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round3media a is proud to announce version 0.1.0 Beta of Etsy Integration. The module is here: http://www.magentocommerce.com/extension/2458/etsy-integration on Magento Connect. This is our first of many Magento modules to be released.

Overview

Features:
Download Etsy items into Magento
Creates:
– Categories
– Product
– Images
– Inventory
– Prices

Notes:
Currently only tested on a single store setup
Magento SKU = Etsy Listing ID
One way from Etsy to Magento. If Etsy creates a 2-way API, we will add that feature.

Install plugin

Clear Cache

If you receive an access denied error: System > Roles > Administrators > Save

System > Configuration > Etsy > Account Settings

Under Shop Info, enter your user name and API key and save config

Under Etsy > List Items click Download Product

Select which products to sync to Magento

Under the Actions dropdown, choose sync and click Submit

There will be a new category called Etsy with your Etsy categories under it.

Set your store to use the Etsy category as the root.

Screenshots

Configuration Panel:

Sync Management

• Share/Save

Tags: Etsy, Magento

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How to be a great client

As a client, your job isn’t to be innovative. Your job is to foster innovation. Big difference.

Fostering innovation is a discipline, a profession in fact. It involves making difficult choices and causing important things to get shipped out the door. Here are a few thoughts to get you started.

• Before engaging with the innovator, foster discipline among yourself and your team. Be honest about what success looks like and what your resources actually are.
• If you can't write down clear ground rules about which rules are firm and which can be broken on the path to a creative solution, how can you expect the innovator to figure it out?
• Simplify the problem relentlessly, and be prepared to accept an elegant solution that satisfies the simplest problem you can describe.
• After you write down the ground rules, revise them to eliminate constraints that are only on the list because they've always been on the list.
• Hire the right person. Don't ask a mason to paint your house. Part of your job is to find someone who is already in the sweet spot you're looking for, or someone who is eager and able to get there.
• Demand thrashing early in the process. Force innovations and decisions to be made near the beginning of the project, not in a crazy charrette at the end.
• Be honest about resources. While false resource constraints may help you once or twice, the people you're working with demand your respect, which includes telling them the truth.
• Pay as much as you need to solve the problem, which might be more than you want to. If you pay less than that, you'll end up wasting all your money. Why would a great innovator work cheap?
• Cede all issues of irrelevant personal taste to the innovator. I don't care if you hate the curves on the new logo. Just because you write the check doesn't mean your personal aesthetic sense is relevant.
• Run interference. While innovation sometimes never arrives, more often it's there but someone in your office killed it.
• Raise the bar. Over and over again, raise the bar. Impossible a week ago is not good enough. You want stuff that is impossible today, because as they say at Yoyodyne, the future begins tomorrow.
• When you find a faux innovator, run. Don't stick with someone who doesn't deserve the hard work you're doing to clear a path.
• Celebrate the innovator. Sure, you deserve a ton of credit. But you'll attract more innovators and do even better work next time if innovators understand how much they benefit from working with you.

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Podcast pioneer Leo Laporte gave a talk at the Online News Association Conference in San Francisco on Friday, giving insights into the future of media coupled with anecdotes from his work in television and radio. The keynote, entitled “Lunch with Leo”, runs 40 minutes, but it’s well worth the time if you’re involved in online media and broadcasting.

The most interesting tidbit: Laporte’s TWiT (This Week in Tech) network does $1.5 million in revenue per year, doubling yearly. His costs, however, are more impressive: it only takes $350,000 per year to run the business with 7 employees.

The video of Laporte’s speech is embedded below.

[via Jeff Jarvis]