The first few months of 2015 are already over. It is time for us to look back at what interested our readers the most. Magento made it into the top ten twice: We asked ourselves what will happen with the shop system after the eBay era and what will be changed with the next 2.0 version. Articles on book trade and WordPress online shops, as well as our 4Care case study also made the top ten!
With their hilarious marketing idea, PornHub has often shown that it can do more than just manage a platform for pornographic films. PornHub is now taking things a step further and want to mix things up in the wearables scene with the Wankband. It might even work. Take a look at how the Wankband operates: when your arm moves up and down, the armband saves energy. Smartphones and tablets can then be plugged in and charged via USB.
Magento, hybris or Intershop – these are the names of the most well-known shop system providers. But not every shop project requires an enterprise solution. WordPress with various plugins is perfect for simple online shops. We took a closer look at both shop plug-ins WooCommerce and Jigoshop.
Some trend topics and innovative services, like drone delivery, currently sound more like a PR gag than like real possibilities. Whether or not such innovations will establish themselves often hangs in the balance. There just aren’t any laws for such scenarios to follow.
But if the past few years have shown one thing, then it is the enormous speed with which hype can turn into expectation. At the very latest, everyone starts panicking when the competition has successfully implemented a new technology. The spiral of expectations goes on and on. On top of this come new technologies and innovative, agile startups threatening to overtake traders.
Selling glasses online is a complex business, and there is now serious competition among classic traders and pure players, even in this initially controversial business model. Occasion enough for 4Care, one of Europe’s leading omni-channel providers of contact lenses, care products, and classes, to do a general overhaul of their fleet.
The migration to Intershop 7.3, the implementation of a responsive design, as well as a design merger of Lensbest and their partner sites, were important project goals. 4Care found a strong partner in us for this project.
The optimisation of the product data structure and the connected import and staging processes, as well as creating a new system landscape for the operation of the platform was also part of the project. This was no exercise for beginners, but we managed to master this complex project with success:
Content in e-commerce is the all-time favourite in last year’s topics. Little wonder, after all, Google requires high quality, detailed content and there are rumours that this excites customers as well. Brands and manufacturers go to great lengths to create and maintain corresponding content. Our customers Gartenhelden.de, for instance, entrusted the delivery of regular videos and blog posts with garden tips and tricks for their fans to experts. At Polyvore, the majority of stems from the community: this is another way to implement content marketing. The fashion start-up shows how it can work in this presentation.
But actually there should be others who shine in the battle for the best content – the publishers. After all, they’re already sitting on an existing treasure trove of content, and know how to wrote, whilst traders have to learn this or pay for it.
The shortage of skilled workers in IT is not a new complaint. Even digital natives answer questions about their desired profession with classics like teacher or lawyer. In order for this to change and to create an awareness for new, digital professions, we at dotSource are putting our knowledge to use: for instance through the foundation of an e-commerce degree at the technical university in Jena. Since this week, our CEO Christian Otto Grötsch has been a testimonial for an IT career information flyer at the federal employment agency, Bundesagentur für Arbeit.
So if you want to know what career path brought Christian to the point of founding our agency almost ten years ago, you can now inform yourself officially. Naturally you can pass it on to school and university students who have a career with a future in their sights.
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