What We’re Reading: Articles From Nicole Leinbach-Reyhle
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This week I want to kick off a new, occasional way of doing things for What We’re Reading. Starting this week (and randomly in the future) I’ll feature articles from industry thought leaders. These are the kinds of people we follow closely, because they’ve got a lot of good things to say.
I’m going to kick it off with some articles by Nicole Leinbach-Reyhle, Forbes contributor and founder of Retail Minded. She’s a recognized retail expert who puts out a lot of pragmatic advice for retailers. She also dives into some of the topics and trends you need to know about. Here are three of her articles we read this week…
The Best Magento Shipping Extensions of 2015
B2C (business-to-consumer) eCommerce sales are expected to reach $2.356 trillion in 2018. Lets put that into perspective. If you spent just $1 trillion dollars (less than half the predicted sales), and went back in time 1 second for every dollar spent, you would end up in 30,000 BC.
And while buy online, pickup in store is increasing in popularity, the tremendous rise in eCommerce sales can only mean one thing: an equally tremendous rise in shipping.
Not every retailer will be selling millions of dollars in products, but every retailer needs to be prepared for an increase in their shipping demand.
These are our top Magento shipping extensions to consider for your Magento webstore. (more…)
What We’re Reading: Customer Experience, Big Data for Marketers, Differentiating Your Product Pages
Here’s all the great stuff we’re reading this week!
How to Fix Three Common eCommerce Issues
There are many things that can go wrong with an eCommerce site. We’ve narrowed it down to three major ones that seem to produce the most questions:
- Getting more web traffic
- Converting more site visitors to sales
- Making sense of too much data
In this post I’ll break these three common eCommerce issues down. I’ll explain the different aspects of each challenge and provide advice and links that will help you overcome them.
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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