Posted by Scott Sanfilippo on Aug 28, 2008
One of the many benefits of working at or visiting Solid Cactus is our own company run restaurant, Saguaro’s. Serving breakfast and lunch daily, Saguaro’s serves the 150+ team members at our Shavertown, PA corporate headquarters and offers lunch delivery to our 75+ team members at our call center in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
Taking a cue [...]
Posted by Solid Cactus on Aug 28, 2008
Solid Cactus team members will be attending the upcoming AsWas RocketPlace conference. The following is a message from AsWas CEO Debbie Levitt. See you in Vegas!
Hi from Debbie at As Was! We know that with the holiday season coming, many eBay sellers have lots of concerns… concerns about eBay’s changes, holiday season selling, your profitability, [...]
Posted by Scott Sanfilippo on Aug 27, 2008
Ok, those of you attending Solid Cactus Boot Camp in a few weeks, don’t get nervous, we’ll make it!
Construction on the final two former classrooms at the Solid Cactus Technology Center in Shavertown, PA has begun. Classrooms? Yes. We moved into a former elementary school in April 2008 and turned it into [...]
Posted by Scott Sanfilippo on Aug 26, 2008
The shoemaker’s children are shoeless no more!
Yesterday, August 25, 2008 at 5pm we launched the new Solid Cactus website. It’s the first complete overhaul in three years and was long overdue. Our Corporate Marketing team, under the direction of Greg Davis, has spent the past several months (and I mean several) working on [...]
Posted by Scott Sanfilippo on Aug 25, 2008
In this months edition of our print magazine, eBiz Insider, my column talks about customer service. The more I go through life, the more I realize that good customer service is becoming harder and harder to find. My article mentions a favorite online store - Zappos.com - that I buy from at least [...]
Posted by Scott Sanfilippo on Aug 24, 2008
Perhaps this is the best thing I’ve seen so far this election year:
Posted by Scott Sanfilippo on Aug 22, 2008
Many of you may know that in a past life I was the host of a radio talk show called “The Pet Guy Show” where each week for two hours, I would field calls from pet owners who had questions about anything to do with their pets. The show was actually a very creative [...]
Posted by Scott Sanfilippo on Aug 18, 2008
It’s been reported in many forums and on the Yahoo! Merchant Solutions system status page that on August 15th, some Yahoo! Stores experienced some “downtime” due to the failure of a a 3rd party add-on for Google Analytics from Monitus Tools.
According to their website, the Web Analytics Connector for Google Analytics…
…enables Google Analytics to properly [...]
Posted by Scott Sanfilippo on Aug 13, 2008
When we sold TheFerretStore.com to Dr. Fosters and Smith over a year ago, Joe and I wanted to remain e-commerce store owners, but obviously we couldn’t do anything pet related, so what is a guy to do? Open a Lawn & Garden supply website!
It happens that one of our previous suppliers was also a supplier [...]
Posted by Scott Sanfilippo on Aug 8, 2008
Can you name the guilty party in this picture showing off his “gift” from the Kingston Township Police in the Solid Cactus Technology Center parking lot?
To protect the innocent until proven guilty, I won’t reveal the person’s identity, bit I will say that yet another Cacti has been caught behaving badly! Seems as tho [...]
Posted by Scott Sanfilippo on Aug 7, 2008
I just finished hosting one of our Solid Cactus webinars called “Are you ready for the holidays?” Good question, right? I found it interesting to note that online sales are expected to increase 17% this year. With the economy the way it is right now, and an election coming up, it will [...]
Posted by Solid Cactus on Aug 7, 2008
As one of the best places to work in Pennsylvania, the management at Solid Cactus recognizes it’s various teams for their dedicated service. We’re proud to announce this month’s employee’s of the month for each department. Each has contributed to providing our client’s Proven Experience, Reliability, Innovative Products and Services and World Class Service!
Congratulations to [...]
Posted by Scott Sanfilippo on Aug 5, 2008
Calling all e-commerce store owners, it’s time once again for another Solid Cactus E-Commerce Boot Camp!
I’m preparing the agenda, lining up our special guest presenters and making dinner reservations for this exciting e-commerce conference. Anyone who has attended a Boot Camp in the past will tell you that food plays a very important role in [...]
Posted by Solid Cactus on Aug 4, 2008
You don’t exactly have to go into your attic and start untangling the lights yet, but if you are an ecommerce business owner, it’s that time of year to start getting ready for the holiday season. And, Solid Cactus is here to help you prepare. The forthcoming issue of eBiz Insider will be chock-full of useful [...]
Posted by Solid Cactus on Aug 4, 2008
We just couldn’t wait for Boot Camp in October to put on our cammo.
Donna Talarico (Solutions Advisor), Clayton Steele (Demand Generation), Kevin Baranowski (Demand Generation), Keith Kalmanowicz (Demand Generation), Audrey Korshoff (Solutions Advisor), Benjamin Mincavage (Design Team) and Audrey’s friend Sam headed to Skirmish U.S.A. for a day of paintball fun and games.