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GoodCarts Featured on Shopify Partners Blog

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GoodCarts is incredibly honored to have our work featured in the Shopify Partners blog! The article -- Building a Shopify App That Makes a Positive Difference in the World (And Makes a Profit) -- was written by CEO Steven Clift

GoodCarts in FORBES!!

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Afdhel Aziz of Good is the New Cool recently interviewed GoodCarts CEO Steven Clift for Forbes! Check out the wide-ranging Q&A here.

GoodCarts CEO Interviewed by Mindful Commerce

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Krissie Leyland of Mindful Commerce recently did a Q&A with GoodCarts CEO Steven Clift! From history and big milestones to making the world a better place, they covered it all. Check out the interview here.

GoodCarts at the Future of Ecommerce Global 2021

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GoodCarts CEO Steven Clift is honored to be one of 18 experts presenting at the Ecommerce Tech "Future of Ecommerce Global 2021" conference. This virtual conference takes place August 25 and 26, 2021 and you can catch Steven's fast paced

Celebrating 100 Inspiring Social Impact Stories With 100 GoodCarts Member Stores

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The GoodCarts shop-for-good network has grown 500% in the last year, here’s why FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Minneapolis, MN, August 17, 2021 – “I never set out to create a company. I set out to create a movement that would empower foodies

GoodCarts Featured by Social Venture Circle

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GoodCarts CEO, Steven Clift, shared the top 10 best resources for impact entrepreneurs and investors with our allies at Social Venture Circle. From a guide to ecommerce podcasts to help you grow your business to a whole suite of information

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Many small- to medium-sized impact retailers are looking for outside-of-the-box ways to get in front of like-minded consumers. Advertising has mixed effectiveness, but it also can be out of budget. So GoodCarts CEO Steven Clift shared some advice with our

Gen Z Entrepreneurs Meet the Next Generation of Impact Investors In an Online Event With GoodCarts

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Watch Now - Gen Z Retail Meetup Signup The most inspiring thing about leading GoodCarts is meeting the amazing founders of our member stores and hearing their origin stories. While our founders are of all ages, I find the twenty-somethings quite

GoodCarts Makes the 2020 Impact List

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GoodCarts is honored to have made the 2020 Impact List, compiled by Social Enterprise MSP and powered by The Bush Foundation. GoodCarts and other honorees will be highlighted during the Social Enterprise Impact Showcase on May 6, 2021 during a

GoodCarts Featured on CauseArtist’s “Disruptors for Good” Podcast

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When Grant Trahant, founder of CauseArtist, reaches out to interview you for the outstanding “Disrupters for Good” podcast, you say yes! GoodCarts CEO Steven Clift is thrilled to have been a guest on this episode that covers everything from his background

GoodCarts Offers Mission-Driven Retailers a Platform to Help Succeed and Grow

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The company GoodCarts launches a “Shop for Good” Community and Attract 10,000 Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurs To Use Commerce to Create Change MINNEAPOLIS, December 14, 2020 – GoodCarts, a platform supporting social impact ecommerce brands, recently launched as a way to connect tens

Rewards For Conscious Consumers

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GoodCarts CEO Steven Clift was interviewed by OurGoodBrands about our mission. Here are some excerpts. What is GoodCarts? GoodCarts is a new way for ethical and sustainable brands to gain new customers online. It’s like a digital version of coupons on the

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A Network Of Socially Conscious Businesses

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GoodCarts CEO Steve Clift was featured in this Forbes article by Devin Thorpe. Clift talks about his mission with socially conscious businesses: Ashoka Fellow Steve Clift leads a new social enterprise to link sustainable and socially good companies post-checkout. When customers

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ROAS Getting You Down? Try These Shopify Ecommerce Ad Targeting Apps

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Targeting the right customers is becoming trickier – these Shopify apps make it easy to reach the right people at the right time Ad costs are higher than ever, but targeting is getting less and less focused. As a result, many

What We Learned During Our Economic Empowerment and Ecommerce Event

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Recently, we co-hosted an event featuring an inspiring panel sharing their deep knowledge and action-oriented ideas on how BIPOC-owned businesses can utilize ecommerce as a tool for economic empowerment. The event was also co-hosted by our friends at the American

The Rise of BIPOC-owned Ecommerce Businesses

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BIPOC-owned businesses in the ecommerce sector: Brilliance and opportunity, in the face of an uphill struggle. To the untrained eye, the world of ecommerce can seem like a sector in which anyone can get onboard and get ahead. But from big brands

Digital Coupons 101: How to Design and Distribute Successful Online Discounts

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Click and save! Digital coupons are here to stay… As an ambitious ecommerce retailer, you’re always looking for ways to drive new business and increase sales. And as a mission-led business, chances are you want to do this in an ethical,

What We Learned During Our Wholesale For Good Event

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Recently, we hosted an amazing panel of GoodCarts member stores sharing their actionable insights into how to get started with sustainable, ethical wholesale. The event featured Nicolette Dewberry from Darzah, Dr. Janette Habashi of Zeki Learning, Carla Scholz of Soak

How to do Wholesale More Sustainably

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Wholesale is a hot topic for ecommerce retailers, but sustainability is also high on consumers’ lists desirable traits for retailers. When you have an ecommerce store embracing sustainability and having a positive social impact, how can you incorporate wholesale into

The Guide to Shopify for Nonprofits, Charities and Social Enterprises

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If you’re a nonprofit social enterprise generating revenue (and building your profile) through the sales of products or services, chances are you have considered Shopify as a platform. You’d be in excellent company. From conservation giants WWF to WaterAid and Help

Cause Marketing and the Cause-Centered Ecommerce Evolution

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Recently, our friends at Ecommerce Tech hosted an incredible Future of Ecommerce event and we were so honored that GoodCarts CEO Steven Clift and GoodCarts member MPOWERD were featured during the Cause-Centered Ecommerce Evolution session. You can check out the

Why Haven’t You Heard of These Five Amazing Sustainable DTC Brands?

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Direct To Consumer (DTC) is expected to skyrocket over the coming years – these ethical brands are already making it look easy! One of the great things about running an ethical, mission-led ecommerce business is the chance to be inspired by

Top 9 In-Depth Ecommerce Reports for 2022

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These ecommerce reports predict what’s in store for the industry over the next year The COVID--19 pandemic and ensuing stay-at-home orders accelerated ecommerce growth by four to six years. No one could have predicted what happened, but it’s clear that the

How to Launch a Career in Sustainable Retail and Ecommerce Services

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Sustainable retail is truly coming of age. With countless inspiring founder’s stories hitting the media, and a huge influx of aspirational, mission-led brands entering our general commercial consciousness, many young professionals are looking for ways to get on board with

Celebrities Making Change With Their Impact Investments in Sustainable Brands

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How 10 celebrities are investing their money into sustainable ecommerce brands Impact investing surged during the pandemic as people became more aware of climate change and social challenges. The rise in interest for communities and the planet as a whole altered

Turning First-Time Ecommerce Holiday Shoppers into Year-Round Customers

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After the most wonderful time of the year, keep holiday customers coming back for more. The last quarter of the year typically represents retailers' most profitable period. With holiday spending and sales season combining to drive traffic, many stores see a

Gen Z: A New Generation of Retail Entrepreneurs Ripping Up the Rule Book

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Gen Z, the stage is yours... It’s an exciting time to be working in ethical and sustainable retail. A new generation of makers, entrepreneurs and values-driven visionaries are coming of age and making real waves within the world of ecommerce. Gen

Six Free Ecommerce Marketing Tools to Drive Sales

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The best things in life are free... Promotion is a constant balancing act. Marketing is essential, but budgets are often limited — what’s an ecommerce retailer to do? In this article, we’ll provide a concise but helpful guide to help you

Why the Shopify Platform is Beneficial for Shop-For-Good Brands

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Behind every strong, sustainable brand? Strong, sustainable foundations... When starting an online retail business, foundations are everything. Re-platforming is an arduous and often expensive process that most brands will avoid unless absolutely necessary. Making the right choice of platform for your

5 Tips to Master your Email and SMS Strategy for Sustainable Growth

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If you’re looking to grow your business, increase your bottom line, develop a deeper relationship with your customers, and build your brand, few things work better — and for longer — than having a strong email and SMS (text message

Beyond About: What Your Sustainability or Social Impact Page Should Look Like

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Go beyond a traditional About page and highlight the sustainability and social impact causes you’re proud to support Ecommerce brands often have admirable missions and goals, but it can be difficult to illustrate these on a website. The typical “About” page setup

Ecommerce Trends to Watch in 2022: Get Ready to Accelerate Your Purpose-Driven Brand

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Ready to make some New Year’s resolutions? 2021 was the year the world started to stretch, yawn and wake up from pandemic restrictions. The past 12 months have brought ecommerce brands plenty of ups (most online retailers experienced a boost when

What We Learned About TikTok During Our Meetup

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The GoodCarts community is built on collaboration, so when we had the opportunity to host a small group meetup to talk TikTok, we went for it! On December 2, GoodCarts intern Mya Johnson led a brainstorming session for sustainable and shop-for-good

The GoodCarts Sustainable and Shop-for-Good Gift Guide to End All Gift Guides

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Gift guides are everywhere right now, but not like this! Team GoodCarts has put together the SUSTAINABLE AND SHOP-FOR-GOOD GIFT GUIDE TO END ALL GIFT GUIDES! How? Not only are we your personal gift concierges for the people to help you

Top 17 Ethical and Sustainable Retail Influencers

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With so many businesses trying to smarten up their act when it comes to ethical, sustainable retail, the experts who are generously sharing their experience are worth their weight in (responsibly mined) gold. Here are 17 outstanding influencers well worth

GRATEFUL: The one where GoodCarts thanks our collaborators

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One of the fastest growing trees is a hybrid poplar. Why are we telling you that? Because this year has been a hybrid poplar tree year of growth for GoodCarts. Since the launch of our Shopify app in 2020, GoodCarts has

What we learned about “growing pains” during our social impact brand event

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When Michelle Thomas joined Mata Traders as a founding partner in 2008, there was a huge demand for fair trade clothing and no one to supply it. The team accessed and quickly rose to the top of that niche market. Today,

Using TikTok Marketing to Grow Sales And Social Impact for Your Ecommerce Brand

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Could TikTok offer the promotional boost your mission-led brand is seeking? The stratospheric rise of TikTok is impossible to miss. Perhaps you’re a casual viewer of the app, perhaps you went all in for the dance challenge crazes during lockdown. Either

Follow These 30 Social Entrepreneurship Podcasts for the BEST Impact Business Insights

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These powerful social entrepreneurship podcasts are a master class from key changemakers in how to start and maintain a sustainable business There are millions of inspiring businesses around the world that are making a difference every day in creative and

How to Be a Brand That Gives Back: Choosing the Right Charity Partners and Direct Social Impact Actions

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Want to run a brand that gives back? Here’s how to get off to the strongest start... The expectation for brands to be about more than turning a profit has never been higher. Today’s consumer expects to see brands giving back,

9 Instagram Ad Mistakes: What NOT to Do in Ecommerce

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Could your values-led ecommerce business benefit from Instagram? Let’s find out... With more than a billion users, there’s no escaping the power of Instagram. The platform can represent a real opportunity for ecommerce brands in terms of promotion – both organic and

The Ultimate Guide to Black Friday Alternatives

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Take a step back from the consumerist nature of Black Friday with these sustainable, purpose-driven alternatives Black Friday is renowned for its shopping stampedes and consumers grabbing cut-rate products for a fraction of their original cost. While it’s considered one of

Conscious Consumers: How to Market to Values-Driven Ecommerce Customers

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Customers are ready to reward the brands making a difference. Here’s how to let them know you are: Tell Your Story Show up across channels Be the "best choice in your vertical" Lean into cause marketing Team up and win ... now read on for

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