How do you know when to consider WooCommerce over Shopify as the best option? There are a ton of articles that highlight the deep comparisons between these two different platforms. If you haven’t read any of them, I’ll link to some of my favorites toward the bottom of this post. But the point of this […]

It was easy. It was fast. So fast they were able to get their store launched in three days. That was the beginning of Ghost Wares, a pottery company named in honor of the pottery scene, featuring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, from the 1990 movie, “Ghost.”   If you’re going to get started quickly […]

In 2016, Magento commissioned FitForCommerce to do a study of the total cost of Magento 2 Enterprise hosting projects. FitForCommerce interviewed close to twenty companies and Magento partners about how much these projects cost, the amount of time to complete, and which factors impacted the schedule and cost, and which didn’t. Their findings are available […]

Announcing Partnership with Glew, the Leader in eCommerce Analytics and Business Intelligence, to Deliver the Industry’s First Platform Dedicated to WooCommerce Stores Nexcess, the market leader in managed hosting and managed application services to SMBs and web professionals, has partnered with Glew, the leader in eCommerce Analytics and Business Intelligence, to bring advanced analytics to […]

When we’re talking about open source eCommerce platforms, some are hosted for you – like Shopify, BigCommerce, and Squarespace – and others you must find a host yourself. But there’s another dynamic to consider when talking about an open source eCommerce platform. It’s the question of license. In this article, we’ll look at the open […]

A look at SaaS Landing Page Apps  Most digital marketing campaigns these days use landing pages. Whether you are running PPC or social media advertisements, landing pages are a great tool to direct customers to purchase or download something. You might even use landing pages for specific sponsorships of podcasts or events. While landing pages […]

Backing up is something people know they should do, but put off until some unspecified day in the future. It never seems urgent and there’s always something more pressing to do. At least, that’s true until the moment disaster strikes and you kick yourself for not backing up sooner.

Online advertising is a multi-billion dollar industry that places hundreds of millions of adverts on tens of millions of web pages every day. For good and for bad, advertising is the engine of the online economy, but few consumers are aware of the incredible complexity of the system that chooses which adverts they see. That […]

Jeff Bezos is the richest person who has ever lived, according to some sources. While that claim should be taken with a pinch of salt – Bill Gates was richer in real terms before he gave a big chunk of his wealth away – Bezos is certainly the richest person in the world today. That […]

Fraud has always been a problem for online retailers, but since the introduction of more secure credit cards in the last few years, much offline retail fraud has moved online. Magento retailers can’t afford to ignore the ever-present risk of fraud, whether it’s the dedicated efforts of criminals gangs with stolen identities or the less […]