Consultancy

Thank you for all your emails!

Thank you to the people that have email though in recent weeks – sorry I have been slow replying. I always read and reply to email’s personally and still love to hear your thoughts. I will blog about the following support topics as soon as I am able:

1. De-bunking the ChannelAdvisor Premium store set up process – a guide for those with little concentration.
2. Breaking down eBay’s changes for real people.
3. How to be the client in a web project (I like this one, no one ever tells the client what they need to do – and you are so important to the development process)

Thanks!

Separating Business from Personal – Social Networking

I am going through a very slow clean out process – separating business and personal socially. You have sets of friends though life, business friends and friends who want to see your cat photos. Some cross over, but that is quite rare as business is cut throat, and a significant amount of trust is needed.

And also acceptance. I have never hidden the fact that socially, I am a bit out of the ordinary. I grab at any chance to don a full kimono or outfits of the gothic persuasion and funnily enough, this tendency does not affect my abilities as a consultant or developer. But some seem to think so :)

Facebook updates and tweets to the outside world can be misconstrued by sensitive businesses and I can’t always think of every angle to what I say in a random facebook update. It’s probably not about you, unless I call you out by name. But I can’t stop you thinking it, we all have a victim complex from time to time.

So on twitter and facebook Hairfreax is personal and matches my hobbies – you will know what my next outfit is, when I washed my hair and be able to see how my cats are doing or new hairpiece designs. Kidsontalks on twitter (and soon facebook) will be business related musing, and people who are more business friends and connections (who probably don’t really want updates on my cats diet) will be added there.

I apologise to those who have to put up with both, and those who I have removed from my personal facebook page.

I don’t have a lot of time, I work 24/7 and also weekends (today is a bank holiday but I am still at work with a list of to-dos and programming) so this is a slow process.

REALLY excited about ChannelAdvisor catalyst this year!

It is coming up and at last count only 10 seats left – Frooition customers got a last minute £49 off the event to make sure all seats were full.

This year just feels very positive, the business is going well and I have worked with some great clients like http://www.tacklediscounts.co.uk in the last few months. They are experiencing their best ever eBay sales record and we hope the website which is promoted by searchadvisor (a channeladvisor search product) and soon a little marketing creative from CYT will match this.

But as always, with my head deep in XML/SQL files – I need to brush up on my oh so current eBay – a lot has changed this week it seems and I need to play catch up.

I have been doing a mix of projects, from SEO and programming to consultancy and design.

I shall be sitting in all the conferences this catalyst (or as many as I can) so my head will be full of blog-able information soon.

Speak then my e-commerce lovelies.

Createyourtemplate win PlentyMarkets Shop Usability Award!

Original blog post here (in German) but the English translation is:

The third annual Plenty Markets user meeting is behind us and we are very pleased with the turn out. We can boast 440 participants. The highlight of the event, which has offered a total of 26 lectures and workshops as well as 24 information booths, was the awarding of plentyMarkets Webshop Awards.

John Altman, founder and CEO of Shoplupe GmbH, has reviewed the plentyMarkets shops nominated for the Shop Usability Award and selected three winners.

And the Gold went to Createyourtemplate!
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Sehen Sie createyourtemplate am PlentyMarkets elektronischen Geschäftsverkehr party!

Wenn Sie ein deutscher Einzelhändler sind, dann gelangen Sie bitte Ihr Selbst unten an PlentyMarkets – sagen Sie hallo zum createyourtemplate!

Herzliche Einladung zum 3. plentyMarkets User-Treffen!

Zum dritten Mal veranstaltet die plentySystems GmbH am 20. Februar 2010 ihren jährlichen Event im Grand Hotel Modérne La Strada in Kassel. Eingeladen sind alle Nutzer der eCommerce Komplettlösung plentyMarkets sowie Interessenten. In Kooperation mit dem Sponsor Trusted Shops informieren Vorträge und Workshops zum Thema “Neue Chancen im E-Commerce” über die Möglichkeiten zur Steigerung der Effizienz und Leistungsfähigkeit des Onlineauftritts.

Neben den Vorträgen und Workshops wird es auch genug Zeit und Raum geben, um andere plentySeller, das plentyMarkets-Team oder die Kooperationspartner kennenzulernen – sei es beim 3-gängigen Lunch, den Kaffeepausen oder der abendlichen Bankettveranstaltung mit Schlemmer-Buffet und Live-Musik. Dieses außergewöhnliche Event sollte kein Online-Händler verpassen!

Übersetzt unter Verwendung BabelFish, da ich englisch bin und nicht Deutsches spreche – Entschuldigungen für den Computer sprechen!

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