I’ve planned for a while to write a comparison between two very popular eCommerce platform, Magento vs Shopify. As a part of this bigger job, I’ve decided to find out how many professionals with that skills are available on the market. It may be often overlooked, but if you are a business Continue Reading
One page, accordion, multi-step: what checkout designs are used by top Australian online stores?
Checkout is considered as one of the most important steps of online buyer customer journey. Here you can easily kill your conversion and turn enthusiastic prospect into angry detractor. According statistic from Wordpay (data collected from 19,000 consumers and 153 industry experts in 2012) problems with checkout process are among Continue Reading
Why Magento is more popular keyword than eCommerce
I’ve found an old post from Bob Schwartz blog, where he noted that Magento is more popular keyword in Google than eCommerce and decided to check, is it still true. So I went to Google Trends and had a look. Appeared that it is, in worldwide searches “Magento” appears more often Continue Reading
What traffic channels really drive ecommerce revenue?
Email, social media, affiliate marketing, SEO, paid search – what works better to drive ecommerce revenue? Thanks to recent Marketing Sherpa report that I used earlier and continue to analyse, I have found interesting data to see what channels currently really help online retailers to sell. The researchers surveyed over 4,000 merchants Continue Reading
eCommerce in US and Canada infographic
That nice infographic below (courtesy of Forewarsdapp) is a great illustration of how big and growing is ecommerce nowadays.
Return on marketing investments – benchmark data
It is always good to see how your business performs in comparison with peers. Earlier I wrote couple posts about one good metric that in my opinion all businesses should track – Return On Marketing Investments (ROMI): how calculate it (methodology) and simple online ROMI calculator. Now I have found some data Continue Reading
More about conversion rates
Couple weeks ago I wrote about conversion rates. Recently I came across another research that covers (among other areas) this topic. You may see the chart with the results above. I was quite surprised to see that the significant share of respondents claiming that conversion was above 10%. Probably the Continue Reading
Why Magento (eBay) kills MagentoGo?
In this post I’ll try to analyse why eBay has decided to shut down SaaS version of Magento eCommerce. If you haven’t heard about that and need some advice what to do with that – check my previous post. I’ll verify is MagentoGo really a flop, what place it takes in overall Continue Reading
Online retail conversion rate
I’ve been often asked about benchmark conversion rate. While I strongly believe that conversion rate is quite an individual indicator and depends on many factors, it is still interesting to have some number to compare your store performance. BTW, thanks to guys from Demac Media who produced and shared Canadian Continue Reading
What e-commerce platforms are used by top-20 Australian retailers?
There isn’t too much to add this diagram aside of as you may calculate 5% is equal to 1 retailer (so true, the sample is not extremely representative) and that the list of retailers were taken from Smartcompany publication Probably it is interesting to note that we don’t see here Continue Reading