Archive for February, 2010

JJ Singh Jewelry E-Commerce

JJ Singh’s Jewelry is inspired by the woman who pushes to boldly expose her own mood and melody in life. The jewelry of JJ Singh is an immediately recognizable style defined by ancient influences applied with modern design interpretations. Her collections have previously been available only through fine jewelry retailers.  Captico partnered with JJ Singh to build an online presence that has allowed consumers around the world to easily discover her brand, purchase her product, and become a part of her social media presence.

Here are JJ’s reflections on her e-commerce experience with Captico.

“Redesigning my website to include an e-commerce platform with Captico has been a delightful experience. As a small business owner, the functionality I needed in my website is highly customized. (This is why off the shelf solutions like Yahoo! just were not working for me.) I didn’t want my site to look like every other store front out there.  Captico delivered both creatively and technically. They hit my design aesthetic on the nose with customized icons, colors, and imaging that makes my site stand out. They took my existing branding and design ideas and expanded on them in a very creative way. One of my favorite parts of the site are the “sketches” of jewelry that were created to resemble pages from my idea notebook. From a technical perspective Captico customized the e-commerce platform to suit my business and offered keen suggestions to improve the functionality and conversion rates of my website. The team is highly responsive and receptive to concerns and comments getting back to me quickly with realistic time estimates for specific milestones. I am looking forward to growing my business with the Captico team.”

3 Basic Steps for Using Video to Better Market Your Business Online

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Everywhere you look online it seems, video is popping up. Whether its product videos, customer testimonials, storytelling, commercials, promotional clips, or just goofy personal installments, everyone has jumped on board. Network television has Hulu.com, the bloggers have their vlogs, filmmakers are using Vimeoand AtomFilms, photo sharing sites like Flickr and Photobucket host video, even social networking giants Facebook and MySpace have joined the party- and of course, many still count on the all mighty YouTube to host and link to their video assets. Continue reading 3 Basic Steps for Using Video to Better Market Your Business Online

Using Twitter and Blogs As a Business Tool: Presentation

In this seminar, Captico presents strategies for leveraging Twitter and blogging for your business. We will cover the basics to get you started communicating your brand to a large and growing audience.

Some of the topics include:

  • The benefits of blogging and Twitter
  • What is social media?
  • Blogging 101, Twitter 101
  • What to blog/Tweet about and how to engage your audience

Feel Free To Download the Presentation Materials.

Weekly Web Redux: Design & Advertising Tips

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In this series of blog posts, I’m going to summarize articles and tutorials I read during the week.  If you don’t have the time to scour the web for blog posts about web related news, technology, and techniques, then come back here every week for a summary of my most interesting finds! Continue reading Weekly Web Redux: Design & Advertising Tips

Digital paleontology and innovation impediments

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Digital palentology is the process of studying why old obsolete code is still used in large organizations.   The code or technology fossilizes and is perpetuated regardless of easier, less expensive, and features of newer systems. Continue reading Digital paleontology and innovation impediments

Join Our Visual Design Project

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It’s time to flex your visual design skills!  Create your own version of our illustrator Liz Wheatley’s cartoon bird (as seen to your right), and post your photo to the Flickr photo group “Flip This Bird”.

Step 1: Download the source files here: flip_this_bird.zip

Step 2: Create your own version of the bird by altering the source file.

Step 3: Submit your work to Flip This Bird Flickr photo group for the world to see. Continue reading Join Our Visual Design Project