Monthly Archives: September 2014

Must Have WordPress Plugins

- Word Press

WordPress is both a blogging tool and a content management system, which is free and open source with more than 60 million websites. It is based on a plugin architecture and templates. WordPress first appeared in 2003, and now it provides a lot of possibilities for both blogging and e-commerce. In this post we gathered all must have extensions for a successful WordPress projects.

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The Best Live Chat Magento Extensions

- Magento tips & tricks

Live Chat Magento ExtensionsChances are, you regularly lose potential customers, because they don’t receive answers to their questions in real time. But you can change the situation dramatically by adding a live chat support. With an online chat system your customers will get an immediate access to help. Keep in mind, that they also get the reduced waiting time, which is often much less than in a case with a call support. At the same time, it is also more cost effective solution than a call support. Live chat leads to lowering average interaction costs and reduces the need to hire more employees.

By installing live chat on your Magento store you will increase conversion rate, reduce costs, and get more loyal customers. But which solution should you choose? In this post, we will answer this question by discussing the best Live Chat Magento Extensions.

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The Best Social Media Integration Magento Extensions

- Magento tips & tricks

Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and hundreds of other social networking services flooded the web over the past decade. As a result, some of them have become the integral part of your customers’ lives. This means, that you have a great opportunity to promote your e-commerce store over this social networks, by providing your customers with high quality sharing tools.To acheave this goal, you just need a correct social media integration Magento extension, and in this post you will find only the best solutions.

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The Best One Step / Page Checkout Extensions For Magento

- Magento tips & tricks

If you are looking for a one page checkout for your Magento based e-commerce business, you can pay the attention to one of the following One Step / Page Checkout Magento Extensions. All of them revamp the standard Magento checkout process. As a result, you get one checkout step instead of six standard ones. As a result, you get more satisfied customers and increase sales.

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The Best Project Management Tools 2015

- E-Commerce, Fire development

Every project needs a tool designed to manage it. And while it’s quite acceptable to use ordinary check-lists for small projects, growing businesses consume more and more resources, so you need a robust solution to manage them successfully. In this post we gathered the best project tools, which are going to hold leading positions on the market in 2015.

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The Best CDN Services And Extensions For Magento

- E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

CDN (content distribution network or content delivery network) is a system of servers, which includes multiple data centers worldwide and across the Internet. Its main goal is to provide content to end-users with high performance and availability. Different CDNs play a significant role in a modern online content delivery. They work with web objects, such as text, scripts and graphics, store different downloadable content, such as media files, documents and software. CDNs also provide faster access to applications, live and on-demand streaming media, and social networks.

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Outsourcing, Magento Developers and The Best Freelance Platforms

- E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

In this post, we are going to talk about the best freelance platforms, where you can hire a team for your Magento e-commerce project. The process of hiring someone who will not become a part of your company is called outsourcing. One strong reason for it is the lack of available resources locally. Another one is money. Usually, the digital workforce costs much less than hiring a local employee. And it is much more convenient, because you don’t need an office for your employees. In addition, there are a lot of candidacies with different level of skills, flexible hourly rates, portfolios and ratings to choose from.

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The Best Magento Point of Sale (POS) extensions

- Magento tips & tricks

Magento 2 POS Extensions, Magento 2 Point of Sale Modules

Point of sale (POS) is a place of retail transaction completion. At this point, a customer makes a payment for goods or services. In its turn, the retailer provides customers with different options to make a payment. Modern e-commerce POS systems bridge the gap between online and offline retail. They deliver synchronization between brick-and-mortar and online stores. You also get an out-of-the-box credit card processing and a detailed reporting. Thus, top Magento POS systems let you manage all aspects of your business with ease from a single dashboard. There are a lot of different Magento POS extensions designed to bring full featured POS functionality to e-commerce businesses. The best tools are described below.  Also check Magento 2 Point of Sale (POS) extensions.

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The Best Full Page Cache Warmers/Crawlers For Magento

- Magento tips & tricks

If you use one of Full Page Cache Extensions, then it’s extremely necessary to add a Magento Cache Warmer / Crawler to your e-commerce store. Such extension will crawl your site to ensure that all the pages provide the fastest load time. Warmers and Crawlers also refresh old cached pages. As a result, your visitors get the most relevant content and the fastest speed. This type of Magento extensions often relies on special techniques designed to reduce bandwidth and CPU usage.

Cache Warmers / Crawlers are also used to improve cache hit rate of a website – the ratio of cached and uncached requests. Sites with the higher hit rate are always faster (combined with a fast cache solution, of course). The Full Page Cache Crawlers / Warmers solve this by pre-caching uncached site pages. As a result you get more cached and less uncached requests, which increases the cache hit rate.

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