Alex Levashov – eCommerce Consultant (Melbourne, Australia)

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R plus Magento 2 REST API revisited: part 2 – filtered search

Alex Levashov

November 14, 2018

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In previous post I wrote about how to set connection with Magento 2 REST API from R and make queries to universal search. Now let’s see how use filtered search. Also we’ll use other than universal search endpoints that provide access to more specific Magento 2 store information. Using filtered…

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R plus Magento 2 REST API revisited: part 1- authentication and universal search

Alex Levashov

November 7, 2018

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I wrote a post about getting Magento 2 data to R using REST API last year. Now I provide more examples of use and a wrapper over API that you can re-use to get data from Magento 2 to R in a bit more convenient way. Prerequisites Magento 2 I…

e-commerce, Researches, thoughts

Shopify customer segments

Alex Levashov

March 5, 2018

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Not so long time ago Shopify has published its annual report. Thanks to the fact that Shopify is a publicly traded company and obliged to publish such reports, we have a rare opportunity to get better understanding how the business of leading ecommerce platform work. If you wish to view full…

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Accessing Magento 2 REST API from R

Alex Levashov

November 7, 2017

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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…

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Australia Post to launch a marketplace

Alex Levashov

October 25, 2017

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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…

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Bitcoin vs Paypal comparison of size and transaction cost

Alex Levashov

August 30, 2017

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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…

e-commerce, Researches

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

Alex Levashov

May 15, 2017

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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…

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Are you still bidding on your company or brand name in Adwords? You may waste your money

Alex Levashov

February 17, 2016

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Last week I had an opportunity to attend a presentation of Professor Steve Tadelis at Melbourne Business School. It was part of ‘Talking Data’ series and Prof Tadelis shared his experience of a large scale study he and his colleagues conducted for eBay few years ago. The study is called “Consumer Heterogeneity and…

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Future of luxury eCommerce

Alex Levashov

February 2, 2016

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A video with talk from L2 Co-founder Maureen Mullen where she presents her point of view of the future of luxury e-commerce. Worth watching TL;DR Digitally influenced sales is the better indicator than eCommerce sales for luxury brands

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e-commerce customer lifecycle diagram

Alex Levashov

November 30, 2015

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Just republishing this useful tool from Magenable blog Courtesy of: Magenable

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