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             Remodel Your Website for Holiday Sales  
            “Seventeen percent 
            of small businesses surveyed credit their website for producing 
            between 50- to 100-percent of their annual sales; 7 percent of the 
            small businesses surveyed claim online sales make up 100 percent of 
            their total sales revenues.” – Laura Rush
            www.ecommerce-guide.com
             
             
            Don’t let your ecommerce solution go stale. Get your website ready 
            for the Holidays by increasing your site potential - add new 
            technology and features. SalesCart now supports the newest versions 
            of the most popular design tools, both Microsoft 
            FrontPage 2003 and Macromedia’s Studio MX 2004. SalesCart is the 
            shopping cart for every ecommerce scenario. 
              
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            Plugins exist to help enhance your
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            interfaces or to add other real-time credit card processing. Note: 
    All current versions of SalesCart now ship with AuthorizeNet real-time
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    packages that guarantee your store will be online for the holidays. Whether 
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            SalesCart PRO/SQL and SalesCart-X  compatible with Macromedia’s Dreamweaver 
            Studio MX 4.0
            
              
            SalesCart has been 
            an approved Macromedia extension since 2002. Macromedia’s new 
            release offers SalesCart merchants a more professional and organized 
            website development tool.  
            “We are happy 
            with our relationship with Macromedia as an Associate Partner and we 
            look forward to continued support for the Macromedia Dreamweaver 
            product line with out multi-platform ecommerce solution,” said 
            Michael Barber, President and CEO of ComCity, the makers 
            of SalesCart.  
            Purchase SalesCart 
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            SalesCart Standard 3 and PRO 5 are now released 
             
            SalesCart 3 and PRO 5 support Microsoft FrontPage 2003. The new 
            releases continue the company’s tradition of SalesCart support for 
            FrontPage since FrontPage version 97. Microsoft Office FrontPage 
            2003 takes advantage of new technologies such as XML, Web services 
            and data-driven websites. SalesCart Standard 3 maintains the same ease of 
            use as earlier editions, but now includes support for a single 
            checkout system architecture shared among its windows products. Both 
            products have also been tested and certified to work on the new 
            Windows 2003 server platform ASP platform.  
  
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    real-time. This bridge will work with both editions of SalesCart for 
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    The Shipping Service 
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    Extend your shipping options 
    by offering DHL and USPS International rates. DHL is the global market 
    leader of the international air express industry, operating in over 220 
    countries and territories. Use the tried and true United States Postal 
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    *The updated Shipping 
    Service plugin now has new rate tables with the latest rate postings. In 
    addition, you will receive automatic server-based rate increases for a full 
    year.  Also, you can now selectively remove different shipping types in 
    UPS. As such, you can use a combination of next day, 2nd day, 3rd day, and 
    ground.  
    
     
    
    
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          E-commerce, steady as it goes 
          Fueled by a steady stream of new online 
          shoppers and new product category sales, U.S. E-commerce will grow at 
          a 19 percent compound annual growth rate over the next five years. 
          Most significant, online retail will reach nearly $230 billion and 
          account for 10 percent of total U.S. retail sales by 2008. – Forrester 
          Research, Carrie Johnson, August 13, 2003 
           
          More information can be found online at 
          http://news.com.com/2030-1069-5063287.html 
   
          
          E-commerce to Grow 29% in Q4 
          EMarketer projects that fourth-quarter consumer spending online this 
          year will rise 29 percent to $17.8 billion, its highest growth rate 
          since the 2000 holiday season, when it increased 71.5 percent over 
          that period in 1999. Fourth-quarter consumer spending climbed 16.7 
          percent in 2001 and 27.6 percent in 2002 – DM News, Melissa Campanelli, 
          October 10, 2003 
           
          This is a private article.  But more information for registered
          users may be obtained at: http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=25237 
   
          
          Maximize Holiday Revenues 
          The nationwide study of small businesses with websites revealed 
          important trends in E-commerce, most notably the integral role an 
          online presence serves. Of the small businesses surveyed, 78 percent 
          indicated their company benefits from having a website. Specifically, 
          28 percent said they rely heavily on their website to make sales 
          goals, while 33 percent said their website is their most powerful 
          marketing tool. – Ecommerce-guide.com, Laura Rush, October 2, 2003 
           
          More information can be found online 
          
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        Microsoft FrontPage 
        
        
          
        
         
        GE Transportation Systems 
        
        www.gerailfans.com 
        Ranking: 
          
        
        Our review: This site utilizes the delayed check out feature. You 
        can add products and then check out when you are ready. They have 
        customized the check out pages to carry their website theme into this 
        area. They use the gift message field to gather information from the 
        client regarding embroidery - A great example of SalesCart-X. They took 
        SalesCart-X and truly made it their own.  
         
        Testimonial:  We chose SaleCart-X because it fit into our 
        corporate goals of fielding a PHP/MySQL-based E-commerce solution, and 
        didn't "break the bank" when we bought it. We've been able to make a lot 
        of customized changes to the PHP scripts with no problems, which allow 
        us to provide a good online shopping experience for our site visitors. 
        An added bonus: We can use the SalesCart-X code in multiple sites we're 
        developing! I'd recommend it to anyone who wants a fast, 
        easy-to-implement E-commerce solution." 
         
        Daniel A. Ford 
        Webmaster 
        Paragon Print Systems 
        
        Software Cost: 
        SalesCart-X 
        for Microsoft FrontPage $399.99 
        Total: $399.99 
        
        
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        Baby Bistro Brands 
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        Ranking: 
          
        
         
        Our review: This site design is one of the best we have viewed so 
        far. It projects the market they are in with the soft colors and 
        graphics and they extended this look and feel throughout the check out 
        pages. The online catalog is easy to find and the buttons were changed 
        to add to the smoothness of the site. This is an excellent example of a 
        static catalog. 
         
        Testimonial: We are a new business and new to online commerce. 
        Sales Cart has been easy to use and understand for our customers and for 
        us! We love the immediate notification of purchase. We would recommend 
        using Sales Cart to any web business. 
        
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        Software Cost: 
        SalesCart-PRO 
        for Macromedia Dreamweaver $399.99 
        Total: $399.99 
        
        
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          Title: Order Management Plugin: Display only last four digits of 
          credit card number in invoices and packing slips. 
          Design Tool: Microsoft FrontPage or Macromedia Dreamweaver 
          Version: plugin 
          SalesCart Knowledge Level (Scale 1-10): 3 
         
          If you want to only provide the last four digits of the credit card 
          number in the invoices or packing slips generated by the Order 
          Management plugin, there is now a knowledge base article for you. Why 
          would you want to do this? Perhaps you have a fulfillment house that 
          ships your products. In this case, you would not want to send the 
          payment details, just the order details. Or, if you want to send a 
          packing slip and don’t want to display the credit card details, you 
          can now modify the slip to only include the last four digits. To do 
          this, read the article at
          
          http://support.salescart.com/kb/KB-details.asp?key=5359 
        
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