The Predictive Intent software is very clever for automated product recommendation and merchandising, which can be easily controlled through an administrative interface. Their software is already integrated with the Magento eCommerce platform, which makes it very easy for us to roll it out to any Live Concepts  client who would like to take advantage of it.

We are in fact already rolling this out to one of our new clients and including this software integration as an additional feature in all our proposals.

Magento Enterprise has features to allow rule-based creation of product associations, with a range of input data usable. Predictive Intent can take a retailer a step further using powerful, self-improving statistical algorithms to predict which product a customer needs to see more than any other.

We are looking for an experienced PHP Developer to join our highly professional team.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the technical delivery of multiple high specification websites with a focus on eCommerce using the Magento e-commerce software platform for a range of business both locally & national.

They will be working with our Web Project Manager and be responsible for a team of junior PHP Developers for whom they will be responsible.

Download a PDF of the Job Role Here

Our team is always growing and we are actively looking for highly skilled technical individuals with a flair for perfection! If you feel this describes you then please feel free to pass us your C.V. and we’ll keep it on record until a suitable position arises.

Please email your C.V. to info@liveconcepts.co.uk

4 Months ago they approached us to help them expand their online channel to their own eCommerce shop, this was a big leap for the company as they had no experience in this field.

4 months on and the site is live and they have already begun to recoup their initial investments in the site, though On & Off Site SEO, PPC & Shopping Comparison sites marketing, delivering them high average order value sales due to Cross & Up Sell functionality and great Conversion Rates due to the Persuasive Architecture we based the design of the site around.

All of this marketing traffic is 100% trackable using Google Analytics eCommerce tracking, so our client knows exactly how well all their marketing channels are performing and so apply budgets to those best performing.

It’s still early days but Google is spidering the site without any errors and already delivering page 1 organic search results, so for a site under 1 month old LCD Wall Brackets are well placed to make big inroads into this lucrative market place.

LCD Wall Brackets came to us to help them migrate their eBay operations over to an E-Commerce store. They had been trying to find an E-commerce developer who could deliver what they wanted within their budget and were just not happy with the solutions offered by other developers.

We have been able to offer them everything they require from an E-Commerce shop at an affordable price. In addition because of our extensive experience and knowledge of E-Commerce we have helped them plan their migration from eBay and assist in planning their online marketing strategy.

This encompasses all aspects of Pay Per Click & Search Engine Optimisation; Keyphrase research, on-site architecture & an off site linking and Social media campaign.

Development has begun and we hope to have the site out of Beta testing and live in the next 2 months!

Watch this space

The First Magento Event In The UK

Just found out about this great event taking place in London late April! It’s called Mage::Camp, the first Magento event to take place in the UK, at London’s Earls Court between April 28th and 30th.

This has been organized by ‘On Tap’, the comprehensive three day event is taking place alongside the massive Internet World 2009 exhibition – Europe’s longest running, best attended and biggest event for digital marketing and online business. So as well as meeting the movers and shakers in the Magento world, there’s a whole host of other things to see and do.

The event will feature Magento presentations aimed at all sectors – online merchants evaluating Magento, existing Magento store owners, developers and marketers.

The keynote session will be given by Roy Rubin, Varien’s founder and CEO.

For further information about the event, please visit www.magecamp.com

We’ll see you all there!

Great news the new Magento version 1.2.0 for download and upgrade.

This version includes numerous issue resolutions for Magento version 1.1.x and some highly requested new features such as:

• Support for Downloadable/Digital Products.
• Added Layered Navigation to site search result page, with control on the attribute level to include or exclude attributes used on the search results page.
• Improved site search to utilize MySQL fulltext search
• Added support for fixed-taxes on product level for such taxes as “State Environmental Fee” in the USA and “WEEE/DEEE” in the EU.
• Upgraded Zend Framework to the latest stable version 1.7.2
• Added a Layered Navigation Cache for improved performance of large catalogs

To see the full list of fixes and changes please visit the release notes page.

This is a great leap forward and just shows again how great this ecommerce platform is.

However this has now been solved with the release of the Royal Mail Shipping Options Extension this great extension.

The extensions initially only calculated UK rates but due to requests from the Magento Community; EU and World Wide rates were introduced. Currently most of the Royal Mail’s service line has been factored in, see the options below:

• Firstclass Packet
• Firstclass Packet (Recorded Signed for™)
• Special Delivery™ 9.00 am (Upto £50 Insurance)
• Special Delivery™ 9.00 am (Upto £1,000 Insurance)
• Special Delivery™ 9.00 am (Upto £2,500 Insurance)
• Special Delivery™ Next Day (Upto £500 Insurance)
• Special Delivery™ Next Day (Upto £1,000 Insurance)
• Special Delivery™ Next Day (Upto £2,500 Insurance)
• Airmail
• Airsure® (Upto £36 Insurance)
• Airsure® (Upto £500 Insurance)
• International Signed For™

We think this is great and can’t wait for mot carrier extensions to be introduced!