‘Magento’ posts

Social Commerce Presentation from Magento Imagine Conference

Posted by John Eckman on 05 Apr 2011

I shared the slides from my social commerce talk at the Magento Imagine conference earlier, but now the video has been posted: I’ve also taken the audio from that video and converted the SlideShares slides into a screencast, which syncing the audio to the slides: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Revenue? View more webinars [...]

Magento Imagine eCommerce Conference

Posted by John Eckman on 14 Feb 2011

Last week I had the opportunity to attend and speak (“With Friends Like These, Who Needs Revenue?“) at the inagural Magento Imagine eCommerce conference in LA. It was a great show, with way too much going on for a simple summary, but I’ll try my best here to capture some of the highlights and point [...]

Facebook Connect Social Shopping for Magento

Posted by John Eckman on 27 Sep 2010

Just a quick note that we’ve released a new version of the Facebook Connect Social Shopping extension for Magento to the Magento Connect marketplace. This version is an update to the existing extension to accomodate the fact that Facebook connect notifications have been deprecated. This version relies on posts to the Facebook Wall instead. Note | View post »

Metrics for the Assembled Web

Posted by John Eckman on 15 Sep 2010

At last night’s New England Magento Meetup at Optaros’ Boston HQ, Brad Schwarzenbach from TippingPoint Labs presented on what he calls DAPRmetrics. DAPR is a play on the old SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) metrics from baseball, and the search for better performance through statistics as told in Michael Lewis’ Moneyball. As SABR metrics | View post »

Best Magento Host – For large or rapidly growing sites

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 02 Sep 2010

Choosing the right hosting partner for Magento is critical.  Especially if you are a larger enterprise or scaling rapidly.  Below is the full case study published on Amazon regarding our work with 36Boutiques that should prove helpful. 36Boutiques, a South Africa-based private sales retail store, sells luxury merchandise to members at a discount via timed online | View post »

Designing for Magento – Best Practices for Ecommerce Performance

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 02 Jul 2010

Don’t let the out of the box Magento templates fool you.  In the right hands, an ecommerce site built on Magento can be as compelling as any other.  Here are some examples of what is possible. Home Page Often the home page will be the first place consumers have a true interaction with your brand | View post »

Magento Meetup

Posted by Jochen Krisch on 13 May 2010

The secret is out about Private Sales. Rue La La and Gilt Groupe lead the way in North America. Magento has recognized this trend and built Private Sales into its platform. Ecommerce and Retail leaders will likely want to keep up with a trend that has resulted in explosive revenue growth for early innovators. On | View post »

Magento Performance – 9 Lessons Learned in Scaling Magento on the Amazon Cloud

Posted by Olivier Pépin on 12 May 2010

We’ve talked before on this blog about our endeavors to make Magento run more effectively for high-volume, enterprise sites by leveraging the Amazon EC2 environment. After several successful implementations, here are the top 9 lessons we’re learned. 1. Use c1.medium for CPU. After testing several instances for homepages and carts, it seems that a standard | View post »

Private Sale: How to Use Magento to Develop a New Retail Concept

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 10 May 2010

It seems that there is nothing hotter in the ecommerce world today than private sales. This innovative online retail concept was born in 2001 by vente-privee.com, which translated popular Parisian events during which designers would open their stores and sell overstock merchandise at dramatic discounts, into a similar online experience. Since then, private sale sites | View post »

Ecommerce Trends Powered by Magento

Posted by Noreen Vincent on 06 May 2010

For organizations looking to combine the 3Cs of content, community and commerce into one all-encompassing ecommerce website, Magento offers an exceptional platform. Through its open source architecture, experienced programmers can build upon existing architecture to include performance-enhancing widgets that incorporate today’s hottest ecommerce trends, thus providing online consumers with the functionality they demand. Following are | View post »

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