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Clash of SaaSes: Mailchimp vs Shopify

Posted On March 23, 2019March 25, 2019 By Alex Levashovcomment

Yesterday we witnessed an exchange of blows between two popular Software-As-A-Service providers Mailchimp and Shopify after the latter decided to remove Mailchimp application from Shopify store. That things happen in business, but now the parties decided to post quite harsh public statements, which is more rare. It however helps o Continue Reading

Category: e-commerce/Researches/thoughts

Shopify customer segments

Posted On March 5, 2018 By Alex Levashovcomment

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 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/Researches

Shopify is getting more popular than Magento in Australia. At least as a search term

Posted On June 6, 2015July 13, 2016 By Alex Levashovcomment

Magento – Shopify: 58 – 100 The number above shows that on 100 searches for Shopify there were only 58 searches for Magento in Australia last week.  Seems that Shopify is becoming in higher demand in the land down under according the chart from Google trend below. This chart shows relative Continue Reading

Category: e-commerce/Researches

Magento vs Shopify talent pool comparison

Posted On November 10, 2014November 10, 2014 By Alex Levashov2 Comments

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

Category: e-commerce/Researches

Why Magento is more popular keyword than eCommerce

Posted On October 13, 2014October 14, 2014 By Alex Levashov4 Comments

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

Category: e-commerce/Researches

Why Magento (eBay) kills MagentoGo?

Posted On August 26, 2014 By Alex Levashov12 Comments

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

Category: e-commerce/Researches

Online retail conversion rate

Posted On August 12, 2014August 20, 2014 By Alex Levashov1 Comment

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

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Magento Go says goodbye and what you can do if you run a store there

Posted On August 11, 2014December 27, 2014 By Alex Levashov6 Comments

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

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