Step Brightly offers many services to our clients in the realm of retail and online ecommerce solutions. From initial strategy to front-end navigational issues to a fully functional online shopping centers, we have 12+ years of experience working with on and off-line retail boutiques. Recently, we completed extensive research into four top-ranking shopping carts, 3dcart, BigCommerce, Shopify and Zen Cart and
...read more"As one door closes and another door opens itself." Who said that? I don't remember, but it is a good fit to this past week. I have been so blessed to have shared such an amazing experience with the AIGA Chicago board of directors over the past three years. I can't even list the names of all the generous people who
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Creative ladies! We continue our video series about how-to run an online business from a design, marketing and business-savvy perspective. To start our second part in our series, Vana Chupp and I share our experiences about how we each built the right online selling platform---aka; website. We start the conversation with the benefits of having an Esty site verse your
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On April 13 Step Brightly joined the masses of AIGA members and other designers to talk, at length, about design. One Day for Design was a hit! I often wondered if we are talking to ourselves but you can't deny the results below: More than 30,000 tweets Nearly 3,900 Twitterers More than 650 hashtags tweeted #1D4D ranked as the number-four trending hashtag on
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I was tickled pink when Vana Chupp of Le Papier Studio asked me to do an online video series about how to run a successful online business with her. She = Savvy online product boutique owner with tons of street-cred and adoring followers. Me = 12+ years designing with online start-ups, established brands and a boatloads of boutique retail brands We thought it
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Who doesn't recognize hot neon pink and chartreuse as Lilly Pulitzer's signature brand? Or Jonathan Adler's panache for 70's inspired diamonds shapes and aesthetically pleasing designs? Bring it on sister! Step Brightly was thrilled when Lifeguard Press, a licensing and private label company who feature such fantastic brands as Jonathan Adler and Lilly Pulitzer, asked us to work with them
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