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Made In Eureka
June 27, 2008 by Propy
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Have a Brilliant idea? Enter the made in Eureka Over-Engineered inventors contest.
Over-engineered and future ready, made in Eureka is dedicated to delivering the latest in life-changing consumer technology factory direct from America’’s smartest little town, Eureka.
Get Your Art Supplies Online Cheaper
June 26, 2008 by Propy
Filed under Propy’s Place
My Wife asked that I pick up a specific pattern of Cotton Yarn for a project she was working on. Well 30 miles and 8 stores later with temperatures in excess of 100 F; no go!
When I arrived at home I found the exact yarn online for a couple dollars less than it would have been locally (including shipping). So the lesson is l00k online first, and save your time and money.
Wind and Gas
June 24, 2008 by Propy
Filed under Propy’s Place
Kick Start Cart (AKA 1ShoppingCart.com) Updates
June 23, 2008 by Propy
Filed under Industry Updates
In an attempt to keep our visitors up to doate, we have reprinted this service message from 1shoppingcart.com (A.K.A. Kick Start Cart, FrontPage Cart)
SYSTEM UPDATE
Over the past few months our Software Development team has been focusing on enhancing our email delivery system in order to significantly improve your email delivery time.
That’s right. KickStartCart.com has overhauled and improved its mailing system to serve you better. Without going deep technically, let’s just say that the engine that runs the email processing has been re-engineered and can now more easily handle the millions of email successfully sent from our system every single day. Especially yours!
What does this mean to you and your business? It means significant improvements in several areas for your online communications. You now experience:
Pumped Up Processing Power The email jobs you schedule, whether broadcasts or Autoresponders, now spend less time in a queue waiting to be sent. This will enable you to communicate rapidly and easily with your customers and clients.
What has Changed – Our Broadcast Module. You can now send multi-Autorespnders from the broadcast page. A new interface has been developed enabling you to easily set up your broadcast emails. It’s more intuitive design helps you save time and rapidly set up and select your desired lists of recipients.
Go to the Broadcast page to view the changes!
Duplicate-Name Filtering – The Duplicate-Name Filtering prevents the same email from being sent to the same person multiple times within the same mail broadcast. The new module performs this routine on a per job basis rather than on a 24 hour basis. This single change has allowed us to make significant improvements in our email delivery processing time.
What does this mean?
If you have the same client subscribed to more that one Autoresponder, and you send one mail message simultaneously to multiple lists, your client will only receive one mail message.
Your ability to grow your business and accelerate your success through the constant evolution and improvement of our solution remains our primary goal. Thank you for your continued confidence and for referring us to your colleagues and friends too!
If you have feedback or additional suggestions, please send your comments to feeback@1ShoppingCart.com
A laptop on every table
June 23, 2008 by Propy
Filed under Propy’s Place
A laptop on every table, wouldn’t that be a great campaign platform?
In searching the news feeds this morning, I came across this great little article:
I want to teach the world to surf, says the man who invented the $100 laptop
Kick Start Cart Changes Billing Options
June 22, 2008 by Propy
Filed under Industry Updates
As of last month, Kick Start Cart (AKA 1 Shopping cart, FrontPage Cart) no longer offers the option to manually renew your account. The system now only allows for automatic renewals.
KickStartCart.com Database Upgrade
June 22, 2008 by Propy
Filed under Industry Updates
Saeler Enterprises is dedicated to keeping our clients updated with changes in the industry and products we recommend, so below is a server upgrade notification from Kick Start Cart (1shoppingcart.com):
Sql Server Upgrade from SQL2000 to SQL2005 January 14/15 2006
As a part of KickStartCart.com’s ongoing commitment to deliver quality software and best-of-breed Internet Marketing Solutions, we are pleased to announce the upcoming transition from Microsoft SQL 2000 database server to Microsoft SQL2005 database server.
We are very proud of this upgrade as it will provide you with even more compelling reasons to use KickStartCart.com! Our migration to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 will ensure that we are able to continue to grow to meet your future business needs. The new platform represents a significant investment by KickStartCart.com and demonstrates our commitment to providing unbeaten service o our customers. Microsoft SQL 2005 offers a real step ahead in performance, scalability and security and will address the growing needs of our customers as well as giving you a real advantage in the marketplace through a better user experience and more robust back-of-house infrastructure.
Our KickStartCart.com Upgrade Team will be responsible for doing the upgrade for you; no specific action is required on your part. It will be done during a maintenance window that will minimize any disruption to you, your Web site or your business. If you would like more detailed information about the upgrade process, please contact us and we’ll address your questions directly. Our goal is to make this process as smooth as possible for you and to offer you all the resources and communications necessary to make this upgrade successful for your business. It is planned that the upgrade process will be undertaken between 11PM EST on the 14th of January 2006 and 6AM EST on the 15th of January 2006 and will require a short period (less than 30 minutes) where the application may be unavailable.
Ready Hosting Server Updates
Our Policy is to keep people up to date with the various web hosting companies we use. The following is an update notice from ReadyHosting.com
Just a reminder, we will be performing some routine server maintenance on the new ReadyHosting platform, overnight between 12:00am and 9:00am EST on Sunday, March 12. We usually schedule server maintenance once per calendar quarter to ensure that our hosting platform (and your Web site) is as secure and reliable as we can make it.
Between the hours of midnight and 9:00am EST, your Web site and e-mail, along with the ReadyHosting Web site, may be inaccessible. We understand that the availability of your Website is critical and will do our best to minimize any service interruptions. Any mail sent to you during the maintenance period will be stored and delivered once the maintenance is complete.
Though we have scheduled this work for a time when traffic to Customer sites is typically at its lowest, we apologize in advance for any inconvenience. We perform our preventative maintenance on our entire, pool-based hosting architecture all at once to avoid to extended periods of below average service to your Web site and e-mail.
(If your account has not been migrated by March 12, you should not experience any performance issues during this time period. Please note that if your account is on a custom or self-managed migration path, you will not be able to use these tools during the maintenance period.)
If you have questions or need assistance, please contact us at support@readyhosting-inc.com.
We will post any changes or updates to the maintenance schedule in our “Important System Notices,†located at: http://www.readyhosting.com/support/index.bml?s=1
Best wishes,
The ReadyHosting Team
FreeCycle, for Charity or the Cost Conscious
June 22, 2008 by Propy
Filed under Propy’s Place
The worldwide (!) Freecycle Network is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It’s a grassroots movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns.