Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
It's really difficult to write a good manual for a product like Zen Cart. The chief obstacle to universal acclaim is the fact that the market is highly segregated: newbies who are unlikely to venture beyond modifying simple admin settings are not going to want to the customization details ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
I loved this image by lemasney of "the prevail whale."
to counter all the negative buzz Twitter is getting when its "fail whale" page is displayed.
Oh, Twitter. We know you can do better. And we're all rooting for you.
Posted in Fun | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
I was able to talk with the folks at Qualiteam, an Eastern European ecommerce vendor. They have two shopping cart products, X-Cart and LiteCommerce.
Thanks for talking with TheCartBlog.com, guys. Where are you located?
Our company is headquartered in Cyprus, with partner company offices in the Russian Federation.
How ...
Posted in Interviews, Cart Vendors | 2 Comments »
Monday, July 28th, 2008
They're called Threadless, and they've merged crowdsourcing and Web 2.0 style decisioning.
They make t-shirts.
$30M gross, 30% margin.
Here's the writeup from Inc. Magazine.
Posted in Entrepreneurship, News | 2 Comments »
Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Here's how it would look.
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
I got a pitch in today's mail for the American Express Gold Card. Now I already have the Blue Cash card from Amex, so why are they pitching me? "Because you're such a valued customer, we're offering you the opportunity to upgrade." So what exactly does this upgrade look like? ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
I wrote a piece of software that I called Checkout Candy, which does automatic upselling on the shopping cart and checkout pages of a Zen Cart, based on Better Together discounts.
I got an email last night (from someone who was obviously not a native English speaker) that said,
I have been ...
Posted in Fun | 1 Comment »
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
I'm a big fan of @gapingvoid. And I'm anxiously awaiting his book. But in the meantime, I'm reflecting on his top ten tips for being more creative:
1. Ignore everybody.
2. The idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to change the world.
3. Put the hours in.
4. ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
A bug has been found in Gift Wrap version 2.x which affects carts using PayPal IPN. Please move the file
includes/extra_configures/giftwrap_tables.php
to
includes/extra_datafiles/giftwrap_tables.php
A new zip file containing this fix (for Zen Cart 1.3.8) is now available from the downloads area.
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Melbourne, FL (my old home town) entrepreneurs who started e-Gold are in deep brown stuff. Is blaming your software the new Twinkie Defense?
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