Archive for December, 2008

Friday, December 19th proved that Mother Nature can still pack a punch when it comes to winter storms. About 8″ of snow is piled up in the backyard here at Solid Cactus in Shavertown and about 6″ at our call center in Wilkes-Barre. Plus, another 2 to 4 inches is planned for Sunday [...]

Tags: Customer Service, E-Commerce, e-commerce preparation, e-commerce store marketing, holiday, holiday shoppers, Yahoo Merchant Solutions, Yahoo Small Business, yahoo store

December 19th, 2008
The storms blew in just as predicted and left us under a thick blanket of snow. Despite roadways being covered by snow, sleet and freezing rain, our PM Call Center team, lead by Alison Wydawski, faced up to Old Man Winter! Alison’s team understood just how important it was to handle [...]

So, we are quite a motley crew here at Solid Cactus, and although we work hard, we play hard as well. Being in Northeast Pennsylvania, we generally get a good amount of snow each winter, sometimes all at once… as is the case today. We are expecting 6-10 inches by the end of [...]

Well, it is that time of year again…time for Northeastern Pennsylvania to see beautiful blankets of snow as we approach the holidays. Pictured is our lovely home in the midst of the expected 6-12 inch snowstorm we are enjoying. (Well, the skiers are enjoying…but the drivers of cars with no 4WD or traction…”sleds” [...]

Ok, so it’s no secret around Solid Cactus that I’m no fan of snow…  It’s snowing in Northeastern Pennsylvania today and boy is it coming down out there!  But part of being Solid Cactus is realizing that our customers aren’t all from the Northeast… In fact our customers are in Florida, Texas, California, and other [...]

A quick reminder as we move into 2009….
Developing relationships with your affiliates can take a tremendous amount of time and effort… so be wary not to throw it all away with a change that you deem small. Remember, although affiliate marketing can be daunting to understand, its not always something to be left up [...]

What’s your take on Social Media? Are you writing it off as a trend, or a destined-to-implode unto it’s unscripted nature virtual animal? How do you feel about rules in general? Beth Harte, of The Harte of Marketing recently asked, Who made the social media rules? Below are my thoughts, but I’d love to know [...]

After years of carving out a niche of highly dedicated, involved, loyal & die-hard fans Apple has essentially turned their back on their base. I’m not MacWorld historian but I’ve got a pretty good idea that it’s a summit for die-hards, early adopters and major media press.
Apple just annouced they won’t be exhibiting at MacWorld [...]

They’re the “first couple” of Solid Cactus and they’re on video today. Katrina Domkoski is the manager of the Solid Cactus Call Center in Wilkes-Barre and her husband Joe is a Project Manager with our custom programming group at HQ in Shavertown. Learn the secrets behind a married couple working for the same [...]

Another new merchant on Commission Junction in the Beauty category… DermalRenu.com.
DermalRenu.com offers an advanced anti-aging skin care system that eliminates the signs of aging by reducing the fine lines of wrinkles while promoting a youthful skin texture. Product offerings include The Dermal Renu System, which consists of four skin care products, two for [...]

We recently launched a new Share-A-Sale merchant in the Real Estate category, MySaleByOwner.com.
With the housing market in flux, more and more home owners are looking to sell their house outright, instead of using a listing agent.  MySaleByOwner.com offers listing packages as low as $10.99, and syndicates your home listing to Trulia, Zillow, PropBot, Homescape, [...]

Today I sit down and talk with Jeff Stolarcyk, Sr. SEO Account Manager from our Internet Marketing department. Jeff has been with us about a year and does a great deal of writing for both clients and Solid Cactus. With multiple blogs, client work, eBiz Insider articles and wordsmithing eBiz Insider copy before [...]

Greg was so kind to pass this link on to us:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7784908.stm
It seems there was a security flaw in Internet Explorer. To their credit, the fix is now in, and only two days after this news story was posted. (Don’t you love how hard it is to tell if someone is being ironic over [...]

I’ve always been a fan of copywriters stepping forward to offer advice on the economy of words. More often than not, good ideas lose their impact when overstuffed with filler words that make you lose sight of what’s important. Now I know we all do it. Just writing this entry I’ve had to remove two [...]

I want to talk to you about me buying beer glasses. I like the double hung stay cold glassware. I went looking today on Froogle and found target. What a great way to use the cross sell. I did not even know there were so many type of my favorite glassware. I am now going to [...]