How the mood coding helped me more than double the income from my Shopify store

This also -told test is based on a conversation with Therese Waechter, the owner of Otto’s Grotto, an online sticker shop from Indiana. It was published for duration and clarity.

I recently started mood – use of AI to generate specific code and make improvements to my Shop store.

I have been using AI for my online companies for years, and this is one of the reasons why I have doubled my income in 2024.

I started Otto’s Grotto, my sticker shop, in 2020. When the pandemic occurred, I was dismissed from my work to the government. I did not know my next move, so I started to sell my graphic conceptions to pass the time.

It was not the first company I had launched. Back in the mid -2000s, I managed a company creating content management systems on WordPress. I also learned graphics on Photoshop.

Selling stickers on Facebook and Etsy was good money

I started selling my creations as a laser cut Christmas ornaments on Facebook marketWho had introduced an option to ship and payment during the pandemic which was incredibly popular. The sellers earned a decent life on Facebook sales.

On a whim, I decided to start Sell ​​a version of sticker of a particular design that had a lot of sales. They were an instant success, so I transformed a few other conceptions into stickers. I ended up doing about $ 50,000 in sales in 2021. I don’t think I would have lived the business if it was not for this instant success.

At first, I did not want to invest too much in stickers because they did not bring high profits. But people have continued to buy them, and it became my full -time work slowly.

By 2022, the Facebook overvoltage was over, but I had already started selling on Etsy and Amazon. Now, I have a 10 -foot printer that my husband operates, and I have launched a wholesale division of the company which is as large as my retail.

I have always tried to learn new online skills

I have always used the internet to acquire new skills, even before I started my business – AI was the same.

I constantly hunt small Reddit and Facebook groups to discover new ways to use technology to upgrade my business. I had started using AI before chatgpt outlet.

I was using Jasper AI, a first AI marketing tool, to speed up the descriptions of articles and marketing equipment. I had planned to hire someone to write, but AI has accelerated My exit from Copywriting is considerably.

Chatgpt has caught up with Jasper’s capacities, and I use it for everything, from the generation of hashtags to verification of the availability of the domain. It’s almost like my google now. I used AI for my copy on social networks, customer catalogs, creation of images and conceptions and to improve my website.

How I use a room coding to make improvements

I tried to teach myself to code in the early 2000s with a large thick coding book. It was super difficult to learn. In the end, a friend of the development of websites told me that I had to learn code in other websites, which was much more efficient.

I have always googled how to do different things with code and finally find the answer, but it was sometimes difficult to find and laborious. Now, I have done research and writing for me in no time.

I have a Shopify electronic commerce store, which uses a coding language called liquid that I have never taken the trouble to learn. Before moodI would count either on the Shopify support, or simply would not make the customizations I wanted, but now I can use AI.

I coded in a large catalog and added customizations for lists without help with the developer. I think these features have increased confidence in my brand for government customers and retail stores, and I increased my conversion rate for for -profit items.

You must always understand the basics to vibrate the code

Chatgpt sometimes lies. This will give me instructions using code that I cannot see, so I must be readjusted with a prompt such that “I direct the theme of dawn on version 2.0 of Shopify and I do not see this piece of code, are the right instructions?” He will answer that it made a mistake and will give me another answer. Sometimes it can take three or four trials with me to reformulate my question, but it always makes me hours.

When I started learn to codeI was told the concept of “garbage in garbage”. What you grasp has a huge difference in your final result.

One thing that works well is to find examples of things I love on other websites and ask Chatgpt how to recreate them or which code has created this result.

I also recommend people who want to start code for atmosphere to start with the basics. Ask Chatgpt to decompose how the different types of code work together on the platform you use. If you don’t understand the basics, you will probably not know what to enter.

Finally, know that you will finally break something, so copy and always stick your code to a note before playing it.

The coding of atmospheres means that I do not need to hire a developer in many cases. I can troubleshoot my existing site plugins or add new plugins to do things like accepting pre -orders.

I also added color samples to my lists, integrated YouTube videos on my home page and added items like a FAQ bar to my ads. For high level changes, I will always hire a developer.

As a graphic designer, AI’s abilities are rather frightening. When he started gaining ground, the designers of the Facebook groups in which I was against. But I realized that it was a freight train that you cannot stop. You can either embrace it – or become obsolete.