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How to collect feedback
How to Handle Feedback from Customers for an eCommerce site

Negative reviews can ruin your business. Or make you stronger! Bad or good, any review is a sign of interest to your product or service. You can use the information received to make changes, motivate personnel, or increase loyalty with existing customers. In our new post, read how to collect, process, and analyze customer reviews to change your business for the better.

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How to draw up functional and business requirements for an eCommerce site?
How to Draw Up Functional and Business Requirements for an eCommerce Website

Well-defined requirement is half-way towards a well-done job. It is clear as day. But when it comes to real life it all gets confusing. How to collect requirements right? How detailed should they be? Who will be engaged in collecting them? In this post we will share how to form requirements for website customization to get what you expect. The post is rich with examples and real cases!

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FoodTech Ecommerce Trends
FoodTech eCommerce Trends for 2025

Foodtech is penetrating the food and beverages industry transforming the way we consume. To sustain competition, companies should apply its principles into their existing businesses. Let’s examine what are these principles and what awaits the food industry in 2023.

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Reasons to Upgrade PHP Version
4 Reasons to Upgrade Your PHP Version

PHP 7.3 is no longer supported. Starting from December 2021, the latest supported version is 7.4. For CS-Cart users, it implies the need to upgrade their websites’ PHP version to the least supported version to secure their businesses from threats accumulated by older versions. What are these threats? We’ll share them in this post!

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Reasons to Outsource IT Team
10 Reasons to Outsource Development Team For eCommerce Projects

Executives all over the world are pondering over what part of their business to outsource and what to keep in-house. They ask themselves only one question: “Does that provide me a cost advantage?”

If only a decision was that simple.

Obviously, outsourcing provides a cost benefit. But a vast majority of businesses don’t even guess what other benefits they can receive from outsourcing other than cost saving. In this post we explore those top 10 reasons for outsourcing that are better than cost benefits.

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24 Free Marketing Tools for Website Owners
26 Free Marketing Tools for Website Owners

We’ve collected free marketing tools so that you could promote your brand online even without an in-house marketer in your team. The collection of tools includes services for web and mobile analytics, and content creation. We also indicated limitations of free plans. Check the post to find out how you can market your business yourself.

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CS-Cart as the best platform for marketplaces
CS-Cart as the Best Platform for Creating a Marketplace

In this article, we share the basic features of the CS-Cart platform for marketplaces. You will get to know why the latest redactions of Multi-Vendor perfectly fit the marketplace business model. Knowing the fundamentals, you now know how you can fine-tune the platform for your needs!

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How to edit categories in CS-Cart
How to Add and Edit Categories in CS-Cart

With the proper organized inventory, your customer can easily find the product he or she wants. Vendors can assign their items so that you could have your menu helpful in terms of product search and navigation. Knowing how to work with categories is basic for store owners. This is a concise guide with screenshots to help you organize categories in your CS-Cart and/or Multi-Vendor store.

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Content for Social Media
How to Adapt Content for Different Social Media?

Most brands save on community management by posting absolutely mirror-like content across all brand social media. More advanced marketers change the image format so that it seems visually more organic to a specific social media platform. The most far-sighted reduce the number of sites on which they work, but they treat each social community as carefully as possible, developing and adapting the content not only to the requirements of these platforms, but also taking into account the expectations of users of a particular network.

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7 Concerns About SEO Online Store Owners Should Be Aware Of
7 Concerns About SEO eCommerce Website Owners Should Be Aware Of

SEO will work effectively if you focus on optimizing the user experience during search engine optimization. The results won’t be visible right away, but eventually your site will rank better in search and you’ll get organic traffic.
In this post we’ll share some myths and concerns about SEO that you should know about to better implement and optimize your site.

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Why Do Customers Not Respond to Your Special Offers and Promos?
Why Do Customers Not Respond to Your Special Offers and Promos

This time let’s talk about promotions in online stores and marketplaces.
Our customers, digital entrepreneurs, often ask our advice about increasing sales.
They’ve already tried all marketing techniques to increase the Average Order Value:
Applied all up-, cross-, and downselling techniques to promote products and services to the existing customers
Loyalty program is on…
Product Bundles have been introduced…
It seems like marketing does not help in driving more sales. So, you come to us to obtain a solution capable of reignite sales.
Is there an approach that is fast and easy to implement? In our new article we unveil some secret, not obvious methods to make your special offer work for you and your budget.

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Dark Patterns and How They Manipulate Users

All is fair in love and war. But eCommerce is not that case. When promoting an item or service, you need to be careful with aggressive methods of advertising. Here, we’ve gathered the worst examples of promoting your business online.

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ECommerce Site Architecture
Things to Consider While Designing an eCommerce Site Architecture

Have you ever visited a large department store a week after Christmas? This is absolute chaos. There are piles of clothes everywhere; tags are missing; mess of sizes; departments are mixed with each other. There is zero sense of organization in general. This is what your site would look like without a website architecture. But what is site architecture and why is it so important?

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Top 10 Tools to Increase Conversion of Your Online Store or Marketplace

The conversion rate of websites averages around 2-3 percent. It means that for every 100 visitors, you can expect to get only 2 clients. And honestly, that’s a pretty good conversion rate.
Many sites have conversion rates between 0.1 and 0.2%. To get 1 customer, you will need 1,000 visitors.

How to improve conversion, attract more customers with existing traffic? We share 10 effective tools for boosting conversions.

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