Why Networking Is Not What You Think It Is When most people hear the word networking, they picture awkward conferences with name badges, forced small talk over warm white wine, and a stack of business cards they will never look at again. I understand why so many ecommerce founders avoid […]
A Partnership Built on Trust One of the most rewarding things about running MageCloud is hearing from clients about how working with us has changed their business. Recently, the team at Brikers shared their experience of partnering with us, and their story perfectly illustrates what we believe a client-agency relationship […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]