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Fully Managed Solution

Sit back, relax and let us run your store. From building your site, marketing your products or building content, we provide a full managed solution. This will allow you to focus on what your do best, run your business!

FSBOopen

Geared the For Sale by Owner market, FSBOOPEN.com allows users to sell, market and spin property by combining every process and marketing tool required to generate a house listing and market awareness in just a few clicks. Using FSBOOPEN.com, home owners can list their house for viewing with multiple premium real estate sites, including Craigslist, Trulia and Zillow.

More than just a listing site for property, FSBOOPEN taps into a pool of offline and online resources. User will receive an individual property home page to share with potential buyers, and are able to upload an unlimited amount of images at no cost.

  • Custom built site on Code Ignitor Framework.
  • Site allows customer to share their property on multiple different social media outlets.
  • Properties are automatically push to real estate sites.
  • Custom built administrative panel which allows full control over site.
  • Visit live site at FSBOopen.com
KCKco – KcKayaks.com

KCKco. was founded by four Louisiana State University graduates with a vision: To create the most stable and comfortable kayak on the market and use it as a platform to promote coastal conservation not only on the Gulf Coast, but throughout the world. We hope to ensure that our fisheries will be enjoyed for generations to come.

  • Custom-designed store to match their company logo, colors and products.
  • Built on the latest version of Magento 1.4.1.0.
  • Flash intro to the site allowing KCKco to present their newest product images and descriptions.
  • Site was completely optimized for Search Engines.
  • Visit their live site at KcKayaks.com
Magento Release 1.4.1.0

Magento Commerce released version 1.4.1.0 June, 10 2010.  If you have not updated your store in a while this would be a good version to update on.   As usual it has many fixes to minor bugs, increased security and increased performance.  Besides this it has a very needed feature of WYSIWYG to static pages added through the backend.  This makes it much easier for administrators that don’t know code to edit the appearance of content with out a developer.

ShopSucre Holiday Updates

shopsucre-holidayWe spent many hours last week adding Sucre’s new holiday products to their site.  They have new drinking chocolates,  holiday gift baskets, new chocolate bars and many other great new products.  If you get a chance make sure to check out their new products.  Sucre’s photography will be sure to make your mouth water.

Piccadilly New Site Launch

piccadillyJust in time for the holidays we are releasing Piccadilly’s new site.  Piccadilly’s new site features include:

  • Holiday Online Ordering
  • Online Browse-enable Menu
  • Location search includes 120 different stores
  • Gift card balance look-up, reload and new purchase
  • Dynamic image loading
  • Flash and photographic integration through the site
Small and Emerging Business Development Program (SEBD)

baton_rouge_ecLouisiana Government is making a huge effort to stimulate small and emerging business. One of the programs that the Louisiana Economic Development Team currently offers is SEBD or LED’s Small and Emerging Business Development. This program helps Louisiana’s small businesses by assisting with entrepreneurial training, legal needs, marketing, computer skills and accounting.

We’ve utilized this program now for several of our clients to decrease cost of professional web development projects. If approved for this program SEBD will pay up to half of the web development project. Some of the criteria to be approved for this grant include:

  • Ownership and Control – At least 51% of the company must be owned and controlled by one or more Small and Emerging Business Persons.
  • Principal Place of Business – The firm’s principal place of business must be Louisiana.
  • Lawful Function – The company has been organized for profit to perform a lawful, commercially useful function.
  • Business Net Worth – The business’ net worth at the time of application may not exceed $1.5 million.
  • Full Time – Managing owners who claim Small and Emerging Business person status must be full-time employees of the applicant firm (20 or more hours per week).
  • Job Creation – An applicant firm anticipates creating new full-time jobs.

If you think you qualify for this program, apply, as this program does not give any end date and could end without notice.  We have successfully worked several of these projects.  If you need any help or have questions regarding your application approval please let us know.