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MageCloud Product Update: Theme Editor, Server Controls, Vertical Scaling
Increasing the value of our product is one of our main goals. That’s why our team works tirelessly to deliver new features, increase stability, eliminate any bugs and make the service even more affordable. The philosophy behind all of the updates is pretty simple - uncomplicate things, make everything effortless.
This time we’ve prepared some really important features, which should satisfy both website admins and business owners, who work directly with their Magento install.
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3 Superb Site Search Extensions for Magento
A properly working site search feature is sometimes underestimated by store owners. If your site search is not satisfying your visitors - they will simply go back to Google. In this case, the search engine will be a lot more useful in producing the desired results for them. That’s when you lose a customer.
Up to 30% of your visitors will use the site search feature at some point. This is a great opportunity to increase your conversion rates without actually spending that many resources on it.
We’re offering you a list of great site search extensions for your Magento store, which can greatly boost the search functionality on your site, far beyond the standard Magento abilities. The best part? They’re either free or extremely affordable.
MagentoLive UK 2015: Community Highlights
MagentoLive UK is one of the biggest Magento events, almost as big as the Imagine conference. It features the brightest Magento experts and pros from all over the world. The volume of valuable and insightful information shared by them is pretty overwhelming and that's why it's impossible to learn everything the conference has to offer.
That's why we gathered some useful highlights from the Magento community members, who attended MagentoLive UK this year. These updates include marketing, business and technical bits on Magento and Magento 2. Lots of great insights and actionable tips, which you can use in your Magento and eCommerce business practice.
Meet Magento Belarus: Event Details and Ticket Discounts
We’re happy to announce that Meet Magento Belarus will take place pretty soon - on the 21st of September. The event will take place in the capital city of Minsk. Our partners, Amasty, are thrilled to organize this event. That’s why we wanted to share some details about it with you, guys.
This gathering of Magento enthusiasts and professionals will attract developers, eCommerce specialists and business owners from Belarus and several other countries. This is a great opportunity to discover new eCommerce markets and learn more about the unique and advanced approach to Magento, practiced in Eastern Europe.
The Ultimate List of Magento Influencers to Follow
Magento has the best community out of all of the eCommerce platforms: it's very active, enthusiastic and is driven by professional and dedicated people. It's pretty hard to follow all of the stuff that is happening within the community and go through all of the clutter that sometimes prevails online.
That's why we compiled a list of Magento influencers (it's subjective), who play an important role in the community, share informative updates about Magento and Magento 2 or simply have valuable Magento development tips to share with you. The list is in no particular order. It should also be useful for people, who are new to Magento and want to quickly get up to date with what's going on in the world of eCommerce.
MageCloud Product Update: Tame Big Data with DataDog
Big data is a pretty popular term, which is used to describe the huge amounts of information that is being recorded and stored by various systems. In case of Magento and eCommerce this can be order details, customer activity logs, traffic logs and so on.
It can play an important role in your business development, if you’ll find a way to properly collect, store and organize it. And this is one of the main problems of big data management and analysis - it is abundant, it is disorganized, sometimes stretched across multiple databases and services.
You need to collect the data from each source, unify it in an appropriate manner. This allows you to see correlations between different activities and data sets. You also need this info to be usable and understandable to your whole team, since you want your feedback to be diverse and your decisions to be based on maximal input.
Would it surprise you, if I told you that there is a tool that can cover all of these issues?
Why Content Marketing Should Matter to Magento Businesses
It’s pretty obvious that not many Magento businesses actually pay attention to their content marketing practices. Some of them don’t even have a proper blog ready to go. There are hundreds of Magento solution providers and developers that don’t pay any attention to their content marketing strategy.
This is really bad, considering that content marketing is one of the best ways you could promote your product or service to you potential customers. In this article I’ll tell you exactly why your Magento business should be investing its time and effort into content marketing practices.
eMagicOne.com - Magento Solutions that Really Work
It’s a pretty rare sight - an eCommerce solutions company that has experience with various eCommerce platforms. eMagicOne is one of those companies. Not only do they cover a myriad of online business solutions, but they’ve actually achieved great results with their products within each of these platforms. They provide functional and advanced store management solutions for businesses that want to stop wasting their time on running things and want to start focusing on developing their company.
The best part is that Magento is their forte. That’s why we had no second thoughts when an opportunity to partner with them arose. If you’re a merchant, looking for a tool, which can help you get around your inventory, products, attributes and other store features without any help from a Magento developer - eMagicOne and their products are right for you.
Magento for Free: 3 Data Management Extensions
Dates, sales, orders, SKUs, files, order IDs and a bunch of other numbers make up your daily Magento routines. If you’re allergic to Excel and any other similar tools, then you should definitely be looking for instruments, which can make your data management, processing and analysis a lot easier.
In this post we’ll share 3 pretty specific and useful data management extensions, which could save you a ton of time and effort, clean up your admin panel and simplify store surfing for your clients. Of course, these are free, so you should be able to easily test them and make sure that they work for you.