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[BROADTIME STORE NEWSLETTER] Website Redesign - May 25, 2023
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Slight Website Redesign 🚧
We've been hard at work over the past few months on multiple updates and improvements to your websites, one of which is a slight redesign of all Broadtime-powered store websites.
Please note: We have NOT rolled these changes out publicly, but we wanted to share our progress with you and begin gathering feedback before we implement these changes to your public-facing website. We are hoping to implement these changes publically over the 2nd Week of June. There are a few primary changes, which we think we major improvements from a user experience. First, our header is much more user-friendly and easier to read, thus easier to navigate. The biggest change is on the "Shop Store" dropdown option on each of your sites. Currently, when a customer clicks that, one singular long list of genres is displayed. With our forthcoming update, the genres will be listed in columns, which means users can see all genres without having to scroll. Featured genres are often things that stores need to occasionally edit and keep up to date so now may be a good time to review your featured categories (genres).  Second, we've made a substantial change to the design of your shopping carts. Currently, when the shopping cart icon is clicked, a small bubble appears showing the contents. Moving forward, the card will appear as a larger sidebar that encompasses a larger portion of the screen so that customers can more easily see the contents of their carts. This is extra useful on mobile.  Finally, in keeping with the drawer theme, we have a "Menu" on the top left and we are removing the sidebar from the active view and moving it's content to a top left "Menu". This makes for a more organized view of additional content and mobile viewing. Similarly, we have moved Events to the main page off of the sidebar and redesigned them and rolled that out today.
Perhaps the biggest piece of this redesign is that your websites will be even more responsive and user-friendly on mobile devices, where we continue to see an uptick in users visiting and shopping. You may preview these changes by going to [yourdomain].rsindie.com (for instance, plan9music.rsindie.com). Please Note: You may receive a warning that says "Your connection is not private." If you encounter this screen, simply click "Advanced" and then "Proceed to" in the bottom left corner to access your dev site. There is no danger in going to this site.  We're hoping to publicly implement these changes in the next few weeks, but we'd love to hear your feedback before doing so. Shoot us a note - support@broadtime.com - with your thoughts. This Week's Social Media Content 📱
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Have You Connected to Vista Social?🔗 (now linked in your Admin beside Store Manual) ___________________________________________________________
Two Minute Clinic: Importing Local Store Inventory 🙋♂️🍎
Bringing you some bite-sized training morsels for your busy life... Make your local store inventory available on your website (finding what info you need, fast)
___________________________________________________________ Featured Preorders + Selling Tools⚡ We're mixing things up a bit on our preorder listings thanks to some valuable feedback. In addition to listing Newly Announced Featured Preorders, we're going to begin listing Featured Preorders Streeting both tomorrow AND next Friday each week. Each title listed below are releases that have selling tools and assets available to drive sales from your store websites, whether it be via banners and news items on your site itself or the content we're delivering to you each week via Vista Social. Many of these titles are featured because they are helping to support indie retailers like yourself, whether via producing indie exclusive variants available only at independent retail and/or by providing selling tools and assets to equip indie retailers. This information, along with items like our top sellers chart, is intended to empower you with valuable information about what titles are selling fast and which ones are specifically helping indie retail, all of which hopefully leads to more sales for you. If you have any questions, please shoot me a note - jon@broadtime.com - or reach out to our entire team at support@broadtime.com. Featured Preorders Streeting Tomorrow + Next Friday
Newly Announced Featured Preorders
___________________________________________________________ Broadtime Top Sellers Chart 📈 Here are the current 25 best-selling titles across all Broadtime sites for the past seven days (May 1-7). Please note - this chart does not include Record Store Day 2023 releases.  ___________________________________________________________ Preorders Currently Blocked 🚫
___________________________________________________________ Broadtime Manual + New Features  You may explore solutions at your convenience using the manual. Remember we are here for you for support at any time!
https://broadtime.com/StoreManual Please email any suggestions you have to continue to improve the Manual. Thanks for reading. Jon, Chris, Sammy and the Broadtime team |
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