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Why Security Should Keep You Up at Night If you are running a Magento store, you need to understand what SessionReaper is and why it matters. SessionReaper is an unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability that was discovered in Magento, and it represents exactly the kind of security threat that ecommerce […]

Ecommerce Strategy

Growth Does Not Happen Overnight Another month of consistent growth for our cabin luggage client, and I wanted to share what this journey has looked like because it illustrates something important about ecommerce that does not get talked about enough. There is no single breakthrough moment. There is no magic […]

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Solving a Critical Checkout Problem If you run a Magento store, you know that checkout is where everything either comes together or falls apart. Recently, we dealt with a particularly frustrating checkout issue for a client that perfectly illustrates why having experienced Magento developers on your side matters. The problem […]

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When Someone Believes in You Early I will always remember the people who helped me along the way. Not just in a vague, grateful kind of way, but specifically — I remember their names, the conversations we had, the moments when they chose to invest their time, their knowledge, or […]

Ecommerce Strategy, Founder Insights

Our Growing Library of Ecommerce Content Podcasts. So many podcasts now. When we started creating podcast content for the ecommerce community, I had no idea it would grow into what it has become. What began as a few conversations with interesting people in the industry has evolved into a substantial […]

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The Ecommerce Camp LiveTalk Series One of the most exciting things we have been doing at Ecommerce Camp is our LiveTalk series, where we sit down with ecommerce founders and operators for in-depth conversations about how they built their businesses. The recent episode featuring the story behind Craft Gin Club […]

Ecommerce Camp

Why We Help Our Clients Hire We often help our clients build their ecommerce teams, and this is something I am genuinely proud of because it goes beyond the typical agency-client relationship. When a client asks us to help them find and evaluate candidates for their in-house ecommerce roles, it […]

Podcasts & Interviews

When You Are Drowning in the Day-to-Day If you are an ecommerce business owner reading this, chances are you know exactly what it feels like to be overloaded with day-to-day tasks. The customer service emails that never stop. The inventory that needs reordering. The returns that need processing. The social […]

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A T-Shirt That Means More Than Fabric Sometimes the simplest things capture the spirit of a community better than any mission statement or marketing campaign ever could. That is exactly what happened with a t-shirt that has become a symbol of the ecommerce community we are building at Ecommerce Camp. […]

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What Long-Term Partnerships Really Look Like When a client tells you that they genuinely value you and your team, it means something. Not in a testimonial-for-the-website kind of way, but in a deeper, more meaningful way that reflects what we are trying to build at MageCloud. Client relationships that last […]

Ecommerce Camp

The Invitation That Keeps Getting Better One more time, and I will keep saying it until everyone in the UK ecommerce community has heard it: you are invited to Ecommerce Camp. I know there are thousands of events, webinars, and communities competing for your attention and your time. I know […]

Ecommerce Camp

The People Behind Ecommerce Camp Building Ecommerce Camp has been one of the most rewarding projects of my career, and it would not exist without the incredible people who have helped bring it to life. I want to take a moment to publicly thank Maddie Wood and the Mollie team […]

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The Feedback That Fuels Us When a client tells you that your team is truly working hard, it hits differently than any other kind of feedback. Not because it is the most eloquent praise, but because it means they have noticed something that many agencies take for granted — the […]

Ecommerce Camp, Founder Insights

The Origin Story Every project starts with a frustration, and Ecommerce Camp UK was no different. For years, I had been attending ecommerce events and walking away feeling the same way — underwhelmed by content that was either too generic to be actionable or too sales-driven to be trustworthy. I […]

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The Hardest Day in Business Years of work gone in a day. If you have been in ecommerce long enough, you know what this feels like. Maybe it was a server failure that took your store offline during peak trading. Maybe it was a Google algorithm update that wiped out […]

Ecommerce Camp

Why Ecommerce Needs Different Voices We need more motivational speakers like Gary Vee in the ecommerce space, but probably not for the reasons you think. I am not talking about the hustle culture or the “grind 24/7” mentality — I have my reservations about some of that messaging. What I […]

Ecommerce Strategy

AI Is Transforming Ecommerce Content Creation Something incredible happened recently that I think every ecommerce business owner needs to see. We took a single product image — one static photo — and turned it into a full scene video in about 10 minutes using AI tools. Not a slideshow with […]

Ecommerce Strategy

Your Product Gallery Is Your Best Salesperson If there is one thing I could change about every ecommerce store I audit, it would be the product gallery. After years of optimising product pages at MageCloud and analysing conversion data across dozens of stores, I am convinced that the product gallery […]