Our clients come to us with all manner of ideas about how they would like to merchandise products on their websites. Since merchandising is often industry specific, it’s important for us to find a way to help them execute on these ideas. But there are some core merchandising techniques that we’ve found work well across […]
Yesterday, at a petrol station on my way into the office on my typical mad rush to the office post school drop off last week, I picked up a voicemail. I don’t like voicemails at the best of times. When you’re out and about it’s hard to action anything that needs doing without having a […]
Magento has just released updates to provide security enhancements for both the Magento 2 and Magento 1 platforms. Magento has provided information that the risks dealt with in these updates are major for older Magento 1 versions and critical for older Magento 2 versions. What do Magento 1 site owners need to do? If you’re […]
Which?, the UK Consumer’s Association, have just published the results of a survey of users’ opinions about eCommerce sites. Which? surveyed 10,000 people asking them to rate websites for experiences buying particular items considering factors such as price, product range, delivery, quality and returns processes. Users were also asked for their feedback on eCommerce site […]
Amazon’s increasing market share is only half the story. As the retail giant’s reach grows, people’s shopping habits are changing. Thanks, in part, to Amazon’s trailblazing, ever more greater number of people are happy to shop online. Consequently, online spend at non-Amazon stores is also growing year on year meaning that the future for independent […]
Magento 2 was a worthy upgrade to Magento 1. Its out of the box functionality is impressive - not least because Magento’s open-source philosophy ensures its continued availability free of charge. We’ve now helped a number of clients migrate their eCommerce sites to Magento 2 and have been asking them what makes them glad they […]
Not getting the adoption of your newly-developed B2B platform you wanted? You went to great lengths to get your platform up and running with your B2B eCommerce agency. It was supposed to save you time and resources by automating much of the ordering process, reducing paperwork and freeing up your sales team from order taking. […]
We all heard the rumours earlier this year that Magento 1 support would be ending abruptly in November of this year - the latest in a series of scares for merchants still using the platform since the advent of Magento 2 back in 2015. Thankfully, Magento think better of abruptly pulling the support rug from […]
There inevitably comes a time in the lifecycle of any eCommerce retailer when switching platforms or migrating to a newer version of your existing one becomes an operational necessity. Increasingly, that new platform is Magento 2. But whatever your choice of platform, switching is a daunting proposition; not least because you’ve heard about the very […]
HTTP (Hypertext transfer protocol) is essentially the encoding/decoding mechanism by which information is transferred from one computer to another. Since the inception of the World Wide Web, there have been a number of iterations to this protocol, each improving the speed and efficiency with which that information is transferred. However, none of these iterations has […]
