MasteredMinds just recently finished setting up a full scale PBX (Phone System) complete with 10 extension, IVR (Integrated Voice Response), and VoIP creating a cost effective phone solution for small, medium, and large bussinesses.

Asterisk is an Open source Phone System/PBX that can be customized for your office or call center. Your phone system can be integrated with IVR (Integrated Voice Response) to poll database information and direct customers to extensions or ring groups or to send other customers to queues.  This software can also be integrated with CRM and ERP systems, to maximize the efficiency of handling your customers and clients.

Call MasteredMinds today and speak with one of our sales team, 1 866 969 MIND (6463) x 1 (Sales).

I just learned today that one of our clients, Rapid Reporting was acquired by Equifax today.  Here is the link to the article about the acquisition.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/equifax-acquires-rapid-reporting-68702987.html

Its feels great when a client succeeds.  From all of us @ MasteredMinds, congratulations Rapid Reporting!

We just completed development today on a solution that add manufacturers coupons to the X-CART e-commercer software written in PHP.  This allows the provider to add coupons that are restricted to one manufacturer.  It allows for the provider to add coupons for a % (percentage) off all manufacturer products in your cart, as well as the ability to add flat rate discounts to all products. We have integrated this into both the backend admin panel and the customer facing part of the system.

Interested in adding manufacturer coupons or other custom development for your e-commerce system?   We have experience with a wide variety of e commerce solutions including OSCommerce, ZenCart, X-Cart, and Magento.  We also provide customized web based solutions for businesses using a variety of languages, tools, and techniques.  Give MasteredMinds a call today, 866 969 MIND (6463).

So your trying to call a function on the parent timeline from a loaded swf.  In as2 this was pretty easy, as you could directly call to the parent.function().  In as3 its a little different because of the way the new movieclip objects are handled… but dont worry.. we have the solution.

In the following example.. lets say you have loaded a movie clip through action script from your library. something like

var myMovie = new movieInstance();
stage.addChild(myMovie);

Now lets assume you are trying to call a function when this loaded movie stops playing on the last frame.

if(this.parent.parent != null){
var parentObj:Object = this.parent as Object;
parentObj.function();
}

this.parent can be adjusted to set the depth of the parent you are trying to access. parentObj.function is the name of the function you are trying to access.

If you have any questions, just post, and we will be happy to assist.

My favorite feature of Google Analytics, by far, is the Site Overlay feature.  Basically it allows you to optimize the real estate on your website by placing an overlay on your website that shows which URLS are being clicked on by your customers.  This tool will give you insight into optimizing your banners and link locations based on their click thru rate.

Pros: Allows you to view click through rate.  As a bonus, it will show goal completions (only works if you have goals setup).

Cons: If you have the same link on your page, it will show the click through rate as a combined count and not for each individual text link.  For example, if you have 2 contact us links on your home page, one in the header and one in the footer, and they both link to http://www.mysite.com/contactus it will collect the clicks for that URL and not for the text link.  If some one clicks on the header, it will show that the footer has been clicked on as well.

Using it: Its simple.  Log in to your Google Analytics account.  Go to your website profile. On the Right hand navigation click Content -> Site Overlay.  This opens up a new window.

Need help analyzing the data in your Site Overlay?  Call or email one of our experts today for a free analysis of your Google Analytics Site Overlay metrics.