Archive for May, 2005

It’s here… the premier issue of our client newsletter, The Solid Cactus News. We’ve designed it as a communication tool to keep you up to date with what’s happening at Solid Cactus and to provide you with tips and tricks on how to get the most out of your e-commerce store. Look inside and you’ll see that even though it’s summer, we’re gearing up for the holidays with ways to get your site and your backend prepared for the biggest shopping season of the year. After all, it’s only a few months away!

Solid Cactus, Inc., recently presented a workshop entitled “Yahoo! Solutions for Businesses” at the 2005 Small eBusiness World conference held in Chicago May 6 – 7, 2005. Participants heard co-founder and President of Solid Cactus, Joe Palko, discuss how he and co-founder Scott Sanfilippo developed a leading on line pet… Read More

Tags: Joe Palko, Kurt Illian, Small eBusiness World, Yahoo Merchant Solutions, Yahoo Small Business

When start-up performance apparel retailer, Zensah.com, needed to get on the web, they called upon Solid Cactus to get them there, and get them there fast. “We are going up against very large companies, with huge resources. We needed a website that looked on par with the bigger companies out there,” commented… Read More

Tags: Macromedia Flash, Ryan Oliver, Yahoo Merchant Solutions, Zensah

How modern is your e-business? Are you taking advantage of the speed and automation of the internet, or are you still processing orders one by one? Solid Cactus can organize and automate virtually all of the daily tasks involved in running your Yahoo! Store. Our system is scalable from the small home business to the Fortune 500 companies, and it is completely secure. Imagine a day with our web-based order system in your e-business….

It’s no coincidence how many of the laws of business intersect with the laws of e-commerce. Appearance is crucial in getting your customers to visit either your brick-and-mortar store or your e-commerce site. The nicer your store, the more customers you’ll generate, whether on Main Street or in cyberspace. But appearance isn’t everything. If your store is easy to navigate and your products are easy to find, you’ll improve the customers’ shopping experience and your own bottom line.

There’s an old saying in sports, “if you’re not getting better, you’re getting worse.” It’s true in business too. Solid Cactus clients expect the very best from their web sites; it is our responsibility to meet those expectations. The best recommendation to our next client is to show how we helped our last client. Here are some of the ways we’ve improved to help you improve…