Archive for the ‘Client Stories’ Category

Selling the sharpest looking uniforms requires an even sharper looking website. When his previous developer fell short, Averill Bromfield took his online store, sharperuniforms.com, to Solid Cactus for a design and marketing overhaul.

“The development team at Solid Cactus can make anything happen. They jump through hoops for their clients.”– Averill Bromfield, president of Averill’s Sharper Uniforms

For five years, Averill’s Sharper Uniforms has been providing high quality uniforms to restaurants, hotels, casinos and other hospitality industy establishments throughout the country. Three years ago, president Averill Bromfield hired Solid Cactus to redesign his eCommerce store. Increased traffic and sales made Bromfield a very happy business man, so happy that he began utilizing Solid Cactus’ Internet marketing team to continue his success. (more…)

Pam Macharola can recognize a sweet deal, after all she’s worked in candy almost all her life. So while her Internet marketing efforts weren’t exactly milk duds, having managed services turned out to be a real sugary deal.

“We let Solid Cactus as the experts run it for us so we don’t waste money or make a wrong move.” —Pam Macharola, BlairCandy.com

Blair Candy has been selling online since 2000, but the family owned and operated business began as a brick and mortar store (retail and wholesale) in 1939. Pam Macharola, third generation co-owner and Internet division president stays on top of the changing trends in Internet marketing.

Macharola says the company looked into Solid Cactus when they first entered eCommerce to help with their initial website that was unfortunately not “built to sell.” Solid Cactus started from the bottom up, redesigning and programming a new site. Since then, Blair Candy has added several managed Solid Cactus services including pay per click (PPC), search engine optimization (SEO), and comparison shopping engines (CSE). (more…)

Bubble Shack Hawaii balances their natural homemade roots with thriving success; this year they made a million dollars and were named one of Hawaii’s Fastest 50 of the fastest growing small businesses. Holly Harding needed a site that offered a professional look and marketing abilities for the growing business, while keeping to the “funky by nature” and homemade feel of the company.

“We really needed a website to assign the essence of what Bubble Shack Hawaii is about… If you look at our [new] website, all of that’s pretty apparent.” —Holly Harding, BubbleShackHawaii.com

When Bubble Shack Hawaii first started as an in-home operation from Holly and Ashley Harding’s Hawaii home five years ago, Holly already recognized the need for an online presence. Within four months, a friend designed and developed the first Bubble Shack Hawaii online store. As the company expanded from selling in the local market to the wholesale market, they went to a web design company for a new site. They were told the new site would be user-friendly; instead the store was done entirely in HTML. Harding had to learn basic coding in order to manage it and the navigation was hard to index. (more…)