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The best must have Magento extensions 2016

March 1, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

The best must have Magento extensions of 2015 can change a lot in your e-commerce store. In this post we put all the extensions into 6 major groups: “Performance”, “SEO”, “Frontend, UI, usability”, “Loyalty, referral campaigns”, “System, backend”, and “Marketing, sales”. All of them are tested and accepted by Magento developers, so you will only deal with the most reliable tools. Two other important things about “The best must have Magento extensions of 2014” are novelty and relevance of further described products.

The post is divided into the following categories:

Performance
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Frontend, UI, usability
Loyalty, referral campaigns
System, backend
Marketing, sales Continue Reading

The Best self-hosted E-Commerce platforms review (Magento, PrestaShop, Zen Cart, WooCommerce, OpenCart, CS-Cart, osCommerce, Spree Commerce, Sellvana)

December 23, 2015 - E-Commerce

In this post we gathered information about the most popular self-hosted e-commerce platforms. Magento, PrestaShop, Zen Cart, and other solutions are described in the article. We tried to show their major features, as well as positive and negative aspects.

The Power of Real Magento Community

September 9, 2015 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

The community around the Magento platform is vast. It consists of both professionals and enthusiasts, developers and merchants, geeks and sirs. In the beginning, all this mass was scattered and disconnected, but everything has been changed within last years. Magento community is not only huge, but it is also powerful, influential and not indifferent to its members. Today, it’s one of the real benefits of the platform. Don’t stay aside and try to get the maximum from the Real Magento Community. We will explain how to do this in the following post. Also, check the neu initiative – the Magento Association. It is going to organize and optimize processes that take place in the community.

UPD (11.02.16): How do I get involved in the Magento community?

A Complete Guide to The Use of Social Media in E-Commerce

May 29, 2015 - E-Commerce

This is the most comprehensive guide to the use of social media in e-commerce. You probably know, that social networks play an important role in online trade, but how broad is your understanding? What social media strategy should you choose to increase your website traffic? How to implement successful social media campaign to double sales? In the post below we will help you answer this questions.

UPD (17.06.15): Real Time Social Experience with Periscope and Meerkat

Personal Recommendation Services And Engines For Magento

October 21, 2014 - Magento tips & tricks

Recommender or recommendation systems form a subclass of information filtering systems. Their main purpose is to produce lists of recommendations for individual users. There are two methods used at the heart of the process: collaborative and content-based filtering. The first one relies on user’s past behavior and similar decisions made by other customers. The second one uses a series of discrete characteristics of an item in order to create a list of additional items with similar properties. Both approaches are often combined to create more complex system. Thanks to personal recommendation services and engines, e-commerce is now based on individual approach to every customer: products are marketed to individuals based on their unique needs.

Best daily deal, deal of the day and Groupon clone Magento extensions

October 7, 2014 - Magento tips & tricks

Incorporate the concept of daily deals with one of the extensions mentioned in this post. Their functionality is extremely helpful in increasing the sales of your e-commerce store. By enabling daily deals, you make your Magento site more interactive: you can set multiple deals everyday and use discounts to turn your visitors into customers

Must Have WordPress Plugins

September 25, 2014 - 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.

The Best Social Media Integration Magento Extensions

September 23, 2014 - 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.

Magento 2 Social Media Integration

How to Increase E-Commerce Conversion Rate

September 5, 2014 - E-Commerce

Chances are, the conversion rate of your e-commerce store is far from its possible maximum. To fix this problem, you have to find out why your visitors aren’t doing the things you want them to do. This information will help you to create effective methods for fixing the problem. The entire process of finding out and fixing is called Conversion Rate Optimization. The core principle of Conversion Rate Optimization is to generate more sales on your e-commerce store without bringing in additional traffic. This makes your online business more effective, and as a result, profitable.

Soldsie – social selling on Facebook and Instagram for Magento

August 19, 2014 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

During last few years, Soldsie has gained the status of the most successful social selling platform and now it is opened to the integration with Magento. Social selling is a relatively new trend in e-commerce. It consists of 2 major components: 1) a retailer posts a product image along with it’s price and other useful information on a social network and 2) offers an easy way to make a purchase. The social shopping experience of Soldsie begins when a retailer posts a product photo along with all the data necessary for every customer (price; availability) on Facebook or Instagram. Shoppers then leave the world “sold” under this photo and continue browsing. When a shopper is ready to check out, the commented item is in the shopping cart ready for the purchase, and the post with this item still exists and gains new purchases.