If there was ever any doubt as to the value of social media to e-commerce, the knowledge that 74% of consumers use it to guide their purchases, and social traffic to e-commerce sites increased almost 20% in the first six months of last year, should be enough to dispel it. Sales from Facebook alone grew by 129% in 2013- these are numbers that businesses cannot afford to ignore. Continue reading
Blog & News
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Why Your E-commerce Store Needs A Blog
Generating new traffic and leads to your e-commerce store is, of course, essential, and building up a blog with an identity is an important step. But it is important to look beyond just the SEO benefits and build a long-term strategy for your blog. Here are the reasons why your e-commerce store needs a blog: Continue reading
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Three Common Traits Of Highly Successful E-commerce Sites
Every successful e-commerce business should direct its operations towards one area above all else: The customer.
Who are the customers, what do they need, and how to you help them make the decision that your product is the right one? The customer is the most important single factor to keep in mind - whilst the content and UX of the website, the marketing channels and pricing considerations are all vital, unless they are ultimately consumer focused they will not be a success. Here's what you need to achieve to keep the customer experience at the heart of your site: Continue reading
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How Magento Puts Great Customer Service At The Centre Of E-commerce
Customer service needs to be at the centre of any successful retail operation. If you can’t keep your customers happy then you’ll never manage to retain them. And nowhere is this maxim more true than in the field of e-commerce, where there is an abundance of choice available online and providing good customer service is the best way for a business to differentiate itself from its competitors, when it may not have much leeway on product or price. Magento e-commerce platforms are especially customer-centric, being feature-rich straight out of the box, with a large number of useful plug-ins available to enhance the consumer experience. Here are some examples of how Magento helps clients to convert and retain customers. Continue reading
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New Themer coming soon!
We are happy to give you a sneak peek of our upcoming Themer update. This time Themer has complete new UI design and lots of new features. It's the something a lot of users have requested and we all have waited for long time.
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QuickMage open for registration!
QuickMage is a hosted eCommerce platform like Magento Go but open to customize. It is based on Magento Community Edition and packs additional features and services Magento currently lacks. It is completely FREE to use and it only takes a minute to set up your shop.
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Change font on WordPress and Magento using Themer
In this brief tutorial we are going to take a look at how you are able to use Themer to simplify the process of finding the most suitable font(s) for your Magento or WordPress site. In this case, as an example, we will be showing how to change font on WordPress.