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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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Company Seeks to Build 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: Ashoka Fellow Steve Clift leads a new social enterprise to link sustainable and social good companies at checkout. When customers check out from a member store, they see

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Trends, tactics and strategies for thriving in the impact economy.

What We Learned: A Conversation Between Gen Z Entrepreneurs and Next Gen Impact Investors

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On May 5, 2021, I had the pleasure of moderating a discussion between Gen Z entrepreneurs and next generation impact investors. From origin stories and overcoming challenges to the future of the impact economy, we covered a lot of ground. We

Spot the Difference: Cause Marketing vs Greenwashing and PR Stunts

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When good marketing departments go bad... There’s no missing the fact that “mission-led’ marketing is having something of a moment. More and more brands are positioning themselves firmly in the sustainable, ethical camp in how they present their values and ethos

Listen and Learn: 11 Amazing Ecommerce Podcasts to Grow Your Business

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Finding valuable and trustworthy information about the ecommerce world can be difficult. The online shopping landscape is constantly changing and evolving, which makes it hard to keep up with the latest industry trends for sustainable businesses. Sometimes it feels like

Top 15 Blogs and Niche News Sources Popular with Conscious Consumers

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How serious are you about your impact on the planet—and the people who support your way of life? Your answer lies in your willingness to stay informed, and the sources from which you get your information. We’ve gathered our favorite sustainable

The Importance of Community Within Sustainable Ecommerce

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What is it they say about safety in numbers? And birds of a feather? When it comes to sustainable ecommerce, when we work together, we are exponentially greater than the sum of our parts. Seeking out community within the space of

The GoodCarts Index - By the Numbers

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This month’s sustainable retail stats - in homage to Harper’s Index! Values Driven Consumerism In Numbers Consumers willing to change their shopping habits to reduce environmental impact: 57% (Source) Consumers who think companies should only earn a profit if they also deliver a positive

The Cookie Crumbles: Emerging Alternatives for Retargeting With the Loss of Third-Party Cookies

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Third-party cookies are on their way out. Get up to speed with what this means for your business, retargeting campaigns and more... When it comes to online advertising, it’s the end of the world as we know it. Are we feeling

5 Foolproof Ways to Drive Free Traffic to Your Shopify Store

Insights, Social Media

Driving traffic to your Shopify store doesn’t have to cost the earth. Here is a collection of ways you can boost brand visibility for free. Getting traffic to your store is crucial if you want to increase your revenue and grow

5 Inspiring Eco-Friendly Packaging Alternatives For Your Ecommerce Business

Guest Blogs, Insights

A Small Business Guide to Sustainable Packaging: 5 Items You Can Swap Out With Ease As an ecommerce business starting out, it can be difficult to know where to begin in calculating your environmental impact. Search for Sustainability Leads to New Opportunities

How D2C Brands Embrace Sustainability, We Love Thingtesting

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Growing a successful e-commerce brand requires adhering to the increasing demands for transparency amongst Gen Z and Millennial consumers. Today’s socially conscious consumer base desires a window into the supply chains of the companies they purchase from. This includes knowing where

How Affiliate Marketing Works to Boost Your Organic Reach

Ethical Marketing, Insights

Want to get more eyeballs on your products? Affiliate marketing is a great way to increase your reach and build brand trust. Word-of-mouth is still one of the most effective marketing channels, and tapping into the audience of an already-trusted influencer

12 Shopify Apps Ecommerce Stores Must Have in 2021

Ethical Marketing, Insights

Add these Shopify Plugins to your Ecommerce Store The Shopify App Store contains thousands of plugins called "apps" to support you with the most critical aspects of growing your on-line store including: marketing, customer service, content creation, search engine optimization, social

13 Shopify Apps to Boost Sales and Your Impact Mission

Ethical Marketing, Insights

This post is an example of our GoodGuide series of in-depth guides to impact retail and ethical ecommerce. Download the PDF version or get all of them by visiting our GoodGuides page. Introduction You’re a passionate ecommerce retailer, running a vibrant,

6 Successful Tips on How to Grow Your Shopify Store

Community Based Marketing, Ethical Marketing, Insights, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Media

You’ve put your sweat, tears, and money into creating an online store that’s representative of your values and passions. Now it’s time to grow that store. And you’re unsure where to begin. With over 1 million Shopify stores currently conducting business

These 8 Tips Will Take Your Product Descriptions From “Meh” to Magnetic

Community Based Marketing, Ethical Marketing, Insights, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Media

Product descriptions help shoppers “feel” a product they can’t touch — here’s how to leverage them to the fullest. There’s one big downside to online shopping: the inability to see a product in-person. So when customers can’t touch your product, your product

10 Impact Entrepreneurs in Business to Watch in 2021

Insights, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Media

It doesn’t take a market analyst to know that in 2020, the way we exchange goods and services radically and rapidly shifted. Just like everyone else, we’re catching up with what that means for social and environmental impact and e-commerce. Whether

Vote With Your Dollars: Supporting Social Impact Through Ecommerce

Community Based Marketing, Ethical Marketing, Insights

Sustainable shopping is our future — but where to start? Ethical brand marketplaces and directories make it easy to find purpose-driven online stores. Money makes the world go round, and being selective about our online shopping can influence the kind of

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The Ins & Outs of Ethical Ecommerce

Community Based Marketing, Ethical Marketing, Insights

How to manage the details of impact retail to serve your greater vision How can impact retailers afford to incorporate global supply chains, sustainable packaging, and corporate social responsibility in ways that help their businesses grow while reflecting their ethical standards? The

The GoodCarts Guide: 13 Shopify Apps To Boost Sales and Your Impact Mission

Community Based Marketing, Ethical Marketing, Insights

Shopify Apps to Boost Sales of Your Online Store Chances are, if you’re exploring GoodCarts, you’re familiar with the vast resources within the Shopify app store as well. Easy to install, Shopify apps can grow your sales at little to no

Drive ROI and Community With GoodCarts’ New Shopify App

Community Based Marketing, Insights, Introduce Goodcarts as a solution

GoodCarts’ new Shopify app lets mission-driven brands create coupons to nurture community and drive sustainable growth. Growth is paramount for e-commerce businesses, but growing sustainably is a priority for mission-driven brands. This shift towards a sustainable future is particularly important when

Inside Look: How GoodCarts Helps You Get More Customers (for Free)

Community Based Marketing, Insights, Introduce Goodcarts as a solution

“Let’s make GoodCarts free,” Chris Dyksta, founder of GoodCarts. “Hmmm, say more,” I said. “Let’s drop commissions for impact brands and make GoodCarts 100% free just for them.” Wow, I thought, that will really change the GoodCarts equation from intriguing to astounding. Why would

How to Master Storytelling in Marketing for your Small Business

Community Based Marketing, Ethical Marketing, Insights

At GoodCarts we have so many brands and products, so what sets brands apart isn’t so much about what your product is, but what your product does: how it helps in a broader context, how it makes someone feel. Plastic straws

Why Now and What's Next with GoodCarts Founder Chris Dykstra

Community Based Marketing, Insights

GoodCarts, as a mutually cooperative business model, has been brewing in Chris Dykstra’s mind since the early 1990s. Dykstra got his start in restaurants, landscaping, and screen printing––businesses that all turned into what was then called social entrepreneurship. At the time, Dykstra

10 Powerful Shopify SEO Tips to Help You Get More Customers

10 Powerful Shopify SEO Tips to Get More Customers

Community Based Marketing, Insights

Superpower your Shopify store’s SEO strategy with these handy tips, and target shoppers that are ready to buy. It’s a simple equation: more traffic means more sales. The hard part is getting enough traffic in the first place, and this is where

Sustainable Packaging for Ethical E-Commerce Stores

Community Based Marketing, Insights

As environmentally conscious businesses, we are often faced with difficult choices about how to maintain our sustainability, from our product to our packaging to in-store distributors. It is incredible to see organic, fair-trade tea or soap being sold as a

Shining Examples of Brand Communities in Action

Community Based Marketing, Insights

In an increasingly digitized business environment, marketing research shows that consumers are opting to engage with brands that offer a more human experience—one that creates deep human connection. Human connection is established through culture and is built through opportunities to

Sustainable Shopping Statistics

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Liar, liar sustainable shopping stats on fire … but there is hope Preparing for my keynote at Sustainatopia, I dug into a very interesting global survey [PDF]. A whopping 66% of global consumers said they would pay more for sustainable products. That's great,

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