Joe Palko, gearing up for the Solid Cactus Cyber Monday programming marathon.
This morning the store development team at Solid Cactus was greeted with a Christmas tree, garland, and a paper Santa Claus — Joe Palko and I went a little overboard at our local party supply store. But, it’s all to get everyone in the spirit for our clients’ biggest time of the year: The holiday shopping season.
Solid Cactus today is hosting a 24-hour programming marathon to ready its eCommerce retailer clients for Cyber Monday, the official start of the online holiday shopping season. Solid Cactus promoted the Cyber Monday programming marathon through an offbeat video starring Scott Sanfilippo and a slew of team members (view the video here: http://bit.ly/scmarathon).
“We wanted to provide a way for our customers to have their eCommerce websites improved upon before Cyber Monday. It’s a tough holiday season for everyone – we all know what the economic climate is- and a lot of retailers may feel like there’s not a lot left they can do in time to get ready for the holidays, but we wanted to give them a chance,” said Gregory Davis, director of corporate marketing and product development for Solid Cactus.
Online retailers who signed up for a new store feature or store redesign before Wednesday’s deadline will have their projects completed for Cyber Monday. The design team put finishing touches on mock-ups to get ready for the start of marathon which officially kicked off about an hour ago, and will conclude at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.
Shopping for the programming marathon
Other members of the Solid Cactus volunteered to attend the marathon to provide support, coffee runs, food delivery, and entertainment during the marathon. Solid Cactus staff will also be blogging, posting video footage, and making updates on Twitter and Facebook about the progress of the programming event.
For more details on the Solid Cactus Cyber Monday Programming Marathon, contact Donna Talarico at (570) 706-7116 or by e-mail at donna.talarico@solidcactus.com
What is Cyber Monday?
Cyber Monday is the kick-off of the online holiday shopping season, the sister to Black Friday. Cyber Monday was first used in 2005, and coined by Shop.org after it was noted in the eCommerce industry that 77% of online retailers saw a significant spike in sales on the Monday following Thanksgiving in 2004.
The tradition continued, an unofficial eCommerce holiday was born, and now Cyber Monday 2009 is right around the corner. Are you ready?
Posted by Donna Talarico on Nov 19, 2009
Posted by Scott Sanfilippo on Nov 18, 2009
I don’t think I’ve ever seen discounting and special offers like I’ve seen so far this season and Black Friday and Cyber Monday aren’t even here yet!
Walmart yesterday issued a statement giving shoppers a sneak peek at some of the bargains to expect on items like plasma TVs, DVD players and deep discounts [...]
Posted by Scott Sanfilippo on Nov 17, 2009
Driving around this past weekend I saw signs that Christmas is right around the corner. Tents started popping up with big signs that read “Christmas Trees.” For me it’s hard to imagine that the jolly old fat man in the red suit is going to be making an appearance already, but you can’t [...]
Posted by Scott Sanfilippo on Nov 16, 2009
You know the holidays are coming when my brother Mark, the facilities manager here at Solid Cactus in Shavertown, climbs on the roof to hang the 10 foot holiday wreath and wraps the top of the building in colored lights.
I hold the ladder and I’m also holding on to hope that this holiday season is [...]
Posted by karen.snyder on Nov 13, 2009
I’m very excited today! It’s my first official blog post for Solid Cactus. Can you feel the excitement in the air? Ok, may be that’s just me. Anyway, so we were are…and I hope I can live up to the high expectations that everyone at Solid Cactus has set for our blogs. I guess we’ll [...]
Posted by Scott Sanfilippo on Nov 12, 2009
his is the time of year eCommerce store owners live for. I know I do!
But alas, the days of me picking, packing and shipping orders are gone. But I do remember them. I remember them well.
When I owned TheFerretStore.com, a typical Monday would consist of about 300 – 350 orders. Once Black [...]
Posted by Scott Sanfilippo on Nov 9, 2009
Last week Google announced that they are introducing a new search product for ecommerce stores called Google Commerce Search. According to Google, Commerce Search will bring some of Google’s best search innovations to eCommerce websites.
But it comes at a price. $50,000.00 per year.
That price tag limits just who is going to be using [...]
Posted by Donna Talarico on Nov 6, 2009
Best eCommerce Tweets of the Week – November 2, 2006
This has been a busy week for Twitter. The microblogging website no sooner launched its list feature when a national tragedy (Fort Hood) happened. News organizations jumped on using Twitter lists. So, this week’s Best eCommerce Tweets of the Week column is a little Twitter heavy.
I [...]
Posted by Donna Talarico on Oct 30, 2009
(This is from the Solid Cactus blog archives from a past Halloween. The information is still pertinent today.)
This is my favorite time of year. I love crunchy leaves under my boots. (Oh, I love boots, too.) I love orange. I love pumpkins. I love apple cider. I love Halloween. [...]
Posted by Scott Sanfilippo on Oct 30, 2009
The only ghost wandering around Solid Cactus in Shavertown today was that of the dearly departed Billy Mays. Well, not really, it was none other than project manager Joe Domkowski. Several team members got in the Halloween spirit and put their creativity to work by coming up with some great costumes.
Joel Nye took [...]
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