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Best Magento Host – For large or rapidly growing sites

Marc Osofsky — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:34:10 +0000

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 »

Flash Sales: A red hot ecommerce solution

Marc Osofsky — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:00:10 +0000

Flash Sales is one of the hottest online retail concepts with: Rapid revenue growth (Vente-Privee – 0-$1 billion in 6 years, Gilt Groupe 0-$400 million in 3 years) Extremely attractive financials (e.g. extremely low customer acquisition cost due to viral invitations) Larger players buying-in (GSI Commerce acquiring Rue La La for $350 million and perpetual | View post »

Etsy Raises Another $20 Million and Picks New COO

Jochen Krisch — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:10:23 +0000

Etsy has raised $20 million from a new financing round with Index Ventures. Also, Burda and Accel Partners have again participated in the round. According to insiders familiar to the deal, the financing is intended for paying out early business...

Ecommerce Trends – Content, Community, Commerce: Sears’ Shoes Experience

John Eckman — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:55:01 +0000

Today Sears announced the launch of a “new footwear experience” at sears.com/shoes. It’s worth checking out as yet another example of a mainstream, multichannel retailer embracing what we’ve been calling the assembled web, both in terms of the convergence of content, community and commerce and in terms of the widely decentralized and distributed nature of | View post »

Nordstrom Conversation-focused Redesign

John Eckman — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:13:36 +0000

I’m absolutely loving the new Nordstrom.com, launched over the weekend. They’ve dramatically simplified navigation on the homepage, offering the user the choice of Department, Brand, or Conversation: The main content in the center offers a flash-driven set of vignettes, allowing the Nordstrom team the ability to set up editorially driven, fashion magazine style interactions which | View post »

Magento Meetup: A New Approach to Metrics for Magento Ecommerce

Pat Keating — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:15:41 +0000

On Tuesday, Sept. 14, we are hosting a Magento Meetup: “A New Approach to Metrics for Magento Ecommerce.” This is the latest event for the New England Magento Meetup group, which I founded in April of this year to bring together Boston-area Magento developers and users. In these times, ecommerce projects must be justified, and | View post »

Viddler, Vimeo, Vzaar: Video Providers Surging to the iPad

Jochen Krisch — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:48:27 +0000

Online video provider Vimeo is constantly being used by online retailers (even though it doesn’t seem to be the wish of the makers). Interest in Vimeo may now even increase due to its recent availability on Flash incompatible end devices:...

Groupon Takes Over Darberry.ru, the Next Otto Holding

Jochen Krisch — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:35:03 +0000

Groupon expands further internationally by acquisitions and has followed up their Citydeal takeover now with majority investments in the Russian Darberry and Japanese Qpod. So reported the Wall Street Journal. Otto’s eVenture Capital Partners, who hold stakes in both Citydeal...

Facebook Like -I Like it like that Amazon Levis and the Facebook open graph

John Eckman — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:52:02 +0000

At the beginning of 2010, Facebook rolled out a number of significant changes to their platform, including most notably the introduction of the Open Graph protocol and Facebook social plugins. Since then, retailers have been trying to determine the best strategies for taking advantage of these options. Two significant strategies (at least) have emerged so | View post »

Customer service on Facebook?

John Eckman — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:10:17 +0000

Mashable had an interesting piece yesterday about the market for applications which connect your company’s Facebook page to its customer service function (Facebook Pages Become Customer Service Centers). They note two such applications — Parature for Facebook and Get Satisfaction’s Social Engagement Hub — and ask: Do you think Facebook Pages can serve as an | View post »