Top Ten eCommerce Tips for Your Website #7: Online Donations in Wake of Haiti
eLearning Series by Jeff Finkelstein In the wake of unspeakable tragedy in Haiti, today's eCommerce tip focuses on secure online donations - and the pros and cons of the different mediums. I encourage you to give if you're able. eCommerce Tip #7: Online Donations Best...
Top Ten eCommerce Tips for Your Website #6: Do The Math
eLearning Series by Jeff Finkelstein Today's eCommerce tip focuses on doing the math for people. For most people, a 10% discount doesn't mean anything until you translate it into actual numbers. With over 10 years of testing, I'll discuss the best ways to display...
Top Ten eCommerce Tips for Your Website #5: Recently Viewed Items
eLearning Series by Jeff Finkelstein Today's tip - displaying recently viewed items - can help people better navigate your site and increase sales. eCommerce Tip #5: Recently Viewed Items I Can't Figure Out How To Get Back To That Product! If you're like me, you've...
Top Ten eCommerce Tips for Your Website #4: RDFa Microformatting
eLearning Series by Jeff Finkelstein For eCommerce websites, a new technology called RDFa tagging can help people find your products quickly and easily. Some of the sites we've tagged with RDFa informatoin have seen dramatic increases in sales. eCommerce Tip #4: RDFa...
Top Ten eCommerce Tips for Your Website #3: Use A Perpetual Shopping Cart
eLearning Series by Jeff Finkelstein One of the key elements on an eCommerce site is a perpetual shopping cart that allows you to see what's in your cart, without having to click to go to another page. It's a small detail, but a recent study found 64% of eCommerce...
Top Ten eCommerce Tips for Your Website #2: Easy Shopping Carts
eLearning Series by Jeff Finkelstein When I want to make a purchase on a website, I want the checkout process to be as quick as possible. I don't want to have to create an account, go through six slow pages before I can enter in my credit card information, or take...
Top Ten eCommerce Tips for Your Website #1: How Fast Does Your Site Load
eLearning Series by Jeff Finkelstein Our next eLearning Series will focus on top tips for eCommerce sites. But even if your website doesn't sell a product, many of these tips still apply. eCommerce Tips: How Fast Does Your Site Load? More than a few seconds, and...
Social Media Marketing – Using Twitter to Create a Buzz and Reach Lots of People
A friend re-tweeted this posting:From: @datingdadSent: Mar 15, 2010 10:39aBURGER. RT @Smashburger: To celebrate our new CO inspired menu we're giving away a FREE Colorado burger to the first 50 RTsThis is a great example of a way to use Twitter as a means to reach out...
Dot Com Domain is 25 years old!
It was 25 years ago -- March 15, 1985 -- that the first dot-com domain name -- Symbolics.com -- appeared on the Internet, ushering in the commercial age of the World Wide Web.Read more >>
Bring Google's Fiber Project to Boulder!
The lovely people at Google are looking for a high-tech community to install a network capable of reaching speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s. That's a hundred times faster than most connections available to the public!BoulderFiber.com is a site promoting our lovely city of...
Funeral for IE 6!
Here's what a local design company has put together as a result of Google no longer supporting IE6 (Internet Explorer 6):http://ie6funeral.com/This site has even gained attention through multiple media sites including...
Web 3.0: Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online
Web 3.0 Semantic Web: Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links...
No More Saturday Deliveries for the Post Office??
Interesting take on the U.S. Postal crisis...in 2010 by Newsmax. Check it out!
Credit Card Stolen at Carino's Restaurant in Grand Junction, Co
For anyone following me on Twitter (www.twitter.com/BoulderJeff/), I had my credit card stolen at Carino's Restaurant in Grand Junction, Colorado on Saturday. Here's the expanded version of the story that I submitted to them:I was in Carino's in Grand Junction,...
I'm quoted in an article about the Pros and Cons of Online Visitor Registration
I'm [Jeff Finkelstein] quoted in an article on Open Forum (American Express) about the Pros and Cons of Online Visitor Registration: http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/technology/article/pros-and-cons-of-online-visitor-registration-julie-rains
Many thanks to this website for helping me fix the heater!
On what is always one of the coldest, snowy days of the year, our heat stopped working. Thanks to this site: http://www.arnoldservice.com/amana_parts.htm for showing me I needed to clean the flame sensor!
RDFa – A Markup That Could Have Big Implications for SEO
A great summary article about RDFa Microtagging, and how it can have big implications for SEO in 2010: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/01/22/a-markup-that-could-have-big-implications-for-seoFor our services for RDFa, please visit HERE
Customer Feedback from a recent project
Just had a customer fill out a survey with us, and gave us the following comments:LOVE customer paradigm and this project has been completed to perfection - it will help my business strive VERY well. John was excellent to work with and walked me through the template...
Comparing Different Ways to Give to Haiti Relief Effort
In the wake of unspeakable tragedy in Haiti, today's eCommerce tip focuses on secure online donations - and the pros and cons of the different mediums. I encourage you to give if you're able. Read more here >> Customer Paradigm is an industry leader in...
Three Boulder Jewish Websites Defaced in Cyber Attack On Saturday
January 2, 2009 (Boulder, Colorado): Two of the largest synagogues in Boulder, Colorado - Congregations Bonai Shalom and Har HaShem were defaced on Saturday, January 2, 2009, in an anti-Semitic attack by a hacker claiming to be Waja (Adi Noor). The Boulder Rabbinic...
A new interactive marketing course for the RMDMA in January 2009
I am teaching an 8-week course on Interactive Marketing starting in January 2009 (For 10% off for the class - use code 0102-1D) In this eight part course, you’ll learn the fundamentals of online marketing. You’ll learn how to engage with customers using design, direct...
I'm quoted in an article about Windows 7 on Shutterbug
Thanks to Google Alerts, an article that I was interviewed for a couple of months ago was just posted to the Shutterbug website, talking about digital photography and the Windows 7 operating system. My verdict: Windows 7 is soooooo much better, faster and more stable...
Bonaire Island Real Estate Site Launches
Bonaire caters to an easy-going lifestyle, while offering the best of ocean recreation and some of the best diving in the world. It's a magical place that will capture your heart and beg you to stay.Customer Paradigm has just completed a website design for Art and...
Search Engine Market Share – Yahoo Loses 1/2 Percent
Sort of a misleading title by CNN: "Yahoo gets kicked to curb by Google, Bing":Once the world's online search leader, Yahoo's share has sharply declined, putting it in danger of losing its relevance in a market increasingly dominated by Google.Yahoo's search market...
Twitter Hacked Over the Weekend
According to CNN, the Twitter hackers appear to be Shiite group.Read more here >>
Photo from this morning… used by 9News TV station for their top story
FYI, an image I took this morning is the image their using for the #1 top story on the 9news site! (I did submit it) www.9news.com
Photos of Boulder, Colorado After the Snowstorm
Enjoy these photos of the Flatirons this frigid -3 below zero morning. I took these about 2 miles away from the office, just up the road near NCAR: photos by Jeff Finkelstein
New Design for the Adventure Rabbi website
Over the weekend, I rebuilt this website for my wife's organization:http://www.AdventureRabbi.org/It's fairly graphically-heavy (but most of the target audience tends to be on a high speed connection).The goal: create an emotional connection with the images on the...
SFSoupCo.com Site Launches!
We're thrilled to report that after many, many moons, we've helped the San Francisco Soup Company launch a new Website:http://www.SFSoupCo.com/The site features a content management system that allows them to update each location's soups each day, including...
Customer Paradigm in the news on the D&B website
I was interviewed a while back for an article about small business owners collecting in a tight economy... and they just released the article on Dun & Bradstreet credibility...
SEO Success… above the W3C's site in search results
I created a new page on our site about our RDFa tagging service, and launched it about a week ago. I just checked this morning, and the page is above the W3C.org's website -- that's the World Wide Consortium that puts standards like this into place. Fun, fun!
Happy Customer Statement
Always great to hear from a happy customer!Says Professional Organizer, Liz Canavan of AlchemyofOrder.com:"I can absolutely already tell a difference, I have NEVER had ONE inquiry from my website directly until your work. Cheers! Liz" We're happy we could help!









