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New Balance and Absolunet Take Top Honors at PIMpoint Summit in Chicago
inRiver highlights partners and clients who use product information management to fuel eCommerce and digital transformations. Montreal, Quebec – InRiver’s PIMpoint summit culminated with a celebration of client success and partner dedication, Absolunet took top...
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Magento 2.3.3 Details, Holiday Code Freeze and a Much Improved Security Patching Process
An overview of Magento’s most recent update, why patching just got smarter and exactly when will it be too late to do any of this before the holidays. Read on.Today, Magento is releasing 3 new versions of their platform including patches for 2.2.x and 2.3.2 and a new...
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HVAC + eCommerce
How mobile and digital are redefining customer expectations. This is 3 examples of HVAC distributors who are already bridging the digital gap. 6 signs your custom/Current HVAC website is costing you sales
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Cyber Monday Marketing Checklist
Collaborate to Compete: 6 strategies for brand manufacturers and retailers. A Practical Guide for Winning During the Most Important Time of the Year. How to stand out amongst thousands of companies vying for consumer attention. The foundations for working...
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How Manufacturers and Distributors Can Bridge the Digital Gap
Change is hard In B2B, the sales culture has historically centered on phone calls and quotas, not finding easier ways for customers to engage with your company. The hardest part of getting new technology rolling is wading through the noise of what is actually going...
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Amazon: B2B’s Friend or Foe?
Is Amazon a friend or a foe? Well, both. Truthfully, both Amazon and other marketplaces like eBay (especially if you are in the car parts industry) have significant advantages in terms of: large resources to test new technology, name recognition, and a reputation for...
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The 8 Things Your B2B eCommerce Platform Should Do
Choosing a new eCommerce platform signals that you are trying to make your customers’ lives easier. That’s good. When it comes to technology or your digital infrastructure, the platform you pick plays a big part in your customer experience. Here are 8 important...
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6 Signs Your B2B Website is Costing You Sales
Is your website helping or hindering your growth?Here are 6 signs that your website might be costing you sales: Non-transactional site. Customers want to make a purchase. But your website is not transactional. At best this slows down the customer’s purchasing...
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2020: The State of B2B eCommerce
B2B is online ... but you knew that. You’ve heard the buzz words. You know that “omnichannel” is a thing. And you’ve read the predictions about the percentage of B2B transactions that will happen online in 2020 and beyond. It’s good to have a finger on the pulse of...
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Get the Most Out of inRiver PIM with these 3 New Features
The newest updates from inRiver will help you export data, improve connectors and work en français. Read this article for our technical take on inRiver Product Marketing Cloud (iPMC)’s latest updates: Syndicate application REST API iPMC Internationalization. 1....
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3 High-ROI Ways to Improve Search on Insite
There is no single perfect search engine. This is something that I regularly tell our Insite clients. Getting your onsite search to provide the best results for each and every search query is an impossible task. That being said, Insite Software is using ElasticSearch...
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Preventing Enterprise eCommerce Transformation Failure, Part 4: The Nearly Impossible Task of Process Mapping
From a digital perspective, you have no idea how complex your business actually is. TL;DR: This goes beyond change management. Mapping out how data flows, what does what and what goes where, layered with who is responsible for what is harder than it sounds....
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The Many Possibilities of inRiver Product Marketing Cloud’s New REST API
Easily send data from your PIM to external systems without custom development. The Absolunet team is all abuzz about inRiver Product Marketing Cloud (iPMC)’s new rollout: the REST API. This feature will opens exciting possibilities for...
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Trying Out Insite Software’s A/B Testing Functionality
Insite’s most exciting functionality may also be one of its most underused. Our team played with it to see how it really works. Last year, Insite Software released InsiteCommerce® version 4.4.4, which included major enhancements to their B2B...
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Absolunet Brings Home Coveted Prize from Magento Imagine
Winner of the Spirit of Excellence Award, the 240 person agency is celebrated for its growth and the quality of its work through the Adobe eCommerce platform. Montreal, Quebec – May 17th 2019– Absolunet brings home one of the most prestigious prizes for an...
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PIM Review: 3 New Key Features in inRiver’s Most Recent Release
The leading PIM solution’s newest updates create important opportunities for merchantsInRiver’s newest features discussed in this article:Content segmentationApplication TemplateDelimited Import Adapter 1. Content SegmentationAs your company...
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Highlights from ENGAGE Montreal 2019
ENGAGE: An Absolunet and Magento Peer-To-Peer Retreat on How to Take Your eCommerce from Good to Great On April 12th, Absolunet teamed up with Magento to host our 5th ENGAGE eCommerce retreat. Held at the beautiful Phi Centre in Old Montreal, the merchants in...
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eCommerce Compliance Checklist
A practical, layperson’s guide to avoiding lawsuits and PR headaches. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Canada Anti-Spam Law (CASL) Personal Information Protection and...
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What is PIM?
With PIM or Product Information Management systems, business users can manage all of their product content for all of their channels… in one centralized resource. Read our playful PIM ebook to see how it works. How PIM Helps Product governance + clarity: With a PIM...
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Magento Merchant Insights: Release v2.3.1
The industry-leading eCommerce platform focuses on speed and efficiency in their newest release. Here is a breakdown of v2.3.1 and our take on the developments: Page Builder Only available for Magento Commerce, Page Builder provides an...
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MS Dynamics NAV + Magento. An Omnichannel Playbook for Retailers
Industry-focused White Paper Omnichannel Playbook for Retailers Who Use Dynamics 365 / LS NAV / Magento Explore the 9 omnichannel functionalities and how Magento and Dynamics makes the run: BOPIS (Click-n-collect). Ship-from-Store. Omnichannel Inventory. Omnichannel...
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Preventing Enterprise eCommerce Transformation Failure, Part 3: Planning for Change and Delays
Delayed approvals, scope change and new business realities. Can you plan for change without changing the plan? Think big, plan small and act fast. No matter how well the transformation is planned, approvals, scope change and business realities will impact the roadmap....
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inRiver PIM User Insight: Latest Improvements and New Outbound Connector
The industry-leading PIM solution continues to make your work easier! inRiver Product Marketing Cloud (iPMC)’s latest updates contain several improvements and bug fixes on many of their applications. Read on for our take on: Contribute...
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Preventing Enterprise eCommerce Transformation Failure, Part 2: The Role of I.T.
How I.T. can shut down the CMO-driven initiative. TL;DR : This may not be an I.T. initiative, but they are absolutely involved. Get them in the room as early as possible. Underestimating the Role of I.T. The situation: More than half of eCommerce implementations will...
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BOPIS: A Must-Have Omnichannel Capability
Whether customers interact with you in-store, online, on mobile or most likely all of the above, they expect a consistent, reliable and on-brand experience. For many retailers, BOPIS is the first omnichannel functionality they provide their...
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Preventing Enterprise eCommerce Transformation Failure, Part 1: The Curse of the CEO’s Priority
Has the CEO set up the eCommerce / PIM / Marketplace / D2C initiative for failure by declaring it a priority? TL;DR: If the eCommerce/PIM/Marketplace/D2C initiative is really a priority, the CEO must be involved with defining/approving scope. About the...
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Absolunet Hired 23 eCommerce Experts in January, Set to Add 55 More in Early 2019
The North American eCommerce agency expects to reach 275 this year to meet growing demand for retail/B2C and B2B eCommerce expertise. Montreal, Quebec – February 115h, 2019 – Absolunet, who has multiplied their client list in recent years in both Retail/B2C and B2B...
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eCommerce x Accessibility: Sizing Up the Market
1 in 5 Americans lives with a disability and what that means for eCommerce One in five Americans live with a certain degree of disability (all disabilities combined). That proportion is growing every year as society ages, but general health indicators decline. In...
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Car Parts, Automotive Aftermarket & eCommerce
Profitable Omnichannel Strategies for B2B, B2C and D2C merchants As a merchant in the automotive aftermarket, you are facing a lot of disruptions: The supply chain is no longer linear … or simple. There are more products than ever. Your buyers are digitally savvy....
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Magento vs. Shopify Plus
A comparative chart to help you choose between Magento and Shopify Magento is the most installed eCommerce platform in the world and has a huge community of developers. Shopify Plus is the fastest-growing eCommerce platform. How are they different? How are...
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The End of Free Returns + Sales Tax Everywhere: The 10 eCommerce Trends That Will Impact Retailers and Consumers in 2019
Absolunet analyzed over 200 eCommerce initiatives to predict the 10 trends that will have the greatest impact in 2019. Montreal - News Release - Absolunet reveals the top 10 eCommerce Trends that will impact North American retailers in 2019. The effects...
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inRiver 6.3 SP4 Update: Enhanced Search Capabilities and Better PDF Catalogs
Content Store Just Got Better for inRiver Users It has been over a year since inRiver released an update for their on-premise version (SP3). The new version, 6.3 SP4, is now available for download. It includes some exciting new features and a long list of bug fixes....
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