New amazing online tool - Compete.com

I just received an email from the Compete Search Analytics Team announcing that their service is now open to the public. Normally this would have 0 effect on me, I'm not really into SEO, but this online tool is incredible and you can try it free! You have got to try it, its very very nice.

Compete Search Analytics make it easy for you to:

* Identify new relevant keywords for possible bids
* Learn competitor’s search strategies
* Track performance of specific keywords against competitors
* Find the search terms that drive the most engaged visitors

Keyword Referrals

Enter keywords or phrases to find the most often referred domains.

The Keyword Referral tool helps you understand what sites are benefiting the most from keyword phrases of interest. The tool helps you understand which sites are drawing the most traffic from each keyword phrase and how important different phrases are to each site for generating high quality traffic.

Site Referrals

Enter a website to find the most often referring keywords or phrases.

The Site Referral tool helps you understand what keywords are driving traffic to specific websites or categories. The tool highlights the most popular terms for your competitors and the market you're interested in, and the quality of the traffic websites generate from their search referrals.

Compare Sites

Enter two websites to compare keyword referrals to those sites.

The Comparison tool helps you understand how your search referrals stack up against other sites. The analytics in the report can help you see where any competitive gaps are and highlight opportunities to improve your search tactics.

Read their amazing blog at

I see it as an alexa.com times 10000000000. The Data tools are getting better and better!!

Now, go and explore your competitors and use the data to beat them!

New NetSuite Web Development - The Wedding Outlet

Hi All,

We have released a new cool website built 100% in NetSuite. The Wedding Outlet sells Wedding guest books, Wedding Cake Servers, Flower Girl Baskets and thousands of other wedding related items.

The Wedding Outlet moved from Monster Commerce to NetSuite.

One of the challenges was to be ables to personalize items based on each vendors offering for styles, colors and designs.

For example this Wedding Cake Serving Set.

It is dynamic and it uses NetSuite Item Options. What else can you ask for??

Enjoy it and buy at the best NetSuite wedding favors store!

New NetSuite Web Development - MyLonglife.com

Hi All,

We finally launched www.mylonglife.com/. A new NetSuite Web Store focused on wellness products.

Congratulations to all the team at My long Life and good luck this new venture.

Feel free to post comments about this site.

Enjoy

Amazing Stuff- Future of Ecommerce?

I found this link today.

Just wanted to share it,

http://producten.hema.nl/

Let it load for some minutes. It is Amazing!

May be the future of ecommerce? This way a visitor will see all products displayed for sure.

42% of etailers would LOVE to have NetSuite basically

The post is called "Tying it all together".

Tying It All Together or One System. No Limits!

Forty-two percent of all retailers strive to improve data integration processes by centralizing databases and sharing information throughout their enterprises, according to the study. This is increasingly becoming a necessity for multichannel retailers and many small to mid-sized businesses that utilize their e-commerce platforms as mini-ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems to manage their operations.

Most e-commerce platforms facilitate the integration of multiple applications such as online storefronts, POS (point of sale) systems, real-time inventory tracking and customer analytics into a single management platform.

This allows cost-conscious merchants to leverage the technology much like an ERP system to integrate disparate solutions and provide a centralized management interface.

Alternatively, large enterprises look for solutions that snap into their existing infrastructure and integrate all of their legacy solutions. Luckily for retailers, both licensed software and hosted on-demand solutions available from the vendor marketplace hinge on integration, flexibility and scalability.

Read the complete post at CRM Buyer

Top 10 Ecommerce Lessons from Zappos CEO

Zappos, an Online retailer that specializes in selling apparel and shoes, has been in the business of eCommerce for over 8 years now. Zappos has been able to grow from $1.6 million in 2000 to $597 million in revenue last year alone. Some of Zappos’ highlight features include their excellent customer service and a free overnight shipping on all orders. Over the past 8 years, Zappos has made it’s fair share of mistakes and company CEO, Tony Hsieh.


1. The e-commerce business is built upon repeat customers. Like most Web merchants in the early days of online, Zappos spend a fortune on high-profile ads to acquire customers. It’s since learned that it pays off to focus on repeat buyers.

2. Word-of-mouth really works online. Unfortunately, WOM can work against you as well as for you, as Zappos realized when customers would CC their friends on complaint e-mails to the merchant.

3. Don’t compete on price. Early on Zappos offered a $10 coupon to anyone who made a purchase. This worked wonders at increasing conversion rates, but did not attract loyal buyers. Once its competitors came out with $15 coupons these customers jumped ship.

4. Make sure your Website is 100% accurate. The company ran into trouble when it used to have the manufacturers drop-ship orders, because their inventory was often off and created backorders and unhappy customers. Even 99% is not good enough, Hsieh said, because that 1% out-of-stock rate can make a big difference” when doing significant volumes.

5. Centrally locate your distribution. Originally based in San Francisco, Zappos started out with a California distribution center. But it took too long for customers on the East Coast to get their order, Hsieh said. Now headquartered in Las Vegas, Zappos fulfills out of a DC in Kentucky.

6. Customer service is an investment, not an expense. The goal is to create lifelong relationships with customers, Hsieh said. That’s why Zappos doesn’t measure call times; it’s also why the merchant will even refer customers to a competitor when it’s out of an item. Sounds risky, “but when they need another pair of shoes, they’ll go to Zappos,” he said.

7. Start small, stay focused. You’re never going to get a situation exactly right, Hsieh noted; “lots of weird little things will come up.” When Zappos made the move from shoes to selling apparel as well, “we didn’t promote it heavily—we’re slowly learning over time how customers by clothing online.”

8. Don’t be secretive. Don’t worry about competitors. “We believe in sharing as much information as possible with vendors,” Hsieh said, including reposts on sales, inventory, and profitability. “There’s a benefit to having 1,200 pairs of eyes looking at our business trying to help it grow” What’s more, “we don’t worry too much about what our competitors are doing—it takes the focus off our customers.”

9. You need to actively manage your company culture. Hire people based on how they will fit into the culture, Hsieh said. Zappos is all about customer service, so employees need to understand that and be willing to do what it takes to provide excellent service. “If you get the culture right, a lot of the other stuff will take care of itself,” he said.

10. Be wary of so-called experts, “including me,” Hsieh said. Zappos spent a lot of money on consultants in the beginning only to find that “we really should have trusted ourselves more.” Remember, he told the audience: “No one knows your customers better than you.”

Comment about this 10 points or Share your experiences!

NetSuiteCommerce Customer featured at Engadget

SuiteCommerce and NetSuite customer featured at Engadget,

Vievu-PVR-Pro

Congrats to the team at VIEVU! Another successful NetSuite customer.

NEW - Google Checkout Trends

Google has just released a tool that let’s you compare and gain insight into what people are buying and selling online. Google Checkout Trends aggregates the sales data of Google Checkout merchants and displays a rich graph with the results (revenue), filterable by date range and price. An online merchant is now able to determine how ‘hot’ a certain item is and compare with other products.

Try it out here or visit the Google Checkout Blog for more info.

Compare and Enjoy!

New Niche Comparion Shopping Engine - Electronics

Hi All,

Meet, Retrevo ()

Retrevo is a niche consumer electronics CSE launched in much the same spirit. The site aggregates user manuals, user ratings, "expert ratings," forums, blogs, and, of course, shopping referrals. Retrevo has been live for about a year now.

What's unique about Retrevo is that it doesn't stop with simply aggregating relevant material -- it assembles the breadth of information into a usable, standardized, simple product rating called a "Product Snapshot."

All those NetSuite Electronics store marketers should be creating their feed (Saved Search) for Retrevo.

Hope it helps those 2008 Sales!

New NetSuite Web Site Released

Hi All,

Vievu has just launched their NetSuite website for the release of the most amazing devices for personal video recording.



Click here to Visit the Site

The site is completely integrated to NetSuite and is already converting at very high rates.

Good luck to everyone at Vievu. It was amazing working for Vievu.

Post comments about this new netSuite web store.

Another SuiteCommerce netsuite Web Design

Enjoy!!