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
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
Understanding of Magento order statuses may be a bit challenging, so it was a pleasant surprise when I have found this nice graphic visualization from Aligent Consulting. See the diagram as embedded twit below. Click to the image to enlarge it. not pretty, but I think our team has accurately Continue Reading
This summer there was a presentation from Tim Bezhashvyly at German Meet Magento event that caused quite active discussions in Magento community. The name of presentation is pretty provocative – “Harsh Truth Of Magento Enterprise“. You can follow the link and read it. Very briefly in his opinion the price Continue Reading
Second 500 are US online retailers ranked from #501 to #1000 by revenue. They are mid-size businesses with revenue under $20M. The diagram above illustrates that Magento feels quite good on this market: Magento has dominant position as an ecommerce platform, used by 64 retailers with $565M combined annual revenue. The Continue Reading
What is Magento Certified Solution Specialist (MCSS) certification MCSS is a first Magento certification targeting non-technical experts working with Magento eCommerce. Very briefly it is proves that a certified person has solid skills and knowledge to understand business requirements, challenges and is able to match them with possibilities that Magento Continue Reading
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
Yes, this is it, the exam is passed and I can call myself “Magento Certified Solution Specialist“. If you wonder what does it mean, below I wrote a short overview and outlined my experience with this certification. What is that about? Magento eCommerce is one of the most popular online Continue Reading
Magento Go is shutting down on February 1, 2015 There was an interesting development on the e-commerce market while I enjoyed my overseas trip: 1st of July eBay/Magento announced that they are shutting done Magento Go – a cloud version of Magento eCommerce platform. So now visitors of MagentoGo page may Continue Reading
This little research was inspired by an article by Mark Ritson in Marketing Week, titled “Synthetic data is suddenly making very real ripples“. The article discusses a new approach to quantitative marketing research. Instead of surveying hundreds to thousands of people, this approach uses data from large language models like Continue Reading