Any small business eCommerce retailer that has tried migrating from one platform to another, knows how complicated it can get to successfully migrate all your information to a new platform. Recently I tried moving a shopping cart from Zen Cart to Magento… with simple products it’s no big deal. You export. You modify in excel. […]
10 Free Premium Magento Themes
Want a Magento theme that is professional and free? Check out this list of free premium Magento Themes from around the web. 1 – ElectroMagik ElectroMagik is a minimalist professional design. Lots of white-space, easy on the eyes. Info | Live Demo | Download 2 – Absolute Theme Absolute Theme is a slick&smooth blue theme for […]
4 Quick Tips On How To Boost Magento’s Speed
Magento is a great open source eCommerce platform. Merchants love it for it’s full feature set as well as it’s ability to add-on features via extensions. One issue that a lot of people run into is the page load speed. Magento is very picky about the server set up. Here are some tips to help […]
10 More Essential Magento Extensions For Your Store
In a previous post we featured 10 really cool and useful Magento extensions for your store. Here is another selection of 10 more great extensions. 1 – Layered Navigation Pro Layered Navigation Pro allows you to customize the look and functionality of the layered navigation/search filters on your Magento store. You can use sliders, images, […]
Raise Your Average Order Value With Up Sells & Cross Sells
A great opportunity for revenue growth and an easy way to extract the highest return on ad spend is by increasing the value of each order by a small percentage. This can be accomplished by promoting cross sells and up sells during checkout. There are a couple of ways to do this, you can either […]
How To Ensure Your Credit Card Processing Rates Are Not Ruining Your Business
Every couple of years you will want to make sure that your credit card processing rates are properly aligned with your business goals (i.e. to make a profit). You can accomplish this by asking your merchant services provider to analyze a few months of customer payments and make sure you are getting the best discounts on […]
4 Easy Plugins To Convert WordPress Into An E-Commerce Platform
WordPress is a very cool blogging platform. Most people know it can be used as a CMS, but do you know that it is really simple to use WordPress as a shopping cart? Here are 4 simple plugins that convert WordPress into an e-commerce platform. 1 – Shopp Extension Page | Sample Site | Price: […]
Integrate Your Shopping Cart With UPS/FedEx
Anyone who ships more than 20 boxes a day knows how annoying it is to keep copy and pasting the customers information for the shipping label. Therefore it is a great thing that both UPS and FedEx offer the ability to integrate your system into theirs. Unless you are doing a lot of business with […]
10 Great Magento Extensions For Your E-Commerce Store
Magento Commerce is a great open source platform. Here are some extensions that will help your store stick out from the crowd and add vital functionality to your business. 1 – Shop By Brand This extension creates landing pages for each of your brands, which include information such as Brand Name, Logo, Description etc… The […]