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Top 10 eCommerce Books as of 2k19

How to head the top 10, 100, 200 or 500 of businessmen? – Right, invest your time in reading! To be the top, read the top! We’ve scouted 11 expert opinions and reputable websites to find out the best of the top for eCommerce literature.

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The Best eCommerce Platform
The Best eCommerce Platform Does Not Exist?

Multi-channel, omnichannel, cross-device. The eCommerce has become too complicated and outgrew any existing platform capabilities. The businesses need to knit together several solutions in one infrastructure which any eCommerce platform just incapable to provide. The main value left for platforms as of today – to become a business dashboard, a control center, a management tool for cross-platform eCommerce. Sounds contradicting from the first glance, but let’s sort things out.

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Localization in Russia: How to Speak the Same Language with Your Customers?

Knowledge of the language is the key, but not the only thing you should be aware of before walking into a terra incognita. Culture and social life, legal norms, and financial issues – these are the fundamental stones to build a strong business in a specific locality. What you not to miss out and what to focus on primarily? Let’s study the case of Russia.

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3 Reasons To Leave Your Current eCommerce Platform
3 Reasons To Leave Your Current eCommerce Platform (or any other)

Working in eCommerce development field for 15 years with numerous solutions we came to the conclusion that the perfect platform for selling online just doesn’t exist. Each of hundreds of them has gaps that generate negative reviews here and there on the Internet. We have scanned the Web to find some and give you another reason to search for a better solution or (finally) settle down with the current one understanding that the next migration won’t bring you a piece of mind. Our research is based on public reviews.

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Leaving Magento: The Alternative To Unsupported (almost) Magento 1

Magento 1 is coming to the end of life. This is a matter of one year it will stop being supported. Magento merchants are offered the option to upgrade to Magento 2, but this will increase the cost of the ownership of the business for them. We offer an alternative solution which will provide the same level of freedom with customization and management with the ability to evolve from an online store to a multi-seller platform. CS-Cart – cloud-hosted, it provides performance, security, and scalability. All of that and much more come for the lower price compared with Magento. Let’s sort thing out.

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How To Speak The Same Language with the Middle East

MENA or the Middle East and North Africa region includes 22 countries. It becomes more and more lucrative for digital retailing during the last decade having the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt as leaders in online retail. PayFort indicates that this market would grow to USD 69 billion by 2020, and Statista underlines that the overall growth across the region would be at a CAGR of 11% in the next five years (2018-2023).

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Key Signs of an Effective Team to Win Competitors

In eCommerce, integrating with cutting-edge technologies is mutually fruitful for vendors and customers. Both of them get boundless opportunities to deal with each other as high distances and time frames no longer separate them. But, regardless of the emerged close connection, vendors forget about one thing: everything gets older with the time. Someday, a website won’t be able to handle growing customer orders. They will have to think over a professional development approach.

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The Ultimate Cloud Hosting Solution For Multi-Vendor Marketplace Business
The Ultimate Cloud Hosting Solution For Multi-Vendor Marketplace Business

Hosting different eCommerce platforms requires a different approach. Some need more resources, some come complicated infrastructure. The same goes for CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor. In most cases, regular hosting solutions will work for both platforms, but we hate “regular” here at Simtech Development. So we created a unique high-performance and business-oriented hosting solution for Multi-Vendor businesses.

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How To Make A Media Plan For An Online Store The Right Way

The main task of advertising is not only to make a creative picture or an interesting text but to effectively influence potential clients to convince them of the need to buy your product. Efficiency means having a clear plan based on analyzing data about the product, audience, and competitors. This is what creating a media plan is all about.

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New Loyalty Program Release

Today we are launching a new Loyalty Program for all add-on users. Make a $1,000 one-time purchase with add-ons and get 15% off the order. Visit our blog for more details.

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Simtech Development Exposed: Honest Reviews

We love what we do. And we love it, even more, when you love it. Our customers are a true gold mine of inspiration, ideas and pure emotions – not always positive, but consistently very rich and deep. eCommerce projects are very lively and dynamic. Every day the industry reveals new technologies and methodologies. Our clients are technically mature and follow the trends. They require, sometimes demand from us to implement the latest features and stay ahead of their expectations. Sometimes we win, sometimes we fail – that’s the part of the game. But each fail gives us a foot rub to change, develop and grow.
In this article, we’ve gathered some positive reviews that lend us with wings, and some negative, that doused us with a cold shower. All taken from CS-Cart Marketplace.

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Sporting Goods Vendors and Manufacturers for Your Shop

Health consciousness became more than just a word relating to aerobics from the 70s. The mainstream of these days is all about smart technologies embedded into sportswear and equipment: smart glasses, watches, hearables, fitness trackers and even smart jewelry are of the common use. Grown on Avengers and other comics, adults from 27 to 37 y.o. are now ready to become heroes by themselves. A study made in Mexico in 2015 showed that 41 portable sports apparel is owned by a person on average. So, it is not by chance that athleisure and wearables/hearables are so popular presently. Sports are coming into everyday life and this is a good trend that can bring money for an eCommerce project.

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Auto-Scaling For CS-Cart In AWS Infrastructure
Auto-Scaling For CS-Cart In AWS Infrastructure

We have created a reliable solution for safe and fast auto-scaling for projects based on CS-Cart. It is implemented using AWS resources and services. We monitor the resources and can quickly scale them to ensure optimal performance of your online store at the lowest possible cost.

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