http://www.border7.com/blog A blog about the internet, business, and other geeky things. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:35:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a friendly reminder that behind the dinosaur avatar and spaceships, we too, are all humans... and unfortunately... humans make mistakes. This one however takes the cake for hilarious reminders to CHECK YOUR WORK! [caption id="attachment_1100" align="alignnone" width="520" caption="Somehow... Nazi's never seem to go away..."][/caption] Good thing we have clients with a ... http://www.border7.com/blog/03/01/yes-we-are-humans-too/ Image by onlyben via Flickr In school it was most students' nightmare to be assigned yet another brand identity project.  It seemed like every class, every semester, assigned branding or re-branding projects. A professor of mine once pointed out that we were doing that assignment so many times because ... http://www.border7.com/blog/02/02/logo-design/ I was reading last year and the year's before post and realized that I always have the same tune when it comes to the whole goals versus resolutions thing. I'm sorry if I bore you about that. In other news, its now the third week of the year and I hope ... http://www.border7.com/blog/01/13/border7s-goals-for-2010/ Many of us expect to magically have a customer base once we have an e-commerce store. We don't realize that we need to market ourselves to actually bring in the customers. Here are a few tips that will help your sales and boost your customer base! Make sure the customers are ... http://www.border7.com/blog/01/06/marketing-your-e-commerce-store/ I personally do not like the idea of resolutions. They're pretty much empty promises we make to ourselves. And I always wonder how many people actually accomplish their resolutions? For those that last the first few weeks of the year, they tend to give up by mid March or even ... http://www.border7.com/blog/12/29/how-to-make-the-perfect-resolution-and-to-accomplish-it/ Border7 wishes you a happy and prosperous New Year! Happy Holidays! http://www.border7.com/blog/12/24/happy-holidays-2/ The chart (courtesy of Practical eCommerce) details holiday shopping, but I personally think it can be applied to all year. In many ways shopping online is much more advantageous than shopping at the store. There's no waiting in line to process your order, you can shop at any hour, you ... http://www.border7.com/blog/12/21/why-people-choose-not-to-shop-online/ Now that we have a basic understanding of licensed solutions, we should now disucss the other end of the spectrum. Hosted ecommerce solutions utilize the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. What is SaaS? Wikipedia explains that SaaS is s a model of software deployment whereby a provider licenses an application to customers for ... http://www.border7.com/blog/12/15/using-a-hosted-shopping-cart-solution-saas/ With all the multipe options for a shopping cart platform out there, an easy way to break them down is by licensed or hosted (SaaS) solution. In this segment of the series, we're going to discuss the reasons for using a licensed solution. Why should I consider a licensed solutions? Ernesto, a ... http://www.border7.com/blog/12/11/using-a-licensed-solution-for-ecommerce/ Wow, I can't believe the year we've been done. In a month's time, 2009 will be officially over.  Its crazy that a year ago, we were a lot smaller than we are today. Now, we're a full fledged design firm specializing in e-commerce. It takes a lot to get ... http://www.border7.com/blog/11/26/time-to-be-thankful/