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Extending Demandware’s Catalog to Support Amazon

Posted by Lawrence Walters

Ecommerce retailers are always looking to leverage their investment in their ecommerce storefront through other channels, and with $48 billion in sales in 2011, Amazon is an obvious choice for a second online channel. Demandware’s extensible data model puts Demandware customers in an excellent position to do this. lyonscg recently helped one of our clients do just this.

Here Come the Hot Steppers

Posted by Sara Doudt

"HIT IT! Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na. Na, na, na...." Come on, I know you know this jam!

Top 10 Quick Ways to Keep your Magento Site Healthy

Posted by Tim Cuttill

• When possible, avoid running back up utilities during peak hours of your site’s operation. For most ecommerce sites, it is best practice to reserve a time after peak hours (typically anytime between 12am-5am). Additionally, avoid running security scans, such as McAfee Secure, during peak operating hours. This will ensure your customers are not leaving your site due to excessive latency.

• Avoid using too many different external sources because every DNS lookup takes extra time and could cause latency with your site. Having images, iframes, twitter feeds, etc..  pulled outside your server will slow down your site and page load time. When possible keep what you can on you own server as this will speed up your site tremendously.

Client Conversations

Posted by Sara Doudt

A quick conversation with Michael Gossling from Do My Own Pest Control, discussing their recent ecommerce needs, changes and what their experience was like working with lyonscg.

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Tablets: ecommerce’s portable lucky charm

Posted by Ryan Sheppard

The holiday season is upon us, which means shopping, eating, shopping, football, eating and gift exchanges!  It should come as no surprise that at the top of almost every “Top 10 gifts” list is an iPad or tablet of some sort.  The use of tablets is growing and they are not just used for gaming, facebook and email anymore.  Apparently, tablets have become the next tool for doing holiday shopping!

Good News Regarding Magento Imports

Posted by Eric Marsh

Magento recently introduced a new and much faster method of importing products in Magento Community 1.5 and Magento Enterprise 1.10. Getting product data into Magento can sometimes be a bit of a struggle, so when Magento brought in new importing functionality, it was a good day for all of us Magento developers!

Miss out on X.commerce?

Posted by Sara Doudt

For those of you who don't know, Magento hosted the 3-day Innovate Developer Conference out in San Francisco from October 12th - 14th. This conference was the launch of X.commerce.  X.commerce is a new platform that provides merchants with a powerful set of tightly integrated tools that they can use to easily build and execute innovative commerce strategies. This platform brings together assets from eBay, PayPal and Magento in an open environment that will leverage the talent of the worldwide developer community.

X Commerce and Facebook Team Up Just In Time for the Holiday Season

Posted by Sara Doudt

Magento made some exciting announcements last week at their X.commerce Innovate Conference in San Francisco. Over the two day conference, so many new and exciting announcements were made about creating “a seamless/frictionless shopping experience” to make any developer or online retailer to go nuts. Instead of listing out ALL of them, I am just going to focus on one, the announcement that gets me the most excited especially with the holidays right around the corner – x commerce’s integration with Facebook’s new open graph functionality.

lyonscg Races for the Cure

Posted by Sara Doudt

In order to be successful, businesses have to make money. The more you make, the more successful you are. At Lyons Consulting Group we do things a little differently. Our long-standing tradition is dedication to customers, to fellow employees, and to the communities in which we live.  Sometimes success can also be measured by how much you give.

Shop.org = Crazy Awesome!

Posted by Sara Doudt

Last week, our team traveled to Bean Town for Shop.org's Annual Summit.  With over 3500 attendees and over 150 speakers, the Annual Summit is one of the best opportunities to learn from industry leaders and to network with today's movers and shakers of the eCommerce world.