The First Scribe Blog


We recently helped Pour La Victoire launch their new blog, Une Petite Victoire. Since Magento’s eCommerce platform isn’t the easiest to integrate with a blog we decided to move it to a sub-domain. We chose Tumblr because it allowed us to implement and track basic SEO while also keeping a similar design aesthetic. If you haven’t used Tumblr …


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First Scribe has been accepted into MerchantCircle’s, Circle of Excellence, for 2011. To receive this award you must have 10 or more compliments in three of the following categories: Always on time, Best Bargins, Best of the Best, Cleanliness, Community Star, Environmentally Friendly, Friendly Staff, Knowledgeable, Quality Work, Stellar Service, Superb Selection, and Uniqueness. For …


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It wasn’t all that long ago that we reported the ramp-up to Christmas was causing some hosting troubles.  So much so that it took Tommy Hilfiger down. Today we found another one. This is a smaller company so they will remain safely anonymous.  However, the story remains the same – Not enough.   Moral of …


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Just as I hear the voice of Seth Godin in my brain, yelling at me to fight my very-own lizard brain…  Just as Gary Cohen may be asking me to ask the questions to the solution…  I can’t help but report. I fully understand that people are suffering through one of the worst economic cycles …


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For those of you who have read a blog post or two from me, you’ll know that I’m a Google nut. That’s why I’m excited to announce that First Scribe was accepted into the Google Analytics “Real Time” Beta test today. In the past, the web-based Google Analytics application was pretty good about updating data …


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