shopify for allthis time I just want to try it outbecause some of my students wanted tolearn about it and of course if I'mgonna teach them I have to know how todo it myselfright so because of my students I wentahead and tried it out for myselfand I absolutely loved it I'm not goingback but there are pros and cons to itright there are pros and cons so some ofthe cons is the price it's kind of moreexpensive than the other options also Idon't think it's that beginner friendlybut luckily if it's not big and they'refriendly if you have troubles with itthey do have videos out now on YouTubein other places where you can gettraining for Shopify speaking of if youguys want specific training on how tobuild your entire website from start tofinish and how to get sales from Shopifyclick out the link down below I actuallyhave an entire course where I puttogether Shopify it's an hour-and-a-halfvideo series and I'll show youstep-by-step how to do it I will saycheck it out it's actually on sale rightnow this week only so check it out and Iwould say like dive in and get your feetwet if you really want to do Shopify ifyou really want to do Shopify and you'rea beginner I think you're gonna needsome pre steps to help you out with thatprocess because for me at least it washard to figure it out okay so check thatout um something that might be also hardand I think a con for Shopify is theyhave the App Store now you might thinkthe App Store is cool if all thesedifferent apps you can add but honestlyShopify's basic store basic website areis missing some of the things that youactually need to run a boutique thingsthat Squarespace already has figured outright things that scrapers already hasput together you have to actually get anapp for that is shocked by so um likefor instance to link up your MailChimpto get email marketing you need apps forthat to do all of these fancy things youneed apps and of course it's not a halfso I can just download the app but if Ididn't already have a boutique I wouldnot know what apps to add so that canalso be a disadvantage for beginners isyou don't really know what apps to addto your store I don't have a list belowmy favorite apps for Shopify check thoseout if you guys are interested um Iwould only use the free apps cuz honeyI'm not paying extra to have somethingthat I need for my store so I only onlyonly use the free apps because I ain'tgot time for theokay just being real okay because Ithink that it should be included like itis in Squarespace but I still loveShopify it's amazing they have amazingcapabilities as an e-commerce platformthe analytics is crazy they have so manyin different ports to learn yourcustomers behavior which I like I saidit's really important for branding andknowing your target audience here's mydifferences between Shopify andSquarespace so if you really really onlysolely want a boutique that's all youwant to do the chakra fire is a greatoption now for me I'm a coach I doconsulting I have courses I do a lot ofYouTube and I have my boutique so for meSquarespace is great to do all of thatbecause they have different things likeequity but the scheduling app you can doevents and all these things you can setup on your Squarespace easily and soit's really good if you want to have abigger brand if you want to do more ifyou want to have a service basedbusiness then Squarespace is ideal forthat I will say Squarespace all the waybut if you just want a boutique thenShopify is great so I'm not gonna sithere and say I prefer this one over thisone I would say try them both out againokay try them both out see how you likethem and whichever one you can do in atime timeframe of two weeks under yourfree trial do that one stick with thatone the point-blank period honey okayanother Pro for Shopify is like theshipping aspects honestly I can get anorder I can go to my orders I could justclick print shipping label and it's donelike all from Shopify interface withSquarespace you have to use and set athird-party app I use ship station whichI absolutely loved and you can also useship station and Shopify it but youdon't need to literally you can justprint from your screen and shop a findyou can just print from your orders pageso that is another Pro for Shopify thatSquarespace does not have is thatshipping capability I absolutely love itokay so there are other things that Ilove about Shopify if you guys haveadditional questions leave them downbelow and check out my Shopify course Ithink it'll really be helpful forbuilding a Shopify store if you guys arewanting to take that route and you are abeginner now the last one is Wix so I'vealso made Wix website so you guys I makewebsites for clients so I make websiteson all plandepending on what they need and if aclient just has a boutique then I wouldmake them a Shopify store if a clienthas like a brand a bigger brand then Iwould make their website when Wix so Wixis really really good for customizingfor editing websites I'll link righthere the website that I made for wix1wix2 have an e-commerce side of Wix thatI personally have never used so I willnot actually recommend it I'm not notrecommending it I just can't give fullfeedback on it because I've never usedthe e-commerce side of wigs if you'resomeone who you have a Wix Boutiquecomment down below and let us know howdo you like it how do you enjoy itwhat's your feedback on itwhat do you like what do you not likeand read the comments you guys and seeif you guys can figure that out but forwigs I think it's great if you have anonline business but and you're and youdon't really care that much about thee-commerce side if I can say that so forinstance I'm myself building a websiteright now and Wix for Natalie Nicolecomm right for my own personal brand andI'm gonna have a shop link but it'sgonna link to my Shopify store right I'mgonna be using Wix and Shopify so that'skind of how I'm gonna be doing it fornow because I really like how Shopifyhas the e-commerce side of things theyhaven't they haven't really down to ascience it's just really really easyonce you haven't figured out how to useso I'm gonna keep my Shopify store butI'm also going to be building a wigstore for the purposes of like my biggerbrand just because I want more editingcapabilities so the real reason why Iswitched over from Squarespace isbecause Squarespace serves me well butI'm ready to have a different level of awebsite so Squarespace I use it mostlylike for my coaching side of things butI'm ready to go to the next level withmy with my editing capabilities and todo that I need Wix so because I need WixI don't think I need wicks andSquarespace I also don't want to onlyuse Wix which is where I'm now using Wixand Shopify does that make senseso I kind of have a little love trianglehere going on with all the platforms Ilove Squarespace if you're a beginner Irecommend it I like Shopify I love it ifyou are able to owner you wanna go tothe next level in your boutique Irecommend it I love Wix if you want tobuild a nice customizable websiteI recommend it as well so what you'regonna have to do listen I'm sorry Ican't give you a clear cut andI'm just giving you my advice in myexperiences or you're gonna have to dois try them all out take a week ticklewe can sing a holiday take a timewhenever you have time try them all outand utilize the free trial time periodand which everyone honey you can get itdown to a scienceuse that one and you can always switchyou can always change you can alwaysmake a different decision later on downthe line like I did honey change it upwhen you want to okay so that is myexperiences you guys that is my truefeedback hope this was helpful for youguys if you have additional questionsleave them down below maybe I can do apart two to this and I will see you guysin my next video bye you guys[Music]
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