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Businesses poised for a successful customer experience during peak season rely on some or all of the following common best practices, many of which customers now expect all high-quality digital storefronts to follow.

The journey to success in your organization’s peak season – be that the traditional holidays or your industry’s specific busy period – starts with making sure the infrastructure of your digital storefront is ready to perform. Whatever this annual opportunity looks like for your business, preparation for your peak season should start with your ecommerce site.

With supply chain threats looming, see why it's critical for retailers to secure inventory well before the holiday season.

How to fix—and prevent—the five most common configuration issues for Adobe Commerce Sites.

Adobe Commerce is known for its flexibility and ease of customization. It provides powerful extensibility points for merchants to customize the UI, extend the API and core services, and integrate with third-party systems. To ensure efficient upgrades, it is important to make these customizations the right way. That is why we are excited to announce our Upgrade best practices guide drawn from the vast knowledge and experience of our partners, merchants, and Adobe experts.

Fraud prevention is about far more than minimizing risk and cutting costs. It’s also about finding opportunities to deliver new services and seamless shopping experiences to your customers, which boosts revenue.

The Security Scan Tool is an important part of Adobe's strategy to help Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source merchants monitor their storefronts for malware, security risks, and unauthorized access.

Learn how dynamic pricing empowers B2B organizations to grow their ecommerce business and to serve buyers with agility and consistency across all sales channels.

It’s time to take your marketing to the next level. But did you know there are over 7,000 marketing automation platforms available to merchants? How do you know which platform is right for your ecommerce business?

To help minimize a security vulnerability known as dependency confusion, Adobe Commerce 2.4.3 release package will include a new composer plugin to perform integrity checks during installation

Accelerating Commerce - practical strategies for growing your digital storefront; including, Tips for maintaining your Adobe Commerce & Magento Open Source sites to maximize business value and uptime.

Helpful advice for preparing to launch your Adobe Commerce platform

As a Magento-only shop since we opened our doors in 2014, we here at 121eCommerce have seen dozens of projects come to us midstream. Some may be over budget or their TCO might be nowhere near what they were expecting.

In 2020, traditional consumer habits were disrupted and shopping online became the default way to buy. U.S. retailers were swarmed by online consumers, and digital sales for 2020 were boosted by $183 billion, up 42% from 2019. Just a few years ago, it would have been hard to envision a merchant environment where over one-third (34.3%) of retailers sell the majority of their products and services online. 
In response to this fundamental change in how people buy, businesses across all industries innovated at breakneck speed. They added new web stores, adopted new technologies, and tested new strategies. Most importantly, they learned a lot as they embraced digital selling and discovered what their customers really needed from an online shopping experience. 
Based on these trends as well as feedback from Magento Commerce customers, we identified seven key lessons that businesses should take away from 2020. We believe that it's imperative for your business act on them now, if you haven’t already. 

Past performance data can help you design successful strategies for tomorrow and beyond.

Five key areas of focus to ensure success with a rapid deployment package

In 2020, traditional consumer habits were disrupted and shopping online became the default way to buy. U.S. retailers were swarmed by online consumers, and digital sales for 2020 were boosted by $183 billion, up 42% from 2019. Just a few years ago, it would have been hard to envision a merchant environment where over one-third (34.3%) of retailers sell the majority of their products and services online.  In response to this fundamental change in how people buy, businesses across all industries innovated at breakneck speed. They added new web stores, adopted new technologies, and tested new strategies. Most importantly, they learned a lot as they embraced digital selling and discovered what their customers really needed from an online shopping experience.  Based on these trends as well as feedback from Magento Commerce customers, we identified seven key lessons that businesses should take away from 2020. We believe that it's imperative for your business act on them now, if you haven’t already. 

Past performance data can help you design successful strategies for tomorrow and beyond.

Important considerations for customizing your Magento store with Magento Marketplace extensions and custom code

Five key areas of focus to ensure success with a rapid deployment package

Adopting technology early is a challenge every business may face at some point in their growth and development. However, technology is now moving so fast that what might have seemed risky in the past might today actually be the safer bet, to stay ahead of the curve and ahead of the competition.

SaaS applications help businesses create well-functioning systems in this digital age, but they bring more value to the organization when connected. Read more.

There’s an important reason the Magento Site Self-Assessment Checklist starts with asking whether your customers can easily shop your site on their mobile devices. Read more.

Magento's Community Engineering program has allowed the team at Atwix to be more involved and play a role in the development of new features on the Magento roadmap, contribute to performance improvements, and extend Magento capabilities. Read more.

Magento Commerce makes eCommerce marketing smarter, better, and more personalized. Read more.

The case for delaying or deferring platform upgrades often comes down to the immediate cost. However, the real cost of running an outdated version of any mission-critical software, not to mention the accumulated technical debt, can have a lasting material impact on a business. Read more.

What are PWAs, who’s using them, and why do they matter for your business? Read on. 

As you make the pivotal decision of choosing an eCommerce solution, you want to make sure there are no surprises or hidden costs during or after the implementation. From third-party apps and ongoing maintenance to solution partners, optimization, and more, the cost goes far beyond the licensing fee. Read more.

Whether you are new to eCommerce and Magento, thinking about using Magento, or have been using Magento for years, we think you’ll get some great takeaways on how to reduce and rethink your total cost of ownership. Read more.

If we really want to enable great customer experiences, we must focus on all customers, not just those who are able-bodied. Read more.

Intuitive shopping experiences are on every consumer’s 2020 holiday wishlist. Read more.

During a recent panel discussion, industry experts pointed to the significant transformation happening in B2B commerce and outlined strategies for success. The panel, which was sponsored by Adobe, left attendees with the following four key takeaways. Read more.

The Mobile Optimization Initiative (MOI) was formed to better understand the gap in mobile and desktop conversion. So far it has conducted more than 130 standardized experiments backed by real-world data. In this article, we deep-dive into some of the experiments as well as their learnings, which any merchant could easily apply to its mobile eCommerce strategy. Read more.

The new normal isn't here yet, but it will be here - whether it's weeks or months, once we start to venture outside more and more. Inevitably, brands that make investments in technology today to reimagine the customer experience online will find themselves better placed for the new normal than those that do not. Read more.

The old adage that drastic times call for drastic measures holds true as never before. It has never been more important to act fast and to be decisive. But it’s also more important than ever to not lose sight of your long-term business objectives. Read more.

A new report, commissioned by Adobe in partnership with 451 Research, focuses on the high-level IT trends, digital transformation pain points and opportunities, and technologies exerting influence over the digital commerce experience. It also offers a road map to achieving global digital commerce excellence. Read more.

Creating a winning eCommerce experience for these times involves evaluating your service strengths and limitations, then constructively applying those insights to where they’re needed most. Read more.

 Four ways eCommerce can ensure business continuity to get you through turbulent times. Read more.

While some will say traffic is too high-level of a metric to mean anything, it is undeniably a leading indicator and proxy of market activity. So what kind of activity did we see in March as COVID-19 became a global pandemic?

Making the Magento 1 to Magento 2 migration will give you access to multiple great features and enhancements — better performance, advanced SEO, improved checkout, strong security, and marketing automation. In this article, we provide recommendations on how to make a smooth Magento 2 migration. Read more.

Peter Sheldon, former Forrester analyst and now senior director of commerce strategy at Adobe, shares his perspective on headless commerce and its impact on the future of eCommerce. Read more.

When anything loses its head, the results are typically less than pleasant, but that’s not the case with headless commerce. Read on to learn why many merchants are warming up to the idea.

The Magento Community team is often asked how to increase the number of diverse speakers at Magento events and conferences. We now have a solution that works and is easy to implement. Read more.

A growing number of companies are channeling Amazon Business and building their own B2B marketplaces. Read more.

Digital payments are becoming more popular as shoppers increasingly rely on their smartphones to help manage their money. Retailers are responding by giving customers a more seamless experience at checkout – both online and in brick-and-mortar stores. Read more.

As an open source platform, nothing is more critical to Magento’s success than its community contributions. Case in point: Magento Solution Partner Atwix. Read more.

What can merchants expect over the next 12 months? Read more.

ECommerce has given small and midsize enterprises a chance to grow into bigger companies with customers from all around the world. Those customers have high expectations from online businesses, challenging them to steadily improve the quality of their eCommerce businesses – from customer-facing operations on the front end to fulfillment and inventory management on the back end. Read more.

Shoppable content has been around for centuries, starting with booksellers that published catalogs a few decades after the invention of the printing press more than 500 years ago. Since then, marketers have steadily adopted the latest technologies to mix content and commerce, turning audiences into shoppers. Read more.

Here are six common signs that indicate a business should revisit its current operational workflows and evaluate how leveraging a lightweight product information management solution (built with the power and performance demands of large-scale enterprises) can help them scale and grow. Read more.

From commerce trends, to eCommerce case studies, to low-cost ways to grow your small business, our readers were passionate and immersed in a number of different digital commerce topics in 2019. Read more.

Say goodbye to the complex and time-consuming process that you experience when listing products on Amazon. Read more.

Although eCommerce is still a relatively small part of overall retail sales, online shopping is growing for both business and consumer buyers. In this edition of “Mind-Blowing Stats,” we take a look at the state of eCommerce, how and how much people and businesses buy online, and what eCommerce trends to expect in the future. Read more.

It’s an exciting time in the retail space. From augmented reality to artificial intelligence to conversational UI, a plethora of different technologies exist that could have a beneficial impact on your bottom line. So which retail technologies will impact retailers and merchants most in 2020? Read more.

Is your eCommerce business meeting the needs of modern day B2B and B2C buyers? If the answer is no, then you could be missing out on a big opportunity to differentiate yourself from your competition. Read more here.

Bad eCommerce practices can easily creep into a business. Therefore, it’s important to run regular diagnostics to identify common bad practices that, without proper management, can be detrimental. Let’s dive into each area to help you uncover clues of profit-killing activities that could be hiding in your eCommerce business. Read more.

The experiences that people encounter in their everyday lives as consumers are now shaping their expectations in the B2B world, too. Indeed, the lines continue to blur between B2B and B2C buyers, and it is this realization that has many companies playing catch-up with their B2B eCommerce strategies. So what does the modern B2B buyer’s journey look like? 

The digital commerce trends we’ve identified for 2020 are primed to make a direct impact on your business – or, on the flip side, an impact on your competitors’ business if you choose not to adopt them. Read more.

While it’s clear that B2B commerce is definitely making strides, and we're seeing quite a bit of uptake in that space, it’s still fairly early days. Picking the right eCommerce solution that is truly built to support a B2B eCommerce framework is imperative. Here is what to look for. Read more.

If you’re intent on making the most of the busiest shopping season of the year, then chances are

Use these 10 questions to start a conversation with potential integration partners

Mobile is changing the way people research and eventually purchase products and services. Indeed, the speed, simplicity, and evolving features and functionality of the devices we use have transformed the buying experience and mobile commerce is finally moving to the mainstream. Read how you can master the art with these 4 tips.

Use these tips to help your business stand out and sell more during the biggest shopping season of the year.

Best practices to ensure that your teams are taking advantage of the full potential of Page Builder

Four diverse businesses found a common solution by integrating Magento Commerce with their Microsoft Dynamics ERP

Nearly 3.5 billion people around the world use social media to find new brand and make eCommerce purchases. Make sure your product information is on point if you want to sell on social. 

As robots get more affordable and accessible for a wider range of companies, logistics providers are finding innovative new ways to incorporate them into their operations in order to help shippers run streamlined, industrial automated supply chains.

Tips that Merchants who use Magento Commerce should consider employing to ensure a robust digital holiday season

When you’re ready to add eCommerce to your business mix—and you’re serious about growth—you need a best-in-class eCommerce platform. Use this 10-step checklist to start building your ERP integration strategy. 

Harness the power of the Amazon Buy Box and turn your company into a selling machine with Magento's Amazon Sales Channel

The holiday season is the most wonderful—and the most challenging—time of the year for e-commerce sites. Amid the gift-buying frenzy, the high-traffic season sees intense competition from other merchants, increased instances of cybercrime, and overwhelmed, busy, distracted shoppers. Use these eCommerce strategies. 

How to make sure you’ve checked all the boxes for your current needs as well as your expected requirements

Something Digital’s Caitlin Mekita shares her key takeaways from a panel discussion, Optimizing Mobile Conversion: 7 Surprising Results from a Magento Community Study.  

For Magento 1 users considering a move to

Early results from this quarter’s Magento Community Initiative are in! This quarter’s results are all about testing and optimizing conventional eCommerce features.—WISHLISTS, BREADCRUMBS, and CONTINUE SHOPPING BUTTONS.

B2B buyer expectations are shifting toward eCommerce. Here’s what that means for B2B vendors. As Forrester recently reported, the US B2B eCommerce market is now estimated at $1.1 trillion and should hit $1.8 trillion, or 17% of all B2B sales, by 2023.

Expanding into new countries is a proven way to grow your business.

73 percent of consumers want order tracking across all touchpoints but only 7 percent of retailers can deliver it. Learn what customers want most from omnichannel retail brands, then use this information to help your eCommerce site excel.

This article is part of our ongoing 

The vast majority of Americans–95%–own a mobile phone, and these devices are now officially the most popular way to shop online, according to the Pew Research Center. Take a look at the Mobile trends driving revenue. 

We've narrowed it down to the 3 most important trends that will ultimately have the greatest impact on eCommerce Conversion Rate Optimization in 2019. Gain insights on how to boost your conversions now. 

3 Key Findings for Mobile Commerce. This article is part of our ongoing Mobile Optimization Initiative series designed to help merchants close the mobile revenue gap.

Optimize your eCommerce store for mobile search. 5+ tips for getting more traffic and sales by optimizing your site for mobile devices. Improve load time, images, UX, and more.

SEO for eCommerce Product Pages. Get more traffic and increase sales with this guide on optimizing product pages for Google. 5+ Bonus SEO Tips.  

Mobile experiment results from over 250 UK-based retailers 

Razoyo’s clients reaped some surprising benefits while participating in helping the merchant community.

There’s a huge gap in mobile commerce between time on site and conversions. Users spend 39 percent more time on mobile than on desktop , but they buy significantly less than they do when on desktop  and abandon mobile shopping carts 86 percent of the time. 

Results show Paypal Express and PayPal Credit can increase your conversion rate and average order value. 

This holiday weekend was the largest online shopping period of all time

The Right Customizations Will Increase Your Site’s Revenue Per Visitor

eCommerce SEO has the ability to increase visibility and drive potential sales to your B2C or B2B website. These are the cornerstone to any successful eCommerce website. Use these 15 Tips to Boost Traffic. 

Smartphone conversion rates have improved over the last couple of years, however, we are still nowhere near to closing the mobile gap.

Magento merchant uses HiConversion and PayPal to increase their conversion rate

With holidays just around the corner, now is the perfect time to get some experiments set up to capture more mobile sales.  

It was reported that last year 25% of Cyber Monday’s sales were driven by email. Get insight from the lessons learned from the ghosts of holiday emails past.

You’ve always kept a sharp eye on your key performance indicators (KPIs), but did you know that optimizing your revenue per visitor (RPV) can accelerate the growth of your eCommerce business? Read on and we’ll share some key changes you can make on your site today.

We don’t have to tell you that mobile is hot right now. But the dirty secret is that conversion is not. Mobile revenue continues to lag far behind all other devices. Some 86 percent of mobile shoppers abandon their shopping carts during the checkout process. Read about mobile optimization.

Don’t let out-of-stocks, overstocks, and preventable returns ruin your peak season performance. Having a full understanding of your multi-channel order process, channels, carriers, and delivery points will help you create a solid holiday commerce strategy.

What if there was a technology that allowed you to contact potential buyers as they strolled by your place of business. Read about Beacon Technology, Proximity marketing, and eCommerce. Stay one step ahead of the growing competition.

If we’ve learned anything from Black Friday and Cyber Monday’s past, it’s that retailers need to

If you are reading this, the holidays are here.

What is the state of B2B eCommerce in ANZ, Southeast Asia and India? Read this published report which offers new data about how B2B companies across Asia-Pacific are integrating online transactions into their commerce businesses.

A new report by Econsultancy, State of B2B eCommerce in ANZ, Southeast Asia and India, published in association with Magento, looks at the extent to which companies in the region are seizing the B2B eCommerce opportunity, and investing in important capabilities to boost adoption. Read more.   

Takeaways from the Econsultancy roundtable discussions with client-side marketers

A month-by-month plan to connect with your existing customers and generate more revenue

Takeaways from an Econsultancy roundtable in Hong Kong.

Takeaways from the Econsultancy roundtable with Magento & eWave

With the rise of eCommerce and blending of the digital and physical worlds, many retailers are exploring new strategies to get ahead in a competitive marketplace. A great sale may be enough to garner customer attention, but the experience is what drives a sale.  Read more. 

‘It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year’ (For Insights) With consumers reveling in su

How to make the most of peak days and keep the new customers they bring

Conversion rate optimization (CRO) has become a critical part of improving eCommerce site performance and marketing ROI

The most successful companies welcome change, seeing future unknowns as opportunities to disrupt and win. AI offers us the opportunity to create intelligent assistants that perform tasks on our behalf and some we couldn’t possibly be expected to. 

The challenges and opportunities of supporting the customer at every step of their journey 

Aligning with the trends highlighted in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce

Anita Andrews, Magento's Head of Data Analytics Services, weighs in 

Your mobile commerce strategy plays an important part in successfully moving forward with your digital journey

The cupcake maven shares the key ingredients of her success

Magento is really excited to share some important steps we’ve taken as a company in our ongoing c

Insights from Sucharita Kodali, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Inc.

Merchants have focused personalization efforts on the browsing and transacting experience. But can they do more?

How manufacturers or merchants who sell in larger quantities can grow with both B2C and B2B 

It pays to be thorough in B2B lead generation 

The drive towards omnichannel commerce is powerful, and industry statistics prove it. Evolving customer expectations require a seamless omnichannel solution. 

A change in traditional B2B buyer behavior is forcing manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers to innovate or be left behind by their competitors. Improve your B2B buying experience and boost your ROI.  Read more.

Search-led conversion rates are usually three to six times higher

Why headless CMS commerce is growing in popularity and which merchants it works best for. In our recent joint webinar on ten B2B eCommerce trends for 2018, BORN and Magento predicted that headless CMS commerce will become a popular type of website architecture in the coming year and beyond

Find your ‘four-leaf clover’ customers

If you’re looking to upgrade your payment technology, look for these eight forward-thinking features

An Extension of the 2017 Magento Masters Yearbook

A substantial part of comprehensive Magento development and a powerful marketing and sales tool, Magento customer segmentation allows a retail company to divide online store visitors into groups and develop a focused approach to each group. Insights from our Solution Partner ScienceSoft. 

Experts from Gorilla Group, Mobify, and Magento weigh in

Fresh opportunities to grow, drive innovation, and open new revenue streams.

Embrace the digital revolution that can help turn your sales reps into superhuman sellers

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How Magento customers are taking advantage of this huge eCommerce opportunity 

5 ways AI and machine learning will revolutionize the marketer's role

Meet customer expectations this year with these simple tips. 

Which teams need to see them and how they can act on the data

The line-blurring solution offers several advantages for shoppers and marketers, but challenges exist that could be a deal breaker for some

A quick list of question to help you get started with planning your upgrade

Insights from our Head of Strategy, Peter Sheldon

Here are some of the most popular content resource to help inspire you in 2018

A checklist to improve your B2B eCommerce sites

Gorilla Group’s survey of B2B business leaders

How to save your stories and deliver quality, helpful, and valuable content to your followers

What you need to know about buying items at retail tax free, and avoiding the associated pitfalls.  As a reseller, in most cases you should not have to pay sales tax when buying items, as long as your vendor accepts a valid resale certificate.

With seasonal Amazon purchases reaching an all-time high, how can your business stay competitive?

While not as sexy as AI robots, data is changing commerce in unprecedented ways for retailers who use it well

Customers expect the same consistency and convenience in B2B transactions as they do in B2C

How to attract and convert gift buyers, then turn them into lifelong customers

A B2B customer might take longer to convert, but you’ll have a great customer once you do

According to eMarketer, eCommerce is expected to climb 15.8 percent this holiday season, while total retail growth will slow to 2 percent! As an e-retailer, you should be doing everything in your power to ensure that your website is optimized. Read More. 

Recommendations, key considerations and a pre-development checklist for a smooth B2B eCommerce website build.  Read more about how your eCommerce platform can motivate companies to become and remain customers. 

Robert J. Moore runs through the numbers and offers data-driven tips to help you succeed this holiday season.

How merchants can win, beyond cutting prices

It is only a matter of time before Amazon disrupts B2B too

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Tap the growing influence of social media on holiday sales

Tips, strategies, and tactics to support your digital transformation

Insights from Jenna Warren, Co-Founder of Creatuity

How your business can promote social good this holiday season and beyond

It’s time to collaborate on a consistently-branded holiday shopping experience

How Ikea embraced thinking outside of the box

Use caching, load balancing, and order processing to protect your site from the “thundering herd”

Now is the time for technology providers and merchants alike to seize the opportunity

How merchants and businesses are delighting customers with content

Check out this 5-point checklist to assess your holiday readiness

Prevent your brand from being a yuletide yawn

Digital devices and channels are constantly evolving, and so are your customers.

Uber and Amazon have given customers unbelievable delivery times and total transparency. But what’s next?

The hottest thing since responsive web design

Capture your share of purchase-ready holiday visitors with these easy-to-implement tips for Magento

Use Transactional emails to secure that second purchase and lifelong customers

Helpful checklist will help make sure you’re driving to conversion

And how retailers can remove the stress of holidays and shipping for bigger profits

Simplify your sales tax for a hassle-free holiday season

Are your customers using mobile? Categorically, yes.

There’s still time to create a checkout that will give you a better customer experience and increased conversions

Tips on timing and harnessing branded holiday opportunities.

These Magento merchants used customization to meet consumer expectations

Integrating your web platform with your enterprise resource planning software can interconnect disparate parts of your business, improving data visibility and accuracy.

Artificial Intelligence Marketing is coming. What will it bring? 

Proven strategies for an intelligent approach to holiday readiness.

The new holiday commerce guide from Magento shows you how

As the eCommerce giant celebrates “Prime Day” here are two key takeaways for online businesses of any size

How Shinola and DOMU streamlined their payment experiences

Three ways that merchants in the UK and surrounding countries can use their geography to their advantage

PayPal Express Checkout provides a simple and secure payment method

Results from our survey of branded manufacturers, multi-channel, and web-only merchants

Magento Partners Look at How Retailers Can Differentiate in the Year Ahead

Magento Partners Look to the Year Ahead

TaxJar CEO Mark Faggiano walks you through configuration and making your first sales tax filing

How we've improved the support process for both clients and our team

Here is an (abridged) history of our support team and some learnings we've gathered along the way

Bringing the Magento community together across the world

Cyber Monday might be all the rage, but Black Friday is a classic

Helping businesses design marketing campaigns for existing customers can be one of the toughest analyses to accomplish

Holidays are a double-edged ‘blessing’ for those in eCommerce.

There are many ways to ensure your customers have a good onsite experience, and one of the most t

Having a master data dictionary empowers teams to build their own reports while ensuring consistency and accuracy

Building the analytics program that best fits your business

Here are some tips that we’ve partnered with PayPal on to help your business thrive this season

Ecommerce sites are prime targets for malware attacks. Learn what you can do to protect your business

Email marketing #fitspiration from Slendertone!

The Magento Analytics Holiday Benchmark Report has revealed some remarkable findings

Key Insights for the Holidays

8 easy steps for a Successful Holiday Season

Proven strategies that any retailer can implement

A step-by-step guide to better understand your sales tax rate obligations

In this notoriously dynamic industry, success belongs to those who adapt and evolve to changing consumer attitudes and behaviors

Andy Barker, Head of Payment Strategy for Global Payments at Magento Commerce, shares his insights with Payments Quarterly

What retailers need to consider before they can meaningfully expand into overseas markets

Peter Sheldon's predictions for 2016

Key learnings from Black Friday and Cyber Monday to create the best customer experience across all channels

How to outsmart the bad guys

In this excerpt from his merchandising course, Magento expert and Magento U trainer Steve Kukla a

How to leverage the traffic and data you gather in Q4

Insights from Bronto Software’s Holiday 2015 survey

5 reasons your customers aren’t buying and what you can do to fix it

Several ideas from our partner dotmailer on campaign automation to bolster your results and save you time this season

Don't let a logistics meltdown slow you down during peak season 

As Holiday 2014’s nice-to-dos become must-dos in 2015, eCommerce merchants will need to hone in o

We asked a few of our partners about their experience integrating ERP packages with Magento.

Use these tactics to cash-in on what may be the biggest growth year for the retail industry since 2011

How to make the most of the increased usage of ad blocking software

In our recent webinar with Internet Retailer, we explored real-world examples of how merchants are achieving success by delivering better B2B experiences

Use these social media tips to attract and convert more website visitors so you can grow your eCommerce business

How to improve your Magento project management

Leverage these 13 SEO strategies to help your product pages climb to the top of Google

Successful marketers need partners who can expand their brand’s reach and drive conversions across a full range of mediums

Is it the end of digital advertising or the beginning of a new era?

The 2014 holiday period was a very merry season for eCommerce, boosted by a 16% growth in sales over 2013

Read Tryzens in-depth report on the choices, preferences and behaviours of modern UK customers

Retailers looking to do business in China must first take the proper steps to ensure their cross-border endeavors are successful

Show the hackers who’s boss

Here are the big changes coming with “Chip Cards” 

How to protect your business, avoid fines, and increase customer trust

New Relic Reporting extension enables real-time visibility into key application and business metrics

What you could be doing with analytics to learn about your customers and to better engage with them

How to make the most of the content your customers generate

How to make your eCommerce site’s product pages stand out and turn browsers into buyers

Insights from our recent webinar

How to Stand Out From the Crowd and Turn Your Website Into a Money-Making Machine

This year, these 8 things will determine the success of your email marketing efforts 

Our consumer survey revealed that managing multiple-device shoppers isn’t “one size fits all”

Venture partner Sean Percival offers advice on how to avoid five common “rookie mistakes”

Holiday Shipping Success is All About the First Impression

Best practices and lessons learned from a mobile-first redesign

How to sharpen your email strategy for the holiday season

Practical tips to help you deliver on customer expectations 

Tapping into Big Data Insights and Opportunities

How to update your cart reminders to keep them both coming back

How to make sure your site is ready for the peaks 

RWD is the best way to optimize engagement with customers across all digital touch points

Great tips from our partner blogs

Developers aren’t the only ones who profit from working with Magento Products

Building trust isn’t the only way reviews can help you increase sales

Key practices every business can use to improve their fraud protection and reduce chargebacks

Magento Gold Industry Partner Canada Post shares amazing 2013 numbers 

Is it time for you to move on?

Bronto's Jim Davidson pulls responsive design into focus

Part 2 of our 5-part series: Get a Photographer Who Can Tell Stories

Jonny Stewart of Perricone MD and Demetra Pinsent of Charlotte Tilbury share their mobile commerce insights

Members-only sites are proving that customers are willing to put in the extra effort for exclusivity and personalization

Content marketing means connecting with consumers in meaningful ways, but it can still be monetized.

Part 1 of our 5-part series on creating a great brand story for your online store

Boost Valentine’s sales, and save the day for tardy lovebirds

Managing fraud risks is just as crucial as keeping up with current fashion trends

Here’s our take on a handful of the macro trends that gained traction in 2013, and that will have an even greater impact on commerce in 2014

5 things you can do now to improve your search engine rankings

Help your technical team make sure your site is in top running condition

Magento’s ECG identified the top five coding issues, which represent 84% of all performance issues

Magento Partner ShipWorks offers six tips to get ready for the rush.

Magento Industry Partner Shipwire offers three tips on maximizing sales with free shipping

In commerce, change is the norm!

Magento and Bronto team up on a report that takes a deeper look at consumers’ online shopping behaviors 

cloud.IQ has already helped many businesses turn abandoned carts into sales

Learn how to improve conversion through segmentation best practices

How to provide a great mobile shopping experience to enable future growth

Who hasn't been frustrated when visiting a slow web site?

Understand why customers abandon shopping carts and how to motivate them to return

How to get more out of Google Analytics 

It's the perfect time to start leveraging Google Shopping to generate traffic

Magento Enterprise Edition’s growing popularity as an eCommerce solution stems, in part, from its

If you're like the majority of site owners, then you're probably not satisfied with your eCommerc

Right now, omnichannel strategy is something of a buzz-word in eCommerce circles.

My grandfather purchased a new Oldsmobile every three years for most of his adult life.

We've found there are generally two types of merchants: those who understand the importance of design and those who will. Here's a list of some key areas for you to consider when building or upgrading your eCommerce channel.