StoreFront Consulting is excited to be attending the upcoming x.commerce Innovate conference in San Francisco. We're looking forward to Blake Mycoskie of TOMS Shoes, The Shins and of course, finding out what crazy plans Magento and eBay have for the future. Contact us if you would like to setup a meeting while we're in the bay area.

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Well, eBay's acquisition of Magento is now complete. What will this mean for the future of the Magento platform? We can only assume good things in the short term as eBay's deep pockets are used to continue filling in Magento the company. Long term, we are waiting to see how things shape up. StoreFront Consulting plans to attend the x.commerce Innovate conference to catch Magento / eBay's big announcement. Looking forward to seeing what they come up with! Read More

Brian Walker of Forrester research has declared "Multichannel commerce no longer makes sense... Welcome to the Era of Agile Commerce." Of course we love "agile" anything here at StoreFront, but typically I am not a fan when journalists decide to declare the new eras. Its really difficult to have the perspective necessary for such declarations without the benefit hindsight. In my experience, when journalists make these type of over the top pronouncements, its intended to generate hype and promote their own agenda. And I do believe there is some of that going on here. However, underneath that hype, there is definitely something to what Brain is saying. Read More

I'm excited to be attending the upcoming Magento Imagine in LA this Febuary. This will be the inaugural Imagine conference and Magento has lofty goals for the event. They say: "the event will bring together eCommerce leaders for two days of discussion, learning, networking, inspiration... and of course – imagination!" Well I'm headed on the road to see what all the fuss is about.

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Garth and I turned our road bikes into stationery attention getters and spun for 14 hours at the Fells Point Fun Festival in Baltimore, Maryland this past weekend.  We raised over $1600 for cancer research and education.  We gave out lots of LIVESTRONG bracelets, CDs with uplifting music, and a few t-shirts.  Our efforts were inspired and supported by GIVETOLIVE (http://www.givetolive.ca), an all-volunteer non-profit that organizes an annual bike ride (this year from Vancouver, British Columbia to Austin, Texas) to participate in the LIVESTRONG Challenge.  

One hundred percent of the donations we collected were given to LIVESTRONG Foundation.  LIVESTRONG has one of the highest rates of funds that actually go to research, and to helping those who struggle with the disease.

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