We are in the thick of expo and conference season here at Classy Llama Studios!  We love the opportunity to meet with partners and clients, both existing and potential, in person -- somewhat of a luxury in our business.  IRCE 2012 is next up (June 5th-7th), and it’s a great place to stay abreast of what is cutting edge in eCommerce technology.  This year, we have sponsored a 10’x20’ booth, which is definitely the biggest to date.  Because we have changed our branding significantly to reflect who we are as a company, we wanted to make sure we got noticed.  The feedback we have been getting over the last year is that our reputation is that we are solid on our ability to deliver clean, complex eCommerce solutions on the Magento Enterprise platform.  We were...

We decided Classy Llama Studios would not be complete until we adopted our own mascot. Meet Cindy: We adopted Cindy from Mountain Meadow Llama Ranch yesterday after a few months of paper work and transporting her from Romana California. She's four years old and has two geldings, one in Paris, Oregon and another Versailles, Missouri. We're planning on reuniting her and her young gelding later this Spring. Charles, biting off more than he can chew... as usual She'll be taking on the Team Morale Manager fulltime by being available at our office for rides around the block anytime one our team members needs a break. We'll be saving about $3,500/month by not having to rent Charles the alpaca. Apparently, he was tired of the team making fun of him for his inability to produce enough fiber....

We at Classy Llama value public contributions from our team members.  We have an open blog policy where anyone on the team can post on our blog about anything they believe is noteworthy and relevant.  Over the past 3 years, we've averaged about one post per month.  We noticed that our blog represents fully half of our site traffic, albeit less quality traffic, but we like big traffic numbers because it makes us feel better about ourselves, so we decided it would be awesome if we increased our average number of blog posts per month. So... we did what any reasonable, balanced agency would do:  We offered chocolate to team members for blog articles.  And since we are Classy Llamas (as opposed to the spitting, filthy, despicable kind), we naturally put up a professionally hand-drawn...