Comments for Flying Cart - The Blog http://flyingcart.com/blog Create an online store that promotes itself. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:18:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on Q&A with Aylio International Inc. by Jonathan http://flyingcart.com/blog/qa-with-ceo-of-aylio-international-inc/#comment-5573 Jonathan Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:52:15 +0000 http://flyingcart.com/blog/?p=151#comment-5573 This is great, if only you all would also offer a service to *do* the legwork for getting product information out there. Posting to forums, submitting articles, commenting on blogs, and all that is a lot of work. Wouldn't it be nice if we could hire X hours of work from Flying Cart-ers (perhaps overseas?) to provide this service for us. We'd give marketing material, product samples, coupon codes, and training -- and then you all would do the "high touch" marketing... This is great, if only you all would also offer a service to *do* the legwork for getting product information out there. Posting to forums, submitting articles, commenting on blogs, and all that is a lot of work. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could hire X hours of work from Flying Cart-ers (perhaps overseas?) to provide this service for us. We’d give marketing material, product samples, coupon codes, and training — and then you all would do the “high touch” marketing…

]]> Comment on Q&A with Aylio International Inc. by Margo http://flyingcart.com/blog/qa-with-ceo-of-aylio-international-inc/#comment-5279 Margo Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:22:23 +0000 http://flyingcart.com/blog/?p=151#comment-5279 Great stuff Max! One time I went to a small business workshop where one of the presenters said that when starting a business, your business should scratch your own itch. In other words, create a business to solve a problem that you have yourself and chances are that lots of other people also have that problem. I love the story of how your business got started. As a serious athlete myself, I usually lift weights in the gym but you have convinced me that I should give those resistance bands a try. Best wishes on your continued success :) Great stuff Max! One time I went to a small business workshop where one of the presenters said that when starting a business, your business should scratch your own itch. In other words, create a business to solve a problem that you have yourself and chances are that lots of other people also have that problem. I love the story of how your business got started.

As a serious athlete myself, I usually lift weights in the gym but you have convinced me that I should give those resistance bands a try. Best wishes on your continued success :)

]]> Comment on Does Google know your Store exists? by rishi http://flyingcart.com/blog/does-google-know-your-store-exists/#comment-5086 rishi Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:52:32 +0000 http://flyingcart.com/blog/?p=148#comment-5086 Dan, Currently Yahoo doesn't have a process. Hopefully in the future. Rishi Dan,

Currently Yahoo doesn’t have a process. Hopefully in the future.

Rishi

]]> Comment on Does Google know your Store exists? by Don Fl;etchinger http://flyingcart.com/blog/does-google-know-your-store-exists/#comment-4959 Don Fl;etchinger Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:59:58 +0000 http://flyingcart.com/blog/?p=148#comment-4959 Can we use this same verification process for Yahoo or is that a different process? Can we use this same verification process for Yahoo or is that a different process?

]]> Comment on Scheduled Downtime: Sunday June 22, 11AM - 1PM CST by rishi http://flyingcart.com/blog/scheduled-downtime-sunday-june-22-11am-1pm-cst/#comment-4627 rishi Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:43:01 +0000 http://flyingcart.com/blog/?p=141#comment-4627 We were down for 5 minutes. Thanks for being awesome and letting us take care of this. We were down for 5 minutes. Thanks for being awesome and letting us take care of this.

]]> Comment on Create colorful sites with our new color tool by Flying Cart - The Blog :: Amazing Patterns - Colour Lovers http://flyingcart.com/blog/create-colorful-sites-with-our-new-color-tool/#comment-4552 Flying Cart - The Blog :: Amazing Patterns - Colour Lovers Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:26:50 +0000 http://www.flyingcart.com/blog/create-colorful-sites-with-our-new-color-tool/#comment-4552 [...] Check out Colour Lovers, especially their patterns section. You can easily take what you see and apply it to your store with our new design tool. [...] [...] Check out Colour Lovers, especially their patterns section. You can easily take what you see and apply it to your store with our new design tool. [...]

]]> Comment on ecommwire - publish your store press release here by Lynette Zanardi http://flyingcart.com/blog/ecommwire-publish-your-store-press-release-here/#comment-4479 Lynette Zanardi Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:51:23 +0000 http://www.flyingcart.com/blog/ecommwire-publish-your-store-press-release-here/#comment-4479 New Fun Summer Items! Ed Hardy Inspired Tunic which is so cute! Lots of animal print items. YOU WILL LOVE IT ALL!! LOT OF FUN GIRLY ITEMS!!! CHECK IT OUT!!!!! New Fun Summer Items! Ed Hardy Inspired Tunic which is so cute! Lots of animal print items. YOU WILL LOVE IT ALL!! LOT OF FUN GIRLY ITEMS!!! CHECK IT OUT!!!!!

]]> Comment on Thumbnail Images Revamped! by Margo http://flyingcart.com/blog/thumbnail-images-revamped/#comment-4459 Margo Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:25:59 +0000 http://flyingcart.com/blog/?p=140#comment-4459 While this feature has been under discussion for a while, we have come to the conclusion that the benefits of it outweigh the downsides. After browsing through the stores and seeing how great they are all looking, I think this was a good choice. Here are the benefits: 1. Your thumbnails are less likely to appear grainy or pixelated, so your products will look better. 2. You can upload an image of any dimensions and be guaranteed that it won't mess up the layout of your product pages. This saves you time. 3. Your product pages will look cleaner overall because all the images are lined up in a grid. 4. Your product detail pages will look cleaner because the mini-thumbnails will be lined up in a grid. 5. Your products will look good on our upcoming product search feature, where customers can search all products across our stores (to be released next week) The only real downside to the square cropping is that sometimes parts of the image will be cut out that you don't want to be cut out. We have carefully designed it so that most of the time this won't happen. We use the same cropping method that is used by <a href="http://www.flickr.com" rel="nofollow">Flickr</a>, the leading application for sharing photos on the web. While this feature has been under discussion for a while, we have come to the conclusion that the benefits of it outweigh the downsides. After browsing through the stores and seeing how great they are all looking, I think this was a good choice.

Here are the benefits:
1. Your thumbnails are less likely to appear grainy or pixelated, so your products will look better.

2. You can upload an image of any dimensions and be guaranteed that it won’t mess up the layout of your product pages. This saves you time.

3. Your product pages will look cleaner overall because all the images are lined up in a grid.

4. Your product detail pages will look cleaner because the mini-thumbnails will be lined up in a grid.

5. Your products will look good on our upcoming product search feature, where customers can search all products across our stores (to be released next week)

The only real downside to the square cropping is that sometimes parts of the image will be cut out that you don’t want to be cut out. We have carefully designed it so that most of the time this won’t happen. We use the same cropping method that is used by Flickr, the leading application for sharing photos on the web.

]]> Comment on Edit your photos online with Picnik - fast, easy, and free. by khalid azzmat http://flyingcart.com/blog/edit-your-photos-online-with-picnik-fast-easy-and-free/#comment-2994 khalid azzmat Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:40:17 +0000 http://www.flyingcart.com/blog/edit-your-photos-online-with-picnik-fast-easy-and-free/#comment-2994 cool cool

]]> Comment on Flying Cart on Entrepreneur.com! by Kylie http://flyingcart.com/blog/flying-cart-on-entrepreneurcom/#comment-2572 Kylie Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:23:50 +0000 http://www.flyingcart.com/blog/flying-cart-on-entrepreneurcom/#comment-2572 I'll be re-producing this article on WomenCo this week. Be sure to check out main Careers page tomorrow - it'll be up! Here's the link: http://www.womenco.com/benefits/articles/756-spread-your-wings-online I’ll be re-producing this article on WomenCo this week. Be sure to check out main Careers page tomorrow - it’ll be up!

Here’s the link:
http://www.womenco.com/benefits/articles/756-spread-your-wings-online

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