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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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Welcome to the
SalesCart Newsletter. The
purpose of this newsletter is to help people get through the trials and
tribulations of creating their own ecommerce site. To manage your subscription
or to
unsubscribe, see the bottom of this newsletter.
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Free Software & A Holiday Guarantee
ComCity wants you to be successful
and online for the holidays. Trust the ecommerce
experts - trust SalesCart. We
have two thrilling offers that promise to make your spring into
ecommerce a joyful one. These offers expire, so act now. |
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Purchasing SalesCart?
Well purchase a plugin at the same time, and get a plugin
of equal or lesser value absolutely FREE! Plugins allow you to customize
functionality that's important for you without raising the price of
the base software for features you don't need. |
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Plugins exist to help enhance your
online store by managing orders and products through browser
interfaces or to add other real-time credit card processing. Note:
All current versions of SalesCart now ship with AuthorizeNet real-time
processing and PayPal free.
Click [here] to learn more.
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In a hurry?
Not a problem. ComCity, the makers of SalesCart, is a full service provider
providing hosting, web design, and web customization services since 1995.
We can guarantee you will be up before the holidays. Let us get you
online in time to cash in on that holiday shopping frenzy. Turn your ideas |
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into money. Purchase SalesCart and an
integration package and let us do the work. SalesCart has some excellent
packages that guarantee your store will be online for the holidays. Whether
you just need partial assistance or full assistance, we have a solution for
you.
Click
[here] to learn more.
Act now, before these specials expire
on December 31st. Contact your
Sales Rep toll free at 888-826-6248 or contact us here. Every second offline is a second of lost
money. Don’t hesitate – call today.
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Product News
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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
or update your SalesCart software today,
www.salescart.com.
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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Plugin
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SalesCart-X now supports WorldPay for International clients |
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WorldPay’s credit card bridge is the best
solution for the International merchant wanting to process orders in
real-time. This bridge will work with both editions of SalesCart for
FrontPage and Dreamweaver! |
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Click
for more information.
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The Shipping Service
plugin now includes DHL and International USPS rates |
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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
System to send packages to virtually every country worldwide. |
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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.
Click
for more information.
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E-commerce Articles |
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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
[Here]
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Hotsites |
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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
To view
previous winners go to
http://www.expression-ecommerce.com
/hotsites/
expression-ecommerce.com
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Please
submit your website Now
and get in front of nearly 30,000 subscribed viewers
Macromedia
Dreamweaver

Baby Bistro Brands
www.babybistrobrands.com
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.
Read More
Software Cost:
SalesCart-PRO
for Macromedia Dreamweaver $399.99
Total: $399.99
To view
previous winners go to
http://www.dreamweaver-ecommerce.com/hotsites/
Dreamweaver-Ecommerce.com:
Please
submit your website Now
and get in front of
nearly
30,000 subscribed viewers
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Tips
and Tricks |
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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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