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  We’re lucky to have a chance to learn from mistakes of others, and lucky to have someone willing to share their experience. Today our guest is Patrick Gerrits, a former owner of the best rated e-commerce store in the Netherlands, who has graciously agreed to tell a story of his striking success and bitter failure. Currently developing e-Commerce courses for other entrepreneurs, Patrick speaks on the importance of customer service, and why you shouldn’t start a business with money in mind. Please, enjoy! Q: So, Patrick, how did your first sale took place? The first sale we had on our first online store was a from a customer that we did not know, we did not know where he came from. He ordered a computer game, and the next sale took us a week. Q: On your Udemy profile you write that after having an amazing success (over 1 million sales in the first year!), your e-store got completely bankrupt at one point. How did that feel? And, what’s more important, why did that happen? That felt...

  It’s the end of July, middle of the summer out there - time to prepare your online retailer for the influx of rested shoppers, and check the new edition of Cart2Cart’s fascinating e-Commerce digest. As usually, we’ve browsed through hundreds of last month’s posts to pick the best for your entertainment. I guess that’s our way of saying “we’ve missed you”, and “come back from vacations asap”. So, here are the top July articles from top e-Commerce blogs. 10 Local SEO Tools for Small Businesses Despite the easy but costly choice of using Adwords, many online shop owners decide, quite nobly, to get high search engine results organically, through SEO. Nevertheless, SEO has many faces, like global or local optimization, and each of them requires a different approach. Today, with the help of Pratical Ecommerce’s article, we’ll acquaint you with tools helpful for the local one. So, sit tight and enjoy! 5 Things All Entrepreneurs Learn the Hard Way (But You Don't Have To) Have you ever dr...

  Hello our dear readers, and welcome to another edition of Cart2Cart’s fascinating interview series. Today, we’re talking to an outstanding member of eCommerce community, leader of Divante and an overall cheerful person - Tomasz Karwatka. Thus, let’s get started. Tomasz, you are an eCommerce expert who’s renowned for inspiring people and helping them develop their online businesses. But what has inspired you to choose this particular career path? Before I created Divante, I was managing an online store on my own. I was selling lamps and craving desperately for a partner company that would assist my shop comprehensively. At that point, each supplier was only willing to provide basic services, and no one wanted to help me look at eCommerce as a whole. So, that’s where I got the idea for Divante. The idea that I, then, realized after selling my previous business. The original purpose of Divante is executing eCommerce matters comprehensively. Thus, today, I hire UX and Marketing speci...

  Our today’s guest is the strong evidence for the statement that “If you do what you love, you do it well”. Meet Alex Harris - Creative Director at  Alex Designs LLC , CRO & Website Consultant for e-Commerce, designer, author of an Amazon best seller in 2014 and a person who “does it well” indeed. On the request of Cart2Cart Team, Alex kindly agreed to become a part of fascinating series of interviews and share his thoughts and knowledge on e-Commerce. Q: Okay Alex, let’s get the ball rolling. What is the funniest joke you know? An SEO copywriter walks into a bar, grill, pub, public house, Irish, bartender, drinks, beer, wine, liquor... Q: So, being a Creative Director at Alexdesigns.com nowadays, were where you 10 years ago? What are the biggest achievements of your company and you in particular? ​10 years ago I was working as Creative Director customer acquisitions for eDiets. A popular diet and fitness websites. I handle all their conversion testing, landing pages and ...

  A renowned Magento trainer, he knows this complicated platform inside out, and makes a living by sharing useful knowledge about Magento with others. He - is Ryan Street, our today’s interviewee. We asked Ryan to share some of his rich eCommerce experience with our readers, and being a true gentlemen, he said “yes”. Thus, enjoy! 1. Ryan, you’re a Magento trainer and a talented web-developer with lots of experience. What reasons made you choose such a career path? Tell us your story. I love open source! I love the idea that there are platforms out there that can be used, reused, and improved by anyone who is willing. I love that spirit of community and giving. When I started developing in high school, there were not any programs available for people to learn about web development. This was mostly because it was so new. I looked into a few courses and programs in college, but none of them really went the “open source” route. They were mostly just a repurpose of a generic computer sc...

  As the summer has just started, we continue the fascinating series of interviews, talking to the most outstanding members of e-Commerce community. This time, our blog guest is James Bavington, technical director at Creare. We’ve asked James a few questions about the current state of e-Commerce, SEO, advantages of different popular platforms, and he was kind enough to provide us with some interesting answers on a short notice. So, here we go: James, you’re a Magento, WordPress, WooCommerce developer, an SEO expert and an overall e-Commerce specialist. Which one of these activities do you like to do the most? To be honest, that's a difficult question to answer. Each stage of a project can be equally rewarding whether it’s the design, build, optimisation or ongoing digital marketing. If I had to define what I enjoy the most, I guess it would be working with the client to define the strategy and objectives and then working with my team to deliver them. Currently, you’re the Technical...

  The desire to learn is what makes you, our dear readers, being successful entrepreneurs. Keeping that in mind, we continue our exciting and educational series of interviews with online retail experts. Today our guest is Kunle T Campbell, e-Commerce Growth Consultant, e-Commerce Business Advisor and a 2x eCommerce Podcast host. Kunle is specialised on helping online retailers to drive growth and profitability by formulating effective customer acquisition and retention business strategies. Q: Kunle, how did you get into eCommerce? What was that made you interested in world of online retail? I got into digital marketing the boring way - it was my MSc degree electronic business management. I feel in love with a particular module about online marketing. This was back in 2004 - fast forward to 2013, having worked with several businesses in both the B2B and B2C space, I decided to focus on online retail because of the ability to track the entire sales funnel and also because most ecomme...

  Have you ever wondered who are the people who stand behind Cart2Cart? Well, today is the very special day when the interviewees of our traditional “Experts Insights” series have become a trio of leading professionals from Cart2Cart Team. Please, meet Stepan, Cart2Cart Project Manager, Nazar, Leading Web Developer, and Tanya, Marketing Manager. Get ready for some fresh, first-hand in-house information! Stepan, Project Manager Q: Stepan, though you joined the team as a Project Manager not so long time ago, you should know the story behind Cart2Cart success. What are the secrets that allowed Cart2Cart to become a recognized leader of its market niche? Yes, I’ve joined an amazing Cart2Cart Team when it already was a solid, market’s leading product. Nevertheless, it wasn’t a hard task to figure out what is the secret of its success. To my mind, the main advantage of Cart2Cart is its unparalleled magnitude and robust functionality. Cart2Cart can boast about the largest number of suppor...