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The Case for eCommerce CRM for B2C
We think it’s time for a true retail Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform. One system that is the master dataset for all customer related data. This pretty much means almost all data...
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Designing Your Home Page Without a Rotating Banner
There’s a lot of content on the web about why we should ditch homepage sliders, many backing up their position with data from UX testing siting reasons such as: Click through rates are around 1% for...
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5 Critical Site Search Features
Studies show that a poor functioning Site Search feature, is one of the leading complaints customers make about their experience with today’s the top 100 UK and US eCommerce websites. If your an online...
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Why 2014 is The Year for eCommerce
Of course success comes from hard work and dedication, but much of it can also be contributed to being in the right place at the right time. With technology becoming easier to use and market, right now...
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4 Key Takeaways from Retail Council of Canada’s STORE 2014
Last week, the Demac Media team made the trek out to Mississauga, (a suburb of Toronto) to attend Retail Council of Canada’s (RCC) STORE 2014 Conference held at the Toronto Congress Centre. Dubbed as...
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This Week in eCommerce: June 9 – 13
Canada’s eCommerce industry has been growing over the past year, with sales over $135 Billion which is up from $122 Billion last year. But for anything to continue growing and improving, new ideas...
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Ultimate List of Fantastic Free Resources for Designers
This is the Ultimate List of Fantastic Resources (large 1930s voice with echo) that I have collected over the years as an Art Director/Designer to help you speed up your process and improve theme...
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Improve Your Workflow By Creating A Photoshop Panel
In eCommerce, when we design our sites and create user experiences we want to note and test all of our different UX. Once we have optimized and we have our own best practices we want to make sure to...
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6 Front End Developer Secrets Revealed
So what do we know about Front End Developers? Well, we know we have an amazing team of them here at Demac! We also know that our font-end developers are sharp coders and with a great aesthetic eye,...
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Oil Prices, Consumer Spending, and Shipping Rates
“Give me a one handed economist! All of my economists say ‘on the one hand…on the other’” Harry S. Truman, 33rd president of the United States of America Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the...
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301 Redirect Mapping Using Excel Logic for Many URLs
Are you considering re-platforming or switching domains? Both typically bring up one issue that is a cause for concern for Webmasters, that is setting up 301 redirects for a massive amount of URLs....
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App – etizing eCommerce
To quickly start, I have to make a solemn promise to you, my readers. This post will not turn into a rant about buzzwords, though I will start with one. Apps. Apps, apps, apps. There, that’s out of...
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Upcoming Google Algorithm Update: Mobile-Friendly
At this point, it may be considered old news, but there’s an update coming to the Google mobile algorithm with a tentative launch date of April 21st 2015. This update has been a long time coming, as...
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Modern Browser Technology and You
One of the biggest questions out of the mouths of most Front End Developers around the world when asked to do something is, “What’s the browser support for this?” Most of the time the response will...
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Part 1: OroCRM – Tools for Sales
OroCRM has taken on the ambitious task of building both a “traditional” customer relationship management tool (as traditionally found in a B2B sales function), as well as a data repo to drive customer...
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China: eCommerce Beyond The Great Firewall
Nǐ hǎo! I’ve recently returned from the “Middle Kingdom” and took my work with me, in a sense. Everywhere I went eCommerce was in the back of my mind, mostly because I’m passionate about what I do –...
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Designers, Holidays, and Themes, Oh My! A Front-End Guide To A Good Holiday
Winter is coming. And with that, you have dragons, beheadings, and mass uprisings happening. That aside, it also means the holidays are on the way and that means there’s going to be more stories...
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B2B eCommerce: B2B Buying Behavior is Changing Rapidly
Lately I’ve been having a lot of discussions with buyers and merchandising teams inside our retailer customers. One thing is clear, the methods that buyers are using to source new product have...
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Why Sales Forecasting is Important to Your Business
Sales forecasting is an important tool for any growing business, especially if you’re a merchant selling online! There a few primary reason why sales forecasting is important to your business; the main...
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Better, Faster, Stronger eCommerce with Digital Roadmaps
Ever have someone ask you “What’s new and exciting that we should look at”? If you are in any kind of advisory, mentorship or client/vendor relationship then the answer to the above questions is YES....
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