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ex-CTO Magento: eBay does not understand “open”?
Been wondering about how eBay will approach Magento for a while now. As can be found on TechCrunch, Yoav Kutner, Magento’s former CTO has apparantly left because of reasons relating to the non open-source nature of eBay: it would be very interesting to see if Magento will continue to stay open in the manor the [...]
Online cart software overview
The definitive list of webshop software. Finding the commerce solution for your website can be hard. The first step is getting all serious contenders in a list, which is what we’ll be doing with this blog post. Note: we will only be covering webshop software that has international traction. Free / open source e-commerce solutions Online [...]
Tailoring Magento to B2B e-commerce
As Magento is ever growing in popularity as an e-commerce platform, B2B business owners are also increasingly looking to Magento as a basis for their online efforts. Below are the biggest weak points of Magento when it is to be used as a buiness-to-business store along with solutions for them. – No built-in quotation proces Most business [...]
Plundor Magento deal – 100% discount on Webshopapps MatrixRate extension
Over at Plundor, the Premium MatrixRate extension is selling with a 100% discount – meaning, the module is completely free! The deal is only valid for one more day, if you want the module at a later time you’ll have to buy it full-price at Webshopapps.com. Premium MatrixRate shipping extension builds on the free MatrixRate [...]
86% discount: The Plundor Magento Extension Bundle!
Happy newyear! To kick off the year properly Plundor (which was started by Guido and I) offerts a bundle of six great Magento extensions to crank up those conversion rates. Plundor is selling the $150 dollar bundle (valued at $1,272.50) that’s worth its weight in gold until the end of this week. It’s the first of many bundles and [...]
11 More Best Practices for E-commerce Checkout Conversions
This is the final part of our checkout best practices roundup, and also the last post of 2011! Our previous post in this series focused on the structure of your cart and checkout. Now we’ll list some tips for capturing your user’s data during the checkout. 1 – Don’t make your customer think, design for the [...]
12 Best Practices for E-commerce Checkout Conversions
Your checkout is one of the most important sections of your store, and the easiest to screw up. Every customer of yours that wants to purchase something will pass through it, making it one of the most-visited pages on stores with a lot of products (your customers’ visits will be distributed over your products, but [...]
Guest checkout
This point is short and sweet: Your store should most likely allow guest checkouts. A considerable number of shops I come across wants to emulate the big names like Amazon and require a customer account registration or login in their checkout. Smaller webshops probably shouldn’t. In a number of stores now I’ve witnessed a tremendous [...]
What’s your store’s unfair advantage?
Jason Cohen over at A Smart Bear wrote an excellent article a while ago about why and how your startup busineses can have an unfair advantage. Now, e-commerce is not an original business idea at all. Of course this doesn’t mean it’s a bad plan to start an e-commerce website, as the e-commerce market is sized [...]
6 important bits of information to check when your webshop launches
Six important things that are often forgotten to do when you’re about to launch your shop: Describe all customizations done to your shop. Include information such as which custom theme you use, where that theme is located, who built the theme. Also consider which e-mails your translated and which are still left to translate (if [...]
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