Magento Performance is a hot topic at the moment. We recently installed Magento Commerce version 1.3.0 on a test server with a current production database to do some performance testing and I thought I would publish a few results. They aren’t exhaustive tests, but indicative I think. Although we haven’t done a huge amount of [...]
I follow Magento Commerce and it’s development rather closely. This is because on of my businesses retails online using the Magento ecommerce software and my other business leverages this knowledge (and a lot of other online retail experience) to develop Magento modules and code and shipping automation software. I have written about some of this [...]
Australia Post has just released Click and Send, and new way to print out international labels and customs declaration forms. Previously international shipments were a real pain because of the handwritten customs forms and separate labels that needed to be printed. Now at least Click and Send can print these forms for you (see their [...]
It strikes me that many website owners out there concerned with conversion rates don’t spend enough time understanding the visitors to our websites. I have definitely been guilty of that. Maybe you are too? If you think about it, I am sure you would would agree with me too. We should spend more time really [...]
Early on, ‘back in the old days’, our staff manually copied and pasted addresses for customer orders into shipping software packages or (*gasp*) hand wrote labels. This was all fine and dandy until we started selling more than about 5 – 10 items per day. Firstly, shipping started to take too much time in our [...]
I have been spending a little time this week thinking about 2009 and retail in general. Although I haven’t been able to speak to too many other sellers recently the ones I have spoken to are hinting at the same issues. Prices are all going up, thanks to the current exchange rate (1 Australian dollar [...]
Getting customer feedback/testimonials/complaints can really help you identify what parts of your business are working well and what needs attention. We recently implemented a free feedback service on one of our online fishing stores, and the information we have received has been quite valuable. People have given us testimonials which we can use on the [...]
There are been a little bit of buzz around the place about Magento Commerce. The open source eCommerce arena has been a crowded one in the last 5 years. The big names are popular still (including stores like X-Cart, osCommerce, Zen Cart, CRE Loaded and there are more). But Magento was mentioned to me by [...]
Back on deck at work this morning, following up a few people that I met at the Pesa Summit over the last few days. It was great to meet some readers of my blog, and talk to a lot of sellers. After my panel session on Business Automation my 15 min one on one blocks [...]
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