Thanks Team Members!

Wow, what a lunch! 400 slices of our favorite pizza from our neighbors at Pizza Perfect here in Shavertown were brought in to celebrate and recognize achievements of two of our team members; Kyle Ruane and Greg Paone. These two guys took advantage of opportunities that exist in the company for them to earn additional money and use their creativity to better benefit our customers. And it paid off for them - big time!

First, a contest was put out to all the members of our design team to come up with a new look for our Amazon Webstore site and our eBay Prostores site. Each designer was asked to submit a design for each site. If their design was chosen they would be given $500. Kyle Ruane submitted the two winning designs earning him $1,000.00! The new sites will be launching in the next 30 to 45 days.

In January, we rolled out a new incentive program for our Store Programming Group. Simply put, a programmer has the option to build features on their own time that they feel would be beneficial for our customers. They pitch their product ideas, get the green light and start building. Once the finished product passes all our QA checks, it is productized and released as a Solid Cactus feature. In turn, the programmer earns a percentage of sales for the first 90 days the product is for sale.

Greg Paone was the first programmer to see the benefits of this program. He created our “Flash Sequence Banners” which were a big hit with our customers. What was even a bigger hit was the $2,780.08 that Greg gets for coming up with the product. It was a win/win/win situation - Solid Cactus wins by getting a great product to offer, Greg wins by getting the cash and our clients win by getting an attractive feature designed to increase sales.

Several members of our Store Programming Group are putting the finishing touches on EIGHT new products that will be released to Boot Camp attendees during our April 22 - 24, 2009 Boot Camp. The rest of you will have to wait until our webinar on April 29th to see what these guys have been up to. But I can tell you this…. you WILL want to have all these new features on your store!

Take a moment to watch a video of today’s event and join me in congratulating Kyle and Greg for their success!