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Achieving Business Goals With Cloud Hosting

Whether you are just starting your business and building an online store or you are looking to increase business and scale the number of site visitors and customers, the questions and doubts about hosting keep coming in the first place. There are many hosting providers, plans, and options for your website or application, including a shared server, a virtual private server (VPS), a dedicated server and, of course, a cloud solution.

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What Will Be the Highest Months for Internet Sales in 2024?

Small businesses experience sales spikes and valleys throughout the year that are influenced by local events and trends. But there are patterns that pretend to be constant from one year to the next. Using them we can make predictions for dates when specific product sales will peak. Some are obvious and global but others depend on area and businesses selling in particular niches.

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Global Marketing Day Takeaways, Part 1

The 30th of October 2019 a special day for digital marketers of the Globe. This day, a massive online marketing conference was streamed live. The ‘Global Marketing Day’ was organized by the SEMrush company absolutely for free. A peculiarity of this event consisted of bringing together 50+ marketing gurus from the most influencing companies like Google, Microsoft, Canon, Dell, Vodafone, and other world-known names to share their huge experience and knowledge in 15-minutes talks. The show was shot in four cities at once: London, New-York, Sydney, and San-Francisco, and got +48,000 registrants. The range of topics varied from ‘Content that drives revenue’ to ‘Creating a marketing team’! The Simtech Development team couldn’t just pass by an event of such a scale.

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Top 10 eCommerce Marketing Services to Use in 2024

As today’s global networking interface changes, so does the world of eCommerce. With the ever-burgeoning world of various brands and businesses growing every day – whether they are in the business of retail, B2B, B2C, or simple consumer-facing products having an eCommerce platform along with eCommerce marketing services is essential.

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Meet New Mailchimp eCommerce!

Connecting your online store to Mailchimp, you will have access to powerful sales-driving marketing features allowing you to better engage and build relationships with your customers. Driving an increase in customer loyalty & repeat purchases will lead to more sales for your business.

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Setting Up an eCommerce Website: Delivery

Imagine you want a gift delivered to a special date and you don’t have it on time. Aren’t you happy? Think, no. Shipping and delivery are always a headache for an online retailer because it isn’t actually his work share that pertains to the area of control with a third party – delivery company or a courier service. The role of eCommerce entrepreneur here is to find reliable partners and track their performance to give the customer the best experience. In this post, we will give you some insights on how the order fulfillment system can be arranged and what you can gain from setting up your eCommerce business and, particularly, order fulfillment system, properly.

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Three Simple Steps to Rank Higher in Search Results: ‘Ramen’ Startup Example

Search drives modern eCommerce. It is not your marketing campaign, social channel or any other means you use to drive potential buyers to your web page but the good old search bar which is the primary tool of any user to find something relevant. So, while thinking about increasing sales in your online store with the paid ads or connecting shoppable links to your website’s official Instagram channel, consider attracting visitors through a more natural way – organic search.

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How Google Analytics Enhanced eCommerce Can Impact Your Sales?

Google Analytics Enhanced eCommerce is a tool helping you answer the question WHY not only WHO. Alongside with the default functionality of Google Analytics, now you can form more specific reports on shopping behavior. By doing this you will make a huge step towards understanding your customers much better.

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Gen Z and Great Expectations: Interview with New Fashion Brand

As an eCommerce brand owner, you know the importance of staying ahead of shifts in the fast-paced world of eCommerce. And while Millennials have been your primary target audience in recent years, the landscape is again changing with Gen Z now central to retail strategies. Today we will be discussing Generation Z, generation of consumers born between 1995 and 2005: how they want to shop, and what they find irresistible.

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Bestselling eCommerce Plugins as of 2019

What plugin to install? What add-on is useful and what’s not? How to choose?
These questions are absolutely natural for online store owners. After all, this is quite logical: to make money, it would be nice to learn how to spend it correctly. So, how to finally choose that very right service provider for your business? Which apps are needed and are worth attention, and which ones are secondary?
Let’s see what we’ve got there for you.

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How We Create Add-ons: Interview with Developer

This is the second part of the article: How We Create Add-ons. And today we are talking to our veteran programmer Valery Malyshev (he has been with SimtechDev for 7 years) in order to shed even more light on the add-on development process in the company.

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How We Create Add-ons: Interview with Product Manager

Every month our subscribers receive a newsletter notifying us about the release of a new add-on but have you ever wondered how we make add-ons? I’m Kate, a new content marketer in the company and today I will take you behind the scene and guide you through the process of creating an add-on.

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Affiliate Add-on: How to Build Traffic on Your CS-Cart Website

Affiliate marketing is a strategy when external websites or individuals lead traffic to your website and get a commission from sales of their referrals. You can motivate them by paying sales commissions or giving bonus points for the next purchases. According to Business Insider, affiliate marketing accounts for 15% of all digital media revenue and for over 16% of all eCommerce orders in the USA and Canada.

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Surprise Your Customers with Loyalty

Today we’re going to talk about customer loyalty and how to improve it.A close and strong relationship with customers is a fundamental part of your business. Today, the marketplace is incredibly competitive and store owners use various loyalty programs and promotional credits to keep customers coming back. Improving customer loyalty should be a priority for everyone who wants to gain trust and increase sales.

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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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