Ecwid raised $1.5 million in funding & expands to US, UK
Posted Dec 15, 2011 by Qetzal. Filed under E-commerce Ecwid News
We're pleased to announce our Series A round of venture funding and a planned opening of our first United States and United Kingdom offices. The $1.5 million funding was completed by Runa Capital, a global venture capital firm. You will find the details on Techcrunch, VentureBeat or in our official press-release.
Major improvements to our Facebook app: 4 great new features
Posted Nov 24, 2011 by Qetzal. Filed under E-commerce Ecwid News New Releases
Today we’re happy to announce a new major version of our Facebook app with some new, very useful, and highly anticipated features added.
- Browse your products right inside your Facebook tab
- Straight forward installation process
- Manage your pages easily
- Easy and free way to create custom Facebook tabs
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Ecwid presentation at The Next Web 2010 conference (video)
Posted May 24, 2010 by Qetzal. Filed under E-commerce Ecwid News
On 28 Apr, 2010 our CEO, Ruslan Fazlyev presented Ecwid at The Next Web 2010 conference.
Video of his presentation
Interview with an Ecwid Merchant: Steve Calabrese, Natural Body Inc.com
Posted Apr 19, 2010 by Qetzal. Filed under E-commerce
We continue interviewing Ecwid merchants about e-commerce and their shops.
Today we feature Mike LoCurto, Natural Body Inc.com Partner, who will share some experience on how to run a successful online store.
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Interview with an Ecwid Merchant: Amy Vander Vorste, the owner of Ojamiya.com
Posted Mar 23, 2010 by Qetzal. Filed under E-commerce
Today we're announcing a new format of our blog posts: interviews with store owners about e-commerce.
Below is our interview with Amy Vander Vorste, the owner of Ojamiya.com.
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Speed matters
Posted Jan 26, 2010 by Qetzal. Filed under E-commerce
Have you ever thought about how fast your shopping cart is? We suggest doing so. According to many investigations your store speed directly influences your sales.
It's a well-known fact that every 100ms of latency costs Amazon 1% of profit. A 2 second delay is 20%, and so on.
Customers don’t like waiting. There are a zillion different web stores they can go to. So don’t irritate your visitors with delays, your pages should open fast, period.
So what are the ingredients of a really fast store?
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