Viewing entries posted in October 2011
by on 27 Oct
Roy, CEO and Co-Founder of Magento, kicked off his talk by answering the question 'Why are we (Magento) here in the UK', the answer was because the UK is Europe's leading e-commerce market and was val... read more
by on 27 Oct
There has been a lot of talk about x.commerce recently, but I was yet to get a clear understanding of eBay's latest initiative, this talk was a great introduction and (if I understood the aim correct... read more
by on 27 Oct
The panel for this part of the event consisted of: Alex Barbier from Watco, Barry Thorn from Crimsonwing, Vic Watson from MotherCare and Ian Wilding from Radical Company This talk was really good and ... read more
by on 27 Oct
Nigel Beighton, from Rackspace, gave a talk on how merchants can use cloud hosting to deal with peaks in demand. Nigel outlined a strategy he called bursting, where merchants run their website on dedi... read more
by on 27 Oct
Neil Hamilton, form Predictive Intent, gave a great talk about how to use product recommendations and merchandising to improve conversion rates. Neil started by explaining what e-commerce personalisat... read more
by on 27 Oct
Roger Willcocks, from ScreenPages, gave a fast paced talk that was full of tips on how to improve traffic and conversion. Roger's talk was so fast paced that I found it hard to keep up with my notes. ... read more
by on 27 Oct
Mike Rossi and Steve Deckert, who are both from Sweet Tooth (a provider of customer loyalty programs currently running on over 1,000 Magento installations) gave a fascinating talk on customer loyalty... read more
by on 27 Oct
The technical performance panel consisted of Philippe Humeau (NBS Systems), Jason Bramsden (InvertCommerce), Alistair Stead (Session Digital) and Johan Terpstra. The presentation started off with rese... read more
by on 27 Oct
Alistair Brodie, from Cargo, gave a talk centered on Gio-Goi and the work they have done launching their website on Magento, first in the UK and then worldwide. One of the things that stuck in my min... read more
by on 27 Oct
Charles Nicholls, from Seewhy, delivered a talk that was packed full of data and research - the man clearly loves his numbers and gave a very engaging talk. On average, 71% of people abandon their sho... read more
