Google and the Magento team are joining forces in presenting Magento’s native implementation for Google Website Optimizer. If you are passionate to increase sales and conversion rates, improve your landing pages, and decrease the cost of your customer acquisition, sign up for the webinar today. The webinar will take place on Wed., December 3rd at 9:30 AM PST (17:30 GMT).
Topics will include:
A quick introduction to website testing and why you should test
How you can radically increase your conversion rate with Google Website Optimizer and Magento
Top testing tips plus mistakes to avoid on your first test
Live landing page critiques of eCommerce implementations
Tips and Tricks on getting the most out of the Google Website Optimizer
Varien, the Magento company, is continuing to grow and we are seeking a talented, motivated and entrepreneurial minded project manager. Our product, Magento, is the fastest growing eCommerce platform in the world with over 500,000+ downloads. If you enjoy working in a fast paced, innovative environment, this is the place for you.
The individual will provide structure and overall vision on our projects. This includes interfacing heavily with our technical teams to assure that the solutions are understood and address the customer’s business requirements.
Responsibilities:
Act as the main point of contact between Varien and the client.
Develops technical specifications for web applications and feature upgrades.
Oversees the launch of new features.
Coordinates among cross-functional teams to identify challenges, recommend and implement solutions.
Provides support, administration, and user training for web-based tools.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in engineering, communications, or information sciences, with two (2) plus years experience in Web/interactive/technical product or project management
Solid understanding of web technologies, usability, and information architecture.
Understanding of platform and browser compatibility issues.
Knowledge of basic data management, database concepts, and database-driven Web applications.
Excellent communication, project management, and expectation management.
Ability to handle multiple, competing priorities, meet deadlines, manage risk, and troubleshoot problems.
Detail-oriented approach to work.
This is a full-time position in our Los Angeles headquarters.
Interested in joining our team? Send an email to jobs@varien.com with your resume and salary expectation. We look forward to hearing from you!
As the Varien blog continues it’s short somewhat long hiatus, a Magento update post is in order. Here’s whats happening in the Magento world:
Magento 1.1.x is now available for download. For this major release we focused on expanding Magento’s product configuration options, streamlining integration between strategic Magento modules and external applications (API), increasing the flexibility of the core tax module to allow for Canadian and EU tax rules and boosting the overall performance of the Magento Platform.
Magento wins ‘Best New Open Source Project’ at the 2008 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards!
Magento also wins ‘Best of Open Source Enterprise Applications’ at InfoWorld’s BOSSIE awards.
Our friends at the Get Elastic blog will be conducting a Web Analytics webinar (details below) on Thursday, July 17th, 2008 at 9 am Pacific.
You are probably tired of having a boatload of data and nothing much coming of it. Not any more. In this webinar, leading analytics author and evangelist Avinash Kaushik covers three specific areas you need to focus on to get the highest possible ROI from your Web Analytics investment. You’ll learn:
The fun clickstream analysis you should do
Interesting ways to listen to your customers
Why you need to fall in love with experimentation (and all it takes to fall in love is six minutes)!
We are extremely excited and proud to announce the production release of Magento 1.0 (Download | Release Notes). The new community site will be online later this week and feature additional functionality, highlighted by Magento Connect.
Under the Radar will uncover 32 startups, that have launched within the year, showcasing the newest web apps created by developers with a quest for innovation and a tendency towards disruption. Having launched numerous companies into startup stardom, acquisition and beyond, Under the Radar is the most discerning and reliable platform today for discovering tomorrow’s leading technology companies … Out of the hundreds of nominations and startups we found in our own research - we’ve looked at them all - these startups are the best of the best. We’re looking for game-changers, innovators and, most of all, startups that have a real shot at success.
Google has just released a tool that let’s you compare and gain insight into what people are buying and selling online. Google Checkout Trends aggregates the sales data of Google Checkout merchants and displays a rich graph with the results (revenue), filterable by date range and price. An online merchant is now able to determine how ‘hot’ a certain item is and compare with other products.
Check it out for yourself. Google Checkout Trends is an invaluable tool for online merchants. We’ll post a more extensive review once we’ve had more time to play with it.
Magento will be presented in a session titled â€Building an Ecommerce Site with Open Source Tools / An Overview of Open Source Commerce Solutions†at SCALE 6x, Southern California Linux Expo. The event takes place on February 8-10, 2008 at the Westin Los Angeles Airport.
The Southern California Linux Expo is an annual Linux, Open-Source, and Free Software conference held in Los Angeles, CA. This is one of three community run open-source events in the United States.
The Southern California Linux also known as SCALE has been held annually since 2002. The event features an expo floor with both commercial and .org / non-profit exhibitors, as well as 2 days of seminars on the topic of Linux and Open Source software. Some past exhibitors have included: IBM, Sharp, MySQL, Debian, KDE, OpenDocument Fellowship, Google, MythTV, and others.
