The Storemapper Blog
Store locator tips, customer stories, and best practices.
Storemapper vs. Storepoint: Which Is Best for Your Business?
If you’ve been on the hunt for a store or product locator you can easily add to your website, you’ve probably done some research already. You might have even come across two popular store mapping solutions, Storemapper and Storepoint, and wondered “What are the...
Strategies for Retailers Navigating COVID-19
While every country is dealing with COVID-19 in their own way and on their own timeframe, one thing remains constant across much of the globe — brick-and-mortar business looks completely different in April 2020 than it did just months ago. And even though there’s news...
16 Factor Analysis For Picking a New Retail Store Location
Before picking your new retail store location, retail shop owners who have come before you suggest that you take the time to consider and analyze multiple factors before locking in that next location. Below we've identified 16 of the most important factors for you to...
44 Awesome Store Locator Examples For Design Inspiration
If you run a business with a physical premises, people need to be able to find you. Getting people visiting your website online to visit your store in ‘real life’ can be a challenge. At least it can be if you aren’t using a store locator on your website. With the...
How Does Geolocation Work?
If a business wants to know exactly where a user is visiting their website or app from, it uses geolocation. Why is this useful? Because businesses can use geolocation technology in a way that's going to result in more sales. If you’ve ever asked yourself how does...
13-Step Small Business Website Checklist for Retail Stores
Setting up a small business or retail store can be extremely daunting. Among the many tasks that you’ve got to tackle, making a website is perhaps one of the most important, but it’s hard to know where to start. A website requirements checklist can be a great resource...
18 Ways to Increase Foot Traffic & Attract More Customers
Do not underestimate the power of foot traffic. While we live in a world that's becoming increasingly online, brick and mortar stores still need to rely on some offline tactics to bring in customers. The first step is understanding your target market. Once you know...
10 Store Locator Best Practices to Help People Find Your Business
Do you want to drive more online shoppers through the doors of your store? Of course you do. Whilst there are various methods to increase this like word of mouth marketing, in-store events and click and collect schemes, there is one often overlooked aspect you can...
How To Add A Store Locator To Your Website
Do you manage a business with a physical premises? Or maybe you are building a website for a business that does? Or maybe you don’t have physical premises, but you sell products through a network of distributors or stores. Either way, you need customers to be able to...
Adding Mapbox support to your store locator
We're happy to announce that we started supporting another mapping provider (Mapbox) in addition to Google Maps. Many of you might recently struggled with creating Google Maps API key and were quite concerned about additional costs from Google. We have added Mapbox...