Recent content by magento-advisory-board-uk

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    Merchant account for a non-UK company

    What are your 4 products?
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    ZenCart in UK?

    I would not say Zen is all that bad, but its just not got the same out of the box functionality or compatibility with 3rd party developers as Magento. Also there are a lot of inexpensive responsive themes with Magento, not sure about Zen, equally with innovations such as social loyalty...
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    Food Ecommerce

    Hey Manchester based person, I was born in Bolton hospital and love the UK and all our clients are there, but really cant stand to live in England anymore unfortunately. If you want any advice about relocating to the 2nd safest country in the world to live, please get in touch. I would...
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    Food Ecommerce

    Are you a food or drink producer who would like to have a state of the art eCommerce website?
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    Ecommerce platform dilema, which out of these 4 options.

    A good example of this, is the number of mobile usability modules available. Whichever platform you chose, you HAVE to be able to process mobile device users these days... including tablets, minitablets, large smartphones and standard smartphones. If you dont, your competitors who do, will...
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    Conversion rates

    Does your website break out on different devices screensizes / rotations?
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    Advice Needed For E-commerce Newbie!!!

    I dont see it as critical, just something which needs to be planned for and learned.
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    Advice Needed For E-commerce Newbie!!!

    I agree with you about the importance of a not having a badly developed store under insufficient shared hostings. This is why GO is so good, since the store owner does not need to worry about these things. Once they outgrow Magento GO, moving to CE or EE is an investment, which by then they...
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    Advice Needed For E-commerce Newbie!!!

    I agree you need to think about Magento as an investment.
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    Advice Needed For E-commerce Newbie!!!

    Do not confuse the importance of the learning curve with the user friendly interfaces for admin with usability in the front end. Magento sites tend to convert sales the best, which should be the main factor in selecting your platform
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    Restablishing the Business Potential of a Mature eCommerce Site

    Do your visitors load your website in their mobile device and see straight-away it would be hard to use? If so, not only do you miss this opportunity, but chances are they ain't coming back in a hurry! Since they now have a relationship with one of your competitors. WHAT TO DO? We...
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    Advice Needed For E-commerce Newbie!!!

    But with GO, anyone can afford it....
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    Advice Needed For E-commerce Newbie!!!

    Probably nearly 2 year old, but the Magento platform itself is 5 year old. You can do a free trial anyway to see if it works for you. I would be happy to give any Magento based advice to you, but I dont know about the other systems... I put all my eggs in one basket and just focus on the...
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    Plastering company - Word of mouth vs Reputation

    It gives a memorable Call to Action and removes the focus of the uncontrol away from the plastering workers team and onto the client, (who can presumable enjoy a glass while the plastering is being done)
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    Need live Chat Software

    Have you tried NanoRep? I dont have any experience of it yet, but the ads look appealing.... Plus they have a free trial, so you can test it, measure if your conversions go up and then work out if it gives value for money for your site by generating a reasonable ROI.