Kurt Elster ✓

@kurtinc · chicago metro🍕🌭 · joined 06 Nov 2012

The Shopify expert your developer follows. 15 years fixing stores, $285M in sales analyzed. Host, Unofficial Shopify Podcast. Building @promoparty. CTO MBA DAD

17 308Followers

565Following

6 794Posts total

8.5KViews on collected posts

Derniers posts

Kurt Elster ✓@kurtinc22 Sep

We answered the discount questions merchants keep posting, then got into Black Friday prep. New episode of The Unofficial Shopify Podcast live now... https://t.co/Ljkz4T71RJ

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Kurt Elster ✓@kurtinc22 Sep

Tip 2: gift with purchase. Set the threshold just above your usual order value so it pulls carts up. Pick a gift people actually want, show it, and do the margin math first. A free gift nobody wants is just a cost. https://t.co/ChzFuYGzXT

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Kurt Elster ✓@kurtinc21 Sep

Would love to see Shop Pay come to Instinct, the only shopping agent I actually use 1K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Kurt Elster ✓@kurtinc21 Sep

Vibe coding can get boring, but a custom agent launcher can spice up your command line. Here's mine https://t.co/vSX9CseK5S

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Kurt Elster ✓@kurtinc16 Sep

@kurtinc @Shopify @AtleeClark @eytanseidman Two Shopify VPs on one episode is a strong get. The Catalog API changes are the sleeper here — they'll reshape how agencies build product data flows. Looking forward to the listen. 29 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kurt Elster ✓@kurtinc3 Sep

@kurtinc @Shopify @atleeclark @eytanseidman Getting the VPs to say where they'd build next is the useful part. Everyone covers what changed, almost nobody asks the people who shipped it what they'd bet on. Saving this one for the weekend. 28 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kurt Elster ✓@kurtinc1 Sep

@kurtinc @Shopify @atleeclark @eytanseidman Great stuff! 10x 🤩 107 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kurt Elster ✓@kurtinc1 Sep

So much change happening on @Shopify: new rev share, new Catalog API, new Sidekick extensions in the admin. I talked to @AtleeClark and @eytanseidman about it this week on The Unofficial Shopify Podcast. Two VPs on what changed, and where they'd build next. Full episode below! h

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Face aux comptes de taille comparable

8 posts des 90 derniers jours, à côté de la tranche de 10K–100K abonnés. touche moins de monde que les comptes de taille comparable.

Vues médianes368ce compte924médiane pour 10K–100K

Portée, %2.12%ce compte3.62%médiane pour 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.58%ce compte1.52%médiane pour 10K–100K

Indicateur	Ce compte	Médiane pour 10K–100K	Rapport
Vues médianes par post	368	924	0.40×
Portée (vues ÷ abonnés)	2.12%	3.62%	0.59×
Taux d'engagement	1.58%	1.52%	1.04×

Autres comptes de cette tranche → Comparer avec un autre compte → Comment ces repères sont établis →

Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

5.9K1 Sep

107

283 Sep

2916 Sep

62021 Sep

34422 Sep

391

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.78%1 Sep

1.87%

3.57%3 Sep

3.45%16 Sep

1.29%21 Sep

0.87%

2.03%22 Sep

1.28%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes59.6%56 in total

Reposts2.1%2 in total

Replies18.1%17 in total

Quotes4.3%4 in total

Bookmarks16.0%15 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.