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
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
Magento order statuses visualised
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
Does Magento Enterprise worth its price?
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
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
How I got Magento Certified Solution Specialist certification
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
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
Magento Go says goodbye and what you can do if you run a store there
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
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