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Concept of APIs, their Usefulness and 23 Interesting Facts [Infographic]

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Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the most used technique of techies today to create a new feature and integrate the system. How about for non-techies? Though it is sort difficult to understand the concept of APIs and their usefulness, especially for non-techies, these bring us great results to expand the functionality of the existing system or application.

In this infographic by Rackspace, it highlights interesting and fun facts about application programming interfaces.

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Filed Under: Ecommerce Tagged With: api, application programming interface, eBay, infographic, rackspace

Survey Result: Magento as the Top e-Commerce Platform

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Tom Robertshaw, a UK Magento developer just released the latest result of his quarterly eCommerce survey. The survey found 35,218 sites in the Alexa Top 1 Million that are doing eCommerce and analyzes which platform is being used.

More Top Merchants Continue To Choose Magento
According to survey, Magento topped the study with a 23% share in the market, as the leading eCommerce software platform. Magento has seen growth in every single edition since the survey began 2 years ago. Zen Cart also shares a big growth to 12.9%. Following these two top platforms are VirtueMart and osCommerce. Moreover, both PrestaShop and OpenCart take a dip in numbers.

Despite of Tom Robertshaw apology for the delay of the released for this edition, we are very thankful for creating this valuable tool. We can now easily choose what eCommerce platform to use and be knowledgeable about the solutions that are available to the market.

Filed Under: Ecommerce Tagged With: alexa, ecommerce platform, Magento Commerce, October 2012 eCommerce Survey, opencart, oscommerce, prestashop, top ecommerce platform, Virtuemart

eBay Gift Guide for Christmas Holiday

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Finally, eBay Holiday Guide 2012 is out. This annual guide which eBay created allows us to see a range of items that you buy as Christmas presents. You can select gifts for Men, Women, Boys, Girls, and Baby, and then filter it by price. If you are stuck on Christmas gift ideas, this can be your easy guide.

Take advantage on the list because the products shown on this guide are all top selling items. eBay spent a lot of time and research to deliver us these products. In terms of product sourcing, you can take a look at the list and think that these products are something we could sell, or look at a niche and see if you can get idea of finding non-branded items.
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Filed Under: Ecommerce Tagged With: 2012 holiday gifts on eBay, christmas gifts for men, Christmas gifts on eBay, eBay Holiday Gift Guide, holiday gift guide, holiday gift ideas on eBay, holiday gifts 2012, holiday gifts for men, holiday gifts for women, holiday gifts on eBay, unique gifts

Hit by Facebook Edgerank? Try these more Easy Facebook Engagement Tips!

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Facebook as one of efficient and effective social media tools is created to engage with your fans.

Most pages find it hard to engage Facebook Fans. How about you?

According to Open Forum‘s infographic, contest can definitely attract fans. Try these tips and let me know how it works for your business.
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Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: Facebook Edgerank, Facebook engagement, Facebook fans, Facebook Tips

How Google Works [Infographic]

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This infographic from PPCBlog shows the Google’s search process, from indexing right on through to search result ranking & delivery.

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Filed Under: Online Marketing Tagged With: google, google index, google search, infographic

Black Friday and Beyond [Infographic]

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For Americans, Black Friday is the ritual start of the holiday season and of the biggest and notable shopping days of the year.

This year’s Black Friday is reigned by popular retail stores like Walmart, Kmart, Target, Sears, and Toys R Us. According to Strangeloop Networks, this infographic highlights the behavior of online shoppers on how they spend their money to these great deals along with some interesting stats on tablet shopping and the negative effect of slow site loading that contributes to cart abandonment.

Browse this infographic and see the result of the online shopping holiday both physically and virtually.
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Filed Under: Ecommerce Tagged With: black friday, black friday 2012, black friday deals, infographic black friday, infographic deals, online shopping

The Influence of Likes to Consumer Experience [Infographic]

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The massive effect of social media and its growth brings great impact to brands. Companies are looking to find more ways to define the ROI of social media. I remembered someone asked me the ROI of social media. At first I believe you cannot determine unless you will measure it using premium tools available in the Internet. The concept of “liking” has definitely evolved over time and its worth is often debated. Many doubt if social media would bring savings on the traditional advertising costs or sales.

This infographic from Lab42 highlights their findings about brand’s Facebook page.

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Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: brands, brands customer, facebook brands, facebook customers, Facebook likes, fb, likes influence customers, liking

How to Use Quora for e-Commerce and to Improve Sales

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While Quora might not hold the same popularity with other social media sites like twitter and FaceBook, Quora is becoming interesting. Knowledge is everywhere, thanks to the Internet.  What you see with Twitter is what you can also see with Quora.
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Filed Under: Ecommerce Tagged With: e-Commerce, eBay, how to use quora, online selling, Quora, quora for e-commerce, quora for ecommerce, social media

Zendesk and Magento Team Up to Deliver CRM Platform for e-Commerce Businesses

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magento zendesk crm integration for e-commerce

 

Zendesk, a proven cloud-based customer service software provider has announced a new team up with Magento, an e-Commerce platform created by eBay.

The partnership has simple agreement that clients can now use Zendesk customer service channels to their Magento powered sites.

A simple configurator will allow customers to setup and run customer service capabilities in a matter of seconds. This will also allow Zendesk customer service employees to access consumer data seamlessly.

The system is a two-way integration meaning customer service employees can stay with the platform while interacting to all customers.

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Filed Under: Ecommerce Tagged With: CRM platform, customer service platform, e-commerce business, e-commerce platform, Magento, online marketplace, Zendesk, zendesk and magento partnership

Quick Guide in Getting your Business to Pinterest

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Pinterest for businesses

Let us first get you what Pinterest say about their latest big hit feature.

“Thousands of businesses have become a part of our community, giving great ideas, content, and inspiration to people on Pinterest. Whether, it’s Anthropologie sharing awesome clothes, Whole Foods sharing tasty recipes, the Smithsonian sharing fascinating collections, or Amazon making products easy to pin, many of us have become inspired on Pinterest by businesses.”

– Pinterest on Business Pages

When creating your Pinterest Business Account, please make sure that it won’t differ to your personal pages in terms of design, branding, and content delivering. It won’t take minutes when converting your current Pinterest account into a business account.

Get your coffee ready, and we will start now the conversion and setup.

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Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: pin it button, pinterest business accounts, pinterest buttons, Pinterest for business, pinterest pinning, pinterest widgets

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