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8 Great Magento Extensions for Your eCommerce Store
(This post was originally published on July 18, 2012. We’ve updated it for accuracy and completeness. For a current list of our favorite Magento extensions please read our post about the top 5 Magento extensions of 2014.)
Magento is an excellent resource for online retailers, offering a host of features to help improve site management, customer experience, marketing and much more.
However, because Magento is open-source, it relies heavily on extensions from third-party developers to enhance its performance.
These extensions offer everything you need to run a successful online business. However, because there are so many, we’ve compiled some of our favorites.
Here are 8 great Magento extensions for your eCommerce store.
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What We’re Reading: Retail Disruption, Advice for CMOs & The Big Data Cloud
Entrepreneurs, retailers, business managers, and anyone trying win a market all need to have a dual focus on the short term future and the long term.
In the short term, you need to manage the business. What items should you order tomorrow? How many visits is your eCommerce store receiving? What will be the cash impact on making payroll next Friday? And, there are plenty of best practices that help you manage the short term.
The long term is less clear. It’s about seeing the forest through the trees, making educated guesses, and preparing your business for whatever might come. You are either disrupting or being disrupted.
This week I’d like to share three articles that look at that longer term future. What trends are you preparing to address?
Should You Integrate Multiple Magento Stores?
(This post was originally published on December 19, 2012. We’ve updated it for accuracy and completeness.)
As your company expands and your brands or product offerings start to diverge, you may start to consider separate Magento stores.
But, it’s not an easy or an automatic decision. You need to consider architecture, growth strategy, SEO, branding, and more! All of the sudden it’s a critical decision that could affect the growth of your company.
This post gives an overview of what you should consider in this decision how you can get started.
What We’re Reading: Amazon Continues eCommerce Innovation
Amazon has been in the news, quite a bit this week. If you’re in the eCommerce or retail business, you should be paying attention. Amazon has set (and continues to set) the standard for eCommerce satisfaction.
You worry about same-day shipping, because Amazon has it. You worry about managing product data, because Amazon does it so well. In order to be successful for the long-term, you need to start selling like Amazon does.
Here’s a look at what Amazon has on the horizon.
Amazon Webstore Alternatives: Preparing for Amazon Webstore to Shut Down
Amazon recently announced that they would shut down their eCommerce platform, called Amazon Webstore. If you’re one of the many Amazon Webstore customers, it may leave you wondering what to do next.
The good news is that you have options! There are a number of viable alternatives to Amazon Webstore, from which you can choose.
In this post, we’ll dive into what those options are, and how you can choose which are right for you. We’ll also talk about your transition plan from Amazon Webstore.