Sow Seeds, Elements of Effective Community Building

Sow seeds. Recruit members and offer incentives for genuine participation in return for their advocacy.

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Sow Seeds, Elements of Effective Community Building

Sow seeds. Recruit members and offer incentives for genuine participation in return for their advocacy.

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Focus, Elements of Effective Community Building

Focus. You can’t cater to everyone. Choose one audience and win them over first.

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Focus, Elements of Effective Community Building

Focus. You can’t cater to everyone. Choose one audience and win them over first.

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Customer service or inside sales?

Tonight I’ve been thinking a lot about our customers at LiveOutThere.com. Unfortunately Magento does not provide any standard tools to begin to understand who they are, what they want, and ultimately, how to sell more product to them. I wanted

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Customer service or inside sales?

Tonight I’ve been thinking a lot about our customers at LiveOutThere.com. Unfortunately Magento does not provide any standard tools to begin to understand who they are, what they want, and ultimately, how to sell more product to them. I wanted

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Where are all the great website conversion optimization tools?

Every time I have looked for a small website or web application testing framework I have come up short. Google Web Optimizer has been around forever and has limited adoption among web masters.

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Where are all the great website conversion optimization tools?

Every time I have looked for a small website or web application testing framework I have come up short. Google Web Optimizer has been around forever and has limited adoption among web masters.

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How to apply Magento coupon codes automatically

The Magento price rule system is very complex, and like most things Magento, it can do basically whatever you want it to do once you understand how — but until then, it’s just frustrating.

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How to apply Magento coupon codes automatically

The Magento price rule system is very complex, and like most things Magento, it can do basically whatever you want it to do once you understand how — but until then, it’s just frustrating.

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Putting Magento to the test on Boxing Day

In this post I’ll write about Magento performance optimization, human solutions to technical problems, and the real-world experience of running an e-commerce business with a tiny, agile team.

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Putting Magento to the test on Boxing Day

In this post I’ll write about Magento performance optimization, human solutions to technical problems, and the real-world experience of running an e-commerce business with a tiny, agile team.

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Customize TinyBrick’s LightSpeed for use with Redis

If you use TinyBrick’s Lightspeed with your Magento installation, and you have switched to Redis, you will need to make a few changes to LightSpeed to support using Redis as the cache store. You will need to modify LightSpeed to

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Customize TinyBrick’s LightSpeed for use with Redis

If you use TinyBrick’s Lightspeed with your Magento installation, and you have switched to Redis, you will need to make a few changes to LightSpeed to support using Redis as the cache store. You will need to modify LightSpeed to

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LinkedIn Profile

I’m an online business consultant with an original, expert perspective. Usually, I work with one or two clients at a time and I consider my projects long-term partnerships. I write code and business plans, and my current passion is LiveOutThere.com.

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LinkedIn Profile

I’m an online business consultant with an original, expert perspective. Usually, I work with one or two clients at a time and I consider my projects long-term partnerships. I write code and business plans, and my current passion is LiveOutThere.com.

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Using Redis as Magento’s cache backend

In preparation for the increased traffic we see at LiveOutThere.com during the retail shopping season, I did some research into alternative cache backends for Magento. Long story short, Memcache is no longer the best cache solution.

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Using Redis as Magento’s cache backend

In preparation for the increased traffic we see at LiveOutThere.com during the retail shopping season, I did some research into alternative cache backends for Magento. Long story short, Memcache is no longer the best cache solution.

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Understand your visitors’ behaviour by plugging into the matrix

Try my newest free Magento extension to optimize your Magento conversion rate. A new take on real-time visitor monitoring, DG_Matrix is a free Magento extension meant to replace expensive visual session tracking tools like ClickTale. You will gain a deeper understanding

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Understand your visitors’ behaviour by plugging into the matrix

Try my newest free Magento extension to optimize your Magento conversion rate. A new take on real-time visitor monitoring, DG_Matrix is a free Magento extension meant to replace expensive visual session tracking tools like ClickTale. You will gain a deeper understanding

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