Archive for November, 2006

Graphic Designer Joe Karavis loves his job. “I get to do something different every day,” says Joe K. “Our clients sell every product you could think of, so work is always different.” Joe has a hand in everything Solid Cactus will assemble to show to a client. “I do the graphics, the… Read More

Protected by Cactus” is a suite of intellectual property protection services that Solid Cactus now provides to our clients. We have added Jonathan D. Tenenbaum, Esq. as General Counsel to our staff. With the growth of e-commerce, online store owners must protect their intellectual property such as logos, slogans, artwork, product descriptions and… Read More

According to a recent poll conducted through Yahoo! Polls by Harris Interactive, the 12th largest market research firm in the world, approximately 76% of holiday shoppers plan to shop online for their holiday gifts. 75% of which said they are likely to purchase their gifts from small businesses online. Respondenants expressed a high interest in websites… Read More

How do you build a better team? The simple answer is to get everyone to contribute what they do best. The road to that simple answer is not so simple, and it leads companies to try novel solutions. Solid Cactus recently spent a day playing—literally—with Robert Rasmussen. Robert has built his… Read More

With the Christmas season around the corner, web exposure becomes a requirement to be successful. Sure, search engines are good, but why not get noticed by Best of the Web. Besides their annual web awards, Best of the Web manages “the Internet’s oldest directory” with catagories ranging from current events and religion to… Read More

Okay, we confess. It wasn’t really a “boot camp” in the traditional sense. There was no shouting (unless you count Karaoke night), no humiliation (see Karaoke…) and no missed meals (heaven forbid!). Our first Solid Cactus Boot Camp was a great time and an outstanding learning experience. Two dozen e-commerce store… Read More

The month of October created a huge milestone in the history of the internet. According to Netcraft, an internet monitoring company, the 100 millionth piece of internet real-estate was obtained in the month of Oct. Netcraft began tracking web domains back in August of 1995, when there were only a whopping 18,000 hosted web domains… Read More