Start-ups remain online as never before through smart Magento extensions

Summary: This article deals solely with 7 of the most important Magento extensions that turn your e-commerce website development into a most effective marketing tool in the first go. The inclusion of these mentioned extensions are sure to provide your company website a rocket speed in establishing its brand name in the market.

When you are starting a business your first & foremost motive will be to rise to the top of all competitions in the market and make the most profit in your business. In this goal, the first step in today’s world would be to have a smart and convenient online presence to mark your existence in the eyes of your target audience. The more your online presence is flexible and creative the more it would attract traffic. Here comes the need of a reliable and reputable e-commerce solution that can create an impactful online presence for your company.

Magento is one of the most reliable and reputable e-commerce solution bringers in the market that helps you set your e-commerce site through its plethora of features.

Here is the list of 7 most important and must have Magento extensions that make the work of the seller really easy and they can reach out with their unique products and service to more and more buyers.

•    Elastisearch

In every website, it is a must to include a search bar from where your visitors and customers could search various products in your store. If the search option does not retrieve useful results then your customer’s could be put off.

Elastisearch by Wyomind provides seamless searching for your desired product throughout the site. It effectively enhances the search results and brings out relevant results. Elastisearch is both Magento 1 & 2 savvy. You can rest assured that your website is now in safe hands. Simply use this extension to enhance the searching experience of your customers.

•    Google Tag Manager

With the endless uses from Google over the years, it has become an indispensable part of our lives. We cannot think of anything without just Googling about it.

Magento has also not broken the importance and a separate and dedicated extension known as Google Tag manager. This extension lets the user use the other Google services like Google analytics and Google Adwords from one single place. This best way for improving the website performance is absolutely very easy to install and works without any glitch.    

•    WordPress Integration by Fish Pig

Your Magento Web store can be fruitfully integrated into the WordPress blog with the help of this WordPress Integration from Fish Pig. This is a compatible extension for Magento professional, Magento Enterprise and Magento Community Edition. The extension is now available in numerous languages which have a great impact on Multinational companies. This free to use and easy to install extension requires no core WordPress or Magento file conversion. It also integrates an existing WordPress Blog keeping the Blog URL the same and the SEO unaffected.  

•    Zen Desk

You need to look no further for best customer support platform for your e-commerce site. Zen Desk is the right extension made perfectly and especially to serve the need of best customer support solutions ever for your company.

The most attractive feature of Zen desk is that it is a Cloud-based customer support system that can provide you the opportunity to keep track of support tickets and customer interaction everything in one place. Whether your company is big or small, it can get organized immediately with such a great extension.

•    Price Slider Daffodil

Whenever you surf through a website looking for products you would have certain preferences with which you can filter and refine your search. For example price, budget, etc.

A Magento extension named Price Slider extension can smoothens your search and shows you products of your desired price range only. This extension is super user-friendly and allows you to specify any price range and they would bring out exact results for your search.

•    Yopto Reviews

It is no more a dream to have hundreds and thousands of images, contents, and reviews simply without much time consumption and resource allocation as well.

With the introduction of Yopto Reviews, every customer now has access to reviews and feedbacks directly on your Magento store without looking elsewhere. This is a very helpful option to drive more traffic to your site, increase conversion rate and boosting of the sale for your business as a whole.

• Sweet Tooth

Many times we come across several rewards and loyalty points that we gain from buying at a particular site. This is a marketing tool that is fuelled by the most renowned Magento extension known as Sweet Tooth. This extension is very effective in increasing sales and integrating the website in a great manner.

The list might seem small to many companies but these 7 must have Magento extensions for great e-commerce experience is highly effective and brings a visible difference in traffic, functionality, visibility and returns as a whole to the e-commerce site. You can rely on NCode Technologies with eyes closed for effective results in your website through these extensions.

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Auto-impress your Facebook friends with auto-play videos embedded in WordPress

Summary: The article deals with the different techniques and processes how you could embed Facebook videos as well as Live streaming feature of Facebook in WordPress. Along with that it also highlights the benefits of embedding Facebook Videos in WordPress Website.

What could be more thrilling than you being able to share the same great feeling of watching a video and passing the same thrill intact for your friend there on Facebook? By now you are aware of the great experience of sharing an auto-playing video on Facebook. These auto-playing videos even without sound actually suck the viewer into even those who otherwise would have been passed unnoticed. This is the magic of embedded videos the very fresh addition to Facebook. This is the sole reason why Facebook video watching is growing so rapidly and it has crossed a remarkable statistics than YouTube.

Many of us actually wonder if having these videos possible in WordPress. But do we know why we want Facebook Videos to be embedded in WordPress?

Why?

• Embedding of the Facebook Video in WordPress increases the user engagement with the very same video from both your Facebook account and WordPress site.
• This kind of video embedding increases the likes on your Facebook page and videos as well. This has also increased the fan popularity enormously which in turn benefitted a great number of businesses in gaining high popularity of their brands as well as their products and services.
• Generally, you cannot directly embed videos in WordPress. The direct uploading of videos does reduce the performance of the WordPress site considerably. You can but embed Facebook videos as they resolve such performance-related problems and give you a smoother viewing experience.
• It is also another important aspect of embedding Facebook videos in WordPress that you can also take full advantage of viewing the live streaming videos and they can also be embedded as a live feed in the WordPress website.

• In this article, our aim would be to help you do the embedding of Facebook videos in WordPress by you own.   You can embed the Facebook videos in WordPress in three different ways.

Using the Video URL

This is a very simple method in which you have to just click the ‘Add Media’ tap in your website and the downloaded Facebook video would be embedded in your website exactly in the position where you want it to appear. But this option is not much recommended as this may hamper the performance level and speed of the website.

Using the embedded Video option

In the first step, you need to locate the video on your Facebook page. Once you are sure that the video is a public one and not private you may copy the embed link from the timestamp. On clicking the timestamp in the next step you will be redirected to a separate video URL page where you would get the embed code, copy it and paste it into the text tab of the WordPress editor. Now publish the post to see it on your site.

Using WordPress Plugins

Those who find this above-mentioned process complicated, WordPress also comes with easy solutions for them which are the Plugins. Plugins provide a short code through which one can very easily embed any Facebook video in WordPress.

That’s all. You can now have endless options to embed Facebook video in WordPress and add credibility to your site instantly. Expert web development services are available by Ncode technolgies Company to provide you effective solutions.

Magento: Worlds most flexible and collaborative ecommerce platform

Summary: Here in this article you would come to know about the various features and functionalities of Magento which makes this a perfect platform for the web development of an E-commerce business. The article also informs about how Magento helps to perform business with in a customized way.

 E-commerce business has set the virtual marketplace to be a consumer driven marketplace. Customers hold the key to the success of the business. However, the retailers need to be agile and dynamic in terms of understanding the customer website needs and requirement. The customers taste and preference changes very frequently which is mostly driven by the large choice of the e-commerce marketplace and online shopping sites.  The need of the hour is to have an agile platform which will not only be flexible in terms of the technology integration but also very agile in the terms mold to the changing dynamics of the industry.

To understand the changing scenario of the e-commerce marketplace and the changing dynamics of the customers, Magento, was launched. It’s an open source and agile marketplace, which can adapt to the changing scenarios of the technology collaboration and customer dynamics. This shopping cart platform was first released in March 2008 by Varien Incorporation, a US private company which is headquartered at the Culver City California. The software was written in the PHP platform. The website’s customer checkout process for existing users, easy steps to customize the user experience, improved code base, enhanced website navigation with improved capability of page caching are few unique benefits which help Magento to stand out from another ecommerce marketplace. The platform has approximately 250,000 merchants worldwide and is supported by 150,000 developers with 300+ highly efficient and trained solution experts. It aims to boost sales and shrink the overhead cost with enhanced customer experience.

Let us understand and know the web development platform more elaborately:

The Magento marketplace is available for the following product suites

•    Enterprise Cloud Edition

•    Enterprise Edition

•    Commerce Order Management

•    Business Intelligence

•    Community Edition

The platform has also offering Solutions by Business and by the Industry respectively:

Solutions by Business

•    International Expansion

•    Small Business

•    Omni-Channel

Solutions by Industry

•    Fashion

•    Business to Business (B2B)

•    Food & Beverage

We have experienced how Magento is taking the virtual marketplace to new heights. The enterprise cloud version provides a very cost effective, secure and portable version of the technology.  Magneto expert technocrats keep track of the technology 24/7 and help the e-tailer to mine deep with revenue and customers.

The Enterprise edition allows the e-tailers to customize and integrate seamlessly the platform with plug-ins and add-ons which provide more sales to the business.

However, Magento has a new offering for the e-commerce web development platform as Magento Connect. It integrates with other eCommerce portals like eBay, Amazon, Rakuten, which develops an alternative sales channel and helps to import stock synchronization. It also integrates with Facebook, Maps for store locator, Product feeds, top selling item features, most viewed products, catalog sale etc.

Concluding

In connect, marketing portfolio provides marketing, campaign and visibility offerings. It helps the e-tailer to manage feeds, marketing analytics, paid search advertising, search engine optimization, social marketing and email marketing. It also has a site management service which collaborate stock management, invoice management, Data warehousing, Catalog and content management which makes Magento a perfect platform for an E-commerce Business. This specialized job is perfectly handled by Ncode technologies, which is a team of equally specialized people in the field.