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It’s Only May, But In Cyberspace, The Holidays Are Just Around The Corner

As of this writing, there are only 224 days, six hours, 53 minutes until Christmas. And the shopping season begins before Thanksgiving. Will you be ready? We’re not talking about ordering fruitcakes, Chia Pets or cheese logs for your relatives; we’re talking about ramping up your Web site for the holidays.

For those of you with plans to sell your unique gift items and wares online this year or if you’re new to the online shopping community, now is the time to get your new site and eCommerce online to give the Search Engines time to find and index your site and products. It may seem strange to be talking about holiday shopping before Memorial Day, but the truth is that an online point-of-sale system takes defining, planning and time. If your Web site isn’t yet ready to process sales and orders, and you are planning to do holiday sales, well, we better talk. Now.

Out-of-the-Box or Highly Customized — You Decide
While we offer a standard shopping cart program that accommodates most online sales functions, it’s common for individual merchants to have special needs–based on their product or their clients, or both–that require custom programming. For instance:

• Would you like your eCommerce program customized to work with QuickBooks or your accounting program?
• Would you like to offer retail and wholesale pricing tiers?
• Will you be offering quantity-based pricing, coupon codes or rewards programs?
• Would you like order management capabilities such as product replacement for items out of stock; the ability to change pricing or delivery methods or have the ability to ship partial orders?
• Are you thinking of selling wines and spirits online and need a system that can be tailored to handle inter-state shipping regulations?

 

This challenge required outside-the-box thinking on the part of the Programming team, who created a customized business management system that was able to satisfy all of the requests of the client and more, effectively changing how he runs his business while saving time and money and simplifying his life.

Taking the time now to define the functionality choices and requirements for your shopping system will assure smooth transactions for your customers and larger profits for you (meaning you’ll be able to buy even more fruitcakes, Chia Pets and cheese logs for your own relatives!).

 

You want to be found by the Search Engines when?

Building and launching your new eCommerce system a few months prior to shopping season will allow enough time for the Search Engine spiders to find and index your products and re-rank your site which will help your Search Engine placement.

Thinking about and planning for your shopping cart now translates to larger profits.

The experts (elves) at Nu-Designs Web Marketing will sit down with you to learn exactly what your site needs to do to make your online holiday sales go smoothly and seamlessly, and create a custom program specifically designed for your requirements. But this takes time. Contact Nu-Designs soon–today–to get started. It’s only May, but you’ll hear hoof beats on your roof before you know it.

 

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