ACK - Kayaking, Camping, Outdoor Adventure Blog » Peter http://blog.austinkayak.com Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Website Changes – Filters and More http://blog.austinkayak.com/2013/05/website-changes/ http://blog.austinkayak.com/2013/05/website-changes/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 01:21:13 +0000 Peter http://blog.austinkayak.com/?p=28815 Today we launched our latest release of our website with some major and minor changes, I thought I would give a quick summary. Filters We have finally enabled some real filtering ability.  Now on any product listing page you can filter based on a wide variety of attributes for the product.  Our work is not done, [...]

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]]> http://blog.austinkayak.com/2013/02/go-play-watch-dogs/feed/ 0 12/14/12 It’s Not About Remembering, It’s About Never Forgetting http://blog.austinkayak.com/2012/12/121412-its-not-about-remembering-its-about-never-forgetting/ http://blog.austinkayak.com/2012/12/121412-its-not-about-remembering-its-about-never-forgetting/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:22:05 +0000 Peter http://blog.austinkayak.com/?p=21351 I don’t spend much time blogging, I often wish I did but I never really feel that what I want to share is worth sharing and inconsequential to our Blog.  For some reason last Friday 12/14/12 has me feeling different and I wanted to take a moment and reflect on the heinous crime and absolute [...]

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]]> http://blog.austinkayak.com/2011/07/ack-com/feed/ 1 Kustomer Service http://blog.austinkayak.com/2011/01/kustomer-service/ http://blog.austinkayak.com/2011/01/kustomer-service/#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:00:18 +0000 Peter http://www.austinkayak.com/blog/?p=3881 Our Kustomer Service team has recently grown again and with that came an idea. Our customers always say that at ACK our Kustomer Service is different and stands above the rest. That’s when I realized that we should be calling it Kustomer Service.  Why Kustomer service with a “K”? Well aside from being different, it isn’t [...]

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