5 Keys to Successful Magento Support

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“Managed Services” is a service offered to businesses that rely on a software or service that requires support, maintenance, and or customizations.  Crimson Agility provides Magento Managed Services as a services offering to its clients or any Magento merchant on Magento 1 or Magento 2.

As your business grows, the impact of unexpected downtime, security issues, or a stale site can result is huge losses of revenue, customers, and credibility.  Our clients at Crimson Agility depend on us to ensure that their site is stable, performing at a high level, and secure. Additionally, many of our clients are constantly evolving their site to grow sales, gain competitive advantage over competitors, and exceed their customers expectations.  As both consultant and developer, Crimson Agility is viewed by our clients as a trusted partner.

When you are looking for Magento support, help or development services, the following critical success criteria should be evaluated.   

  1. Work with a team of Magento Certified and Trained developers.  Magento is a powerful platform and framework for e-commerce, not just a PHP application.  If the team you entrust to work on your site is not trained and certified, they will likely take the path of least resistance to doing things, leaving your site vulnerable and performing poorly.  Always work with a team that follows Magento best practices. Doing things the “Magento Way” ensures your site remains supportabe, stable, performing well, and secure.
  2. A good managed services or support team is going to have a clearly defined methodology built around principles that promote communication, control, and transparency.  I found this resonates with our clients as what they’ve been missing or lacking prior to working with Crimson Agility.  The lack of any of these when you are paying for services and support is incredibly frustrating.
  3. “Continuity of Care” is an important concept that I first learned about from my wife, who as a nurse, pointed out to me the importance of “continuity of care”. Basically, the same nurse is assigned to the same patient as much as possible resulting in better care and a more personalized approach to care.  By assigning a single point of contact to our clients and one or two developers that consistently work for you; you benefit from a relationship where our team understands your vision, the nuances of your site, and the history. There is no bouncing around between different developers or overseas staff in remote time zones that you’ve never met or talked to.  
  4. No risk, no long-term commitments, quality Magento support.  There is no need to sign a long-term contract until you are ready to do so and it is in the best interest of your business.  Crimson Agility offers an ad-hoc approach to support and development that allows you to pay as you go. If our support is not working out for you, you can stop at any time.  This approach is the equivalent of a “trial”. Most of our clients started this way. After working with us for a few months, they switched to a managed services plan that provided discounts and additional services that aligned with their needs.
  5. The thing that our clients value most is responsiveness and quality results fast, they want to know that when there is a problem, we’ll respond quickly; if they call with an emergency, someone will always answer the phone.  At Crimson Agility, if we get a call due to an emergency you will always be connected with one of your team and they’ll typically have the issue resolved within 1-2 hours.  In addition, when it’s not an emergency, we are able to take most simple requests and complete them within a day or two of being logged by you. The pace and rhythm of what to do and when is completely governed by you – important for planning.

As your business grows you’ll want the piece of mind that you have a trusted Magento partner to help manage, support, maintain, and grow your Magento site.  Crimson Agility offers several plans including the ad-hoc support plan and accommodates to clients big and small.  Your dedicated team of certified professionals awaits your call. Call us today or visit our Magento Managed Services & Support page on our site.

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USING THE MAGENTO PLATFORM? 4 WAYS MAGENTO MANAGED SERVICES CAN BENEFIT YOUR WEBSITE

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There are many different e-commerce platforms to choose from. Deciding which one is optimal for your website can be imperative to the success of your business. Magento is a well known and trusted platform designed with flexibility and functionality in mind.

The Magento platform offers different packages to meet the needs of a wide variety of users. The Community Edition is open-source and free to use, intended for small to medium-sized business. The Enterprise Edition is designed for more established businesses, offering more tools and a stronger framework for large scale operations. Whether you need a little help, or a lot, running your Magento Enterprise or Community platform, there’s an affordable Magento managed services plan for you. Here are 4 ways that Magento managed services can benefit your website:

  1. Optimization for Mobile Responsiveness: More users each year are using mobile devices to access the internet. Your e-commerce business should be optimized for mobile responsiveness. A responsive website ensures that all users, across the board, will be able to navigate your web page. Mobile users aren’t simply accessing your website, they’re also paying for products and services on their smartphones and tablets.
  2. Website Performance Monitoring: Magento offers the capability to monitor the performance of your digital enterprise. This will allow you to see what is bringing in the majority of your revenue, or what you may need to improve to yield better results in terms of security and sales performance.
  3. Abundance of Development Options: Whether you’re a developer yourself, or you outsource your business’s design and functionality to Magento professionals, there is no lack of customizable options for your digital storefront. Magento offers the option to add third-party systems to your e-commerce market. Options such as this ensure that whatever your needs may be, they can be sufficiently met.
  4. Security, Performance and Content Management: With Magento, you can provide your marketplace with levels of security and performance to meet your needs. You retain complete control of your website, and have the ability to fortify and optimize your content to achieve desired results. The platform features options to assist with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to make sure your digital market is highly visible. This will increase traffic to your website and ensure your services or products are widely accessible to your target audience.

Setting up an e-commerce business can be a challenge, but it doesn’t have to be. Whether you do it yourself, or hire a professional support team like Crimson Agility, Magento managed services can improve the functionality, security and user experience of your website.

Our Magento managed services plans are designed to provide rapid, high-quality work to support you in sustaining and growing your business with Magento. If you are interested, we invite you to schedule a complimentary assessment today with one of our certified Magento professionals.