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Alex Levashov – eCommerce Consultant (Melbourne, Australia)

e-commerce, Magento, data analysis, marketing

Year: 2017

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Category: e-commerce/tools

Accessing Magento 2 REST API from R

Posted On November 7, 2017November 23, 2017 By Alex Levashovcomment

Magento is my bread and butter and I like to do data analysis with R. Hence I though, can I access Magento 2 data through R directly, without need of export or connect to the database? Magento 2 has API, so I’ve decided to give it a try. Magento (including Continue Reading

Category: e-commerce/thoughts

Australia Post to launch a marketplace

Posted On October 25, 2017 By Alex Levashov3 Comments
Australia Post to Launch a Marketplace hero image

It isn’t a fact yet, but my educated guess: Australia Post will launch a marketplace sooner rather than later. Australian eCommerce landscape changes quickly. Just an year ago we only really had eBay as a major player in general eCommerce marketplace space. Now we have also Catch Of The Day Continue Reading

Category: e-commerce/Researches/thoughts

Bitcoin vs Paypal comparison of size and transaction cost

Posted On August 30, 2017August 30, 2017 By Alex Levashov2 Comments
Paypal vs Bitcoin infographic comparison of transaction volume, cost and time

Bitcoin and more in general blockchain technology is a very hot topic now. Every man and his dog either invest in crypto-currency or work in a start-up based on this technology. One of the benefit that often promised by blockchain pundits is a decreased transaction cost. For example people from Continue Reading

Category: e-commerce/Researches

Ecommerce platforms wordclouds – Magento, Hybris, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce

Posted On May 15, 2017May 15, 2017 By Alex Levashov2 Comments
Magento word cloud

We can’t really find (at least at the moment) what people think about different topics, but thanks for technologies we can find out what they write about it, which is rather close in many cases. Today I decided to explore what people write about different ecommerce platforms since this is Continue Reading

Category: News and updates/start-ups

Taking part in AngelHack hackathon

Posted On May 8, 2017 By Alex Levashovcomment

Last weekend I took park in Angelhack hackathon event in Melbourne. This post is reflection of my experience. TheĀ event This hackathon was a part of joint series where Angelhack cooperated with BlueChilli CityConnect program. Angelhack uses hackathons to select teams who’ll take part in their accelerator. This is the only Continue Reading

Category: tools

Google Optimize – making your first experiment

Posted On February 14, 2017February 14, 2017 By Alex Levashovcomment
Google Optimise beta screenshot

Some timeĀ ago I subscribed to take part in Google Optimize beta program and recently ago my invite. In this post I’ll write about how I set-up couple simple experiments using this new tool. What is Google Optimize Google Optimize is a tool to conduct tests of website on real users, Continue Reading

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