Posts filed under 'ecommerce business'
Web Design: Working With FastCommerce.com
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 50 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
Add comment November 19, 2007
FastCommerce In Article on Shopping Cart Options
Shopping Cart Options for SMBs, Part 2
![]()
“Businesspeople have precious little time to learn complex systems and then to use them so it needs to be easy and accessible. Whenever possible I try to use the following guide when designing the systems: You shouldn’t need to read a manual to know how to use it — it should be self-evident,” said Daniel Vidoni, e-commerce software consultant and proprietor of Vidoniweb.com and Storefinder.com.
![]()
Increase customer confidence with Extended Validation SSL from VeriSign. EV triggers the address bar to turn green in Microsoft™ IE7, which helps prove site identity and helps reduce phishing attack threats. To learn more, read our white paper.
There’s a wealth of opportunities available for aspiring and small to medium-sized business (SMB) e-tailers looking for shopping cart technology, as Part 1 of this series points out.
While this makes it easier than ever to find this important piece of the e-tailing puzzle, it also means startup and SMB e-tailers face greater challenges when it comes to choosing shopping cart software and putting it to good use.Ongoing rapid growth in e-commerce, the emergence of standardized Web 2.0 technology and open source software packages, shopping cart and e-tail e-commerce tools have become cheaper, more powerful, standardized and chock-full of all kinds of interactive, multichannel and multimedia features. However, perceptions of just how easy they are to use — and how easy and cheap it is to get online and start an e-tail business — often outrun the reality.“There is such an enormous amount to consider when creating these systems that in my view it should be left to professionals. If not, a merchant can become disillusioned with Internet technology and determine — incorrectly — that it doesn’t work and that it’s all hype,” Daniel Vidoni, e-commerce software consultant and proprietor of Australia’s Vidoni.com and Storefinder.com, told the E-Commerce Times.
The Front End
There are essentially two sides to shopping cart sites, Vidoni continued: “The merchant’s administration area (the back end), which allows them to manage the products, pricing and freight and things like that; and the Web site front end where visitors can see and read about the products, place orders and make payments.”
Getting the front-end user interfaces right is one key to creating a satisfying customer experience. They need to be intuitive and facilitate a smooth workflow, Vidoni elaborated.
“From a sales perspective, it is vitally important that we help make the purchase experience a good one — and good means easy, pleasant and enjoyable — the opposite of frustrating. Remember the phrase ‘it’s been a pleasure doing business with you?’ That should be your target,” he said.
As important as it is, the shopping cart is just a part of an e-tail site; it needs to be part of a fully integrated e-tail platform, pointed out Charles Han, CEO of FastCommerce.com.
“Most shopping carts today have the basic function of managing products, calculating shipping and tax, and checking out with credit cards. Most U.S.-based shopping carts also support alternative payment methods such as Paypal and Google Checkout. That’s about what you will get from 99 percent of the shopping carts in the marketplace,” Han told the E-Commerce Times.
As competitive as the e-tail and software markets are and with so many good SMB shopping cart platforms on offer at small business prices, the shopping cart in and of itself doesn’t really add any significant value to an e-tailer’s business, he said.
“Like in a brick and mortar store, you are not going be successful if all you have is steel shopping carts and some check out registers. You are expected to have a fully integrated retail system to manage your merchandising assortment, inventory, promotion, marketing, customers, product returns and financials. Nobody expects to see a shopping cart and POS (point of sale) not being of a complete retail system,” Han added.
The Back End
Equally important to e-tailing success as getting a shopping cart site’s front-end user interface and navigation features right, the back end also needs to come together.
“The back end of the Web site is much more important and complex than many people realize,” Vidoni commented. “One would think that it is where products are managed and photographs of items uploaded. However, there is a great deal more that the administration area can and does do.”
Typically, sophisticated databases are used. “A lot of time is spent on getting the data architecture right. This flows from the needs of the business. Every business is different, therefore every database structure is different,” Vidoni continued.
Like the shopping cart’s front end, the back end administration area should be well-designed and easy to use.
“Businesspeople have precious little time to learn complex systems and then to use them so it needs to be easy and accessible,” he said. “Whenever possible I try to use the following guide when designing the systems: You shouldn’t need to read a manual to know how to use it — it should be self-evident.”
Ideally, databases should be able to be exported and connected to and from accounting software packages, which allows data such as stock levels and orders and sales information to be exported into accounting software packages for processing and reconciliation, something that is frequently overlooked, Vidoni noted.
“As with many things, you get what you pay for; there are no shortcuts to quality design and implementation and the extra time and effort you invest is returned many fold over the years during which your Web site operates profitably,” he commented.
Open Source Options
As in a growing number of software market segments, open source software solutions are making their market in e-tail and shopping cart software.
“There are many decent — and free — e-commerce solutions, such as osCommerce, on the market. These products allow very rapid development and are a great way for beginners to get into Web development. When these products are used by professional developers, the results can be sensational,” Vidoni related.
Professional, well-designed templates can be incorporated within a solid e-tail system’s architecture and provide very cost-effective, good quality solutions, he continued. Beautifully designed professional template’s can mesh together with the solid architecture of these well-designed products to yield very cost-effective quality solutions. In addition, Vidoni noted, “Because the software is in the public domain it is constantly under peer review and if necessary can be modified by the Web developer to produce more customized solutions.
“I have been involved in the development of similar shareware products in the past which were developed by the global programming community and the results were incredible. Everybody contributes small fragments and everyone ends up benefiting. The open architecture is beautiful to work with and there are so many forums where questions can be asked and answered sometimes within minutes that it’s just incredible.”
Making the Investment
For e-tail startups and SMBs to compete successfully in the increasingly competitive, fast-moving e-tail market means having the willingness and means to invest the necessary capital — and the capital required isn’t insignificant or shrinking.
“For small businesses that are just launching an online store or expect online sales to be under (US)$2 million, we usually recommend a shared revenue platform like Yahoo Merchant Solutions,” Sandra Fathi, president of Affect Strategies, told the E-Commerce Times. “There are quite a few companies that will provide their hosting services and e-commerce platforms for between 0.5 and 1.5 percent of sales revenue.”
Going with an established third-party e-commerce platform hosting provider offers startups and SMBs — particularly those with limited technology expertise — a number of advantages.
“This approach also provides merchants with peace of mind that tech support and maintenance of the platform are included in their agreement. Often, these platforms are well established and fully integrated with complementary services that the business may want to leverage as well,” Fathi explained.
Aspiring e-tailers can expect to invest $50,000 and upwards for a custom developed e-commerce platform while making use of an off-the-shelf offering may run as little as a few hundred to a few thousand dollars a year, according to Fathi.
“Many small businesses just don’t have the cash to layout upfront. Having a fixed percentage on top of their cost of goods sold allows them to have better cash flow and less volatility in operating costs if something should go wrong with a proprietary platform,” she noted.
BabyRide.com, one of Affect’s SMB e-tail clients, generates annual sales of more than $3 million yet still chooses to stay on the Yahoo Merchant Solutions platform, Fathi related.
“Although they are paying about 0.75 percent of each sale (or $22,500 annually), BabyRide.com has been able to avoid hiring a full time Web developer or technology expert to maintain and update the site. Having an e-commerce platform that is maintained, supported and operating 365 days a year is worth much more to the company,” she said. ![]()
Shopping Cart Options for SMBs, Part 1
Next Article in E-Commerce: New 3-D Tech Makes Online Shopping More Like Being There
Back to Online Version
E-Mail Article
<!–////–> Digg It
Reprints
More by Andrew K. Burger
Talkback ![]()
Related Stories
- New 3-D Tech Makes Online Shopping More Like Being There (22-Oct-07)
- The Scramble for Sticky Online Banking Customers (28-Sep-07)
- Online Billing, Part 2: Problems and Possibilities (18-Sep-07)
Related Resources
- Successful Offshore Outsourcing for Small to Mid-size Businesses
- Sales Outsourcing, Lead Generation, and Sales Consulting
- Sourcing Strategies for your HR-IT – A Webinar by Forrester
- State of IT Outsourcing
More Stories by Andrew K. Burger
- Marketing Automation Solutions for Startups, Part 2 (26-Oct-07)
- Marketing Automation Solutions for Startups, Part 1 (25-Oct-07)
- Shopping Cart Options for SMBs, Part 1 (22-Oct-07)
Letters: Click here to send a letter to the editor…
Talkback: Click here to add your comment about this story…
Shortcuts
Sign Up for Business and Technology News Alerts
Most Popular | Spotlight Features | Podcasts
This Week on ECT News Network | Archives
Online Retail Transaction Performance Indices
Broadband Video: Has Its Time Come?
Joost Beta Presents a Rich Tapestry of Oddball Offerings
Organizing a Personal Media Library, Part 3: Sorting It Out
Creating Synergy With Online and Offline Marketing
Financing Your Startup: Some Essential Tips
Motorola Profits Slide, Investors Cheer Nonetheless
Microsoft Goes Cheek to Cheek With Facebook
Tech Heavies Form IT Security Phalanx With SAFECode Forum
Nintendo Half-Year Profits Double on Demand for Wii
Second Life Becomes First Job for Adventurous Few
VPNs and Small Business, Part 2: Solutions and Alternatives
Russian Firm Files Patent for Password Cracker
Web 2.0: Spreading Vital Info Amid Calif. Firestorms
DNA Pioneer Watson Resigns Amid Cloud of Scandal
Marketing Automation Solutions for Startups, Part 2
Marketing Automation Solutions for Startups, Part 1
Revealing the Secrets to Effective Supply Chain Management
Microsoft Slashes CRM Live Pricing for Partners
Virtualization: Do Your Homework
Mozilla Flies High on Google’s Coattails
Enterprise Web App Platform Maker UnCurls Code
Parents Face Real Bills for Virtual Real Estate
Twine: Stringing Together the Semantic Web
Gearing Up for the Leap to Leopard
Fake Steve Jobs’ Book Has Kernels of Real Insight
Apple COO: Users Unlock 1 in 6 iPhones Sold
Vendor White Papers
Find the resources you need to make informed purchasing decisions. [ Browse Directory ]
Sponsored Links
Marketing A.M.M.O. for 2008
Register for this Free Webinar: Alternative Marketing Methods and Options
Search For Your Domain Name
Thousands of businesses rely on BuyDomains.com to secure great premium domains.
White Paper
Boost online sales with VeriSign EV SSL, read our white paper.
Free White Paper
12 Site Search Tips for Holiday Success. Download Today.
White Paper
Learn how to accelerate sales conversion and reduce site abandonment.
A powerful server from HP
The HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Server with Systems Insight Manager (SIM).
<!–////–> <!–////–>
Section Snapshot
| Business | Communications | Critical Issues |
| E-Commerce | E-Marketing | ECT News Exclusives |
| Enterprise IT | Hot Topics | Law |
| Must Read | SMB | Security |
| Spotlight Features | Trends | Wall Street |
ECT News Network Information
| Publications | Locate Products and Services
Corporate |
Reader Services |
Copyright © 1998-2007 ECT News Network, Inc. All Rights Reserved. See Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. How To Advertise.
.iTt{ FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 11px; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: lightyellow; BORDER: black 1px solid; PADDING: 2px; } <!–////–>
Add comment October 26, 2007
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
FastCommerce Continues Success with Free Online eCommerce Webstore for Small Business
Free Ecommerce Webstore
Building their own online stores, hundred of small businesses and individuals continue to sign up for the FastCommerce.com online store builder and free ecommerce website. Designed to be easy to set up and use, the FastCommerce.com service is a web-base, Web 2.0 free shopping cart software with free hosting. It has the advantage of enabling small business start ups and individuals to set up and grow their online businesses with a state of the art webstore and back-office management capability for order capture, account management, shipping and tax calcaulation: everything needed to run a business online. It has the singular advantage of being inexpensive (free, or practically free) while running on a proven Web 2.0 technology platform for speed and performance. The feedback to the free service and the ecommerce shopping cart tools has been tremendous.
Looking to build an online store? Just starting out? The FastCommerce.com ecommerce software is easy to use, easy to set up, and it is free to start. Free, not a free trial. What do we mean by easy to use? Our shopping cart software was designed especially for simplicity and ease of use. You will be impressed by the elegant design and the coherent layout of the management console. You will also be impressed by a level of speed and performance unmatched by the majority of shopping cart software solutions available on the web. And it is free! How cool is that?
The FastCommerce online store management tools let you quickly create new products, create complex and deep product category trees in minutes: it is well designed to let you create and modify to best suit your needs as they evolve. It is remarkably easy to build an online store with our FastCommerce.com ecommerce management tools. And after a short learning curve, our easy to set up, easy to use ecommerce solution becomes a remarkable productivity tool. You move quickly over the face of these ecommerce tools to manage, adapt and fine tune your online store to meet the evolving challenges of Internet ecommerce retail. And because of our Web 2.0 technology, we will be able to make enhancements and add new products without any disruption to your current ecommerce store. Our Web 2.0 ecommerce shopping cart software will meet and exceed your growing expectations as you continue to compete and succeed in Internet retail ecommerce.
Even better, once you set up your FastCommerce.com free online store, you will find that the other tools make complete sense at first sight. Order capture, order processing along with inventory management, account management and shipping: all the ecommerce online business applications on the FastCommerce solution are state of the art productivity tools designed by some of the industry’s top user interface designers. New features and functions will easily integrate with the existing set of applications: the final result will be one of the best ecommerce solutions available. And it is available to small business for free. How cool is that? Additional, third party fees are offered as options.
So go build an online store with FastCommerce.com. It’s fast, simple and cheap; that is, it’s a free ecommerce solution. Free to set up and free to use. You only pay when you want additional tools. And even then, our set of new and powerful options might be almost as inexpensive as the free service. Building an online store with FastCommerce lets you focus on your business, not on your budget. And with our state of the art Web 2.0 ecommerce solution, the days of having to run both an online store while supporting complex software and hardware are rapidly receding into the early days of online ecommerce.
A second release has been scheduled for early October to include Paypal, drop-down menus for product variables, five new templates that are professional, attractive, and have remarkable branding capabilities for non-technical marketing people, and more. FastCommerce.com will continue to develop products with a focus on offering low cost, state of the art small business applications for ecommerce and back-office business utilities.
FastCommerce.com is a free Web 2.0 ecommerce shoppinng cart software and business application for small businesses, start-ups, and individuals looking to grow their business with online sales.
Feedback has been awesome as hundred of small business entrepreneurs build their online stores and ecommerce business with a state of the art web 2.0 e-commerce applications from FastCommerce.com
3 comments September 15, 2007
SHOPPING CART SOFTWARE with FastCommerce.com
THE NEW WEB 2.0 ECOMMERCE WEBSITE AND SHOPPING CART SOFTWARE IS OFF TO A ROARING START. HUNDRED OF PEOPLE HAVE SIGNED UP AND SIGNED IN TO BEGIN BUILDING THEIR ONLINE STORES. THIS IS NOT A SHOPPING CART SOFTWARE EXCLUSIVELY, BUT IT ALSO HAS BACK END OFFICE MANAGEMENT LIKE ORDER MANAGEMENT, ORDER PROCESSING, CUSTOMER MANAGEMENT, AND MORE.
It is free to 250 products, and the software is easy to use, beautifully designed. You can go live with your own ecommerce website in no time at all.
It gives you all the tools you need to run your business online, and it will let you grow while keeping your costs non-existent, or very low.
Please checking out at fastcommerce.com or email sales at gregory@fastcommerce.com
<!–[if !supportEmptyParas]–> <!–[endif]–>
Add comment September 12, 2007
WEB 2.0 ECOMMERCE AS A FREE SERVICE at FastCommerce.com
WEB 2.0 ECOMMERCEWEB 2.0 ECOMMERCE FOR FREEWEB 2.0 ECOMMERCE FOR FREEFASTCOMMERCE IS WEB 2.0 ECOMMERCE
FOR PERFORMANCE, EASE OF USE, AND AWESOME ECOMMERCE TOOLS
Web 2.0 is simply software delivered over the web, via an Internet connection. But the big deal in Web 2.0 ecommerce solutions is that web-based ecommerce software now rivals in-house solutions in features and functions, and also in speed. A web-based application is great if it only does one thing like email, less great if it runs the whole of your business, right? Guess again.
Among the number of trends driving innovation in ecommerce software is the development of WEB 2.0 technologies that not only deliver low-cost ecommerce applications, but deliver speed and performance as well. Speed for the online store customer as they roam an ecommerce site, and speed for all the ecommerce utilities that drive the business end of the ecommerce software.
The ultimate goal of WEB 2.0 ecommerce software is to replace in-house and legacy systems with ecommerce web applications that offer the same features and functions, but at lower costs. Web applications can also be updated on an ongoing basis so that the Web 2.0 ecommerce application incorporates the best possible ecommerce web applications available at any time.
Google, and now Microsoft, are now offering many applications as web 2.0 applications. The FastCommerce.com ecommerce solution delivers ecommerce applications on this same model. We’ve developed an ecommerce software that enables small to medium sized business to have access to a single-system that can run the whole of their online store and online business are one application, delivered over the web, delivered at and no or low cost. FastCommerce.com’s Web 2.0 ecommerce includes a website, online product catalog with related products, order capture and order processing, a shopping cart, contact and customer management, as well as shipping, inventory and more.
All the tools are there in a high performance and inexpensive ecommerce solution that will let small business grow their online stores while not having to worry about costly investments, or having an in-house IT department. With the FastCommerce.com Web 2.0 software, Internet retailers can focus on running an ecommerce business, on customer service, not on hardware and software support.
FastCommerce.com will being rapidly developing products and features to its main ecommerce software: the goal is not simply to be an ecommerce shopping cart provider, but a platform that gathers together all the features and functions (for example, ERP) that a small business need to run the whole of their business. FastCommerce.com is a small business ecommerce utility that is pure Internet Web 2.0 in easy of use, speed and performance, and at low or no cost for businesses large and small.
<a href=”http://www.pr.com/”>Internet Marketing</a>
2 comments September 8, 2007
BEST SMALL BUSINESS ECOMMERCE SOLUTION AVAILABLE
BUILD AN ONLINE STORE WITH FASTCOMMERCE.COM
Looking to build an online store? Just starting out. The FastCommerce.com ecommerce
software is easy to use, easy to set up, and it is free to start. Free, not a free
trial. What do we mean by easy to use? Our shopping cart software was designed
especially for simplicity and ease of use. You will be impressed by the elegant
design and the coherent layout of the management console. You will also be impressed
by a level of speed and performance unmatched by the majority of shopping cart
software solutions available on the web. And it is free! How cool is that?
The FastCommerce online store management tools let you quickly create new products,
create complex and deep product category trees in minutes: it is well designed to
let you create and modify to best suit your needs as they evolve. It is remarkably
easy to build an online store with our FastCommerce.com ecommerce management tools.
And after a short learning curve, our easy to set up, easy to use ecommerce solution
becomes a remarkable productivity tool. You move quickly over the face of these
ecommerce tools to manage, adapt and fine tune your online store to meet the
evolving challenges of Internet ecommerce retail. And because of our Web 2.0
technology, we will be able to make enhancements and add new products without any
disruption to your current ecommerce store. Our Web 2.0 ecommerce shopping cart
software will meet and exceed your growing expectations as you continue to compete
and succeed in Internet retail ecommerce.
Even better, once you set up your FastCommerce.com free online store, you will find
that the other tools make complete sense at first sight. Order capture, order
processing along with inventory management, account management and shipping: all the
ecommerce online business applications on the FastCommerce solution are state of the
art productivity tools designed by some of the industry’s top user interface
designers. New features and functions will easily integrate with the existing set of
applications: the final result will be one of the best ecommerce solutions
available. And it is available to small business for free. How cool is that?
So go build an online store with FastCommerce.com. It’s fast, simple and cheap; that
is, it’s a free ecommerce solution. Free to set up and free to use. You only pay
when you want additional tools. And even then, our set of new and powerful options
might be almost as inexpensive as the free service. Building an online store with
FastCommerce let’s you focus on your business, not on your budget. And with out
state of the art Web 2.0 ecommerce solution, the days of having to run both an
online store while supporting complex software and hardware are rapidly receding
into the early days of online ecommerce.
Add comment September 4, 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