8 Steps to Shoebuy.com's Success

6. Focus on being scalable and adaptable using metrics as a guiding light. Whether it's your technology, product offering, advertising, infrastructure and leadership, business model, etc., it must be scalable and adaptable to the marketplace, Savitz said.

7. Go for better than good; be in it to win it. All members of the Shoebuy.com team are held to a certain standard. Savitz believes that if you show loyalty to the people you work with they'll return that loyalty to you. Even in the worst of the recession a few years back when employee satisfaction levels were at their lowest, Shoebuy employees remained satisfied and invested in the company.