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
Shopify customer segments
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
Ecommerce platforms wordclouds – Magento, Hybris, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce
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
Shopify is getting more popular than Magento in Australia. At least as a search term
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
Magento vs Shopify talent pool comparison
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
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
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