Walt Disney said, “let them never forget, it was started by a mouse.” In my case, this wild adventure was started by a ferret.
That fuzzy member of the mustelid family gave me my start in eCommerce, opening my first online store (way back) in 1994, when Amazon was just a river and yahoo was something you shouted after winning on a scratch-off. TheFerretStore.com, along with our 39 other eCommerce pet stores were sold in 2007 to PetCo.
But my journey didn’t stop there. In 2001, I co-founded a website design and Internet marketing company we called Solid Cactus. We built over 4,000 online stores for entrepreneurs all over the world and had nearly 250 employees. In 2009, Solid Cactus was acquired by web.com where I remained running a team of Internet marketing professionals and account managers until March 2018.
They say once you’re sucked into eCommerce you can never leave and that’s the case with me! I’m currently the general manager at Your Store Wizards, where we have a team of designers and developers who, like Solid Cactus, build eCommerce stores on the BigCommerce, Shopify, and Turbify platforms, as well as various apps and tools for store owners to run and manage their stores.
Besides that, I continue to pursue my passion for cruising and operate Scott’s Cruises, a website where I write cruise reviews, post interesting cruise news, photos, videos and more from my adventures.
My Latest Ramblings…
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