You might notice that our blog is a seminal combination of promotional content and news. Here you’ll find all the latest news revolving around all things E-Commerce, including Magento and Netsuite. We have posts about clients that you might also see in our ‘Clients and Work’ section, but everything that was newsworthy in the past has been categorized here for your reading enjoyment.
Since Magento is a relatively new system, tons of techies around the Web will have things to say about it. One of the reasons why modern news is so exciting is because of the sheer velocity that it can be presented. You’ll notice that in our blogs we always like to stay on top of things in terms of all the latest tech and e-commerce news that’s constantly being released.
We’re also eager to report all the bitty news, ie. the random bits of information scattered around that’s loosely related to e-commerce, but might be more fun to read as enjoyment pieces.
As with other categories on our blog, we like to keep all of our content as diversified as we possibly can, while still keeping it relevant to Magento and e-commerce. The convenience of having all of these blog posts listed under one category means you can have faster access to tech-related news whenever you need it.
At Hara Partners we’re always ready to notify our readers of the latest Magento news—and in terms of e-commerce, there’s always plenty to offer. Magento’s always releasing updates for their software, which is always a good thing for Magenticians such as ourselves to keep track of.
If there are any news that you think is worth our attention, please don’t hesitate to contact us with a message and a news link, and we’ll be sure to put it on our blog as soon as we’re good and ready.
The way you start your morning has a huge impact on the way your whole day proceeds. Just like it is believed that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, the same way your morning routine is very important to kick-start your day in the right way. Therefore you need to realize that special attention and focus is required to get rid of bad habits such as procrastination, lagging, and laziness.
It is very easy to perform and implement security thefts by ourselves and keeping this in view the retailers tend to take care of this job themselves without hiring any professional and external help. This is the reason why most of the retailers even fail to realize the fact that they are being a victim of conversion theft.
With Adobe acquisition, the Magento’s future is raising with a lot of questions. Naturally, the Magento merchants are wondering whether the Adobe is providing the open source. It is a fact; the whole process will remain free. The same question arises when the eBay are purchasing the Magento in the year of 2010, and after that, it was sold in 2015.
Recently, WordPress has removed their insecure plugin which is developed by the platform of e-commerce. Nearby 20,000 WordPress installation has been uploaded by the plugin before deleted from the repository. There are no longer for download the Plugin and more than thousands of installations are available. If you don’t have a plugin you can download the Installation of WordPress easily.
WooCommerce is a very useful open-source plugin on WordPress. Today, every online business preferred only WooCommerce for the e-commerce sites. It’s an extremely familiar term rather than others. Now, it turns to the most preferable and platform which has all the things and can run easily throughout the world.
Today, the Dropshipping business has to gain a lot of popularity. A lot of people start the business of Dropshipping globally, and easily run without any issue, just for saying thanks to the WooCommerce platform. Before talking deeply, first, you need to know about the actual meaning of Dropshipping.
E-Commerce takes hit from wage increase. One report states that warehouses with 500 or more workers may see an annual rise in labor cost by $1 million or more. This news might sound alarming to people who rely on cheap labor to keep their small business afloat. Also with the growth of the e-commerce industry it has made these companies move their warehouses and distribution centers closer to larger metropolitan areas.
With cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle all raising their minimum wage far beyond the federal minimum wage of $7.25 it is likely that many businesses will have to find a way to cut costs. Sometimes this will mean to lay off huge numbers of their workforce and downsize using automation.
“E-commerce and other businesses that are tied to these dense locations will see the greatest impacts” according to Spencer Levy, CBRE’s head of research in the Americas.
However, e-commerce companies should not worry that much because the average warehouse worker make an average of $12 an hour which is well above the minimum wage in most states. So e-commerce and other industries can breath a sigh of relief.
According to the Wall Street Journal, most e-commerce business costs are in transportation, about 50%, and labor costs are only 20% of the budget of these companies. Also these companies have cut much of their labor cost by using automated computer systems, so their running on a bare bones business structure. So if you are worried about your e-commerce company up and moving you can relax, if you have a job with an e-commerce company it is likely that they need you to do a job for them.
So apparently the e-commerce industry will continue to grow for a while as some states are raising their minimum wage, while others have no plans to. It really doesn’t matter much to these companies.
3 E-Commerce startups in New York City everyone should keep there eyes on. There has been some talk of New York City has been lagging behind Silicon Valley in the tech industry, but these startups prove that this is just talk. After all, the reason people are saying these things about New York is because it has a lot of startups that don’t make it. Whereas, in Silicon Valley they had startups like Google and others that shot right to the top. But in New York no marketing firm in their right mind will give a startup a lot of money. This makes financial and economic sense but, it might be too conservative to have something like Google happen. However, here are some startups located in New York that have promise.
Upworthy is a startup that started a little over a year ago in New York City. The website’s mission statement is to make web content that matters go viral. The website is focused on empowering important content on the web.
The Muse started in 2011, so it is only five years old, but has made a huge splash. The starters of this startup were three women who decided to start their own career development site. They started it because they were sick and tired of sites like Monster and others which they believed were agonizing sites to find anything on. SInce its launch, The Muse has help over 2 million people find a job. They were successful by asking the question, “What do I want to do with my Life.”
Buzzfeed is a startup from New York. I was surprised too. It is hard to believe that Buzzfeed was once a startup since it has blown up into a major social media website.I mean on Facebook Buzzfeed has almost 16 million likes.
The Magento News Module by Commerce lab is a free module which allows you to display fully-fledged news on your website.
The module has a number of flexible tuning options including the option to create categories, add comments to each news item, add pictures to news and a lot more.
What’s more, this extension can be used as a blog on your own website. The Magento News Extension will help you make your store more interactive and will keep visitors cognizant of the latest business updates, developments and achievments.
An additional value to the extension is integration with social networks like Google+, Facebook and Twitter. Additionally, you can even upgrade the module to the Great News Module, an upgraded version which features more flexibility and customization possibilities.
News Magento Extension Key Features:
Groupon has recently announced that they are releasing a new travel discovery app called Groupon Getaways, which will grant users access to more than 25,000 deals in destinations all around the world.
The Getaways team in Seattle is responsible for the app that has been in development for roughly a year. Groupon’s acquisition of European travel app Blink in September 2013 played a key role in its development, with Blink bringing in significant mobile and travel expertise to the company.
In addition to Getaways, Groupon’s Seattle hub also works on computational marketing and other parts of Groupon engineering.
“The teams in Seattle are contributing to the evolution of Groupon, and in turn helping to shape and grow our mobile e-commerce marketplace,” said Groupon spokesman Nicholas Halliwell, in an email.
The app also features same-day bookings with mobile-only deals on hotels nearby with immediate availability.
Users of the Getaway app that pick hotels in destinations selected by Groupon get five percent of the price back in the company’s imaginatively titled reward points, Groupon Bucks.
When the company first added a presence in Seattle in August 2012 it had a few more than 20 employees at its offices at 505 Union Station. Groupon now occupies the second, third and sixth floors of the building with more than 200 employees.
“We’re looking to grow by about another 40 to 50 percent,” Halliwell said. “We’ve found Seattle to be a great market for us to locate and grow these important Groupon functions because of the depth of available engineering talent and the entrepreneurial culture of the city.”
Getaways lets you browse by theme and select to search for deals in a specific area on the map to see hotel offers within 30 miles. You’ll also get access to 60 percent off flash deals on hotels and holiday packages.
The app will be available for the iPhone and Android in the US and Canada.