Author Archives: Karen

Commerce is Changing – Hold On

We sit here on the eve of the 5th Magento Imagine conference, the Wynn awaits us, and 4-5 days of information, networking, partying, and most likely a little chaos.   But as we anticipate what is probably the best eCommerce event on the calendar I can see that the landscape has changed, and I believe […]

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Taking Advantage – Magento Imagine

Years ago, in my experience, IT professionals were not a particularly sociable bunch. I recall once attending an work IT event  in London and remarking to a female colleague friend that we should have done a degree in Marketing as I’m sure it would have been a lot more fun! But things change, geek is […]

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eBay to Sell/IPO eBay Enterprise & Magento

This is big news. Back in 2011 Magento was acquired by eBay for over $180 million. Now, after pretty much floundering around with it for 3 years eBay is going to cast it out for either full/partial acquisition or listing on the stock exchange (IPO). Not just that, but eBay Enterprise (formerly GSI) is also […]

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Magento 2 – The Roadmap in Merchant Language

We have been getting a lot of calls from Merchants who are confused by the timings around Magento 2, so I’ve decided to put together this blog. To be clear, this is the WebShopApps perspective and is not the official source of information.  If you want greater detail then go take a look at Magento’s […]

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Dimensional Shipping – Part 2 – The Solution

Does Dimensional Shipping Affect Me? Firstly, we would encourage you to read Part 1 on Dimensional Shipping so you have a base understanding of it. January is looming and it’s clear from our phone calls and enquiries, plus the articles such as that from Internet Retailer this week, that merchants are worried about Dimensional Shipping. Dimensional […]

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Dimensional Shipping – Part 1 Introduction

What is Dimensional Weight? Dimensional Weight is the calculation of the weight of goods in terms of their dimensions.  The length, width, height of a package is used to give a volume, then this is usually increased by a multiplier to give a dimensional weight. For example we may have an item that is Length 25inches, […]

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Magento Connect is a Fraud

High Level Summary Let me make this simple. Connect is screwed. There endeth the conversation. Well I knew this back in 2012 and a great many developers/agencies/merchant know this also. What we probably don’t take into account so much is this: Merchants still use it Developers/Companies are manipulating Connect to their own financial advantage The […]

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A young Engineer

I’ve always been a fan of training up staff. When I used to work at Reuters I’d say this was my favourite secret job. To have a young person come in new to this great profession and be able to watch them grow and spread their wings, well its just a fantastic thing to watch. […]

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Magento – Where are we now?

The Presentation So a couple of days ago I trounced up on stage and gave a presentation around extensions at Meet Magento NY. I hope it was a balanced presentation where I highlighted issues with the Connect Marketplace, but also aired my strong opinion that Magento is the platform of choice for design agencies, developers […]

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Magento Live UK 2014 – The Best Yet?

And so once again Magento hits London for the annual Magento Live event, this time in the summer, just barely a couple of months after Imagine.  I was talking to one guy and eventually we figured out that it was 3 years back in 2011 when the first Live event happened, with a view of […]

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