If you ask a Baby Boomer what they were doing when Kennedy was assassinated, almost every time you'll get a vivid recollection of events. They remember it like it was yesterday. Unfortunately, my generation now has a similar event that evokes such a strong emotional reaction. Ever year I remember where I was on that [...]
GrokDotCom's latest conversion rate report is out and Office Depot leads the pack with 26.9%. Checkout July's Top 10 Online Retailers by Conversion Rate. These numbers are incredibly amazing, but are these conversion rates realistic for small e-commerce merchants? I have personally seen small e-commerce retailers with conversion rates between 8-10%. Compared to the national [...]
My cousin sent me an email asking me to help with some fund raising she's doing -- it's a walk for breast cancer. I am normally not one to give to random charities... we all get asked so much to give that I make a conscious decision to give to the causes that I care [...]
Last night at around 4 AM, while I was sleeping soundly, my phone rang. Since I use my iPhone as an alarm, I have the speaker volume turned all the way up at night. Usually if my phone rang at 4 AM, I'd be pretty upset. I might even say some pretty nasty things to [...]
If you don't know about Foul, it is a javascript validation tool that is a very easy way to validate basic forms. It's been around for ages, and it just works. We use it on a lot of different web-based forms when we want to validate email addresses, zip codes and other (non-critical) information. Foul [...]