M Ryan is an ecommerce consultant with twenty years experience working with retailers, consumer brand manufacturers and other consumer-facing businesses helping them to develop their ecommerce strategy, implement ecommerce technology and improve their ecommerce operations. He works extensively throughout US and Europe, with clients including global brands, large retailers and household names in consumer goods.
September 14th, 2020. Dutch cyber-security services firm, Saguine Security ("Sansec"), based in Utrecht, reported that almost 2,000 Magento ecommerce stores were hacked over the weekend between Friday Sep 11th and Monday Sep 14th. The stores were running the, now end of life, version 1 of…
Continue reading...Magento v2 is software used to build and operate ecommerce stores. It is provided in three versions: To illustrate how to calculate the cost of running a Magento ecommerce store, this article describes sites at two levels of revenue, $100,000 and $5,000,000 per year. For…
Continue reading...Shopify is a software product, sold as a monthly subscription by a public Canadian company of the same name, that enables its customers to create and operate ecommerce stores. Its more than 820,000 customers pay a subscription to Shopify which enables them to login through…
Continue reading...September 10th, 2020. Elastic Path announced the appointment of Riccardo La Rosa as SVP Engineering and Operations, moving from a role as VP Cloud Engineering with Acquia the content management system vendor and digital marketing services provider. The announcement comes just days after Jamus Driscoll…
Continue reading...September 9th, 2020. VTEX, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, announced it has been selected by bisco industries (electronic components and fasteners serving customers in aerospace, electronics and hi-tech sectors) as its new B2B ecommerce platform and this is live for both B2B and…
Continue reading...September 9th, 2020. BigCommerce reported its Q2 results today, with revenue up 33% compared to 2019 at $36.3m, with a GAAP loss of ($7.4m) compared to ($10.4m) in the same period last year. It reported 9,378 customers (up 7% compared to 2019) are now paying…
Continue reading...September 9th, 2020. Episerver, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has announced that Benefit Cosmetics relaunched their ecommerce stores globally on its Episerver Commerce Cloud platform. Benefit operates 42 country websites with language variations available in some of these. While not every country is…
Continue reading...Faceted search (or faceted navigation) is a mechanism where website visitors narrow a list of search results by selecting the features of the results they are interested in. In an ecommerce website, faceted search options are shown on the search results page or while browsing…
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