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The art of running an e-commerce procurement

Is your company also chipping away at an RFP or RFI with a hefty Excel list of requirements attached? Then you are far from alone, and this article is for you. After reading and answering a great many procurement documents, I have a good sense of what the process looks like and how little it has changed over time. Today the process is set up so the platform and vendor can build their answers based on your requirement list and wishes, which you have been kind enough to share with a selection of platforms and partners.

Martin Zellman

Tips Projects Organization

3 tips for building a great team

One thing I have been told over the years is that I often manage to put together good teams, teams that are efficient, that deliver, and that enjoy working together. What is the secret to building a team like that, and how do you do it?

John Järpling

Tips Projects

STOP. Think about this first before you take a meeting with an e-commerce platform vendor.

The vendor of a new e-commerce system will hopefully ask you a few fundamental questions, and here are some tips on what you can prepare answers for to make the conversation better and give everyone a good chance to be relevant. Who knows, you might gain a few insights yourself along the way.

John Järpling

Performance

E-commerce and site speed

Everyone knows that performance and site speed matter for e-commerce. How do you measure performance? Is Google PageSpeed really a good way to measure performance? This article walks through the difference between PageSpeed score and perceived performance, and why both matter.

Anders Ekdahl

Product information

E-commerce requires meaningful product relationships: here are the four most important ones

Research has shown that one of the (rather few) things that gives us humans happiness and better health is meaningful relationships. The amusing part is that what applies to human relationships also applies to product relationships in e-commerce. Meaningful relationships may not make you happy, but they give you more sales through higher customer satisfaction, average order value and conversion rate.

Tobias Bergström

Tips Omnichannel

5 tips on how to use your stores to help online, or is it the other way around?

If you run both e-commerce and physical stores, there are a few relatively simple things you can do to connect the stores with your online business. It creates an omnichannel experience for the end customer, and promoting e-commerce in stores or the other way around creates synergies that can lift overall revenue.

John Järpling

Architecture Tips

Mistakes people make when choosing an e-commerce system

Choosing an e-commerce system is something you end up doing surprisingly often as a successful e-commerce operator. You start with a simple system that you outgrow. You switch, some things get better, some get worse. A few years later it is time again. But how do you choose the right one? How do you avoid buying a pig in a poke?

Anders Ekdahl

Architecture Frontend Performance

Is React the best choice for an e-commerce site?

React is without a doubt the most popular choice among frontend frameworks. But does that mean it is the right choice for you? How much does the choice of framework really matter? What are the pros and cons? What are the alternatives?

Anders Ekdahl

Black week Perspectives Performance Tips

Black Friday 2021: can you handle the pressure?

You need to be on top of performance and technology today. Andrew Golrang is a well-known figure in the industry who helped take Cervera to new omnichannel heights and sales records. He has just changed jobs and is now Product Director at Voyado, but he remembers a Black Friday from long ago.

Anders Ekdahl