Gorilla Commerce Honored with Magento Partner Excellence Award

Gorilla Commerce has announced that they have received a Magento Partner Excellence Award 2012 Imagine Conference that recently took place in Las Vegas, NV.
Chicago,IL (PRWEB) May 08, 2012
Gorilla Commerce, an award winning, full-service commerce solutions provider, has announced they were presented a Magento Partner Excellence Award at the 2012 Imagine eCommerce Conference. Replacing the Magento Partner of the Year award, which the company won in 2011, The Partner Excellence designation recognizes Gorilla’s ongoing dedication to producing exceptional sites for brand manufacturers, multichannel retailers, and web-only merchants on the world’s fastest growing ecommerce platform.
“Magento’s Solution Partner channel plays a critical role in the growth and development of Magento. These creative, innovative and technically astute companies are at the heart of our success,” said Scott Dahlgren, Department Head, Channel Sales at Magento.
Gorilla is one of only ten solution partners to receive the prestigious Partner Excellence Award, among the more than 330 official solution partners worldwide. The Partner Excellence Award is presented based on a range of criteria including, Magento Enterprise revenue, implementation quality and overall customer satisfaction.
Gorilla, a Magento Gold Solution Partner, has built a dedicated, in-house design, development and strategy team to support the most complex Magento Enterprise projects, from initial discovery to post-launch managed services. This has led to numerous other honors for the company, including multiple Webby and Interactive Media Awards for their Magento work.
A significant component of this success with Magento is the company’s embrace of the Magento Certified Developer program. With a firm-wide plan to certify all developers on staff, Gorilla has taken a leadership position in this category, with 15 certified Magento engineers at the time of the award.
“Winning the Magento Partner Excellence Award is the result of a complete team effort. It’s a reflection of the outstanding work our design, development, strategy and post-launch support teams contribute to producing innovative ecommerce solutions for our clients on the Magento platform,” said Brian Grady, Principal at Gorilla.
About Magento: The Magento ecommerce platform serves more than 110,000 merchants worldwide and is supported by a global ecosystem of solution partners and third-party developers. Magento is a feature-rich, open-source, enterprise-class platform that offers merchants a high degree of flexibility and control over the user experience, catalog, content and functionality of their online store.
About Gorilla: Since 1994, leading brands, retailers, manufacturers and wholesalers have turned to Gorilla to solve their toughest ecommerce challenges and innovate solutions that elevate their businesses across sales channels. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Gorilla offers a complete range of solutions, including award-winning website design, development, strategy, and post-launch managed services that combine to create a smarter species of commerce. gorillagroup.com
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60 Percent of App Developers Don't Break Even

Hoping to strike it rich with your mobile app, a la Instagram? Don't quit your day job just yet.
A new survey from app marketing firm App Promo revealed that 80 percent of developers are not generating enough revenue with their app to support a standalone business. Worse yet, 60 percent aren't even earning enough to break even with development costs.
In the survey of more than 100 "qualified" app developers, 68 percent said their total revenue to date was $5,000 or less, while 20 percent have earned between $5,000 to $50,000, and a mere 12 percent made more than $50,000. When it came to download numbers, 63 percent said their app was downloaded 50,000 times or less, while 11 percent had 500,000 or more downloads.
The survey also suggests that in order to succeed, developers need to do more than just build an app. The top earners in the survey, or those who have made more than $50,000 off their app to date, all apparently had a marketing budget and spent 14 percent of their time, on average, promoting their app.
"A definitive correlation exists between the level of success a developer sees with their app and the amount of time and money they spend on marketing this product," the survey states.
But most developers don't spend that much time promoting their apps. Fifty-two percent spend 5 percent or less of their time on marketing efforts.
Meanwhile, March saw a "dramatic decline" in the number of iPhone apps downloaded, according to recent data from mobile app marketing firm Fiksu. The top 200 free U.S. iPhone apps garnered 4.45 million downloads a day in March, down from 6.35 million per day in February.
Last year, one survey found that the top 1 percent of iOS game developers make a third of the revenue.
For more, see the infographic below.
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