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Digital Cream 2011 – Selected highlights & resources

Take 300 of the best digital minds in the UK, break them up into roundtable discussions on the most pressing online issues (e-commerce, social media, mobile apps, social media, content strategy, etc), add in some expert moderation from the digital marketing experts at Econsultancy and you have Digital Cream. Continue reading →

Magento Presentations, Video’s & Blogs from Magento Imagine

Magento Imagine

The largest ever Magento related conference – Magento Imagine is taking place in Los Angeles between the 7th and 9th February. Discussion, learning, networking, inspiration are all on the agenda for this 3 day conference. I’ve pulled together all the slide decks, video clips and other resources that attendees have been posting via twitter, facebook and the forums. Continue reading →

Having problems with Magento? 3 places to look for answers…

Anyone using Magento has had the occasional head scratching moment! From the Community Edition through to Enterprise, like any software solution, there are bugs to be squashed. As Magento is growing in its various editions the performance is improving, a passionate fanbase is emerging and the number of issues continues to decrease. Continue reading →

Out of Stock – 5 ways that online retailers do it and 3 key learnings

For anyone working in ecommerce during the Christmas period, there are three words that fill them with fear – Out of Stock. How do online retailers handle this online, are they helping or hindering visitors to their website?
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Mega Monday? Not this week…

Both Amazon and Apple are both trying to migrate the Thanksgiving driven seasonal shopping duo of Black Friday and Cyber Monday over to the UK this year.

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Surprise and delight your customers to boost your conversion rate

Whilst a lot of advice surrounding boosting your conversion rate focuses around on-site recommendations, it’s always worth following the customer’s journey – from beginning to end, to get full visibility of the customer experience. You might have the perfect checkout flow from registration through to payment confirmation, but what does the customer experience when their order arrives or if they need to return their order?
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5 of the best Magento resources on the internet

There must be hundreds, if not thousands of blog posts regarding Magento. The quality varies greatly from expert insights from developers implementing Magento in Enterprise environments right through to first time developers giving awful hosting advice.

In this quick blog post the select groupof links below make up what I consider to be 5 of the best Magento resources online.

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Magento mobile & your first app

Mobile commerce is the next big thing. It’s been said for the last two years by many analysts, but at long last the e-commerce guru’s at Magento have finally produced a solution that could turn all of this speculation into a reality.

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7 reasons why Magento should be your next ecommerce solution

It’s almost one year ago to the day that I updated the great-save.com domain to point at our new Magento Community Edition (CE) powered website. In those 12 months I’ve become very passionate about this ecommerce solution and learnt a huge amount about the key strengths of the open source platform.

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A $1.6 million e-commerce nightmare at 6pm.com

It’s every e-commerce managers nightmare – a product went live with the wrong price and customers have realised. In the bargain hungry, viral jungle of the internet a simple pricing mistake can cost you a significant amount of revenue.

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