Ecommerce

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Multiple Stores with Magento

Posted on March 10, 2011 by in Ecommerce

In the last 2 months we have built 2 ecommerce websites using the Magento Commerce platform. Magento is certainly generating some interest around the place at the moment. It’s a pretty sophisticated platform considering it’s a relatively new, open source and freely available system. One of the really cool features is it has the ability to set up multiple ecommerce stores all from the one back-end.

In this post we will go through a Magento site we just finished, Discount Deals which is powering both the Discount Deals site and secondary sites – Remote Controlled Helicopter and Wooden Balance Bike all from the admin section of the Discount Deals site. Read More…

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Discount Deals launches with 9.5k visits in week 1

Posted on February 11, 2011 by in Ecommerce, SEO and Traffic, Website examples

Last week I launched my own ecommerce site, Discount Deals and some of the results have been very encouraging. We have had almost 10,000 people to the site in 8 days. We haven’t advertised anywhere (no pay per click) and we haven’t done any SEO. We’ve done it by spending around $400 and providing more than $400 worth of value to people in the process (as opposed to advertising which provides none). This post will detail what we have done and the results of what we have achieved in 1 week.

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Magento Outline – What to know before logging in

Posted on February 1, 2011 by in Ecommerce, Website Design

Magento is a full featured ecommerce system which comes in both a commercial and open source version. It gives website owners many tools to manage a robust store and then gives them more.

Magento is one of the only ecommerce platforms that allows for multi-store integration with the ability to run a number of different ecommerce websites from within the one interface meanwhile configuring each of them in their own way.

It also has a number of other advanced features when compared with other open source carts. This outline covers some of the basics.

View the Magento Outline.

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eCommerce Payment Gateway Options

Posted on September 28, 2010 by in Ecommerce, Misc

We have been building stacks of ecommerce (online shopping) sites lately and I often get asked about the options for taking payment. This post will hopefully provide a good overview of the main considerations for taking payment online.

Manual Methods

The first consideration is automatic vs manual. If you are dealing with high cost low transaction products this won’t be your biggest concern. However some businesses that are based on high volume low cost products (think Ebay sellers or electronic stores etc) wouldn’t survive if they had to manually take payments to automated is a must. The 3 main options used here are:

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