There are seemingly millions of different considerations when it comes to choosing the right eCommerce platform for your brand’s online store. How can I successfully drive conversion? Which platform is the most customisable? What about SEO? How much is it going to cost? And there’s a world of options – between Magento, Shopify, WooCommerce, Opencart, ...
Fashion saw incredible growth across all categories in 2023. As per the Lyst Index, the hottest luxury fashion brands for Q1 of 2023 were Prada, Miu Miu, and Moncler. Prada, for example, unveiled the 2023 Prada Frames symposium in Hong Kong, as well as announcing €3.252 million in retail sales in 2022.
The global use of social networks increased by 3.4%, to 36.6 million users in 2017. You’ve heard it before, but we’ll say it again anyway: effective marketing is an essential part of your fashion brand’s social media strategy. With 98% of online shoppers also social media users and over half of all of them following ...
On January 11, Mark Zuckerburg updated his status, confirming plans to change the algorithm used to prioritize organic content shown in the Facebook News Feed. The new algorithm is assumed to re-prioritize content published by a user’s friends and family, i.e. actual people that they actually know opposed to brands. Posts which have received active engagement ...
Design, in its many myriad forms, as a mirror to the cultural and political climate is not a new idea. From architecture to fashion, all forms of creation are in some way the result of the circumstances that produced them. In fact, many of these forms are so tied to the zeitgeist, that they become ...
2022 was the year that influencer marketing became a prerequisite. An industry now worth around $21.1 billion, the channel is said to deliver 11 times higher ROI than traditional brand marketing. It’s an unavoidable line in your budget. But even for the most proactive of marketers, there was some initial scepticism. This is an inflated marketplace with a reputation not helped by ambiguity over what the term influencer actually means...
Image via Balenciaga Instagram Scrolling through your Instagram feed one night, you’re confronted with one the images from Balenciaga’s beautifully creepy SS18 “family portrait” campaign. You smile, you pause, your finger hovers. The post is promoted (you don’t actually follow Balenciaga), but you love the campaign and the product. In fact, it speaks to you ...
The digital landscape is changing. We’re looking ahead at a world where we stop talking about “channels” or “platforms”. Our day to day lives will still be structured by technology in exactly the same way, but we’ll interact with services and apps through just the one interface. And guess what? This time it’s a super ...
There’s a caveat worth considering for retail brands going all in on digital, and it’s this: customers haven’t stopped liking things that happen offline. In fact, 70% of the oh-so-valuable millennial generation say that they prefer buying experiences over products.
Magento has become something of a platform pacemaker. And the latest in a series of game-changing launches came a couple of weeks ago, in the form of Magento Commerce Starter Edition. The younger sibling to Magento Commerce Professional Edition, the Starter Edition rounds out the platform’s Cloud offering.