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Platform and CRM Integrations

Stop Blaming Tools for Leadership Gaps (CRM)

By:Ben Wilson on 1/7/2025

This! This [new gadget]! It will fix me! It will fix us! 🤩 It’s tempting to think a shiny new tool, like a CRM system, will fix everything in your business life. But here’s the hard truth: *most of the time* the tool isn't the problem OR the solution—it’s the lack of clear leadership.

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A custom ecommerce experience with Shopify

By: Mark Biek on 6/15/2020

Why Shopify? Shopify is one of our favorite hosted ecommerce platforms. It does a great job of making it easy to manage products, product variants, coupons, refunds, etc etc etc. It also has a pretty decent theme system so you can customize your online st...

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Introduction to the Hubspot API

By:Nick Stewart on 6/20/2019

The HubSpot API has been a great new tool to work with, as it offers an easy-to-use API and a clean interface.

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Analytics
Integrating Shopify into your Custom Website, and Keeping Google Analytics Happy
Integrating Shopify into your Custom Website, and Keeping Google Analytics Happy

By:Ben Wilson on 11/15/2018

Have you integrated Shopify into a website you’ve built? It’s super easy to do with Shopify’s excellent documentation, support and infrastructure. Here at VIA Studio, we use Shopify primarily for sites that don’t need a lot of custom functionality, but nee...

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We Made You an Open Source Salesforce Command-line Tool, You're Welcome

By: Mark Biek on 5/7/2018

Easily explore the Salesforce REST API with our new command-line tool.

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