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Magento Inventory Management Best Practices
When running an eCommerce or retail business, inventory management is one of your most important processes. Too much inventory ties up cash. Too little inventory puts you at risk for stock-outs. Both scenarios have negative financial implications.
Magento is one of the world’s most popular platforms for running an eCommerce business. That means there are a lot of Magento merchants who need to learn the best practices for inventory management.
If you’re using Magento and you carry inventory, this post is where you should start your learning.
The Need-to-Know Basics of Magento B2B
B2B eCommerce is expected to reach $1.1 trillion by 2020. As a B2B seller, you have a huge opportunity to be a part of this growth. Having an eCommerce strategy gives you a competitive advantage, and a chance at rapid growth in sales.
But, the first step in executing a new eCommerce strategy means picking the right eCommerce, or shopping cart, platform for webstore.
In this post, we’ll review eCommerce software provider Magento’s offering for B2B. You’ll learn the basics of Magneto B2B and how to evaluate if it’s right for you. (more…)
Shopify vs Magento Community: An Unbiased Comparison
Shopify vs Magento. The battle of the eCommerce giants. While both fill the same need, they do it in very different ways. A webstore is not simply a webstore, much like your company is not simply a company.
Shopify and Magento are both unique. The “best” platform for you will depend on what your needs are. (more…)
Magento Drop Shipping: What it is and How to Set it Up.
As a seller using Magento, you’re always looking for ways to grow your online business. It doesn’t matter if you’re a new seller just starting off or if you’re an established seller already swamped with orders. Either way, you need to find a way to sell more products and then ship them to your customers.
Enter Magento drop shipping.
Drop shipping is a fulfillment process in which you sell items from your Magento storefront that are then shipped to your customer by a 3rd party, usually a wholesaler or manufacturer who stores the inventory. Drop shipping can be a great way to expand your product line, streamline your order and inventory management processes, or kick-start your new online business.
Drop shipping for Magento, however, can be a confusing and tricky process. In this post we’ll discuss the pros and cons of drop shipping. We’ll then give you examples of a few different drop ship solutions that you can use for your Magento webstore. (more…)
eCommerce & Google Tag Manager: The “why” and the “how”
Webstore integration to other technologies is usually a challenge, because every store is a little different. (Trust me…we know!) There’s also a complex ecosystem of technologies you may want to integrate into.
Google Tag Manager is a free application that helps to simplify the kind of webstore integrations that require JavaScript tagging. Ultimately this can save you a lot of time and money, and it can help you mitigate risk.
This post will dive into what Google Tag Manager is and how it can help you build a better webstore.
