new eCommerce and Magento blog

Now live and kicking, a new eCommerce blog: http://www.boostingecommerce.com.
Aimed at beginning and intermediate eCommerce and Magento business owners and users!

New e-commerce player in stealth preparations

Behind the scenes a new Dutch e-commerce website is actively being finalized. We’ll do a soft live somewhere this summer and will seek more publicity in the fall of this year. Actively searching a good product-market fit will be the major focus in the coming months / year. Our blog will provide random updates when [...]

Cart2Quote.com in beta

We’re in the process of finalizing a quotation module for Magento called Cart2Quote. It offers the store owner the possibility of capturing requests for quote as well as regular orders. The store owner can then send quotations based on those requests, and final offers can be purchased through a regular payment process.
Such functionality is highly [...]

GroupDeal, deal performance

The collective buying power site GroupDeal is live for about 1.5 months now. We’re having a lot of fun arranging deals and seeing which ones get popular and which ones don’t.
Currently it seems deals only get really popular (say more than 60 purchases) when they:

Are oriented primarily towards women (might be due to our current [...]

Risk, reward & growth in e-commerce

Within the e-commerce / webshop market, there’s a whole range of concepts to try. As with anything worth investing time / effort / money in, between the different choices there’s a large gap between risks and potential benefits. Here’s a short idea of what I mean (indicatory, not exhaustive):

Lower risk: standard shop, buying and selling [...]

Serious shop demands serious analysis

The average internet entrepeneur grossly underestimates the time and money investment required to start a webshop in a proper fashion.
There is a plethora of reasons, but the main reason is a lack of analysis before starting implementation. Get informed as an e-retailer: know the possibilities and limitations of e-commerce and the different e-commerce software [...]