Alex Levashov – eCommerce Consultant (Melbourne, Australia)

e-commerce, Magento, digital marketing

Shopify

e-commerce, Researches

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

alex

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…

News and updates, Researches

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

alex

June 6, 2015

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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…

e-commerce, Researches

Magento vs Shopify talent pool comparison

alex

November 10, 2014

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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…

e-commerce, Researches

Why Magento is more popular keyword than eCommerce

alex

October 13, 2014

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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…

e-commerce, Researches

Why Magento (eBay) kills MagentoGo?

alex

August 26, 2014

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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…

e-commerce, Researches

Online retail conversion rate

alex

August 12, 2014

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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…

e-commerce

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

alex

August 11, 2014

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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…