Three easy steps to make and keep your resolution:

Make the resolution. Define it and ensure that it is quantifiable and has a due date (Plus be reasonable with your goals).
Plan. Make action points that you can easily follow.
Measure and track. Check on your progress often.

The chart 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 don’t have to deal with crazy people, the list is pretty long. However, there are off course disadvantages as well.

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 use as a service [...]

I was on a sales call yesterday discussing various options for this lady’s store. I will have to say this question is one of my favorite and most dreaded questions to answer. Essentially, it is just a matter of opinion, but also depends on your store’s individual needs. Hosted Ecommerce Platform Pros No need to [...]

Happy Birthday to Co-Owner of Border7 Studios, Ken Tran. A whole twenty-two today! You’ve gotten far for few years. Everyone is quite proud. Keep it up and make this year is twenty-two times better than last. Design 50 Incredible Examples of HDR Photography: HDR is amazing and, at times, weird. I’d like to see a [...]

Remember: Border7′s celebration for this year of business and it’s amazing clients is tomorrow! Saturday, September 26th, at the Rancho Santa Susana Park in Simi Valley. We all hope to see you there! Design NotePods: Notepads that look like iPhones. Kinda fun. Blue Retro Grunge Text Effect and Icons: I think they used my couch [...]

Design Horizontal Navigation Menus: Trends, Patterns, and Best Practices: A good look at what to do and what not to do. This post also brings about some nice design points and also points of organization and structure. Swiss table slices into portable workstations: It’s the simple but interesting things in life that still amaze me. [...]

I finally got around to reading some old RSS subscriptions and I came across the following article: Real Life Examples of Business Owners Using Social Media from Small Business Trends and I was intrigued. I really wish I could have gone to the event. It would have been nice to have learn and listen to [...]