How NOT to design a form

Dear RestaurantEquipmentDirectory.net, I have to be blunt, your submission form really sucks. it doesn’t allow dashes in the phone number but doesn’t say so, gives a stupid “are you sure you entered an area code?” error it requires http:// before the www in the site url, a simple adjustment to your form can make tell … Read more

Google Checkout is Going Offline in Nov

From: https://support.google.com/checkout/sell/answer/3080449 Retiring Google Checkout Announcement On November 20th, 2013, Google will shut down its Checkout product. Here’s how this may affect you: Merchants selling digital goods may transition to Google Wallet for digital goods Merchants selling through Google-hosted marketplaces (e.g. Google Play) will be unaffected Merchants selling physical goods will need to switch to third-party … Read more

Memorial Day Hours

Memorial Day is coming up quickly and as you race to stock up on deals on burgers and hot dogs and varied refreshments I wanted to give out a quick note on our hours. We like to have fun ourselves with friends and especially family. One Take Media will be closed the 24th-27th, we will … Read more

Google to Move Against Poor Quality Ecommerce Sites

At the popular SXSW conference this past March, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts announced that Google will be soon going after bad merchants with a new algorithm targeted at lowering their rankings in Google. Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land first covered this, quoting Matt’s statement during his presentation. Matt said: We have … Read more

10 Tips to Building Sales, Ranking and Customer Interest

Setup an account on google places (so you show up in local search, 97% of consumers search for local businesses online) http://www.google.com/local/add/businessCenter We offer a Google Places setup for $199 get other sites to link to you (reputable ones!! Link Directories don’t count) create ways for people to share your product pages and home page … Read more