Posts filed under 'e-commerce seminar'
Fastcommerce
New templates are coming. Beautiful templates. One is almost as good as amazon.com.
Also coming, the ability to host your own domain on your fastcommerce store. Easy integration with Google Analytics. It is AWESOME
http://www.fastcommerce.com
And don’t for get to go to down load the lastest online line seminar.
https://fastcommerce.webex.com/fastcommerce/ldr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=25682097&rKey=0A3DC2D6925B0B57
Add comment November 24, 2008
FastCommerce.com announces all FastCommerce stores automatically have their products published on Google Shopping
How about a service that will monitor your website on a constant basis, and
then provide you with keyword analysis you can use to fine tune and enhance
website performance?
You get this and more with FastCommerce.com, an e-commerce technology that
acts as a publishing engine to search engines, Google Products, and industry
directories. It is a powerful online product catalog with complete search
engine visibility.
Our professional services can get you up and running quickly with a complete
web store and on-line product catalog. Your company can start generating
more business right away.
The FastCommerce professional services team can then monitor and analyze
site performance and offer recommendations to improve performance. There is
no contract. You can cancel at anytime.
FastCommerce.com will deliver the results you need to make your company a
success. And you can start right away. No messy project implementations,
everything is pre-built. Give us your data and within days you?ll have a
professional, comprehensive e-commerce website. Start powering your business
now with FastCommerce.com.
_____
* We help you get up and running in a week
* We publish your data to Google Products within a week
* We submit your products to Google Search Engine using
Google XML SiteMap
* Submit your site to 100+ search engines
* Submit your site to 20+ directory services
* Build up to 5 product blog sites on top blogs
* Generate monthly reports on key search engine performance
metrics
* Generate high quality free leads
Add comment March 10, 2008
FastCommerce.com announces all FastCommerce stores automatically have their products published on Google Shopping
For small business owners, moving to e-commerce brings complexity and confusion. There is a steep learning curve, and e-commerce technology can be intimidating for the beginner. Not with FastCommerce.com: by simply signing up, the small business entrepreneur automatically generates a professional web-store. And the service is entirely free for the first fifty products.
San Mateo, California (PRWEB) November 9, 2007 — The demand for small business e-commerce technology is rapidly increasing as small business owners move to the web to capture more business. With on-line sales growing at a tremendous pace, small business entrepreneurs need to adopt successful technologies that will enable them to quickly set up and operate an on-line e-commerce store. But this first step brings with it the challenge of finding the right solution. A new and growing e-commerce platform, FastCommerce.com, has been designed to automate these first steps into e-commerce.
Small business owners also run the risk of spending money on the wrong solution. Misspent funds can quickly add up to sizable sums before a business’s website goes live. However, FastCommerce.com is a free e-commerce service. Full access to the service is free up to the first fifty products. It is free to start and free to use, making it even easier to get started with on-line sales.
The FastCommerce.com e-commerce web service has been designed to get small business owners up quickly with an on-line store to begin selling right away. A simple one-step registration automatically generates a complete and professional web-store. Users also gain access to their own web-based e-commerce management module or dashboard to process orders, manage accounts and select pre-set payment options such as PayPal, and now with Google Check-out.
FastCommerce.com announces all FastCommerce stores automatically have their products published on Google Shopping
By signing up with the FastCommerce e-commerce service, small business owners have everything they need to run a complete on-line business. They simply enter their zip code, shipping rates for UPS and FedEx are automatically calculated in the shopping cart. Enter an email address and an email auto-responder for the customer order confirmation is automatically activated. Customers can create a product, go to their store front, add to cart: they can then register, complete the purchase, and go to their email box: a professionally formatted order confirmation email will be there waiting for them.
There are dozens of easy automation features built into the FastCommerce.com e-commerce application. For example, there a dozen reports, including a quick-link feature that gives a real time view of 10 top selling products and 10 most popular products by page views. The FastCommerce.com applications have been designed to be easy to use, with a very short learning curve. As Charles Han, CEO of FastCommerce.com states, “Our goal was to build a compelling small business e-commerce application, and then give it away. We have a lot of experience building web-based small-business applications, but here the aim was to simplify and automate the process. No one goes to YouTube.com looking for a set of instructions on how to use it.”
FastCommerce.com is the latest in Web 2.0 web-services that are web-based, easy to use and low cost. By simply signing up small business owners have access to low cost e-commerce applications that are also feature-rich and well designed.
The feedback to the service, both the product and the small business pricing, has been tremendous. Additional features in the near-term will include a set of templates designed to give customers complete control over the branding of their website. FastCommerce.com is dedicated to building state of the art small business applications at small business prices.
About Fastcommerce:
Fastcommerce.com provides business management software to small businesses, delivered on demand as a service via the web on a free or paid monthly subscription basis. We provide small businesses with a complete fully integrated package that run their entire operations, from inventory control, sales, marketing, support, on-line catalog, e-commerce, back-end order processing and built-in UPS and FedEx shipping tools.
The only requirement to use our software is an Internet connection. Unlike a traditional software company, our small business customers do not need to buy and maintain expensive software and hardware.
1 comment March 8, 2008
Great conference this year at Internet Retailer
Internet retailer 2008
This is the best conference for those who sell online. This year looks particularly good as the internet e-commerce world quickly changes.
That’s what makes FastCommerce.com so impressive. For small budgets looking for a truly PROFESSIONAL online store and back office management, FastCommerce.com is the first, second and third choice for small business entrepreneurs.
Here is a list of topics.
Web Merchants dive into the mainstream
No longer a sidebar, e-retailing is leading the way in retailing, marketing, new media and e-commerce.
Open up new markets
Basics of web site design and content
Engaging the shopper for more sales
Making your e-commerce technology shopping list
You and third party platforms
Sorting out fulfillment and shipping options
Marketing, making the right choices to achieve roi
How to choose a search engine marketing company
The new levels of competitiveness in e-retailing
How the mainstream internet creates new market opportunities
First you crawl: the evolution of a web site
Running a small e-commerce business: practical, real world tips and tricks
How to manage third party store platform relationships
Relying on other people’s expertise: how to make the right outsourcing choices
Product sourcing: the web’s important role for retailers
Organizing for e-commerce success
Budgeting: balancing store investments and web site investments
What’s that shopper worth? Measuring the offline impact of an online visit
Web 2.0 reality check
Mixing web 2.0 and organic search: ensuring you can be found in a 2.0 world
Finding the real value in virtual worlds
Let customers be the guides: Wikipedia meets overstock
What might go wrong with web 2.0
A mainstream strategy for a web-only retailer
The internet’s made for me markets
Manufacturers enter the e-retailing mainstream
Making sense of the shifting marketing landscape
The big power of little widgets
Consumers raise their voices: keeping track of your brand online
Using personas to pinpoint a shoppers needs
Personalizing the web experience
Implementing and using video
What’s the future of rich media
Customer reviews: getting them right
5 things you can do to secure your website
The evolving world of payment security
Unlocking payments value: strategies for managing payment acceptance
Making the right choice among alternative payments and processors
Changes in the parcel industry and how they affect e-retailers
Getting the product to the customer now
The new role of the customer service agent
Tapping into the promise of self-serve customer service
Back to square one: refocusing and starting over
My problem and how I solved it
Making sure your new technology will do what it is supposed to do
Getting other retailers to help with your technology implementation
Web site design spotlight: live, on the spot critiques of retailers’ sites
How to plan for a redesign
Organizing product date for more sales
Add comment March 5, 2008
FastCommerce Small Business Ecommerce Offers Business Opportunities for Website Designers
Web Design Firms Can Now Offer Free eCommerce by FastCommerce.com as an Additional Service to Increase Revenue
Small website design firms can now offer the e-commerce system by FastCommerce.com as an additional service to drive revenue from new and existing clients. FastCommerce is a complete e-commerce that is offered at no or low cost. At virtually no risk, design firms can offer to set-up web storefronts for small business entrepreneurs looking to sell online.
San Mateo, CA, September 27, 2007 –(PR.com)– Web design firms have emerged as a fast growing client base for the free e-commerce applications offered by FastCommerce.com. The FastCommerce e-commerce system is easy to set-up, easy to use, and is offered at no or low cost. There is no risk to start, and in return web design firms get a state of the art, high performance ecommerce system to use as an additional product offering to boost revenue.
Small business design firms have been quick to sense a new and potentially lucrative business opportunity. Traditionally, web design has been only a part of a total ecommerce operation, a small part of the total software needs of the small business entrepreneur looking to sell online. Small business online retailers have traditionally used a number of diverse software programs to successfully run an ecommerce company. As e-commerce applications move to the web small business online retailers have greater access to single-system e-commerce services. FastCommerce.com is a powerful, low-cost Web 2.0 version of this new model.
FastCommerce.com has all the tools a small business needs to sell online. By simply signing up, online retailers have access to a full suite of tools that include an online store, online product catalogue, shopping cart, auto-email responder for order and shipping confirmation, as well as back office tools for order capture and processing, account maintenance in addition to automatic shipping calculations for USPS, USP and FedEx. Paypal will soon be offered as a payment option, and credit card transactions can be set up on the site through authorise.net.
But the FastCommerce.com ecommerce tools are free up to 250 products. By simply signing up, web design firms can quickly master the tools of setting up a complete online store, and then offer it to their clients as a service or product. Small business online retail continues to grow at an astonishing pace, and the FastCommerce.com ecommerce webstore has all the tools that small online retailers need to be successful.
The FastCommerce.com represents a new tool for website designers to offer to their established client base looking to extend their e-commerce capabilities. “We are finding the website designers have lots of clients require updates to their ecommerce systems” says Charles Han, FastCommerce.com CEO, “By simply learning the FastCommerce.com system, they can revisit their clients with a powerful and inexpensive ecommerce solution. For lack of time, many online retailers will be looking to third-party providers to set it up. And because it is easy to set up, and low cost, it’s a win-win.”
FastCommerce.com is also offering free additional training to all web designers looking to utilize the free e-commerce service to expand their business. Topics will include how to set up the store, and how to go live, setting up the store as a sub-domain of the existing website, etc. And since the FastCommerce.com e-commerce system is easy to use, website designers will find it easy to train their clients on the system to get them up and running quickly.
The response to the FastCommerce.com ecommerce system for small online retailers has been impressive. Small business retailers have been tremendously excited by having access to high caliber e-commerce software at little or no cost.
Fastcommerce.com provides business management software to small businesses, delivered on demand as a service via the web on a free or paid monthly subscription basis. We provide small businesses with a complete, fully integrated package that helps run their entire operations, including inventory control, sales and marketing, support, online catalogs, e-commerce, backend order processing, and built-in UPS and Fedex shipping tools.
The only requirement to use our software is an internet connection. Unlike a traditional software company, our small business customers do not need to buy and maintain expensive software and hardware.
4 comments September 27, 2007
STRATEGIES TO SUCCEED ONLINE: THE NEW YORK TIMES NOW HAS A SMALL BUSINESS SECTION
|
|
Strategies to Succeed Online
PUTTING a small business online used to be a relatively simple matter: buy the domain names that matched your company’s identity, set up a Web server and send out a press release and a few e-mail messages. No more.
These days, a Web site may not even be the best place to start promoting your products or services. Instead, you can consider setting up a blog, participating in social-networking communities like Facebook and creating a storefront in virtual worlds like Second Life to get the buzz going.
“We launched our company in May 2006 with a blog, not a Web site,” said Jody DeVere, the president of AskPatty.com, an advice site that helps women find car showrooms and repair shops that are friendly to them. “Our blog has been the driving force of our branding effort and become the way we find our readers and our customers.”
Earlier this year, AskPatty created a virtual coffee shop at the online community site Second Life, where people can swap tips and stories. That move turned out to be a gold mine for the company. “The women in Second Life are the ultimate power Internet users, and are very comfortable doing business online,” Ms. DeVere said. “Plus, it is a very cost-effective way to reach lots of people.”
The good news is that there are many sites that act as hosts for individual and corporate blogs at no cost. The three largest and most popular are WordPress, Google’s Blogger.com and Six Apart’s Typepad.com.
Any of these services is fine for most small businesses’ needs, said John Patrick, a former I.B.M. vice president for Internet technology, who is a consultant and a member of several Internet companies’ boards.
The important thing is to develop a lively and attractive Web presence, Mr. Patrick said, and to update it often. “You want to have an active and ongoing online discussion with your customers and suppliers,” he said. Pick topics that can be informative, and don’t shy away from controversy, but address it head-on, he continued, adding, “You want to give customers a recommended course of action and make them feel like they have a direct channel to your company.”
An active blog helps draw visitors to a corporate Web site and can improve a company’s search rankings, said Tristan Louis, an Internet consultant who is a blogger himself and an expert on Web technology. “Blogging isn’t just about promoting you or your business,” he said. Instead, he recommended that corporate blogs focus on a niche or industry segment and become an authority by publishing advice and commentary on it.
Once the blog is up and running, its reach can be extended by using so-called syndication tools — provided by the blogging sites — that generate “feeds,” to which customers can subscribe. Feeds are notifications that tell you when new content has been added, like comments and posts. Given the work involved, many businesses now have staff members whose responsibilities include maintaining Internet activities like blogs and online storefronts.
“The old ways of hiring a public relations firm and putting out press releases just don’t cut it anymore,” Mr. Patrick said. “Today’s businesses have to be more hands-on, grass roots, interactive and maintain this flow of continuous communications.”
Besides having a person responsible for online communities and communications, businesses must strive to develop a more conversational approach that includes everyone from the chief executive to the mailroom clerk. More than merely participating in social networks like Facebook and MySpace, that means answering e-mail, too.
In addition, corporations should make use of e-mail distribution lists (also called Listservs or groups) to stay in touch regularly with their customers, employees and suppliers. Running such lists used to require software that was sophisticated, expensive and quirky. Now there are popular services sponsored by Yahoo (groups.yahoo.com), Microsoft (groups.msn.com) and Google (google.com/groups) that offer free distribution-list programs.
What a company should not be doing is spending lots of money on dot-com speculators, buying specialized software or even paying for the services of Web developers.
As Ms. DeVere said: “A new business doesn’t have the money to build a brand and pay for advertising. The biggest investment is your time, and these tools require a lot of that, but they can really pay off.”
4 comments September 27, 2007
Website Designers Offer FastCommerce as a Value-added Service
Web design firms have emerged as a fast growing client base for the free e-commerce applications offered by FastCommerce.com. The FastCommerce e-commerce system is easy to set-up, easy to use, and is offered at no or low cost. There is no risk to start, and in return web design firms get a state of the art, high performance ecommerce system to use as an additional product offering to drive revenue.
Small business design firms have been quick to sense a new and potentially lucrative business opportunity. Traditionally, web design has been only a part of a total ecommerce operation, a small part of the total software needs of the small business entrepreneur looking to sell online. Small business online retailers have traditionally used a number of diverse software programs to successfully run an ecommerce company. As e-commerce applications move to the web small business online retailers have greater access to single-system e-commerce services. FastCommerce.com is a powerful, low-cost Web 2.0 version of this new model.
FastCommerce.com has all the tools a small business needs to sell online. By simply signing up, online retailers have access to a full suite of tools that include an online store, online product catalogue, shopping cart, auto-email responder for order and shipping confirmation, as well as back office tools for order capture and processing, account maintenance in addition to automatic shipping calculations for USPS, USP and FedEx. Paypal will soon be offered as a payment option, and credit card transactions can be set up on the site through authorise.net.
But the FastCommerce.com ecommerce tools are free up to 250 products. By simply signing up, web design firms can quickly master the tools of setting up a complete online store, and then offer it to their clients as a service or product. Small business online retail continues to grow at an astonishing pace, and the FastCommerce.com ecommerce webstore has all the tools that small online retailers need to be successful.
The FastCommerce.com represents a new tool for website designers to offer to their established client base looking to extend their e-commerce capabilities. ”We are finding the website designers have lots of clients require updates to their ecommerce systems” says Charles Han, FastCommerce.com CEO, ”By simply learning the FastCommerce.com system, they can revisit their clients with a powerful and inexpensive ecommerce solution. For lack of time, many online retailers will be looking to third-party providers to set it up. And because it is easy to set up, and low cost, it is win-win.”
1 comment September 26, 2007
FREE ONLINE ECOMMERCE STORE with PAYPAL
What Does Free Online Store Really Mean?
Here at FastCommerce.com we’ve been taking phone inquiries, answering questions, and offering support to our growing list of small business entrepreneurs who are currently building their free online store with FastCommerce.com. The question always comes up, if it is free how do you make money? And if the FastCommerce.com ecommerce software is free, how good is it.
These are all good questions. Here at FastCommerce.com, out goal is to provide a really great ecommerce website for small business, and to do it at a low price. Our technology is first rate, and it’s been designed to handle thousands of customers. Our goal is to make having an ecommerce shopping cart no different than signing up for Yahoo or Hotmail email: with email applications you sign up and sign in and you have access to an application that is easy to use, has lots of tools, and does what you need it to do.
Here at FastCommerce.com, our goal is to provide web based ecommerce websites that will let small business owners run the whole of their online business from a single site. Our free online store is not a simple shopping cart, but a business application that lets you sell online while also running the rest of your business with shipping, email notifications, processing orders, order and account management, and more. And there is much more to come.
So in offering a free online store, FastCommerce.com wants to earn your loyalty by offering you the best online business tools for ecommerce. We figure that if we make it easy to get started, and keep developing more tools, that we will not only earn your loyalty, but also be instrumental in your success.
We will be developing new product features, like coupons and gift certificates, and we will charge money for additional features. You will be able to choose from a list of options that will let you tailor your online store to your goals and needs. We will not bundle features together, but let you choose a highly targeted list of features so that you will spend the least amount of money to get exactly those tools you need to succeed with your online store.
Nevertheless, this is a free online store that will let you run the whole of your online business and to do it for free. The free part will not change. By signing up for our free ecommerce software solution, you are not skimping on the tools you need to run your online store. You can sign up with the security and confidence to know that your software is no or low cost, and it will give you the features you need to build a successful online store. As your needs grow, FastCommerce.com will be there with more great features to enhance both your online store and your back office business.
2 comments October 14, 2007