Eric sent an email to our Elias team earlier today with a few observations that are worth sharing about Magento: Magento hit its 500,000th download about 3 weeks ago A couple months ago there were usually about 300 people on average at any given point signed in to Magento’s website. … Continue Reading
Building relationships with clients and co-workers is extremely valuable to us at Elias. Since most of our work is done virtually I thought I’d make it personal by giving you a visual of a recent Magento strategy session: We’ve learned that a number of our clients have been burned by … Continue Reading
About: How To Reset Test Orders, Dashboard Information, and Set Unique Starting Values for Orders, Invoices, Shipments, and Credit Memos Who’s Interested: Informative to the technical gurus What: Plug ‘n Play Database Script that runs queries to customize after store is installed and product(s) have been created Magento Version Relevence: … Continue Reading
Here is a clever follow up to my previous post on focus. SOA NOW created a funny microsite to communicate to technology professionals that they “get it.” The campaign stars “Greg the Architect.” Here is the description of the episode entitled “Focus Pocus”: Greg is concerned that the SOA … Continue Reading
You have decided to create or update your own online store. Great. Now, how do you translate your hard work and tools like Magento into profits? Technology will amplify and accelerate a winning strategy, but first you must have a focused strategy to become number 1. …focus is difficult to … Continue Reading
Last week I wrote a post about the main factor for decline or growth during the Great Depression – advertising. Here is a related quote from today’s AMA newsletter: The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time. – Thomas … Continue Reading
We recently completed a Magento project for Route29.com. They sell candy online using a Magento store and were in need of our development services on a tight timeframe. We were responsible for building out the design they supplied and some customization to meet their unique needs. Visit their site, check … Continue Reading
Google released new analytics functionality yesterday. Check out the custom reporting capability (demo video below)! They have 80-90 preconfigured reports for various metrics (adwords performance, ecommerce, etc…). These reports will make a fantastic suppliment to Magento’s existing integration with Google analytics. more about “Google Soups Up Analytics Features – …“, … Continue Reading
The media says that the economy is in a recession. Ok. So now what? Someone told me the other day that Jewish people have a concept of “backing into the future.” No one can fully predict what will happen next, but we can look at history to learn what might … Continue Reading
While Magento continues to build a loyal following, we here at Elias think that it has just scratched the surface. We have worked with a number of early adopters who want a great online ecommerce management system, but larger enterprise clients have yet to join the movement. This got our … Continue Reading