Contractor & Employee Problems

Getting people to work as hard as I do and do great quality work is really, really hard.  People try to do the minimum work to skate by, nickel & dime me on every little thing, and miss deadlines.  I have been thinking hard about how to better motivate people to do good work:

  • Give bonuses for quality work & meeting deadlines
  • Give equity stake
  • Threaten to fire them or not give them payment
  • Hire better people

You have ideas?

Government More Evil than Enterprise

I am fighting two unjust charges right now, one from the City of Los Angeles and the other from Metropolitan Park Apartments of Seattle.

The City of Los Angeles gave me a parking ticket when I was in a legal spot in Beverly Hills.  I think the parking attendant had a quota to fill and saw that my license plate was from Washington State and thought I was an easy target and so gave me the wrong ticket.… read more “Government More Evil than Enterprise”

Ultimate Shopping Cart Review: Shopify, Magento, ZenCart, BigCommerce, NopCommerce

UPDATED REVIEW HERE: BigCommerce 2012, Shopify 2012 & Magento 2012

By late April 2010, I found out that BigCommerce is the best e-commerce software platform so far. This conclusion is based on my own comprehensive review and testing. In fact, my new version of my product sales website Digital Temperature Gauges is going to be on Bigcommerce.… read more “Ultimate Shopping Cart Review: Shopify, Magento, ZenCart, BigCommerce, NopCommerce”

BigCommerce versus Shopify

BigCommerce and Shopify are two of the leading e-commerce platforms out there, each with their merits and advantages over the other.

The first point to elaborate is the design of both the shopping carts. This battle is won by Shopify. Shopify offers a more easy-to-use and easy-to-customize designing format as compared to BigCommerce. Though customization is possible in BigCommerce too, the interface is quite complicated and web designers will ask more money to make it the way you want it to be.… read more “BigCommerce versus Shopify”

Better Shopping Cart than Shopify: BigCommerce

The best competitors in the shopping cart market are Shopify and BigCommerce.

Comparing them is not that easy. Despite both of them having features that are convenient for buyers and the sellers, the question of which is better will arise at one time or the other. That will definitely prompt a comparison, which is what you will find in the following lines. … read more “Better Shopping Cart than Shopify: BigCommerce”