Founded by ex-Googlers with deep experience in messaging, personalization, and machine learning, Rep is a modern helpdesk for Shopify with messaging at its core. It powers thoughtful communication at every step in the customer journey. Whether shoppers are browsing your store, awaiting delivery, in need of help, or looking for your latest recommendation, Rep can make it happen. Centralized Communication – Some customers want to chat on your site, some want to text you from their phone, and some still want to email you. No matter how your shoppers to talk to you, Rep brings
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When graphic designers and photographers output their final images, they’re typically not optimized to reduce the file size. I was speaking with Caleb Lane, a WordPress security and optimization consultant, and he noticed that the image sizes on our site were quite large (in addition to numerous other issues he’s going to help us optimize). Thanks to Erik Deckers for the introduction! Having large images doesn’t mean that you need to have large image sizes. Image compression can drastically reduce the file size of an image – even 90% – without reducing quality to the
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