FREE ONLINE STORE SHOPPING CART SOFTWARE
HOW DO I GET STARTED?
That's easy. Simply register and sign in. When you sign up for a FastCommerce store you automatically generate a professional web store, and a back-end management platform to build the store and run your business. You can start watching the on-line training videos and get started immediately.
CAN I REALLY GET 2,000 PRODUCTS FOR ONLY $29.95?
You bet. At FastCommerce, our goal is to get you started at a low price. But we want to accommodate your goal of growing into a significant on-line business. You get to start with a low price, build a large store and a large web presence for your store, all the while keeping your costs to a minimum.
FASTCOMMERCE IS INEXPENSIVE, BUT WILL IT HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED?
FastCommerce is low-cost, but it's high-powered e-commerce that brings together everything you need to run a serious on-line business. It has all the features an e-commerce veteran would expect, but with the ease of use that helps new users get off to a quick start. FastCommerce is a complete, all-in-one solution.
CAN I TRY IT OUT BEFORE PAYING?
Absolutely: simply sign up for the free version. It is not a trial; you can actually run a free online store. It is free for the first fifty products, and you can accept payment through PayPal. Run the free version as long as you want.
IS MY STORE SECURE?
Yes. Both the both the check out process, and your back-end management modules are in a secure, encrypted environment. No need to purchase an SSL certificate, we provide it free of charge.
BUT DON'T I NEED TO FIND A HOSTING SERVICE FOR MY STORE?
FastCommerce is a hosted solution. It is web-based, so when you sign up for a FastCommerce store, there is no need to find additional hosting services. And the hosting is free.
HOW DO I GET RID OF THE ADS?
The $29.95 service level does not have ads. However, if you want to start slow, all you need to do is sign up for individual features like Google Check-out, or hosting your domain on FastCommerce, and the ads disappear. For as little as $19.95 a year, you can host your domain on your FastCommerce store, remove the banner ads, and sell up to fifty items taking PayPal for payments.
IF I SIGN UP FOR THE FREE STORE CAN I UPGRADE LATER?
Yes. You can upgrade to the next plan at any time, or sign up for the individual services. Simply go to MY ACCOUNT on your management page. There you will see service options, and your current payment information. This is where you would update your service level.
ARE THERE ANY HIDDEN COSTS?
No. There is no set-up fee, and no contract. You can cancel at any time. FastCommerce is all inclusive. For example, if you sign up for the $29.95 plan for 2,000 items, everything is included and there are no other additional fees, including no transaction fees. You simply grow and run your online business at one fixed, low price.
HOW CAN I ACCEPT PAYMENT ON MY STORE?
There are for ways to accept payment on your FastCommerce store. For the free store, you can accept payments through PayPal. Simply go to SET UP on you management module, go to Payment, and click through to the PayPal section. Simply enter in your email for your PayPal account, save it, and you will automatically set up your free FastCommerce store with PayPal. Paying customers have a choice of using PayPal Express Check out, or Google Check out, or both. To accept credit cards through your FastCommerce store, you need to sign up with Authorize.net, our exclusive payment gateway provider. Finally, you can set up tradition payment methods, like check, or my phone.
DO I NEED ANY PROGRAMMING SKILLS TO RUN FASTCOMMERCE?
No. You can build a complete and powerful e-commerce platform with no programming at all. It is a web-based application that is well designed, and easy to use. For a head start, simply review the training videos or the help section for tips on how to set up you FastCommerce store.
DO I NEED TO PURCHASE AN SSL SECURITY CERTIFICATE?
No. FastCommerce provides a secure, fully encrypted check-out process at no charge.
CAN I INTEGRATE MY CURRENT SITE WITH MY FASTCOMMERCE STORE?
Yes. You can simply create a link, or any number of links, to your FastCommerce store, and then create links back to the original site. You can even create direct links from product pages on your site directly to the same product page on your store. It is easy and quick to build a seamless interface between your web site and your store. You can even upload the same banners and logos to provide continuity for your customers.
WILL MY STORE URL BE HTTP://STORE.FASTCOMMERCE>COM/MYSTORENAME?
Yes. But we recommend one of two options. If you currently have a domain, you can go to your registrar and have that domain forwarded to your FastCommerce store address. If you have a domain, you can also host that domain on your FastCommerce store. This means that your store address will no longer be http://store.fastcommerce.com but www.yourstorename.com . This is better for branding and search engine purposes. It is an affordable upgrade for your FastCommerce store, and it is also included in the $29.95 per month plan.
WILL MY FASTCOMMERCE STORE BE SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZED?
Yes. FastCommerce has research and implemented all the best practices for search engine optimization. Most parts of your store will be automatically optimized based on the information you use. FastCommerce has also given you the tools to customize important parts of the site. This will enable you to fine tune your keyword optimization to boost your rankings. We even provide a keyword analyzer to give you a live update of how your various keywords rank in the search engines.
DOES FASTCOMMERCE CHARGE FOR TRANSACTION FEES?
No. There a no fees charged per transaction. There are no fees other than the ones you have signed up for on a month by month basis.
CAN I INTEGRATE GOOGLE ANALYTICS INTO MY FASTCOMMERCE STORE?
Yes, and it is easy and simple to do. Instead of pasting code into each page of your store, you go to set up and install a WEB ID from Google. Once it is installed, you will have every part of your store integrated into Google's great analytics tool for tracking keywords and visits to your site.
HOW ABOUT REPORTS?
FastCommerce offers over a dozen reports to evaluate store performance, including sales for the month, or even for any customized date range. You can even generate a report that ranks all of your products by number of page views. FastCommerce gives you the tools to evaluate and boost your store's performance.
HOW DO I GET AN ORDER?
You will get an order email notification that an order has taken place on your store. Additionally, you get a powerful order management module that lists out your orders, lets you edit , even add products to an order, as well as generating a tracking code and pick list with invoice.
I ALREADY HAVE MY STORE DATA AND IMAGES IN AN EXCEL FORMAT. CAN I SIMPLY LOAD THE DATA ONTO MY FASTCOMMERCE STORE AND GET STARTED QUICKLY?
Yes. Check out the import utility tool. E-commerce veterans can get up and running with a complete store very quickly
FASTCOMMERCE SEEMS EASY TO USE, BUT I DON'T HAVE TIME TO SET IT UP. CAN FASTCOMMERCE RECOMMEND ANY PROVIDERS THAT WILL DO THE WORK FOR ME?
Yes. FastCommerce has dozens of third party companies that are experts in getting customers launched quickly with a well designed and completely installed FastCommerce web store. Simply call sales, or email sales@fastcommerce.com and we will get you in touch with reliable, low-cost vendors to help you get started.
WILL MY FASTCOMMERCE STORE BE A SUCCESS?
Yes. You do the branding, the logo and banners, and then provide information rich product data for each product in your store, and FastCommerce will do rest. We can't promise that people will like or buy your products, but your FastCommerce store has been designed to give you a highly professional web store that is search engine visible. And, this is important; we do it at a low cost. The rest is up to you.
Monday, January 19, 2009
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Friday, October 24, 2008
Free e-Commerce store for your very own
FREE ONLINE STORE SHOPPING CART SOFTWARE
Fastcommerce free online store software can build free webstores for dynamic online presence of manufacturers, organised retailers and single store owners and thus enable them open themselves to online market. Its tries all possible ways to drive online traffic from web to store.
SEVERAL SOLUTIONS are available in the market today to build online webstores. Without having any technical knowledge, anyone can build free webstore with the help of Fastcommerce online webstore builder. The foremost thing is that it is absolutely free. You need not put extra efforts consulting different experts. You need not wait for months too. Above all, it is free of cost. All your efforts, time and prices are reduced down to considerable level.
Online market is doing wonders nowadays. With the extensive availability of online services, people are tending to use these for their comfort. Likewise, they are reducing their manual efforts and saving time and making themselves comfortable. As a result, online searches for products and product-related information are growing everyday. This evolution is necessitating the business sources like manufacturers, dealers, organised retailers and even single store owners to build webstores. Thus they can open themselves to online customers. They can build free webstores using Fastcommerce.
Fastcommerce is a user friendly e-enabler platform, developed by Reasoning Global e-Applications Ltd. Reasoning has researched the current market and found the rapidly growing untapped online market. The study reveals that in India, everyday, millions of online shoppers are searching online for different products. These online searches are substantiating the power of online market in India. Focusing on this, Reasoning has created Fastcommerce for the dynamic online presence of manufacturers, organised retailers and single store owners.
Retailers open their stores in certain commercial areas where they find good customer flow. Thus, retailers and customers meet at a certain place called market. But, today, online customers are going to online market too. How do retailers open to online market? How can they meet the online customers? That is possible with only webstores. Fastcommerce will build free webstores for you. Your webstores will reveal your existence to online customers. Manufacturers and their dealers, organised retailers and single store owners can make their presence online by building free webstores with Fastcommerce.
The outstanding features of web stores, try all possible ways to drive online traffic from web to store. The store locator will let the online shoppers know the nearest store and the product locator reveals the particular product availability at the preferred stores. With deal locator online shoppers will find the announced deals on different products. The digital map provides driving directions to the store.
Fastcommerce free online store software can build free webstores for dynamic online presence of manufacturers, organised retailers and single store owners and thus enable them open themselves to online market. Its tries all possible ways to drive online traffic from web to store.
SEVERAL SOLUTIONS are available in the market today to build online webstores. Without having any technical knowledge, anyone can build free webstore with the help of Fastcommerce online webstore builder. The foremost thing is that it is absolutely free. You need not put extra efforts consulting different experts. You need not wait for months too. Above all, it is free of cost. All your efforts, time and prices are reduced down to considerable level.
Online market is doing wonders nowadays. With the extensive availability of online services, people are tending to use these for their comfort. Likewise, they are reducing their manual efforts and saving time and making themselves comfortable. As a result, online searches for products and product-related information are growing everyday. This evolution is necessitating the business sources like manufacturers, dealers, organised retailers and even single store owners to build webstores. Thus they can open themselves to online customers. They can build free webstores using Fastcommerce.
Fastcommerce is a user friendly e-enabler platform, developed by Reasoning Global e-Applications Ltd. Reasoning has researched the current market and found the rapidly growing untapped online market. The study reveals that in India, everyday, millions of online shoppers are searching online for different products. These online searches are substantiating the power of online market in India. Focusing on this, Reasoning has created Fastcommerce for the dynamic online presence of manufacturers, organised retailers and single store owners.
Retailers open their stores in certain commercial areas where they find good customer flow. Thus, retailers and customers meet at a certain place called market. But, today, online customers are going to online market too. How do retailers open to online market? How can they meet the online customers? That is possible with only webstores. Fastcommerce will build free webstores for you. Your webstores will reveal your existence to online customers. Manufacturers and their dealers, organised retailers and single store owners can make their presence online by building free webstores with Fastcommerce.
The outstanding features of web stores, try all possible ways to drive online traffic from web to store. The store locator will let the online shoppers know the nearest store and the product locator reveals the particular product availability at the preferred stores. With deal locator online shoppers will find the announced deals on different products. The digital map provides driving directions to the store.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Google Shopping Jump Starts Small Business E-commerce Retailers
Google Shopping Jump Starts Small Business E-commerce Retailers
During the holiday season the search engine giant Google added a Shopping tab to its homepage, a tab which directly links to its on-line product catalog called Product Search. FastCommerce, a small business enterprise e-commerce provider, recently announced the successful launch of its automated submission service to Google Shopping. Submission to Google is also available with the free version of FastCommerce. The results have been remarkable. By simply signing up for the free version of FastCommerce and creating a product catalog, the on-line retailer starts selling right away.
San Mateo, CA (PRWEB) March 25, 2008 -- For small business on-line retailers, an e-commerce solution that quickly produces results is essential to survival. That is why FastCommerce recently launched a product submission service to Google Shopping; also known as Google Product Search. Google has built the equivalent of an on-line product catalog that is tied in with its popular search site. On-line retailers can post products to the Google catalog, and even sell directly through the service via Google Check-out. Google's popularity coupled with the recent addition of its new Shopping tab on the Google homepage, has the effect of driving targeted searches for product directly through Google Shopping. With Google Shopping, shoppers can view multiple listings for a given product and either purchase directly on Google, or proceed directly to the merchant own web store.
Submitting to Google Product Search costs the on-line retailer nothing; unlike EBay, there are no fees for posting an unlimited number of products. This is a tremendous competitive edge for small business e-commerce start-ups that cannot afford the sometimes prohibitive cost of running a business exclusively on EBay. Rather than having the merchant manually submit products one by one, FastCommerce automatically submits the whole of a merchant's on-line product catalog to Google Product Search. In providing this level of service, FastCommerce is focused on the success of its clients in an increasingly sophisticated and competitive on-line retail universe.
Google Product Search consistently generates a high volume of sales and sales inquiries for FastCommerce merchants. Having the whole of a merchant's on-line product catalog published on Google Shopping is nothing less than a major marketing tool for small business on-line retailers. It is a service that Google offers for free. This is even more remarkable given that the FastCommerce small business e-commerce platform is entirely free for the first fifty products. A small business or an individual entrepreneur can sign up for the free version of FastCommerce, build a professional and attractive web store, and post up to fifty products for free. The free version gives them access to almost the whole of the FastCommerce platform: simply signing up automatically generates a professional website and back office tools to manage their business. Merchants then see an immediate effect in having their products automatically listed to Google's Product Search.
FastCommerce is a web-based e-commerce application that lets small business start, grow and then manage their business on-line, all from one single system. Small business entrepreneurs gain access to a professional, fully operable e-commerce website, as well as a full suite of back-office management tools needed to run a business on-line. It is completely free to the first fifty products. The addition of Google Shopping to the free version is a very powerful tool: a small business can make the move to e-commerce with immediate results. The clients are then free to sign up for additional services when they are ready.
FastCommerce.com also announced the launch of a Professional services division, designed for established businesses looking to make the leap into e-commerce while avoiding the hefty expense of project implementation and costly technology. Small businesses with large product catalogs face tremendous hurdles when looking to go into on-line sales. Such a move has traditionally involves licensing e-commerce technologies, and then expending additional funds for implementation. The FastCommerce Professional Services team brings years of experience and its Web 2.0 technology platform to get companies up and running in days instead of months. There is no contract. For a small set up fee, small businesses get a fully operable e-commerce web-site with their products pre-installed. FastCommerce drives down the cost to a fraction of most e-commerce technology platforms. There are additional services for submitting to over 100 search engines, directories, as well as keyword consultation and continuous updates.
About FastCommerce.com
FastCommerce.com is a Web 2.0 technology platform that changes the way entrepreneurs can succeed in on-line sales. It has been designed to automate all the initial hurdles of beginning a web business and managing it, all from one single system. Far from being a simple shopping cart technology, FastCommerce Small Business e-Commerce technology is enterprise in scope with the goal of letting small companies and entrepreneurs run all aspects of their business from a fully integrated single system. It is affordable small business enterprise e-commerce at a small business price.
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During the holiday season the search engine giant Google added a Shopping tab to its homepage, a tab which directly links to its on-line product catalog called Product Search. FastCommerce, a small business enterprise e-commerce provider, recently announced the successful launch of its automated submission service to Google Shopping. Submission to Google is also available with the free version of FastCommerce. The results have been remarkable. By simply signing up for the free version of FastCommerce and creating a product catalog, the on-line retailer starts selling right away.
San Mateo, CA (PRWEB) March 25, 2008 -- For small business on-line retailers, an e-commerce solution that quickly produces results is essential to survival. That is why FastCommerce recently launched a product submission service to Google Shopping; also known as Google Product Search. Google has built the equivalent of an on-line product catalog that is tied in with its popular search site. On-line retailers can post products to the Google catalog, and even sell directly through the service via Google Check-out. Google's popularity coupled with the recent addition of its new Shopping tab on the Google homepage, has the effect of driving targeted searches for product directly through Google Shopping. With Google Shopping, shoppers can view multiple listings for a given product and either purchase directly on Google, or proceed directly to the merchant own web store.
Submitting to Google Product Search costs the on-line retailer nothing; unlike EBay, there are no fees for posting an unlimited number of products. This is a tremendous competitive edge for small business e-commerce start-ups that cannot afford the sometimes prohibitive cost of running a business exclusively on EBay. Rather than having the merchant manually submit products one by one, FastCommerce automatically submits the whole of a merchant's on-line product catalog to Google Product Search. In providing this level of service, FastCommerce is focused on the success of its clients in an increasingly sophisticated and competitive on-line retail universe.
Google Product Search consistently generates a high volume of sales and sales inquiries for FastCommerce merchants. Having the whole of a merchant's on-line product catalog published on Google Shopping is nothing less than a major marketing tool for small business on-line retailers. It is a service that Google offers for free. This is even more remarkable given that the FastCommerce small business e-commerce platform is entirely free for the first fifty products. A small business or an individual entrepreneur can sign up for the free version of FastCommerce, build a professional and attractive web store, and post up to fifty products for free. The free version gives them access to almost the whole of the FastCommerce platform: simply signing up automatically generates a professional website and back office tools to manage their business. Merchants then see an immediate effect in having their products automatically listed to Google's Product Search.
FastCommerce is a web-based e-commerce application that lets small business start, grow and then manage their business on-line, all from one single system. Small business entrepreneurs gain access to a professional, fully operable e-commerce website, as well as a full suite of back-office management tools needed to run a business on-line. It is completely free to the first fifty products. The addition of Google Shopping to the free version is a very powerful tool: a small business can make the move to e-commerce with immediate results. The clients are then free to sign up for additional services when they are ready.
FastCommerce.com also announced the launch of a Professional services division, designed for established businesses looking to make the leap into e-commerce while avoiding the hefty expense of project implementation and costly technology. Small businesses with large product catalogs face tremendous hurdles when looking to go into on-line sales. Such a move has traditionally involves licensing e-commerce technologies, and then expending additional funds for implementation. The FastCommerce Professional Services team brings years of experience and its Web 2.0 technology platform to get companies up and running in days instead of months. There is no contract. For a small set up fee, small businesses get a fully operable e-commerce web-site with their products pre-installed. FastCommerce drives down the cost to a fraction of most e-commerce technology platforms. There are additional services for submitting to over 100 search engines, directories, as well as keyword consultation and continuous updates.
About FastCommerce.com
FastCommerce.com is a Web 2.0 technology platform that changes the way entrepreneurs can succeed in on-line sales. It has been designed to automate all the initial hurdles of beginning a web business and managing it, all from one single system. Far from being a simple shopping cart technology, FastCommerce Small Business e-Commerce technology is enterprise in scope with the goal of letting small companies and entrepreneurs run all aspects of their business from a fully integrated single system. It is affordable small business enterprise e-commerce at a small business price.
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
SMALL BUSINESS E-COMMERCE ENGINE
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FastCommerce.com is a web-based e-commerce application that lets small businesses start and manage an online business, all from one single-system
By simply signing up with FastCommerc.com you can automatically generate a professional web stores, as well as all the back office management tools needed to run a growing online business.
FastCommerce.com is not simply a shopping cart, but a serious set of tools that give you the control and flexibility you need to succeed online. Features such as
A one-page checkout to make it easier for the customer to buy. The checkout process is automatically secured and encrypted.
A product can be assigned to more than one category
One a per product basis, you can disable the shopping cart to set up a Request For Quote, or any other custom pricing message
The ability to create custom product options for variables like color and size, or other add-on items for a standard product. Including the ability to offer different pricing within the same product, for example, for XX-Large
FastCommerce.com offers a number of payment options, by credit card, PayPal, Google checkout, or by alternative payment methods like check or Purchase Order. There is even the ability to create a custom payment option.
The shipping module also gives you complete control Live-rate for UPS FEDEX and USPS is standard. You can set up flat rates. For example, you can set up a flat rate of 6.99 for USPS priority mail. There is free shipping, and even custom shipping options. You have complete control how you want to do business.
There is customer management and order processing, all driven from within the FastCommerce.com system. You have quick access to customer information and order history. You can approve, process and ship orders. You can edit the order, and have back orders for partially shipped orders.
And then there are reports. Most interesting of all, one report will let you generate a ranking of each and every product by number of page views. This is the product popularity report that will give you greater insight in to site organization, customer navigation, and customer interest versus customer conversion.
FastCommerce.com is Web 2.0 e-commerce that will eventually let you run all aspects of your business, even accounting, from a single system and at a small business price. In fact, it is free up to the first 50 products. We automatically give you all the tools to run your business online by simply signing up, and then signing in.
FastCommerce.com is a web-based e-commerce application that lets small businesses start and manage an online business, all from one single-system
By simply signing up with FastCommerc.com you can automatically generate a professional web stores, as well as all the back office management tools needed to run a growing online business.
FastCommerce.com is not simply a shopping cart, but a serious set of tools that give you the control and flexibility you need to succeed online. Features such as
A one-page checkout to make it easier for the customer to buy. The checkout process is automatically secured and encrypted.
A product can be assigned to more than one category
One a per product basis, you can disable the shopping cart to set up a Request For Quote, or any other custom pricing message
The ability to create custom product options for variables like color and size, or other add-on items for a standard product. Including the ability to offer different pricing within the same product, for example, for XX-Large
FastCommerce.com offers a number of payment options, by credit card, PayPal, Google checkout, or by alternative payment methods like check or Purchase Order. There is even the ability to create a custom payment option.
The shipping module also gives you complete control Live-rate for UPS FEDEX and USPS is standard. You can set up flat rates. For example, you can set up a flat rate of 6.99 for USPS priority mail. There is free shipping, and even custom shipping options. You have complete control how you want to do business.
There is customer management and order processing, all driven from within the FastCommerce.com system. You have quick access to customer information and order history. You can approve, process and ship orders. You can edit the order, and have back orders for partially shipped orders.
And then there are reports. Most interesting of all, one report will let you generate a ranking of each and every product by number of page views. This is the product popularity report that will give you greater insight in to site organization, customer navigation, and customer interest versus customer conversion.
FastCommerce.com is Web 2.0 e-commerce that will eventually let you run all aspects of your business, even accounting, from a single system and at a small business price. In fact, it is free up to the first 50 products. We automatically give you all the tools to run your business online by simply signing up, and then signing in.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Small Business E-commerce Technology Company Introduces Features Designed To Reach Markets Beyond EBay
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Small Business E-commerce Technology Company Introduces Features Designed To Reach Markets Beyond EBay
New Web 2.0 e-commerce technology company FastCommerce.com announces the introduction of Google Products as a part of a larger strategy of giving on-line businesses access to a growing number of new marketplaces beyond EBay. While EBay offers small business entrepreneurs access to an immense market for on-line sales, it also presents continual challenges to small companies running on razor-thin margins. Recent changes in policy at the on-line auction site highlight the risks of running an on-line business with only one marketplace strategy.
San Mateo, CA (PRWEB) February 16, 2008 -- New Web 2.0 technologies offer access to a growing number of marketplaces for those on-line sellers who have traditionally relied on one large marketplace vendor to drive sales. For FastCommerce.com, the introduction of Google Products is just the first step in powering merchant access to these new and growing opportunities.
EBay has proved to be a large marketplace for selling on-line, but it continues to present challenges, even disruptions, to the small business entrepreneur looking to succeed in on-line sales. There are upfront fees for listing products, an expense regardless of whether the item is sold. EBay sellers also go up against a large number of direct competitors, which drives down profit margins for the majority of sales. Low margins compete with incremental expenses and changes in policy to make it more difficult for many small companies to build a profitable on-line business.
Moreover, EBay is only one marketplace at a time when the number of successful market venues continues to proliferate. The introduction of Google Products as well as Google Check-out highlights the need for moving beyond a single market strategy for increasing sales. The challenge and the opportunity for on-line sellers is to have access to an inexpensive single-system e-commerce application that can power both market reach and on-line sales.
E-commerce technologies that are market neutral enable the small business entrepreneur to compete in an array of marketing venues. FastCommerce.com automatically publishes its merchants' product catalogs to Google products. Or again, FastCommerce.com offers both Google Check-out and PayPal. With FastCommerce.com on-line merchants are not fettered by the strategy of a dominant industry player.
For example, David Pogue of the New York Times, in a review of Microsoft's revamped Office Live, points out that its integrated ad-word campaign tool is limited to only two search engines. As he writes, "You can place ads on Microsoft's search sites and Ask.com, which together represent less than 8 percent of search engine popularity. If you are going to advertise, you'd almost certainly prefer the exposure of the Big Two- Yahoo and Google- but they are not available through Office Live."
Small business entrepreneurs need access to inexpensive, single-system ecommerce applications that are easy and quick to set up, easy to use, and which let their users grow their business without growing their costs. For a low fixed monthly fee, FastCommerce.com allows a merchant to sell 2,000 product without transaction or user fees: small business entrepreneurs can grow their business at a fixed price with no hidden or incremental charges.
Finally, new Web 2.0 e-commerce technologies like FastCommerce.com offer an array of features that can power the whole of their on-line business. Gone are the days when a simple, cheap "shopping cart" can take small businesses to the next level. According to FastCommerce.com CEO Charles Han, today's small business e-commerce applications have to encompass all aspects of running a business, including detailed reports and analytics, order and customer management systems, and more. As he states, "It has to be enterprise in scope but with a small business price."
No less important, Han argues, "Today's small business e-commerce systems must also power the merchant's marketing. It is publish or perish, to search engines, shopping comparison sites, or retail search sites. On-line sellers do not have the skills or the time to do this themselves. They have to have an enterprise platform that connects all the dots for them."
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Small Business E-commerce Technology Company Introduces Features Designed To Reach Markets Beyond EBay
New Web 2.0 e-commerce technology company FastCommerce.com announces the introduction of Google Products as a part of a larger strategy of giving on-line businesses access to a growing number of new marketplaces beyond EBay. While EBay offers small business entrepreneurs access to an immense market for on-line sales, it also presents continual challenges to small companies running on razor-thin margins. Recent changes in policy at the on-line auction site highlight the risks of running an on-line business with only one marketplace strategy.
San Mateo, CA (PRWEB) February 16, 2008 -- New Web 2.0 technologies offer access to a growing number of marketplaces for those on-line sellers who have traditionally relied on one large marketplace vendor to drive sales. For FastCommerce.com, the introduction of Google Products is just the first step in powering merchant access to these new and growing opportunities.
EBay has proved to be a large marketplace for selling on-line, but it continues to present challenges, even disruptions, to the small business entrepreneur looking to succeed in on-line sales. There are upfront fees for listing products, an expense regardless of whether the item is sold. EBay sellers also go up against a large number of direct competitors, which drives down profit margins for the majority of sales. Low margins compete with incremental expenses and changes in policy to make it more difficult for many small companies to build a profitable on-line business.
Moreover, EBay is only one marketplace at a time when the number of successful market venues continues to proliferate. The introduction of Google Products as well as Google Check-out highlights the need for moving beyond a single market strategy for increasing sales. The challenge and the opportunity for on-line sellers is to have access to an inexpensive single-system e-commerce application that can power both market reach and on-line sales.
E-commerce technologies that are market neutral enable the small business entrepreneur to compete in an array of marketing venues. FastCommerce.com automatically publishes its merchants' product catalogs to Google products. Or again, FastCommerce.com offers both Google Check-out and PayPal. With FastCommerce.com on-line merchants are not fettered by the strategy of a dominant industry player.
For example, David Pogue of the New York Times, in a review of Microsoft's revamped Office Live, points out that its integrated ad-word campaign tool is limited to only two search engines. As he writes, "You can place ads on Microsoft's search sites and Ask.com, which together represent less than 8 percent of search engine popularity. If you are going to advertise, you'd almost certainly prefer the exposure of the Big Two- Yahoo and Google- but they are not available through Office Live."
Small business entrepreneurs need access to inexpensive, single-system ecommerce applications that are easy and quick to set up, easy to use, and which let their users grow their business without growing their costs. For a low fixed monthly fee, FastCommerce.com allows a merchant to sell 2,000 product without transaction or user fees: small business entrepreneurs can grow their business at a fixed price with no hidden or incremental charges.
Finally, new Web 2.0 e-commerce technologies like FastCommerce.com offer an array of features that can power the whole of their on-line business. Gone are the days when a simple, cheap "shopping cart" can take small businesses to the next level. According to FastCommerce.com CEO Charles Han, today's small business e-commerce applications have to encompass all aspects of running a business, including detailed reports and analytics, order and customer management systems, and more. As he states, "It has to be enterprise in scope but with a small business price."
No less important, Han argues, "Today's small business e-commerce systems must also power the merchant's marketing. It is publish or perish, to search engines, shopping comparison sites, or retail search sites. On-line sellers do not have the skills or the time to do this themselves. They have to have an enterprise platform that connects all the dots for them."
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Saturday, February 9, 2008
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