Category: Advice

Are you wondering why you have submitted your resume for over 300 positions but received only a handful of calls back and still have yet to find your dream job?

I am about to give you the insider secrets from a recruiter who has hired many people on how to write a resume that will get you calls back.… read more “How to Write A Resume – 7 Tips By a Hiring Manager”

1. Write about tips or techniques that would be helpful to others
2. Share your opinions on something: sports, religion, politics, business
3. Write about your current life and events
4. Describe your current workouts and physical activities
5. Interview interesting people
6. Share your biggest ideas for changing the world
7. Find something unique about your life and write about it
8. Discuss whether a blogger should publish personally unflattering photos
9. Write about something that makes you excited or angry 
10. Post your ideas for blog post ideas
11. Create a top 10 list
12. Write a how to document
13. Post photos
14. Do a link roundup of the most interesting stuff on the web in the last day/week/month/year
15. Write about current events in the news
16. Post polls for people to vote on something
17. Run a contest
18. Post your favorite quotes
19. Post videos that are interesting
20. Have someone else write a guest post for your blog
21. Write a debate and post it to your site – point, counterpoint
22. Answer reader questions or comments from previous blog posts
23. Use the Google AdWords External Keyword tool (search for it) to see what people search for most frequently
24. Use Google alerts to get notices about new topics and discussions in your industry
25. Publish an in depth case study on a specific topic
26. Look at your competitors blog topics (even if you are only competing with other music blogs!)

BigCommerce is relatively new to the world of eCommerce platforms, but in just over 3 years, the company has risen to become one of the biggest powerhouses in the shopping cart industry. As a certified BigCommerce partner, I have worked with every aspect of the platform, from design, to development, to marketing, to search engine optimization (SEO), and I can personally attest to the fact that BigCommerce is the real deal.… read more “BigCommerce Designers and Developers”

Volusion and Shopify are two of the most successful shopping cart platforms available, and they both have a great deal to offer. If you sell products or services online, you need an eCommerce service that is user-friendly, secure, fully customizable, search engine optimized, and built to convert. As the founder and CEO of a highly successful Los Angeles design and development firm, I’ve worked with all of the major shopping carts, and I’ve had successes with most of them.… read more “Volusion vs Shopify”

There are a lot of shopping cart platforms out there, and as the founder of a leading Los Angeles web design and development agency, I have used them all: BigCommerce, CoreCommerce, Volusion, Shopify, Magento, you name it…But choosing the best shopping cart platform can be tricky, because they all promise you the stars, but many fail to deliver.… read more “Choosing the Best Shopping Cart Platform”

Choosing an eCommerce shopping cart can be a daunting task. As the founder of Coalition Technologies, a company that designs, develops and markets websites almost exclusively for eCommerce clients, I’ve used all of the major shopping cart platforms extensively, and while they all make largely the same promises, they don’t all deliver the same results.

If you’re still trying to make your decision, here’s a very basic breakdown of some of the most popular shopping carts out there.… read more “Choosing an eCommerce Shopping Cart”

I only brought carry-on items for my flight to Mexico City so that I could be sure I kept my luggage with me at all times and it was not lost. Prior to boarding, the gate agent got on the intercom and said everyone needed to bring their wheeled carry-ons up to the front to have them checked because United Airlines had overbooked the flight and wouldn’t have enough room for everyone’s carry-ons.… read more “United Airlines Lost My Luggage”

The Goods on the best shopping cart:

I know you are all here for one primary reason: to find out what the best shopping cart is!  Well without further delay, here is the list as it stands now:

1. BigCommerce – Extremely easy setup, full design customization, rapid dev, best SEO, great support in Austin
2. Magento CE – Fully programming access, stable core, good plugins
3. Shopify – Overpriced, lesser version of BigCommerce
4. Volusion – Getting better, but important features are still lacking
5. ZenCart – Full of security holes, but you can custom program anything
6. NetSuite – Massively overpriced
7. Magento Go – New platform.  

I created this image today to help people better understand how SEO works.  If you open the How-SEO-Works image in a new tab you will be able to view it in full size and read more about how SEO gets you top rankings in the search engines.