Magento Quick Tips – Managing Products and Customers
Gillian on our team put together a few quick tips for managing a Magento store. Need help with Magento? We're only a phone call away: 303.473.4400. Managing Products: Go to Catalog – Manage Products and click on the product you would like to update. You can also...
Photo being used for a Magazine Cover Shot
I was thrilled to see that Hadassah Magazine is using one of my images for the cover of their next issue: Here's a link to their site >>
Magento Development: Happy Customer Success Story
Our Magento Development Team is here to help! Here's a quick success story from a happy client: Last week, Sean from Research Chemical Suppliers called our office. His Magento eCommerce site was down - and unable to take orders. Within 45 minutes, our Magento...
Customer Feedback: Thank you for the fantastic work you do.
The following is from one of our clients, who posted this in an email late last night. Great work, James! James - I just looked at it again. It looks fantastic. I also tested the calculation... and it’s perfect. Thank you for the fantastic work you do. -- Jay B., San...
SEO or SEM For Women?!?
For the SEO/SEM Professionals out there, I have a very special announcement to make: We cannot lose sight of what our job description is! No matter the color of your hat, whether you choose to try and game Google or draw and build natural traffic, the goal is the...
Google's Author Markup Support Makes It Easier To Find A Writer's Works
In an RDFa tagging scheme, Google is making it easier to find information about information... in this case making it easier to find a writer's works. Here's a link to the article >>
Digital Archaeology: 12 Forgotten Designs That Changed The Web
A great article on the 12 Forgotten Designs That Changed The Web -- read it here >>
2011 SEO Strategy
Too many people still use old techniques when trying to increase their page rank. For those of you who are still stuck in the past here is the new basic tenant for successful SEO: Social Media is a big deal! That’s overly simplified. However for those of you still...
Magento: Adding a New Product – Part 1
To start log into your Magento Admin Panel and go to Catalog, Manage Products (See Below). If you already have some products on your website you will now see a list of 20 most recent products. To add a new product you'll want to click the "Add Product"...
eBay buys remainder of Magento eCommerce Shares
FYI, a recent news article about eBay buying the remainder of Magento eCommerce Shares: According to InfoWorld, the deal is expected to close in this year's third quarter. The plan is for Magento to remain in Los Angeles and continue supporting its partners and...
Glamour Photography & Headshots in Boulder, Colorado
Friend of Customer Paradigm, Stephanie, changed her hair color (she went platinum blonde) and needed new professional headshots for her blog and business. We were going for a look at that was a bit more racy than the professional corporate headshot shot on a black...
Magento: Adding a New Product
eLearning Series by Jeff Finkelstein Magento: Adding a New Product – Part 1 To start log into your Magento Admin Panel and go to Catalog, Manage Products (See Below). If you already have some products on your website you will now see a list of 20 most...
Google Disabling Checkout Badge for Google Checkout
FYI, I just received a message that states that Google Checkout badges have been removed from Adwords ads. Now, there's even less of a reason to sign up with Google Checkout. Having the badge was the #1 reason to add it in. Here's what Google just emailed: Overview:...
Search Marketing Case Study: Liquor Mart
What does it take to get the number one page rank on Google? For the Online Liquor Store Liquor Mart it took a combination of knowing our clients’ needs, understanding Google’s algorithm for determining page rank, and keeping our practices sustainable. To begin, we...
Magento | Configurable Products Import & Ad-Hoc Simple Product Creation
Hey there magento developers/store owners! After a couple days of frantic coding, I'm happy to present my first addition to the Magento Community: Configurable Products import. We are currently working on an updated version of this extension which will also handle...
Top 10 Reasons To Choose Magento
Magento is one of the most popular online eCommerce platforms available and is rapidly becoming the industry standard. What makes Magento such a popular choice? Free! The Magento Community edition is completely free for anyone to use! Plus this free version is the...
Study Sees Way to Win Spam Fight (NY Times)
From The New York Times... a great article about a new way to fight spam: "If a handful of companies refused to authorize online credit card payments for spam-advertised products, the money supporting the system would be cut off", a researcher said. Read more:...
Photographing with high ISO / using noise reduction to enhance skin tones
I'm curious if other people have tried shooting at a high ISO range (i.e. 2,500) and then using noise reduction processing to smooth out skin tones? I shot in a RAW format using a 70-200 mm lens, and found great results. The noise processing smoothed out skin tones...
Great Read: 10 Awful IE Bugs and Fixes
Great read for resources on how to fix IE Bugs, especially that pesky IE6.0: http://www.queness.com/post/683/10-awful-ie-bugs-and-fixes
Customer Paradigm re-launches RuMe Bags magento eCommerce Website
We're thrilled that RuMe Bag's new Magento eCommerce Website is now live! http://www.rumebags.com/
Customer Paradigm employee sighting…
FYI, a couple of the team made it up to the top of Bear Peak this evening in Boulder, CO: Update: All three later seen hanging out at Southern Sun in South Boulder...
Google Images With 'Sorting' Lets You Browse Pictures By Subject
Google is turning on a new feature aimed at making image searches simpler and more visual. When performing a Google Images search, users will soon be able to sort photos and pictures "by subject," which groups image results into categories rather than presenting them...
New iPhone / iPad App: "Einstein's Pedometer" App Measures How Special Relativity Affects Your Daily Activity
"Einstein's Pedometer" App Measures How Special Relativity Affects Your Daily Activity. Read more about this app
The God Upgrade, by Rabbi Jamie Korngold launches
The God Upgrade, by Rabbi Jamie Korngold Our client, Rabbi Jamie Korngold, has a new book that was released yesterday, The God Upgrade.We built a site dedicated for the book at www.GodUpgrade.com.
Response to NY Times Article, Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You (March 20, 2011)
As a frequent reader of the New York Times, I receive the print edition, and also love to read it on the iPad. Today's story, Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You, (by Pamela Paul) resonates in both a good and bad way. All too often, people "hide" behind email and text...
Full Moon over Boulder, Colorado – Super Moon
Enjoy these photos of the full moon over Boulder, Colorado on March 19, 2011
This weekend, I backed up 103,000 files using a new unlimited cloud backup service
This weekend, I backed up 103,000 files using a new unlimited cloud backup service
Great customer feedback on SEO work: WOW!!!! Thank you!!!!
We just started SEO with Customer Paradigm 6 weeks ago and our key terms have already moved from Siberian wasteland search positions on page 2 and 3 … to page one… and even to position 6 for our most important term
When is the first night of Passover Seder in 2011?
When is the first night of Passover Seder in 2011?
SEO Blackhat Techniques get JC Penny in trouble (NY Times article)
SEO Blackhat Techniques get JC Penny in trouble
SEO Test: Sadie lives in colorado with her sister Ori and her parents
sadie lives in colorado with her sister Ori and her parents
Another (Very) Happy Magento customer…
Magento Programming Testimonial: I would love to be a reference for your company! John & Clifton have been such a pleasure to work with! You guys rock! The job was so great and they were so easy to work with. I absolutely LOVE your company.