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3 Friends of Storetasker: Shop Circle, Heyday & Slope

Tim

August 16, 2022

Here’s another edit of 3 friends of Storetasker where we intro you to 3 players who provide incredible value in our ecommerce ecosystem. This time, we’re highlighting Shop Circle, Heyday and Slope. Let’s dive into it!

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Shop Circle is an app aggregator. They purchase successful Shopify apps and further build on them post-acquisition. Their portfolio of apps includes Conjured Referrals, Sky Pilot, Order Tagger among others.

Conjured Referrals is an app which helps you easily build a referral program. Sky Pilot enables merchants to sell non-physical goods like music, video or files. And Order Tagger helps you tag orders in automated ways to streamline your operation.

Shop Circle’s a recent player in our ecosystem (launched in 2021), but as you can tell - they’re making huge headway. Btw - they’re hiring! Check out their careers page if you’re looking for the next challenge inside an early rocketship.

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Next up, Heyday! We’re such fans of Heyday at Storetasker. Similarly to Shop Circle, they are also an aggregator, but this time purchasing Shopify merchants (not the software tools). We love this because at Storetasker, we’re committed to supporting Shopify merchants in their journey to success - and sometimes, success takes shape in an acquisition, which Heyday facilitates.

They’ve recently added over $55m to their war chest so they’re ready to make more acquisitions - but contrary to how others might approach the eCommerce rollup space, Heyday is highly selective in their acquisitions. They only have a few dozen brands under their portfolio, and their purchase rate is less than 1%.
One of the secret sauces to Heyday is that they’ll get you performing on Amazon very quickly. But their knowledge doesn’t stop there, as they’ve successfully scaled many of their acquisitions - they’ve become experts in scaling other channels too.

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And last but not least, our friends at Slope! Slope is one of the best ecommerce design agencies in the world. Their portfolio includes Daily Harvest, Function of Beauty, Nuggs and Mud/Wtr - all category defining brands.

Slope works on everything from crafting brand identities to managing paid social campaigns. They’re truly a full-service agency that prides itself on bridging the silos between marketing and design. We enjoy collaborating alongside them because they pride themselves in quality and have a real deep understanding of Shopify.