Boost Your Brand Awareness with Branded Products

Exhibiting at trade shows and expos is a great way to get in front of a lot of people in one location to generate leads for your business. However, to make it worthwhile a company needs to find unique ways to bring people into their booth and be seen by as many show attendees as […]

Why Self-Hosting Beats SaaS Publishing For Bloggers

Guest Post from Matt Davis at FutureHosting Self-hosting offers reliability, accountability, and control over your own business model and content. SaaS is not the right solution for serious bloggers. Software-as-a-Service is tempting for bloggers. Most of the work is done for you. All that’s left is to write and publish. The foundations of the service are […]

SUPEE-7405

In November, we published a blog post about the worst Magento patch that we’d come across to date – SUPEE-6788, known to some in our offices as “the website killer”. It required significant work to apply this patch, which in essence requires Magento store owners to have us upgrade their extensions and store, and address […]

Is Self-Hosting Your Videos On WordPress A Good Idea?

Guest Post from our partner, Nexcess. While WordPress is capable of self-hosting video, the bandwidth requirements make streaming services or dedicated video hosting services the better option. Adding video to your WordPress blog or business site is a great way to communicate with readers (viewers) and potential customers. The web is still built around the written […]

Will your Marketing Technology deliver on your 2016 goals?

Guest Post from our partner, dotmailer With the emergence of new marketing technologies and the evolution of old ones in 2015, 2016 could see a shake-up in strategy by the CMOs and CTOs of ecommerce businesses. This evolution in the Marketing Technology space has inspired some healthy debate around all-in-one solutions versus building best-of-breed marketing suites, […]

How CRM Can Help Your Commerce Business Deliver a Personalized Customer Experience

Guest Post from our partner, OroCRM In today’s fast evolving social world, customers are expecting businesses to communicate through multiple channels and devices and cater to them whenever and wherever they are available. To be able to master this task, it is important to implement a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system that offers the necessary […]

Magento 2.0 has arrived…

…sort of This week the 2.0 versions of Magento Community and Enterprise became officially available to the public. While Magento 2.0 has been a crowd-sourced endeavor, with developers around the world involved along the way, and has been tested rigorously including for some real websites, it is still in many ways brand new. Magento 1.x […]

Black Friday and Cyber Monday Blog Post

Black Friday. On the surface, you’d think that this day was purposely given ominous, dark, possibly evil connotation. The exact origins of the modern usage of the term are lost to time, but Snopes suggests that the by the 1950’s, the day was known for employees calling in sick in order to enjoy a long […]

A Busy Time, Indeed

A Busy Time, Indeed It’s a very busy time here at Rand Marketing. Abi’s Place Abi’s Place Open House is on Tuesday, November 17 at 6:30PM. Abi’s Place is at 1710 North University Drive, Coral Springs, Florida 33071. This is a wonderful cause that Rand Marketing is proud to help support. Their open house is […]

Magento SUPEE-6788 Patch Information

It’s a bird… It’s a plane…. It’s SUPEE-6788! The 5th Magento security patch of 2015 has arrived, much to the chagrin of Magento developers and website owners. We’re of course glad to see Magento providing protection against vulnerabilities that have been discovered and are still huge fans of Magento Community & Enterprise. While the first […]