Archive for January 2007

Adding a Little Bling to Your Site

I’ve seen a few merchants ask how to add a favicon to their site. If you don’t know what a favicon is, it’s the small icon that appears for some sites in the address bar of your browser or in the bookmarks or favorites listings.

Figure 1: Favicon appearing in the Address bar

Figure 2: Favicon appearing [...]

Free Wisdom While Supplies Last

Ever wish you could hang out and have a drink with over 100 top marketing professionals. Imagine the stories, lessons, and other nuggets of wisdom you could pick up and apply to your business. Well I’m not sure what bar you would need to go to or what conference to crash in order to find [...]

Dressing up Your Invoices

Reading through merchant emails lately has allowed me to see some feature requests that I hadn’t heard of before. One request that I saw a few emails for was a means to add a company logo to order invoices or packing slips. Merchants were concerned about the “out of the box” experience (the process of [...]

Keeping the Holiday Momentum

Today’s post comes from Scott Sanfilippo, co-founder and President of Solid Cactus, a full-service web design company specializing in the development of Yahoo! Stores. Scott and his business partner Joe Palko co-founded one of the first e-commerce sites, FerretStore.com, in 1994. After years of selling ferret hats, Scott still enjoys working in the pet [...]