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Volume 3, Number 2 |
April
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How Does Your
E-commerce Website Stand Out From Your Competitors?
The old philosophy of,
"build a store - it will be found - and then you will be rich", is long
gone. With millions of people putting up ecommerce sites, your
chance of visitors and revenue is small unless you invest in your
ecommerce website to gain a unique edge over your competitors. This newsletter will show you how to maximize
your ecommerce software by concentrating on marketing, explain free and paid services for website
marketing, and include articles on some simple rules to get the most
from your marketing efforts.
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“Everyone knows it's
crucial to market your wares and services every minute, every day,
every week, every way. Everyone also knows that cost cutting and
cutbacks have been the unavoidable reality lately. So let's assume
that even though you know the golden rule, the budget is keeping you
from doing much, if any, ongoing marketing. You must still find ways
to grow.”
Article Title: 5 Timely Tactics For Low-Cost Marketing
Author: Joanna L. Krotz
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The
purpose of this newsletter is to help people get through the trials and
tribulations of creating their own E-commerce site. To manage your subscription
or to
unsubscribe, see the bottom of this newsletter.
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SalesCart
in the News |
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SalesCart founder speaks out about
ecommerce Basics
ComCity CEO featured in LIVE radio CNET Interview
Hear ComCity CEO discuss the basics of ecommerce.
Audio excerpts from the Desmond Crisis Show, CNET Radio.
Please click here to listen...
(Your PC will require speakers and a sound card to
listen to audio segment)
Going Beyond SalesCart, Offering
Advanced Solutions
ComCity goes beyond SalesCart ecommerce Software to
offer international steel manufacturer advanced end-to-end ecommerce solutions to address their
specific needs. "Spurred on by the requests of some long-standing
high-dollar customers, Howco turned to ComCity, a specialty e-business
software vendor that does much of Howco's ecommerce development."
[Read Complete Article]
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| FREE Marketing Services |
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List and Market
your SalesCart
Website for FREE!
ComCity has
just released www.dreamweaver-ecommerce.com, a directory and search engine dedicated to online retailers
who have built their online shopping stores using both Macromedia®
Dreamweaver® and SalesCart™. If you have a SalesCart website built
with Dreamweaver, you can now market your website there for free.
ComCity
has released a new version of
www.expression-ecommerce.com
for our SalesCart customers building
ecommerce solutions with Microsoft® FrontPage® and SalesCart. Today, this
directory has a new look and continues to grow. Our customers are reaping
the benefits of increased website traffic. The top reasons to list your site are:
Reasons To List Your Site
1) Drives additional FREE traffic to your website.
2) We pick our monthly Hot Site Winner from our ecommerce websites and
promote winners to 1000's of opt-in SalesCart newsletter subscribers.
3)
Hot Sites are also given
first consideration, when joint press and marketing opportunities come our
way.
4) Site registration takes less than 5 minutes.
5) and, last but not least, it's Free!
If you designed your site
using SalesCart and Dreamweaver, register your site at
http://www.dreamweaver-ecommerce.com/add_link.asp
If you designed your site
using SalesCart and FrontPage, register your site at
http://www.expression-ecommerce.com
/add_link.asp
Are You Confident Customers Are Locating Your Business Online?
"Search engines and directories average more than 300 million
searches a day and are the main way Internet users discover
websites", Thurow says in her book. Estimates vary, but roughly 42%
to 86% of Internet users rely each day on search engines and
directories to find the Web sites they seek. Getting good
listings is no longer just a bonus, it's a necessity for
companies serious about doing business online.”
Source: Search Engine Visibility by Shari Thurow
You spent countless hours developing your site. It may take you
another 60 to 100 hours to properly submit your site to the
hundreds of search engines and directories on the net. ComCity
can do it for only $39.99! We will submit your site to over 100+
World Wide Web Search Engines and directories; you only need to
complete one simple form.
Click here to submit your site for search engine registration.
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SalesCart Product
Announcements |
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SalesCart
becomes one
of the first AuthorizeNet Certified Shopping
Carts
AuthorizeNet is providing more fraud control and processing features
through their latest processing methods. AuthorizeNet has recently certified
SalesCart, SalesCart PRO and SalesCart X as one of the first shopping
carts to support its latest
processing methods: AIM and SIM. You will find SalesCart listed as a
certified shopping cart and the new AuthorizeNet plug-in available with
all new SalesCart PRO and X licenses. The plug-in is still additional
with the regular version of SalesCart. Please contact your Sales
Specialist for further information: contact us here or toll free at
888-826-6248.
SalesCart PRO Supports VeriSign’s PayFlow Link
The PayFlow Link solution offers merchants back-end connectivity to all
major payment processing networks and allows merchants to support multiple
payment instruments, including all major credit cards, debit cards and
electronic check. VeriSign makes it easy for merchants and customers!
Contact your Sales Specialist for further information:
Contact us here
or toll free at 888-826-6248.
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E-commerce
News |
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Marketing Articles
Success online is a never-ending process of
reading, taking notes and absorbing knowledge. The following link provides a
resource for marketing articles written by top Internet experts and will benefit
you tremendously towards creating powerful headlines, ads, copy-writing etc..
[Read Complete
Article]
Be friendly to search engines: 8 ways
If your business has a name that doesn't say anything about what your
business does, you're losing potential new clients and you don't even know
it.
[Read
Complete Article]
5 timely tactics for low-cost marketing
Everyone knows it's crucial to market your wares
and services every minute, every day, every week, every way. Everyone also
knows that cost cutting and cutbacks have been the unavoidable reality
lately.
[Read Complete Article]
What do People Want Online?
It’s not what you think it is
What people want online is a question guerrillas ask themselves a lot.
Whether it's for fun or work or something else, understanding a consumer's
motives once he or she logs on is a necessity. But the experts don't seem to
agree on what people want.
[Read
Complete Article]
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| Hot
Site |
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Choo Choo R Snacks,
Inc.
http://www.choochoorsnacks.com
Rating: 
Client Testimonial:
"ComCity has identified the ecommerce needs and concerns facing
the small business owner and has successfully developed a product that
genuinely meets those needs for a minimal expense. Their program and plug-ins
are easy to use and are backed by the best technical support team that
our company has ever dealt with."
General Manager
Choo Choo R Snacks
Our Review:
Well done. Bravo! This site does it right, they present their product
in a desirable fashion, make it easy to navigate, and make the checkout
process easy. This site includes a returning customer feature, we
even noticed the incorporation of a Coupon/Promotional Code field.
They have seamlessly integrated their shopping cart features within their
site, continuity throughout. SalesCart PRO has given this retailer
the ability to sell their Beef Jerky Snacks online to all of America.
Software Cost :
SalesCart PRO for Microsoft FrontPage $399.99
Total: $399.99
To
view previous winners go to
http://www.expression-ecommerce.com
/hotsites/
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| Tips
and Tricks |
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Title:
How to Add additional cc or bcc email addresses to Sendemail.asp
Design Tool: FrontPage, Dreamweaver
Version: PRO
SalesCart Knowledge Level (Scale 1-10): 5
In this article we show you how to add additional lines to the ASP pages
that will spawn the e-mail receipts so that the pages will CC (Carbon Copy)
and BCC (Blind Carbon Copy)
Click
here to learn more about the article!
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