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Responsive Design 101 - Is Your Ecommerce Website Responsive?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:19:00 +0000

What is Responsive Design?
Responsive Design is new approach of website coding and laying-out so web content can be viewed through various devices.

This design helps viewers providing an optimal browsing experience, ease of reading and navigation with a minimum of re-sizing, panning, and scrolling.
As more and more internet users browse through various devices such as iPad/Tablet, Smart phones, PC's and other internet enabled devices responsive design can push content to all viewers without having to maintain multiple website or code, with single code base you can target all viewers.
Why is Responsive design so important to business?
Businesses have to evolve with latest proven technology and they must decide whether to build a native mobile apps or a responsive site for their online presences.

Responsive design helps you to have single website, yet target mobile users and traditional computer at same time, easy to manage and maintain as more devices hit the market.

Few stats:
2.1 billion mobile users across the globe
85% of American adults have mobile devices
90% of them use smart phones for online browsing, shopping etc.

Anatomy of Responsive Design

Responsive design is built on HTML5 and CSS3 (Cascading style sheet), unlike traditional way of building websites were using HTML tables with restricted width and height of the content/images not allowing to grow or shrink to fit the screen, whereas responsive design uses fluid grids with help of using "Div" tags which can adapt to screen size resolution.

Fluid Grids, Flexible images and media are three ingredients that are required to build responsive design sites, identify the content, put together your images, identify the navigation flow as part of your responsive design framework.

(Pic from Mashable)

SEO - Search Engine Optimization
Does responsive design affect SEO? We would say it only helps SEO by allowing search engines to index your regular website pages and not duplicate pages geared towards mobile devices Example: www.Domain.com and M.Domain.com, by being responsive you can avoid duplicate content.

Google prefers to index responsive designed websites for their search results and Adwords program, responsive design compliments your SEO.

Responsive Design E-Commerce Websites

E-Commerce websites by design are complex in nature to build, maintain and to keep updated with latest shopping features, trying to keep your E-Commerce website mobile friendly will only make copies of your website thus doubling all your effort.

By using responsive design and building a template with responsive elements you can strike two birds with single stone, more and more internet shoppers are using mobile devices for their shopping list and it's very important to keep your website mobile friendly.

E-Commerce responsive design may look expensive but let me break it down for you, if you decide to have a great looking E-Commerce website targeting computer (PC) users and then decide to build mobile friendly websites your cost of development and maintenance doubles and gets expensive over years and you are duplicating every effort of building powerful E-Commerce website.

Responsive design cuts the total ownership cost, by means of taking away the effort to maintain different versions of a website i.e. a “desktop-version”, a “mobile-version”. Thus, in the long term, investing in responsive website design is the smartest decision.

Talk to us if you are in need of Responsive design for your Ecommerce website, we can put together custom solution that fits your budget. Check us out at InfoSourcing Inc

Happy New Year 2013 - Interprise Suite and Customers

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:23:00 +0000

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year 2013, we are more than excited and eagerly looking forward to grow in 2013. It has been exhilarating journey through the years of learning Interprise Suite and it's new version, implementing and taking our clients live and feeling success as our clients operate more efficiently with automated tools.

In 2012 we achieved quite lot of breakthroughs and it's worth mentioning some of them here

E-Commerce 360 Plugin - One of the best ROI plugin's which lets business owners to take control of their ecommerce business with easy.
Sold 50 user license across small and medium Companies in US-Canada
Implemented Interprise On-Cloud and On-Dedicated servers
Launched new e-Commerce sites to mention few

Support and migrate existing clients
OneStopFeed - Shopping feeds for newer engines ShareASale, Webgains and Amazon Product Ads

2013 brings us more opportunities to soar with our new plugins which automate your business operations, newer Interprise version with more integrated features, more implementation and customization services.

To know more about Interprise Suite (now called as Connected Business) call us, let us give you a free demo on how to automate your business using Interprise Suite and why more and more small and medium business are choosing Interprise Suite as their next ERP system and working with InfoSourcing as Partner sot Implement, Customize and Support their growing needs.

You need a partner in 2013, give us a call or visit our website http://www.Info-Sourcing.com

Increase Sales Conversions, Join Google Trusted Store Program

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:59:00 +0000

Thinking of improving sales conversions, how do you bring the trust factor to your shoppers who are shopping online, you could adapt to add McAfee's Safe badge or BBB (Better Business Bureau) logo or SSL logo stating you'r verified and trusted business.

Google's new program "Google Trusted Store" launched early this year allows etailers to subscribe to their program and provide all your shipping information in order to verify that your business is legitimate and trusted vendor so they can allow to show the new "Google trusted store" badge.
The new Google trusted store program is part of Google Shopping, this is free program available for merchants directly from Google, when shoppers see Google badge they know in a snap they’re shopping with a reputable retailer and they can feel confident making an informed purchase.

To get started, merchants need to fill up store information online, agree to Google program, submit data feed of shipments and add Google integration code to your website and wait for 28 days and 250 orders so Google can decide to make the badge visible on your website. Get started with Google Trusted Store

Google Trusted Store badge will make a huge difference in shopping, as shoppers search online via Google and find your website either through Google Search results (SERP's) or Google Adwords or Google Shopping and seeing the Trusted store badge will make their decision to shop and improve your sales conversions.

This new badge is clear indication of how Google wants to monopolize online sales and be able to track movement of goods and probably help business drive sales and conversions. If it's free I would highly recommend to get your badge and improve your conversions and stay ahead of the curve.

If you would like to add Google Trusted Store logo on your eCommerce website, feel free to contact InfoSourcing Inc so we can customize your Interprise Suite Ecommerce website and take it live.

Interprise Suite - IRCE 2012 Conference Update

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:59:00 +0000

Internet Retailer Conference 2012, the upbeat was do more of everything to succeed, listen to your customers and reach our to your customers.

Fareed Zakaria CNN contributor spoke to the Internet retailers attending IRCE on the Main conference day along with Walmart CTO and Barnes and Nobles CEO, they all stressed the point to market your business across all fronts not just shopping cart but to reach out to customers across all channels of internet shopping, multi-channels such as Amazon, Ebay, Shopping feeds, SEO, Email marketing, Direct Marketing and offer your customers what they are looking for with great deals, reviews and tight integration of social media such as Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter and You tube.

Walmart is now offering various programs to bring its shoppers back to shopping not just to retail stores but more from web into stores by offering Shop Online and pick up from stores, shop online and pay at retail stores, pay by cash and much more initiative so they can tap the niche customers that are not tapped yet.

Barnes and Noble, largest book store company had to innovate itself into digital world as they saw the threat of online giant Amazon and it's Kindle offering and reached out to its own R&D to come up with Nook the largest selling e-reader today overtaking Kindle and iPad.

Such were success stories of the Fortune 500's who are leading the way to many small and medium business/retailers who attend the show looking to innovate and use some of the niche products and services being offered at the show. The exhibition hall was packed with 100's of internet products and services Companies offering Ecommerce solution, Search solution, Multi-channel solution, ERP solution, Network solutions and more.

Interprise Solutions had their hands full with 2 booths showcasing their Integrated ERP solution with latest iPad solution and POS covering end-end solution for small and medium business to scale their business like the big companies do, place your order online and pick up the goods from retail stores or drop ship now possible through Interprise Suite.

We were fortunate to talk to several different business during the 2 day seminar that we attended and standing in the booth along with the team gave us a chance to meet prospects and business owners who were looking for integrated software or ERP solution, many of them still use Magento as their shopping cart and were looking to switch to integrated shopping cart system or tie into more powerful backend system such as Interprise as they see the reason to scale their business.

It was fun experience in midst of beautiful weather in Chicago.

Here are some pictures of the conference, we (InfoSourcing Inc) were part of Interprise tradeshow as trusted re-sellers and solution providers.

Interprise Suite Team with InfoSourcing team

Ezra and Iuval busy at the booth

John - Quilters Warehouse checking the new POS and iPad solution along with Ezra and Harsha

Interprise Suite Version 7.0 - Sneak Preview

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:09:00 +0000

This summer coming soon to the awesome blossom Interprise Suite Ver 7.0 with whole lot of eCommerce features that will blow competitors and make every business owner at the edge of their seat to buy or upgrade to this new version.

Our Biggest eCommerce Release To-Date: Dozens of major new features. I’ve provided some screenshots of a few of them below.

Image Zoom
Address verification for online customer
Gift registry
Product Comparison
Remote shopping (B2B customers)
New Payment gateway

New! Connected Business Beta: Version 7 will include the first beta of our upcoming Connected Business Network. We believe that Connected Business will start a revolution in the way that suppliers and retailer work together. We can’t wait to launch it with the first round of beta customers.
New! Import Manager: Completely rewritten from the ground up! 10x faster, far more powerful, tons more importable items, on the fly data correction and much more.
New! Report Engine: Completely rewritten from the ground up! Much faster! New Report Center! Create Labels (thousands of templates to choose from!)! Ability to import / export! New, Calculated fields! New, Design Templates! New, Multi-Report Designer! New, Conditional formatting designer! And much more!
New! Search Screen Designer: Create your own search screens! Includes the ability to “pre-filter” based on items like User Account, User Role, Team, Territory, Department, Location and more. This is great if you want to limit the records a user sees – i.e. sales people can only see the customers assigned to them OR if you want to create your own workflow – i.e. only show orders that are in the “Gary’s Approval” workflow stage.
New! Server Side Job Service: This is a new pluggable server side service that our partners can use to create task that need to run at predetermined times – i.e. upload my orders to my fulfillment house every hour Monday through Friday. We will be moving our email service to this as well.
Too many improvements to the other modules to list in a forum post. We will do a special webinar in the summer to go over the major ones.

Version 7 is scheduled to be released in the summer.

Image Zoom Built-in feature Online Zoom

iPad App Address Verification online

Product Comparison feature Gift Registry

Request Remote shopping - B2B Shipping estimate in Sales Order

Ecommerce 360 Plugin

Google Products - No more Free clicks

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:45:00 +0000

Google Shopping was the biggest free comparison shopping engine, Google has decided to kill free clicks program, no surprise there we expected this would come sooner or later.

Google announced today that it has begun testing and rolling out Google Shopping, which is designed to give shoppers more up-to-date information about prices and discounts, and give merchants more control over where their products appear, says Sameer Samat, vice president of product management, Google Shopping.

Google Shopping will be built on Google’s Product Listing Ads. “Ranking in Google Shopping will be based on a combination of relevance and bid price—just like Product Listing Ads today,” he says.

Instead of bidding on keywords for paid search ads, merchants buying Product Listing Ads bid on the amount they will pay if their product listings in search results attract clicks or result in sales. Product Listing Ads can include a product’s price, an image and the name of the retailer selling it.

No more free clicks from Google, that’s ending. There’s no firm date on exactly when the free ride will be over, other than it should happen by the fall of this year.

Merchants may continue to be listed within Google’s free web search results. That’s not changing. But those wanting to appear in a dedicated shopping search engine — and in the Google Shopping boxes that will appear as part of Google’s regular results — will need to pay.

Our integrated Interprise Suite shopping feed service OneStopFeed will continue to feed these engines regularly until we hear about the new merchant program.

You can read more about this on
Internet Retailer website.
Search Engine Land
Google Shopping, How much does it cost?

Why The New Google Shopping Sucks for Ecommerce Merchants - SearchEngineWatch.com

The new Google Shopping creates a rift to PPC management firms and merchants who are accustomed to using Google AdWords – bidding at the keyword level and creating product text ads for certain ad groups. The new Google Shopping will not work like that. Why?

Merchants and Agencies will be required to use a merchant’s Google Product Search data feed to submit to the new Google Shopping. Most merchants and PPC agencies don’t have experience with data feeds.
Bidding is product based, not keyword based. You can only submit your feed and bid via attributes in the feed in Google’s Product Listing Ads interface.

Some small merchants won’t adapt fast enough to take advantage of the program and will lose out on traffic and sales.
The potential for more sales is there, but at what cost? The new Google Shopping will require a high level of technical management with the data feed and constant optimization of the product bids in the campaign. This time and money suck will put a strain on merchants

Internet Retailer Conference 2012 - Interprise Software Update

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 31 May 2012 15:26:00 +0000

It's time of the year for the biggest eCommerce event "Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition" IRCE 2012 venue held at Chicago down town.

The best of best eCommerce products are on display the industry best speakers, consumers, developers and integrator's attending this conference makes it special to showcase your products and services.

Interprise Solutions is going to be there from Mon - Fri at Booth # 1707 and would be showcasing the new Interprise Suite version 7.0 along with the new iPad app, perfect for road shows like this one.
The iPad app will have the flexibility to connect to backend office while being on road and be able to take new orders, prospects on the go, kind of POS (Point of Sale) but on the go so love calling it as POS-Go app's.

Not to mention the powerful integrated Ecommerce the new version has whole lot of features, more than Magento, Aspdotnet Storefront out of the box which makes it even more affordable for small and medium business.

The event is geared towards showcasing new products, tech talks from speakers solving real world problems, how to grow your ebusiness, workshops to get your hands on Social media, web marketing and much more.

Read more about the conference here

Update: InfoSourcing Inc will be attending the IRCE 2012 at Chicago and will be visiting Interprise Booth to demo Ecommerce 360 plugin.

Interprise Touch - New POS module

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:08:00 +0000

Interprise Touch, the new Point-Of-Sale integrated module for retailers is now bundled with Interprise setup Ver 6.0.3.13, developed using Microsoft Sliver light technology that let's you install on windows based PC's that has Silverlight installed.

Interprise Touch is fully re-written POS module by Ezra team, we have been beta testing it for few months now and the new release let's you integrate with your back-end ERP system so you can use it at cash register and run all your POS transactions and still be able to look up your customers orders, invoices and payments seamlessly.

You can have your customers place orders online from your website powered by Interprise Suite Ecommerce (ISE) and have them stop by retail locations and pick up the goods at your location, makes it look like bug guys but with limited pockets.

Here are some screen shots of Interprise Touch module.

Secret Deals, Exclusive Deals, Members Only, Restricted Access

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:16:00 +0000

Secret Deals, Exclusive Deals, Members Only, Restricted Access, VIP's only you have heard such terms before while shopping online.
To illustrate with an example consider having a website like Gilt.com which is restricted access to their product catalog unless you become members of their site Or another scenario would be, a wholesale distribution Company and they want to show only certain products to retailers upon login and make them feel special about your program/offerings.

If your running eCommerce business and wondering wish we could offer such deals too. You want such features in your eCommerce website without spending way too much, your choices would be customizing your website by spending more $$$, right?

The good news with Interprise version 6.0 you can do secret deals with easy, no programming required, no need to spend a dime, just enable few preferences in back-end ERP and you could have all those secret deals and restricted access to your shoppers and look like a million dollar website.

Feature: Product Filters - That's right this new feature allows you to filter the products based on specific set of customers or group of customers whom you call VIP's.

Step 1: Create a new product filter let's call "Secret deals" from eCommerce --> Setup --> Product Filter
Step 2: Select the categories and products that you want to be restricted
Step 3: Now go to Customer profile (all those customers) who have access to this Secret deal and specify in the Setup tab and Contact tab --> Web option --> Product Filter tab
Step 4: Set the Application configuration preference "AllowProductFilter" to true indicating you want to enable that feature on eCommerce website.
Step 5: Surf your website those categories and products are not seen, unless you login and then you get to view them.

You could always extend this feature and offer to all customers who register on your website or set of customers automatically by configuring your customer class template, so that way you don't have to do all those steps and get it going from day one, for existing customers maybe running a special SQL script in back-end would automate the process.

If you want detailed user guide how to enable this in Interprise then refer to Product Filter online documentation from Interprise.

Stay tuned for more interesting features in Ver 6

SEO PInterest for better search results & conversions

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:05:00 +0000

SEO PInterest
Well now that you have the PinIt button on your website, it's time to look into optimizing your Pinterest boards so those links can start working for you in the organic searches.

1. Organize your boards
Just like categories, boards are unique way to categorize your interest, so from business stand point you would have boards just like you have categories in your eCommerce website. Your boards might look like "Shoes For Men" or "DSLR Cameras" or "Electric Brake pads" or "Plus-Size-Lingerie".

By doing so your board URL would be http://www.YourDomain.com/Company-Name/Board-Name this gives unique identification and also search engine friendly URL which contains pin-ups of images and description of products and this my friend search engines love indexing coz of relevant information.

2. Publish your "PinIt"
Publish the Pinit button across all product pages next to other social media buttons Facebook Like It, Twitter and others.

PinIt button ties into Facebook and Twitter accounts, so it pulls traffic from your friends and other shoppers who are Re-Pin your Pins and has far reaching effect since picture speaks more than words.

Another note when you publish your pictures also publish the description of the product with few keywords so that also helps in your SEO, any description is worth reading too.

3. Profile description
On Pinterest edit your profile and relevant keywords that you use so they are keyword rich something on these lines "YourDomain sells electronics, cameras, digital cameras and DSLR's for any budget with some great camera deals"

4. Follow us on Pinterest
Add the Follow us on Pinterest button on your home page so you catch the attention of your shoppers and have them follow you. Don't miss any opportunity to publish your Pinterest links via emails, newsletter and other media.

Pin it up and Socialize your interest - new Social media website

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:52:00 +0000

So you have an interest in cooking recipes or quilting or designer clothes or home improvements, well your interest can be anything that you like finding it on the web and wouldn't be a cool to "Pin" it up somewhere and share it with your friends and family and grow your interest with people of same interest ...

Yes there is a website which has caught its attention in the Social media, it's so hot that every PR websites are publishing about it and it has surpassed Google and Facebook visitor traffic in just couple of months, that's right the new Social media website called "PInterest.Com"

So it really helps Ecommerce websites to share their products with "Pin It" button so shoppers who have the interest in your products can pin it up and share it with their friends and like minded people. The website is currently in beta and you need to request the access but do get it and share your interest.

We just customized our client Hips and Curves so they could offer the Pin It button on their product catalog of plus size lingerie and shoppers can pin up their sexy lingerie products, take a look at their Pin Up website

Pin It, is great Social media button you shouldn't miss adding it to your website especially if your customers are females since Pinterest.com 90% of customers are female who are pinning up their interest, so it's time to share your brand, product and pin up finally.

What's New In Year 2012?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:40:00 +0000

Happy New Year 2012 !!!

We look forward for a thrilling year, year after year online business is soaring high and business are moving towards "OnCloud" environment, On demand infrastructure this pushes the way we do business and the way we interact online on Social media websites. Some of the changes we have noticed past few months worth jotting it down ...

I. Google Analytics - Real Time Dashboard:
Google Analytics introduced a new feature which was long overdue and Google got it right, real time dashboard unlike any other analytic website offers. Real time dashboard is available only in the newer version of the website.

To view proceed to Google analytics website & click on Home tab and on the right side navigation you should see options to view real time, the real time graphical representation of shoppers (visitors) on your website or blogs and feel good abt it.

II. OnCloud Hosting Plans:
Rackspace online hosting provider is now offering OnCloud hosting plans starting from 1.5 cents/ Hr, this changes the way we used to buy hardware and software now we can avoid those and just rent it till we want it or ramp up the memory or hard disk when we need it and scale down the bandwidth when its not required, read more

Interprise Solutions also offers similar hosting plans compared to Rackspace for ERP application hosting, it makes much more easier to have Interprise host your ERP software one less headache to manage.

III. Ecommerce 360 - Be noticed.

InfoSourcing solution provider for Interprise Suite has packaged a new plugin for Version 6.0 "Ecommerce 360" which would change the way you do business online,.

The new plugin offers value for money, it has packed with features that gets every business owner interested, from organic search engine optimization to social media everything you need to be successful online.

SEO Dashboard, Comparison Shopping feeds, Marketplace, Social Media and Analytics all-in-one plugin its 2012 killer.

We will be soft-launching this plugin by Feb 15th 2012 if you want to get on our beta do let us know.

IV. Interprise Suite Ver 6.0
As the new version 6.0 gets rolled out , Companies are slowly making their move towards upgrading to the latest version 6.0.1.3 and get familiar with the new features, we are in the process of making that change too, so stay tuned for more updates.

Interprise Suite Ver 6 Final Release - Interprise Solutions

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:52:00 +0000

A long wait is now over with the release of latest and greatest version from Interprise Solutions, the new Interprise Suite Version 6.0 is finally released to general public.

We have been evaluating the current version 6.0 for past 6 months, and we have numerous features being implemented that business would love to use for their operations and we are getting ready to take on any implementations, customization and deployment for small and medium business.

Our new Interprise Plugin is revamped with new features using IS 6.0 SDK it's scheduled for beta release during Jan 1st week 2012.
The new plugin covers it all, your Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Shopping feeds, Market place (Amazon, Ebay & Others), Social Media Optimization and Google Analytics, all in one package easy to use for Ecommerce customers so you can scale your business for 2012.

We are very excited with this final release and we look forward to new releases and match Interprise time lines
for our customization's, implementations and plugins.

1. Dec 20th - Availability of 6.0 downloads for customers/prospects for evaluation of licensed versions
2. Jan 1st week - Availability of 6.0 to OnCloud customers
3. Mid/End of Jan - Availability of 6.0 to Existing licensed customers
4. Jan 15th - InfoSourcing ECommerce plugin
5. Feb 1st week - Implementation of customized websites for existing clients
6. Feb 15th onwards Implementation of customized websites for newer clients
7. Mar - New Implementation and Migration for new customers

Visit our website for latest Interprise product features, news and case studies and stay tuned for more information.

Happy Thanks Giving 2011 - Thank You For Your Business

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:58:00 +0000

Hello Business Owners,

We at InfoSourcing would like to wish all Interprise Customers, Re-sellers and Community members a very "Happy Thanksgiving 2011"

It's the time of the year when you thank your customers, vendors and developers, we would like to thank you all by giving away 10 Golden coupons for Google Adwords.

If you haven't started advertising on Google Adwords yet, and are thinking of getting started with a new account then email us we can mail you or send you this personalized "Google Adwords Golden coupon" (Google sent us 10 coupons free) so we want to share it with new business like yours.

See attached picture, hurry we got only 10 coupons to gift, this is for new Google Adwords account ONLY, 1 per customer and use it before Jan 31st 2012.

Visit Interprise Solutions forum link too

Social Media Optimization (SMO) - Does your Business need it?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:45:00 +0000

Social Media Optimization (SMO) is the latest buzz word for marketing professional, so what is SMO? Is it important for your website to be optimized or enabled for Social media interactions?

With Facebook (FB) eating a major chunk of internet where people are posting comments, pictures, videos and everything they like or dislike and their friends interact and creating a whole new wave of online shopping or influencing the buying decision of the consumer or friends.

This is a new world just like what we had in early 2000's when SEO was the buzz word and people were trying to get their website optimized and attract traffic, now it's time for SMO so you can engage your fans, shoppers, consumers or friends to stay in touch and grow your fan base or customer base.

So what is Social Media Optimization and what sites should we target? We highly recommend the following social media websites that needs to be integrated with your websites.

1. FaceBook
2. Google Plus
3. Twitter
4. Blogs
5 YouTube
6. Bookmarking websites such as Digg and others
7. Amazon Wishlist
8. Others - there is always others category

Facebook - Increases your social interaction to the level you have wouldn't imagine, your website and products get viral, you add more friends, fans and create a brand. Facebook has largest social fans/friends and the leader in social media enabling Companies to push their brands and products by engaging them throughout the sales cycle of discovery, sales and feedback.

Examples:
Branding: We have FB integration implemented for Hips and Curves and since then they have gotten more likes on their products and they are able to brand their products on Social media.
Product Decision: Another way to use FB likes is by asking your shoppers or fans to decide which product is worth building and StyleFactory uses FB for product decision whether to build it or not.
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Google Plus - Next big thing after Facebook is the new Google Plus (G+) get your business account established and start populating with fresh news, updates and build a fan base so more and more people G+ or plus your website links this will all add into Google's Search algorithm for higher ranking.

This is going to get big,bigger than Facebook since Google is incorporating the Google Plus into their search engine algorithm so having a G+ pages just like FB pages is important so you can have the G+ button on your website or shopping site and all likes or plus would show up on your Google+ pages, we have setup InfoSourcing G+ page go ahead Plus it.

OneStopFeed Google+ pages account, so you get the idea go ahead and create your own business page and start to populate with posts and share them all over the website so you can engage more with your fans/followers, this will eventually show up on Google's search results.

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Twitter - Any tweets is highly recommended to keep your fans updates about the latest product or something that you found or discovered or something that keeps them engaged and again fresh content is impt for search engines.

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Blogs - Same thing as tweets just that you can post pictures, content rich description targeting keywords and keyphrase helps in SEO

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YouTube - Any videos that can go viral or help your shoppers make the right decision post it.

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Amazon Wishlist- This caught our attention Amazon introduced "Add to Amazon wish list" button so it's easy for shoppers to make their wishlist in common location and then get to it and shop off that list on any other sites. How cool is that?

Check out Amazon Wish list button working on Hips and Curves website
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If your Ecommerce business then you should take a close look at optimizing your website for search engines and enabling your website with social elements, we could help you customize your website, enable social media optimization SMO for sites that are powered by Interprise Suite Ecommerce.

Interprise Suite Ver 6.0 Release Candidate 4 (RC4) - Update

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:17:00 +0000

The new version IS 6.0 RC4 seems pretty rock solid with installation and features. The new install has Card Scanning SDK which I wasn't quite sure and avoided not to install however the install won't go further if we don't install and ended up installing, other than that installation was a breeze.

New Features found
1. Under Customer Tab - New button called Associate Company Information - Not sure what it does but it's out there, any update on this ?
2. CRM tab - Lead drop down - Scan to Lead option looks like a new feature to scan your business cards and convert them to leads nice feature I guess this is where the Card scanning SDK was required, anyways it didn't work either
3. Inventory tab - External Cart Import Wizard - Plugin from eShopconnect try it with caution it will crash entire IS
4. Inventory tab - Bin Location wizard - Does this mean we can now allocate our stock to Location - Zone and Bin?? Couldn't figure out quite what it does or how to use it.
5. No changes in Item attribute feature

6. A new template look and feel for eCommerce website, it's way better than the earlier ones and it looks kind of neat and ready to use out of the box with few changes to images and colors.

Overall it's a good build, my first stab at it I didn't experience any errors or issues by running through entire process of creating leads, customer, quote, order and invoice and reversing the entry with RMA, Memo and running a customer statement just worked flawlessly.

Good job IS team, let's get the RC5 or the final build and get the ISE source code and SDK ready so we can test with some real data by migrating from older version.

Visit our website for more information about Interprise offerings and services

Case Study: Trusted Pet Pharmacy Allivet's Ecommerce solution

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:36:00 +0000

Allivet Pet Pharmacy Case Study - Nov 10th 2011

We are delighted to announce another successful migration of website from Volusion to Interprise Suite ECommerce.
Allivet, a trusted pet pharmacy online etailer selling pet vitamins and supplements were faced with challenges to increase their online presence and compete with big guys such as 1800Pet Meds and others.
Allivet used Interprise ECommerce for their Shopping cart solution so they could finally have a powerful back-end software to publish their catalog and channelize their one source.

Allivet were looking for complete Ecommerce solution provider who could make a difference in their online business and find the perfect match with InfoSourcing for their website customization, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and multi-channel marketing to compete against the big guys.

We at InfoSourcing love customers who have products to sell to consumers and our expertise was called in to get their organic search results higher, migrate them to newer solution, integrate their online ad solutions and multi-channel marketing.

Allivet, most trusted Pet Pharmacy since 1992! has been in the business of providing pet medications,Farm and Ranch tools and veterinary supplies for more than 14-years, and have a client base made of both domestic and international customers.

We offered our innovative SEO Dashboard solution that automates your entire product catalog with breeze and ensure your website is fully optimized for search engines. We extended our services in migrating their old website to new with 301 redirects, website submissions and targeting Pay-per-click campaigns and shopping feeds program through www.OneStopFeed.com

Organic results are soaring with increase in traffic for the holidays. For all your online pet medication visit www.Allivet.com trusted source for pet pharmacy.

For all your Interprise Suite Ecommerce customization, plugins, SEO, Shopping feeds and Multi-Channel Marketing services we cover it all - ECommerce 360 visit us at InfoSourcing

Holiday Shopping Starts Now, Are You Ready To Grab Attention?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:03:00 +0000

We are now officially entering the biggest season of "Holiday Shopping" starting from Halloween season till New Year's Eve, online sales will soar high during Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, every consumer/shopper would be looking for the best deals on the internet.

If you are not ready you might miss the biggest event of the year, so get ready for the shopping mania.

If you currently operate an E-commerce website/store then you need to have your product catalog submitted to Comparison Shopping engines mainly "Google Products", "Bing Shopping" and "The Find" Shopping engines.

If you are wondering why we are showcasing only 3 engines when there are 50 others comparison shopping engines? Well as a business owner myself and working with several small and medium business throughout US for last 10 yrs we noticed our customers like "Free", so we list the top 3 free comparison shopping engines that can send tons of traffic and increase your online sales conversions.

Google, Bing and TheFind Shopping engines is absolutely free you don't have to pay for any clicks made on their website and traffic is pushed to your website unlike other paid price engines such as Pricegrabber.com, Shop.com, Shopzilla.com, so why not take advantage of free and submit your data feed to Google, Bing and TheFind and start getting free traffic for this holiday season.

We at InfoSourcing have kick started our OneStopFeed.Com Multi-channel marketing program for Interprise customers, we made it simple and easy to integrate your shopping feeds from Interprise to all these engines. You can subscribe to our feed program and install our Interprise plugins for Version 5.0 and 6.0, configure and generate feeds and we will handle the rest.

Your feed will be submitted weekly/Monthly to these engines and get the latest products to shoppers, few our customers have already started to see the spike in their online traffic and sales, our program also tracks your website traffic through Google Analytics tool (another free tool to use, i love free).

You will be able to start generating traffic within few days of subscribing to our feed program, take advantage this holiday season and Subscribe for as low as $59 per month.

Visit www.OneStopFeed.com for submitting your product shopping feeds to free shopping engines Google, Bing Shopping and TheFind.com.

4th Quarter - This Week, this year 2011 - New Product and Services for Consumers

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:07:00 +0000

October 1st week marks the beginning of the 4th quarter and the most important quarter for business, this is when the largest online shopping sales happens and this part of the year most people shop the most due to holidays and also due to the fact it's financial year ending and organizations with sufficient budget would like use their allocated funds for their inventory.

Consumer technology Companies understand the magic 4th quarter and they are launching their new products and services to consumers and business to capture the market share, here are few worth noting down

Apple's iPhone 5G
Android's new operating system
Microsoft Mango
Facebook Timeline
Google Analytics
Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet
Interprise Suite ERP Software Ver 6.0

Apple's new iPhone 5G features the next generation of mobile computing and consumer driven features, Android iPhone's competitor is also releasing it's new OS partnered with Samsung to compete in mobile space along with Microsoft Mango mobile version.

In the tablet war Amazon introduced its new tablet for the masses Kindle Fire new kid on the block and it's prices are affordable priced at $199 compared to $499 for iPad and Samsung tabs.

Facebook the social media giant is unveiling the timeline feature update to 800 million users the largest online user base and also rumors of introducing paid plans for users who have large fan base business and prominent people would be their biggest audience.

Google Analytics has rolled out a new product updates with real time updates of traffic instead of 24 hr delay restrictions it had before, with this change they are now offering Enterprise analytics and offering at larger clients who can afford $150k per yr.

Interprise Solutions maker of ERP software for small and medium business is launching their new version 6.0 to small and medium business world wide, with its new features it will now directly compete with other leading ERP brands such as NetSuite, Everest, SAP Business One, TradePoint, Sage, MS Dynamics and Quickbooks and business might see the value when they compare Interprise Suite with other brands.

We are seeing innovation on all fronts targeting consumers and the market is flooded with new products, new services and only the strongest will survive and as a business owner you need to capitalize by using the right technology and services to compete.

Get your wish lists, gift cards, shopping bags ready for a roller coaster ride of the yr 2011.

Which ERP Software Fits Your Business - NetSuite, Interprise Suite or Everest?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:22:00 +0000

Why Interprise Suite should be your next ERP Software?

If you are in the market for evaluating ERP software for small and medium business then you would have run into several different companies, products and lots of options and variations and wondering which software is going to fit my business and what's the best choice? Whom should we trust? Is this Company good? Or they stable or are they gonna go bankrupt? Should I spend $100,000 or $10,000?

What is right and what's wrong? Well we hear this concerns from several business owners in retail, wholesale, distribution and etail customers so we decided to highlight some of the competitors and the reason for us to partner with specific ERP vendors and why business should decide to choose Interprise Suite versus other ERP software's?

We have done all the research in evaluating the next best ERP for Small and medium business considering the fact that Small and Medium is vaguely defined and also each business have their own budget constraints, here are few that we have shortlisted and reason why we like one of below the most.

Interprise Suite - Been in market since 2003 onwards with new management take over in 2010
Everest -Been in market since 1998 however is declining since its latest acquisition in 2010
NetSuite - Market leader in ERP software but priced highly after 2nd yr and moving away from small business or those who can't afford $10,000
ABAS - Not heard of
Acumatica - ERP vendor their ecommerce or POS solution is not comparable they are more focus like other ERP such as Sage or MS Dynamics, not focused on eBusiness
Enterprise IQ (IQMS) - Not heard much abt, they have unique licensing options

We have done very detailed comparison of ERP software's in SMB sector module-module comparison btwn Interprise Suite Vs Everest and NetSuite and we find these 3 software's worthy of considering as fully integrated ERP software with Accounting, Sales, Purchases, Inventory, Purchasing, CRM, POS, EDI and other options. Click here to read more about the ERP comparisons

Stability of Companies:

1. NetSuite - More stable is what we feel coz it's listed on Nasdaq and backed by Oracle so obviously we all tend to feel comfortable dealing with Companies that are listed as a stable Company.

2. Everest Software - Not listed but had 4 Venture Captials invest in millions and was recently sold to Versata who acquired Everest and its customer base on short sale and cut its entire work force and outsourced everything since then customers are jumping ship which is very clear the Company is viewed as "Not stable" with high support prices.

3. Interprise Suite - Not listed on Nasadaq however it did go through acquisition from Taylor Corp couple of yrs back and since then it was re-acquired by private investors who were also users of Interprise software so they can continue the progress of ERP development and to market its offerings, since Mar 2010 they had exponential growth in software in terms of ERP features and customer base, with it's new version 6.0 it's going to be tough contender for NetSuite.

I don't want so sound like i'm pitching for Interprise as the greatest software or perfect software for business, I have been in software development for more than 15+ yrs and have worked in ERP systems for more than 12+ yrs and have seen Companies risen and fallen. Every software has it's own distinctive competencies and feature sets, also it's own issues, bugs and fixes or constraints in it's growth.One Size doesn't fit all and no software is perfect. You need to observe the Company and its trends in software development.

NetSuite is not profitable still since their expense is equal to their revenue, they are also trying to move away from smaller deals which was their core business Read more about this article which highlights the small business being avoided by NetSuite

Everest - Lots of our customers ask is Everest a stable Company are they going to be in business next yr or they gonna go bankrupt, do I need to be on Support contract? Our answers is the same we aren't sure since the recent acquisition and SMB research group have done an in-depth article about Everest Software and its future plans.

Now Interprise Suite, within last 1 yr the following things have happened

1. Launched new website www.InterpriseSolutions.com after take over

2. 1000+ new users signed up on their community

3. Their daily traffic to website is higher as per the Alexa reports. Alexa Traffic Rank is 318,206 and reputation of 45

4. Here is an email we recd from their top management with regards to future plans

Our focus has not changed over the past 8 years. We are committed to helping small businesses operate more effectively and efficiently while providing the best ROI in the industry. We have been investing heavily in upgrading and improving our existing products (6.0), investing in creating new products and platforms for the future (POS/InterpriseTouch), investing in building an open community (we are closing in on 2,000 community members), investing in building an education portal for our customers (Still a few months away but coming along - http://university.interprisesolutions.com/), investing creating a dynamic new website for prospects, customers and partners (http://next.interprisesolutions.com/), investing in our new Cloud environment and investing in new and exciting services such as the Connected Business Network.

5. We are re-seller for Interprise from past 5 yrs and have moved several customers from Everest and NetSuite to Interprise Suite and also customized several eCommerce websites

6. Interprise had its 2011 User conference in Las Vegas on Aug 23rd More about it here

7. 50+ re-sellers signed up for reselling their ERP products

8. Pricing options for a fully integrated ERP software with ECommerce + source code + Unlimited websites costs $995 per user or $99 per user OnCloud ($69 each additional user)

9. New POS built on open source technology SilverTouch which enables to build software apps on any platform that support silverlight like android devices or iPad's.

10. Community of developers, 3rd party developers, resellers, certification programs all helping the end users

As you see there are various factors while evaluating the ERP software, too many choices can spoil the fun, working with an expert always helps you to narrow down your choices and hear both sides of the story unlike the sales rep who wants to sell software and make commission and really not bother about your business or whether you are happy with your solution, long term relationship is key in such engagements.

Feel free to comment on this post and share it with others, if you want to discuss more about ERP software give us a buzz we will be more than happy to guide you not sell the software, but purely FREE information.

Are you ready for Mobile traffic?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:09:00 +0000

A report by ABI Research found that mobile online shopping in the United States rose from $396 million in 2008 to $1.2 billion in 2009. The same survey predicted that mobile would bring in $119 billion by 2015. - Source: Mashable

So more and more consumers get their hands on smart phone such as iPhone and Android devices they have the mobility to shop online or compare products and price or even just look up for hot deals. Having an eCommerce website is a must if you targeting online shoppers but having mobile ready site makes it even more important to facilitate those shoppers who are researching your products or ready to buy in the shortest time available during holiday seasons.

Interprise Solutions is launching its mobile solution this Holiday season and a sneak preview of it's mobile solution can be seen on their blog posted Sep 2nd by Gary. We will keep you updated on features, how it works, whether it can be customized for your mobile business solution, stay tuned ...

Interprise Suite Seminar 2011 - Day 3 & 4

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:17:00 +0000

Day 3 & 4 Aug 25 & 26th

If you were overwhelmed with new features and excited about the latest happenings with this new version 6.0 and you stepped out to enjoy Vegas, you got to get yourself into the session by 9 am how does that sound? Well that's what everybody did and few people had to demo/speak at the seminar too ...

Day 3 was more of the same of Day 2 but wit more in depth review of features of how to use it, examples, more screenshot, live demo and breaks to caffeine ourselves so we can sit through the seminar.

Track 1 covered setup and management of Ecommerce, Report engine and CRM module. Track 2 was more of POS, Customer and Supplier modules. Again if you are a Geek then you will love Track 3 and 4.

Track 3 caught my attention since Ramil the head of product development was walking through a bunch of nerds about the new revamped SDK (Software Development Kit) and this version of SDK looked much easier to use, simpler and intuitive for developers. He walked us through some basic stuff on how-to's and then showed us real life example of creating an order template and integrating with Order processing.

Track 4 - I had to really wake myself up to be there at 8:30 am so I can present my ECommerce 101 presentation which covered everything that you ever wanted to know abt running your eBusiness successfully from SEO, PPC, SEM, Social Media, Shopping feeds and Multi-channel marketing.

Track 4 also had topics from Lerryn, eTail Solutions, Barcoders and other notable speakers.

Day 4

We had half-day session on 26th Friday covering left over topics such as Banking, Accounting, Inventory and Shipping module features that couldn't fit into other days were covered.

Track 3 & 4 on final day was more of networking, questions, brainstorming sessions. Honestly I couldn't make myself available since we had rock party the previous night and I ended up sleeping more ...

What Happens in Vegas, Kind of Stays in Vegas :)

Most of us were ready to head back to our business/offices and those who dropped in from East coast had to rush before Hurricane Irene hits the east coast on Sat evening.

OVERALL, we liked the new version 6.0 (and beta 7 was release that week) it was packed with powerful automated features that small and medium business can use in their daily operations to run their business, some of the high level features worth noting down

1. Interprise Suite is fully ERP ready

2. Just the Ecommerce solution is worth the install rather than Magento

3. New POS in Silver light seem very promising

4. Integration with Shipping module and other partner's plugins makes it more scalable

5. New revamped SDK is developers delight

6. Pricing you can't just beat it for what you get, under $5000 you get Combo meal, with bottomless fries and unlimited coke. (If you want me to translate that then 5 user license + E-Commerce unlimited websites)

Interprise Suite Seminar 2011 - Day 2

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:48:00 +0000

Day 2 - Multi Track Session

Day 2 Aug 24th started with 4 tracks and this is where it gets interesting and if you are representing your Company alone then you have to shift gears and jump between sessions but recommended way to do it is always attend in groups at least 2 people from a Company so you can always share notes at the end.

Track 1 was Product overview from Curt and Track 2 was all about 6.0 and new features and this is where all the newbies and existing customers were glued to the presentation, Track 3 and 4 was more of eCommerce and latest technology from Interprise as well as System Integrator.

Honestly for me Track 3 & 4 was very interesting just coz i'm a Geek and I love what other Geeks do, so in this scenario I was overwhelmed by Ezra's new baby "Silver Touch" it really touched my Geek brain. SilverTouch is a development platform for developing rich user interface like Flash but using Silverlight technology from Microsoft that interfaces with Interprise database or with any other database. We got a glimpse of POS module that's developed using the SilverTouch interface, awesome idea to keep it open source and I thk this will be a killer for iPad/Tablet apps if Silverlight gets supported by Apple and Android devices ....

After sitting in the seminar for 6+ hrs listening to new features, coming soon, new features etc overloaded with information you get brain damage and you step out of the seminar head back to your room(s) and take a power nap before you step out to play Craps, blackjack or just the slot machine or watch some shows vegas has to offer or if you are like me then you would rather party all night ;) !!!!

Day 3 & 4 gets harder ...

Interprise Suite Seminar 2011 - Day 1

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:32:00 +0000

Day 1 - Interprise Suite User Conference at Hotel Mirage, Las Vegas.

It was hot outside and pretty cool inside, no i'm not talking abt the weather in Las Vegas i'm expressing my views about Interprise Suite new Ver 6.0 code named Eireen (Ever wonder how Interprise comes up with product code names ;) I thk I know the secret... )

On day 1 we had business owners from all walks of life along with re-sellers/partners and developers representing their clients all in all we were around 100+ looking for some serious new features in Interprise. The Philippines team has been cooking the ERP features for last few months and currently unveiled IS 6.0 beta 7 during the demos.

Yossi, Iuval and Gary's team took the stage and introduced the new platform and their business strategy for 2011 and 2012, sneak preview of new website look and feel was provided by Gary and we think the new website looks more refined and business friendly, looking fwd for new site in few days ...

Cloud hosting was big deal, Curt Rice was pumped up with the offerings that small and medium business could leverage with this solution. Ezra walked in with his Geek hat covering the REST web services and SilverTouch the next big thing that we could expect from Ezra's team in Point of Sale (POS) and much more...

It was the day of showcasing the product and it's framework which allows solution providers to broaden the ERP features vertically which allows business to scale to enterprise level. We had demo from each of these vendors and integrator such as Barcoders, B2B Gateway, TransNational, TrustWave, eTail Solution, Lerryn and others.

Stay tuned for more updates on rest of the days and more pictures abt the event.

Thinking About NetSuite, think again or read this article

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 02:46:00 +0000

Interesting article I ran into this week about why NetSuite is not ready to sell if you are a business owner and can't spend more than $10,000 per year for their ERP software and we aren't surprised if NetSuite filters it's pipeline filled with small and medium business ready to buy their ERP software hosted solution.

Every ERP vendor has tried to define the term "small and medium" and they end up serving only medium and high business since the cost of setup and training would be much higher and smaller customers won't have that budget, so customers need to understand what features they need and whether they need an ERP solution to scale their business.

We did a comparison matrix of couple of ERP vendors against NetSuite few years back and it still holds good even till date, read more abt it http://www.info-sourcing.com/comparison_enterprise_softwares.htm

NetSuite stops selling to smaller businesses. Congratulations

By Dennis Howlett | August 9, 2011, 12:50pm PDT

Does Interprise Suite fit "Small and Medium" business?
From what we heard from Gary Harrison at Interprise Solutions, they are announcing their new pricing for small and medium business, which will allow business owners to jump on the band wagon for their hosted SaaS solution starting from $59 per month per user and you can scale it up as your business grows. Stay tuned for more announcement.