CS-Cart Review: A Solid Self-hosted Platform with Tricky Pricing

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With CS-Cart, you receive a self-hosted ecommerce platform with marketplace functionality, excellent design tools, and a wide variety of marketing features.ย Started in 2005, CS-Cart is part of the Simtech conglomerate, and it's been known as a solid solution for those who want to sell on a self-hosted platform.

CS-Cart is great for designing, and you may have the opportunity to keep your costs low (since you only pay once for the downloadable software).ย However, there are some add-ons, upgrades, and customer support fees that you may end up paying for. Keep reading our CS-Cart review to learn more.

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What Adobe’s Acquisition of Magento Means For the Future of Ecommerce

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Ok, admit it. You probably didnโ€™t expect this one.

Through his Twitter account, Brad Rencher, the Executive VP of Adobe Digital Marketing, has made a rather surprising announcement. That Adobe is currently in the process of acquiring Magento.

Unless you moved out to Mars, youโ€™ve definitely heard about the $1.68 billion acquisition deal. Itโ€™s all everyone has been talking about over the past few days.

Iโ€™d like to be in the same boat and say that this was entirely unforeseen. But for me, it wasnโ€™t. Not at all.

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LiveChat Review (2024): Clean Live Chat and Lead Generation with an Excellent Price Tag

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When customers are waiting on your website, they shouldn't have to find your contact page to get the information they need.

Live chatย boxes are so beneficial to both ecommerceย companies and customers that you'd be leaving money on the table if you didn't have one.

LiveChat is a powerful solution for getting a live chat module on your website, with lead generation tools, agent rating options, and more.

In thisย LiveChat review, we'll talk about the best features to look forward to, what you can expect to pay for the program, along with some other information on how LiveChat stacks up in the customer service department.

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How to Speed up Your WordPress Ecommerce Website?

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WordPress is the worldโ€™s most popular Content Management System. Nowadays, it is no longer used as just a blogging tool. Instead, it can power a wide variety of websites, including ecommerce.

In fact, the number of eCommerce websites that are built with WordPress is ever on the rise. If you are running a WordPress eCommerce website, how can you make it faster?

In other words, how do you speed up a WordPress eCommerce website? This article with answer this question and provide useful ideas for speeding up a WordPress eCommerce website.ย 

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Modalyst Review: My Verdict for 2025

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Quick answer: Modalyst is a solid dropshipping tool, especially if youโ€™re focused on US suppliers and fast shipping.

Iโ€™ve used it across multiple stores โ€” and while itโ€™s not perfect, itโ€™s one of the best platforms for beginner-to-intermediate sellers wanting to avoid long delivery times from China.

The AliExpress integration could use work, and the free plan is limited, but if you know what you're doing, itโ€™s worth testing out.

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Zendesk Chat Review: Awesome Pricing Integrated With a Reputable Ticketing System

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You may have once known the Zendesk Chat plugin as Zopim. It was extremely popular and was eventually acquired and rebranded by Zendesk. With this change in name and the website itself, we're starting to see some other features introduced, particularly the awesome integrations with the Zendesk customer support and ticket software.

In this Zendesk Chat review, we'll talk about the best features, along with the cons that Zendesk still has to work on. Overall, it's a solid chat module with excellent customer support. You also don't have to worry about breaking your budget since you pay per agent per month and the pricing plans are quite reasonable.

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Shopify Lite Review: How It Works and When You Should Be Using It

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Editor's note (July 2022):

Shopify has transitioned its Shopify Lite plan to something called [Shopify Starter]. Many of the previous features remain, but you can expect some wonderful changes, like a drop in price from $9 per month to $5 per month. In addition, Starter members receive tools to monetize a link in social media bios.ย 

๐Ÿ‘‰ Read our Shopify Starter review.

Other features for the Shopify Starter plan include selling on social media sites like WhatsApp and Instagram, along with analytics, customer support, and order management. Itโ€™s not anything like the regular ecommerce platform plans (you donโ€™t get a full website with checkout functionality), but Shopify Starter provides an incredibly inexpensive way for creators, bloggers, and smaller stores to sell products on their already existing sites. Or, you could simply use the Starter plan to sell on social networks, without building your own online store at all.ย 

We encourage you to check out our Shopify Starter plan review, as that explains the differences between Shopify Starter and the now retired Shopify Lite plan explained in this article.ย 

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How to Win with Off-Page Ecommerce In 2020

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Ever have one of those days where you needed more traffic but the thought of adding another keyword to your sales page and re-optimize the metadata just made you want to poke out an eye?

Every marketer has been there, and itโ€™s especially tough in the ecommerce space. Traffic is our lifeblood, and when it dips, you want to do anything you can to fix it.

Well, let us present to you a new method for you to spend some time on to see some improvements in your search ranking: off-page SEO. For ecommerce brands, this is a terrific way to spread product knowledge and drive traffic from multiple different angles.

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