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Ecommerce Strategy, Founder Insights
We are often asked to quote on projects full of unknowns. Integrate with an API, but no details about the API. Add a service, but no integration guides. As a database engineer, I find that lack of clarity hard to ignore. Yet other agencies quote on the same vague briefs […]
Ecommerce Strategy
Last year my team set out to build our own framework for high-converting ecommerce projects. We spent about two and a half months studying how the best brands construct their pages, and we turned what we learned into something we call COMERIX. Here is what it is and what it […]
Ecommerce Strategy
I received a lovely sales email about Ecommerce Camp UK merchandise. The message was so well done that I replied with some honest feedback, because no amount of outreach fixes the real problem. Their site was running on noindex and nofollow, and a blocked site cannot grow organically no matter […]
Ecommerce Strategy, Founder Insights
I spent the last few days going through our clients after the latest Google update. We are a development company, not an SEO agency, but our job is to help clients make more money, so I treat this as part of the work. On one project, I found something I […]
Founder Insights
I hear the same objection constantly: our product is not for YouTube. We are B2B, we have a different audience, we are not sexy enough. Then I visited Shadow Foam, an industrial product with a 135,000-subscriber channel, and it put every one of those excuses to rest. […]
Founder Insights
A 16-hour pilot turned into an entire project and a client running a commercial on Times Square. Paul Ryazanov on why starting small is how you earn the big work. […]
Ecommerce Strategy, Founder Insights
Paul Ryazanov on why a strategic planning meeting beats a Christmas party for uniting a team, and how aligning business, development, and marketing sets the year. […]
Founder Insights
Paul Ryazanov on why he told an ecommerce CEO that her personal brand is one of the most powerful tools she has for scaling, and why most founders underuse it. […]
Ecommerce Strategy
Paul Ryazanov on the outdated myth that Shopify is only for simple stores, and why the platform now runs some of the most complex, high-volume ecommerce in the world. […]
Ecommerce Strategy
A client hit one million visitors in a month on WooCommerce. Paul Ryazanov on why the platform scales further than its reputation suggests, with the right stack. […]
Ecommerce Strategy, Founder Insights
Three to four days of work a month, no costly rebuild, and a store grew revenue by £280,000. Paul Ryazanov on why incremental beats the big rebuild. […]
Founder Insights
Transparency, honesty, responsibility. Paul Ryazanov on the simple principle he runs MageCloud by: advise every client the way you would advise your own mum. […]
Ecommerce Strategy, Founder Insights
Paul Ryazanov on why LinkedIn now beats Google for winning ecommerce clients, the AI-search shift behind it, and the system that took him from 7,000 to 8,362 connections. […]
Founder Insights
Paul Ryazanov on why MageCloud started documenting its agency journey on LinkedIn, what two months changed, and why feed quality beats follower count. […]
Ecommerce Strategy, Founder Insights
A vendor who only agrees with you is a warning sign. Paul Ryazanov on why he distrusts a developer who never pushes back, and how to vet one properly. […]
Founder Insights, General
One company made cancelling feel impossible. Another answered in a minute from a war zone. Paul Ryazanov on what BT and monobank reveal about real support. […]
Ecommerce Strategy
A store’s organic traffic fell from 2,000 to 160 clicks a day and no agency could explain why. Paul Ryazanov on why a parallel second site is smart insurance. […]
Founder Insights
A brand walked away from a tool that would have made money because one vendor’s quote felt too risky. Paul Ryazanov on why owners must control their vendors. […]