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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.

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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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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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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