If I say, the popularity of online shopping is growing at a rapid rate, I would not be wrong. Why? Because establishing an e-commerce store which is effectively reachable to the customers worldwide has become a lot easier than setting up a physical store which is just limited to the consumers of the local area. So, it is automatically understood that if you have an online business, the competition isn’t going to be any easier.…
As you work through your long list of things to take care of before you launch your business, you’ll need a website, and of course, a domain name. Consider this your easy guide to choosing the right domain name for your business. Why Domain Names are So Important You may have found during your research that you could snag a free domain name (also called a URL) from sites like WordPress, Blogger, etc. But in…
Magento is indeed one of the best platforms for e-commerce websites. Also, the company is doing everything possible to upgrade it and make it perfect for the present generation. The cost-effective solution is ideal for those businesses that don’t have huge budgets. Magento is conceptualized to be absolutely flexible and scalable. Additionally, the solution is feature-rich. Top features like the capability to manage several stores, as well as, the multi-lingual support make Magento a top choice…
WordPress really is the Holy Grail of the internet. Over 32% of websites are powered by the script. The downside or really, the upside to WordPress is that it allows customization to the T. Web professionals can use thousands of plugins to customize their WordPress experience to fit exactly what they need and want from the script. For e-commerce website owners, one of the most popular plugins to do this on WordPress is WooCommerce. Read…
The world changed, slowly and subtly at first and at a rapid speed in the past few years. This change has evolved with numerous inventions and progress in science and technology. We are now in an age where machines are able to understand and process human tasks, performing them in a far efficient manner than we humans could. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have become an integral part of our life, be it voice search,…
Online businesses are growing at a rapid rate, and a professionally designed website increases the chances of users staying on your website for a longer time to explore it further. A good website ensures the retention of existing customers while at the same time increasing the inflow of new ones. A website, after all, is the heart and soul of any digital business. When designing an e-commerce store the design and structure of the business…
If your business has anything to do with ecommerce, transactions, products or purchases, this one’s for you. Cart abandons are as the name suggests, a record of how many users / customers leave a website without making a purchase after they reach the checkout page. Business Insider says that products worth approximately $4 trillion are abandoned in online shopping carts. There’s more. 63% of that is actually recoverable! In this article, we’ll take a look…
Marketing is one of the essential aspects when it comes to the success of your E-commerce website. However, more than marketing, it is the design of your website, that can help it scale heights. Remember those days when web design looked beautiful on your computer, but the moment you changed the browser or a different resolution PC, the website lost all its charm? Not only is the look and feel of your website important, but…
For keeping a live ecommerce website up and running, there is a significant amount of investment required in setting up the backend IT infrastructure and its management. As an ecommerce business owner, one is aware of the fact that this is a necessary investment. Why? Because the losses suffered when a website goes down are debilitating, as explained in our post on how to keep ecommerce websites up and running through 24×7 IT monitoring and…
“Chat apps will come to be thought of as the new browsers; bots will be the new websites. This is the beginning of a new internet.” -Ted Livingstone, Kik Founder. If you are a developer or an entrepreneur trying to build an app, you might want to pay attention because your next requirement or project could just be a bot. Bots are one of the hottest trends in the technology and business world today…