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Social Media Optimization (SMO) - Get Social Now !!!

2011-11-23T07:03:00.001-08:00

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 TrailerPartsDepot.com 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 Everest Ecommerce.

Happy Thanks Giving 2011 - Thank you for your business

2011-11-21T15:02:00.001-08:00

Hello Business Owners,

We at InfoSourcing would like to wish all Everest Customers 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.

If you are interested please email us info@info-sourcing.com with your Company name and valid email address so we can send you the coupon code or mail the Google Adwords kit.

Holiday Shopping 2011 Starts now, attract more traffic today !!!

2011-10-31T07:12:00.000-07:00

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 Everest-ERP customers, we made it simple and easy to integrate your shopping feeds from Everest. You can subscribe to our feed program and install our Everest plugins for Version 4.0, 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

2011-10-02T18:03:00.000-07:00

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

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.

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.

Infopia Customers have a upgrade path to Everest ERP Software

2011-07-14T21:30:00.000-07:00

E-CommerceBytes an online ecommerce informative website reported that Versata is on its way to merge Infopia customers with Everest ERP Software. Both Infopia and Everest are wholly-owned affiliates of Versata Enterprises.

As a byproduct of the merger, Royston promised that Infopia customers will receive a "dramatic discount" on Everest's ERP software.
The article goes on to say ...

In a letter to Infopia customers and partners obtained by EcommerceBytes, Royston bluntly acknowledged the shortcomings of the company's product and service

Read more about this article from ECommerceBytes website.

What does this mean to existing Infopia Customers?
Infopia customers are going to be upgraded to more robust, mature ERP product which is geared towards small and medium business for last 10 yrs and many of the e-Commerce customers who are frustrated with Infopia pricing and management now gets a new life to use Everest ERP rich features and scale their business, but it all boils down to the cost at which they need to upgrade.

What does this mean to existing Everest Customers?
If more revenue trickles down the path of Versata through Everest then there could be hope of product development so new features could be added on and existing customers who are on support gets to scale their business and stay with their ERP product.

Multi Channel Marketing Program for Everest ERP Software

2011-07-13T08:14:00.000-07:00

InfoSourcing Inc

Issue No.2011-07

It's our business to make yours more productive.

Dear Harsha,

Your e-Commerce business is made easy and profitable.InfoSourcing offers multi-channel marketing solution for Everest and other ERP products.
We automate the process of feed generation and submission to various channels, so you can manage your growing business.

Multi-Channel Marketing Program

Funnel Your Sales Through Multi-Channel

Channelize Your Business

1. E-Bay to Everest Integration:
Our custom solution is now fully integrated with eBay, it automates the process of product listing from Everest and imports orders directly from eBay store seamlessly saving you hours of manual work.

Read more about eBay integration

2. Amazon to Everest Integration:

List your products on Amazon.com through automated scripts and import orders from Amazon through our custom import utility, simple and easy.

3. OneStopFeed - Price Comparison Shopping Feeds

Our new SaaS offering for small and medium business now allows to submit your product feeds to top 3 shopping engines Google, Bing Shopping and TheFind.Com and other product comparison shopping engines.

Read more about OneStopFeed.com

We also have the knowledge and expertise to improve your sales via SEO, PPC, Social Media and various other marketing channels.

We truly believe in ROI (Return On Investment), call us or visit ourwebsite to find out more about our offerings it's right about time you invested in multi-channel programs for your e-Business and take advantage of your competitors for the holiday season.

Visit us on web at http://www.Info-Sourcing.com Or Call us at 703-831-1973

Empowering your business with the right partner - Apr/May Newsletter

2011-05-03T15:12:00.000-07:00

Need Professional Support from experts having 12 yrs of Everest experience and who knows what it means to run a business successfully.

We have helped 100+ Everest clients to succeed using their ERP solution and we thank every single customer who worked with us and kept us going for past 7 yrs.

Find Out Why We Are Leading Everest Solution Provider Today !!!.

Support and Maintenance

2011 Update

Fine Tune Your Everest

Your ERP software needs maintenance and we at InfoSourcing can support Everest and ensure your business is running smooth like well oiled machine.

If you don't have support contract or you don't want to renew your contract or maybe you don't see the value for money, let us tell you there is an alternative.

You can Opt for our Pre-Paid support plan which works pretty simple, pay as you go and use it when you require no contract to sign, you can create as many incidents as you like and our dedicated experienced support staff will help you.

Read more about our Support and Professional services we offer.

Empowering Your Business

We empower your business with the ERP solution by automating your business process and attracting more traffic to website, our experts at InfoSourcing are constantly working in the back to help your business succeed.

We can bring in more sales by optimizing your website for search engines, manage your paid campaigns, enable your website for social media (Facebook and Twitter), provide multi-channel marketing solutions, integrate with eBay, Amazon or any third party software and customize your back-end.

If you are using Everest ERP solution and you need support or customizations do contact us and we will be more than happy to walk you through and show the benefits of working with business experts who can make a difference.

Visit us on web at http://www.Info-Sourcing.com Or Call us at 703-831-1973

Google Products Feed Updates - Multi Channel Marketing

2011-04-07T18:05:00.001-07:00

Google Products, free comparison shopping engine requires all merchants to provide their data feed with unique identifiers in their feed by May. 2011 this transition may require merchants to understand the need of unique identifiers in the feed.

We advise Everest merchants to start working on gathering data such as UPC/EAN/ISBN/MPN fields in your database and modify your listing to reflect the latest changes and keep it ready, tested before the May deadline.

If you are selling Apparel or custom made goods then you don’t have to meet this requirements but if all other merchants who are selling parts and accessories might need to submit either one of these unique product attributes UPC/MPN and if you are selling books then you might have to send ISBN number.

Now our plugin allows to choose Interprise fields easily and submit it to OneStopFeed services so your product listing is current and accurate for Google and other engines to showcase in their comparison engines.

For more updates on Google products visit Multi Channel Advisor Blog and to submit your listing to Google, Bing Shopping and TheFind visie Multi Channel Marketing program services at www.OneStopFeed.com and take advantage of affordable pricing and widen your reach of customers.

New Features for eBay - Everest integration - 2010 Updates

2010-10-20T19:56:00.000-07:00

Following are the new features added to our eBay – Everest integration module. Below features will really integrate the bi-directional flow of information between Everest and EBay, seamlessly and effortlessly.

Listing of Items on EBay

1. We can list multiple items with different pricing schemes to choose from retail price vs custom field price

2. Ebay requires new attribute called Condition which is now enabled to store the value in custom field and be used at the time of listing

3. We can store the eBay shipping method ID's combined/discount shipping ID per item level

Shipment Methods

1. New module has been added to configure the shipment, you can now configure shipping rates

2. Combined Shipping feature is also added to our module

Import Orders Features

1. Ability to create orders and receipt journal in Everest from eBay orders

2. Assign new payment methods for creating receipt journal

3. Ability to import orders of type auction can now be imported into Everest

4. Ability to pull item description into Everest when Sales Order is created for those items where item code's are missing or doesn't exist within Everest

5. Ebay Order Reference can be stored in custom field or reference field of Everest

6. We can now import clubbed sales orders from eBay into Everest

Shipment Tracking

1. Update shipment tracking from Everest to Ebay orders and mark the status as shipped

Ask for a FREE demo we will be more than happy to show you the smart way to multi-channel marketing. Contact www.Info-Sourcing.com for eBay-Everest demo today.

Future of Everest, find the right solution partner

2010-08-12T21:53:00.000-07:00

Everest Software, with its latest acquisition from Versata software and series of changes such as closing down their support, development and reducing workforce by 90% things look weaker for Everest customers.

Due to economy situation several companies have mushroomed in last 6-12 mths trying to stay afloat is key, ERP is not easy it requires wider skillsets, focus and dedicated support. New comers will be faced with reality in few mths as they try to make some soft sales now.

Right Solution/Partner: We have been solution provider for Everest Software for almost 6 yrs now and have worked with several different customers in US, UK and Aus, we realized that supporting ERP customers is the most toughest and critical part hence we offer our support portal www.MyERPHelp.com and our professional services (http://www.info-sourcing.com/everest_software/Everest_Software_Services.htm) unmatched by other companies and a dozen of happy customers all around, so while you shop for solution providers look for experienced capable companies and not just any start up ones...

We also have migration package to move Everest customers from Everest Software to Interprise Suite, new ERP based on .Net Technology and affordable pricing, check out our customer testimonial regd Everest to Interprise Suite migration

Press Release part of your SEM strategy

2010-05-20T17:21:00.000-07:00

You need to consider Press Release as one of your marketing stretegy for SEM (Search Engine Marketing) it helps you to spread your important message across various websites, blogs and news media through RSS feeds, posts, trackbacks, tweets and other modes, thus creating a strong marketing buzz.

Few points to consider for good PR article.

1. Identify a strong reason to publish an article, something that interest your audience
2. Pick the right keywords that you deal with your business for search engines
3. Add a logo, product image, free stuff that you can give away or even a catalog subscription
4. Proof read, select best distribution regions and media and publish

Here is link for customer review of Coast Coin, rare coins and currency PR release.

Mobile ERP Solution, do small business carry about?

2010-05-19T06:47:00.000-07:00

Mobile space is growing faster each year with newer smart phones being introduced, the latest one is HTC Incredible powered by Android with 1GHz processor just enough to run all your office apps and to conduct your business.

What does this mean to small and medium business owners?
Does this new space empower them with more information at their finger tips?
Do business owners really care checking their business on their phone while they are away from their office?

We are conducting a survey within our customer base to understand the business needs and if you think you can answer these questions please feel free to comment on this thread or send us an email by visiting www.Info-Sourcing.com

Survey Questions

1. 1. Do you have a smart phone like iPhone or Blackberry or windows based phones?

a. If yes then, would you want to be able to check how your business progressing when you are away from your computer/office or remotely via phone?

b. Has there been a situation where you needed to know certain information and you could have used to look up your Customer, Sales, Vendors etc that

2. If you answered No to Question 1, do you think business owners would be moving fwd to purchase a smart phone to interact more easily with their backend ERP/Accounting/Sales system to have information at their finger tips?

a. Do you see a potential in developing a mobile apps that interacts with ERP s/w to do certain tasks/activities?

3.3. What would you pay for such kind of apps which provides instant access to your data?

4. 4. Finally on scale of 1-to 10 with 1 being lowest and 10 being highest, how do you rate such features empowering business owners?

We will share our results and our findings with you all in few weeks from now.... stay tuned.

Everest Plugin provides easy customization solution & still stay integrated

2010-02-18T09:25:00.000-08:00

If your business is operational with Everest and you found that your business demands have changed and Everest out of the box can't provide the functionality you are looking for then what do you do?

Everest Plugin's - In such scenarios we will build plugin's that plug into Everest modules and be able to provide those extended functionality that just your business requires and this is made possible in Everest 4.0 version onwards with help of Plugin architecture.

Scenario: Be able to look up Sales & Purchasing Analysis within Everest but be able to group by department and other fields is key to our business.

Solution: We wrote Everest plugin to provide same functionality and enhanced it to group by department so its easier to analyze your sales and purchasing activity by department wise especially if you have multiple departments and you treat your e-commerce website as a department, retail stores as diff dept.

We tailor custom solution for Everest customers to make it work for your business, if you have any special needs to customize your backend Everest or e-Commerce feel free to call us 703-831-1973 or send us an email.

eBay listing fees lowered starting March 30th

2010-01-26T09:06:00.000-08:00

If you ever listed your products on eBay you would have come across eBay's expensive listing fees that had to be taken into consideration for listing your products with markup or having lesser profits.
But come March 30th 2010 eBay is dropping its listing fees lower allowing business owners to list more products and attract more traffic and more sales, a move that is welcomed by business.

Our eBay to Everest custom utility will allow you to list your products from Everest onto eBay's site and import sales order into Everest fully automated no need for double entry of orders, save time and optimize your time in selling more products, with eBay's new prices (Check their Fee Illustrator link) and our custom plug in you can now list all your products/ SKU's and drive more sales.

Call us for FREE demo of our innovative product to list your inventory on eBay and stay connected with Everest at all times.

Source: Read more about this eBay fees article on TechCrunch

Car Parts and Accessories made easy to shop - Case Study of OptionImports

2010-01-13T18:36:00.000-08:00

Option Imports, dealer of Car parts and accessories wanted to get an edge over its competitors and wanted to jump start their e-Commerce business right on time when economy is starting to pickup, they invested in our ROI e-Commerce solution.

Out custom e-Commerce solution optimized their entire catalog and provides some custom features to fit their industry so their shoppers can search thousands of parts per brand & model filters and easy checkout. We also secure their website with SSL (secure socket layer) certificate from our Comodo partners....

Check out their Car Parts and Accessories Online store powered by Everest e-Commerce

Everest Support & Customization Alternatives - MyERPHelp.com

2009-12-15T21:18:00.000-08:00

During such tough economic times it is so important to find ways to save money and make the right business decisions.
We at InfoSourcing are here to assist you. As an Everest Customer you are aware that you have some choices on how to handle your Everest support and any customization that you may require. You can utilize Everest directly or you can go through many of the resellers that offer similar services

Our Support Portal MyErpHelp.com (http://www.myerphelp.com) provides you access to support online and on-demand, you can buy our support packages and use them anytime throughout the year, if you need more hours you simple buy more support hours.

At InfoSourcing, we specialize in catering to our customers' needs. We provide both ongoing customer service and high quality customizations at economical pricing. We have helped many other companies like yourselves save money by utilizing us for your ongoing support and future customizations. Call us or email us or visit us online at www.Info-Sourcing.com we will be more than happy to help you.

Everest E-Commerce Shopping Cart alternatives

2009-11-30T18:17:00.000-08:00

With increasing demand for e-Commerce software vendors are forced to keep tab on the market and stay focused in delivering their niche e-Commerce software packed with tools & features that business owners expect to use.

Everest e-Commerce has fallen down in providing most requested features in their new .Net template "ability to allow customers to customize" beyond just look & feel, no .NET source code is No-No to many customers who wants to bring their creativity & business requirements so they can keep their ebusiness successful.

Customers who are looking for alternatives are already switching to some of the e-Commerce & ERP software's.

1. AspDotNet Storefront - Roboust .Net ecommerce s/w with Source code available (Everest Bridge available from InfoSourcing)
2. Interspire - PHP based, highly customizable and built in CMS (Everest Bridge available from InfoSourcing)
3. ViArt - Php based CMS and customizable (Everest Bridge available from InfoSourcing)
4. Interprise Suite e-Commerce - Integrated e-Commerce with ERP is true alternative (Everest Bridge available from InfoSourcing)

If your business is stranded, talk to us we can get it going with innovative customizable solution that works for your business at affordable pricing.

Everest new support and maintenance plan, too expensive and complicated

2009-11-02T15:55:00.000-08:00

Everest Software's new maintenance has left customers to ponder as they have to understand the new dynamics of support and maintenance program that the new management are imposing on its customers.

Its' simple plan however it gets complicated or expensive if you try to avoid not picking Enterprise plan. Firstly you are giving option to subscribe for year plan or 3 yr or 5 yr.

If it's year plan subscription then the catch is it get pricey as years go starting from $3000 to almost $7000 by end of 5 year

After you choose you can pick whether you are going to pick "Standard" or "Gold" or "Platinum" and each of those packages offer different services like platinum gives you unlimited support and weekend support but again its expensive.

Finally based on product offering you can stay with whatever user license you have or choose to jump to Standard or Professional where you have access to all the add-ons that you could purchase, so its either this or that...

We at InfoSourcing want to offer alternative support and maintenance services for Everest customers and also offer wide variety of services from Customization, support and book keeping services, to read more our Everest support and maintenance click here...

Integration of Everest to E-Bay, seamless end to end e-Commerce solution

2009-03-01T08:08:00.000-08:00

InfoSourcing new add-on application now integrates eBay with Everest. The seamless integration of Everest Software and eBay allows you to easily sell on eBay with few clicks, and integrates all your eBay orders into Everest.

Now you can manage all your listings on Ebay and reach wider audience in selling your products. eBay is one of the most popular shopping sites in US, UK and Canada. integrating with eBay will expose your business to larger audience resulting in higher sales.

eBay listings are managed through our utility with easy-to-use interfaces and all orders resulting from sale flows seamlessly back into Everest for processing. Fulfillment and tracking are managed within Everest via built-in inventory; pick, pack, and ship; and UPS and FedEx tools.

For Benefits, Features and functionality of ebay intergation click here to read

Your Website Should Be Revenue Generator And Top Sales Rep In Your Company

2009-02-09T06:19:00.000-08:00

BUMPER CHRISTMAS FOR THE MOST POPULAR RETAILERS ONLINE

With economy slowdown Online retailers have pushed themselves with better deals to attract higher sales for last quarter of 2008. According to reports obtained from Nielsen sales in UK had good impact compared to 2007 yr. Few Quotes from that report

The top 10 retailers online during the 2008 Christmas shopping period (Q4) averaged a 37%
increase in Unique Visitors compared to the 2007 Christmas shopping period
• Amazon, averaging 15.6 million Unique Britons each month in Q4 (ranked #1),

Alex Burmaster, Communications Director, Nielsen Online: “The fact that the leading retailers online managed to attract over a third more visitors than they did for Christmas 2007 meant online retail provided some very bright news amidst the overall gloomy economic picture at the end of 2008.

We at InfoSourcing are focused in helping to achieve higher sales from Internet, recently we helped Everest UK Customer "DJM Music". DJM wanted to automate their e-Bay and Amazon sales for Holiday season'08. We automated their listing of products on Amazon and E-Bay and integrated the order process into Everest, this saved them ton of time and they were able to operate with higher efficiency and higher sales.

We now have a superior integrated tool with eBay and Everest, listing, re-listing and importing of orders into Everest, feel free to ask for demo or better yet visit our website www.Info-Sourcing.com

It becomes even more important to have a flexible shopping cart with tons of features to attract your internet audience and also to venture into new avenues and integrating with your backend, this constant cycle of marketing approach would bring in more customers and more sales, customize your e-Commerce software and reach wider audience, out of the box applications can only do so much, look at the bigger ROI if one does customize their website functionality to reach wider market.

Everest Forum - Forum for the missed ones

2008-07-17T09:49:00.000-07:00

Everest Forum

Everest is all set to have their second forum in Las Vegas in Sep 15, 16th 2008, if you missed attending New Orleans Everest World, then you have another chance to meet up in Las Vegas and get hands on experience of Everest 5.0.

Since its launch and introduction of new features and functionality they had to hold the new version till 5.0.1 for its complexity and depth of the product and make easy tranisition to newer version.

Everest Forum would be a good time to attend since the product would have matured and its right time to make the switch just before the holiday seasons starts or you could postpone your migration till end of the year, so you could really make some decision sitting in Las Vegas MGM Grand Casino hotel.

Las Vegas known as city of lights, Casino bar and most famous "what happens in Las Vegas, stays in Vegas ..." well what are you waiting for if you missed New Orelans its time to hit Vegas and learn the new 5.0 and have some fun in the city.

Integrated Gift Card Solution - The Purple Cow

2008-06-21T16:51:00.000-07:00

Integrated Gift Card Solution for Everest Software - The Purple Cow

As we pass through blazing hot Summer and Fall season entering into the gift season we will see drastic usage of gift cards by retailers, ecommerce and businesses.
Gift card captures the attention of any shopper who passes by your website or your retail store, another way of sharing gifts with loved ones.

Seth Godin, author of "Purple Cow" writes in his book
"You're either remarkable or invisible, make your choice". Seth uses "purple cow" as a metaphor for getting attention, one of the marketing strategy to adopt.

Small and Medium Business (SMB) need to adopt to the concept of having a purple cow to attract customers/shoppers and we relate "Gift Card & Loyalty Program" as one of your Purple cow, by offering such programs/services you can attract & retain your customers as they surf through online or offline in the store.

Gift Card brings new customers to your store and loyalty program retains your existing customers, moving into Calendar year of holiday seasons sales figures are driven by providing such services to your customers, the concept of Purple cow is very effective way of marketing.

Whether you are in retail, e-tail (ecommerce), wholesale, distribution model you should have "Purple Cow" on your side to attract customers, some of our clientele enjoying our purple cow for the season are We Got Soccer (www.WeGotSoccer.com) and Tire Plus (www.TirePlusBrand.com), and few more to go live before the season starts.

Ask us how we can help you to paint your cow in Purple?

Read more about our integrated Gift Card Solution for Everest Software here.

Everest 5.0 the new avtar (version)

2008-05-29T20:43:00.000-07:00

Everest Software released its much hyped about Everest 5.0 version, we had glimpse of its new features and functionality and we are happy to inform that the new version looks good so far, but we are waiting for it to hit the road and see how it performs.

Good Points to consider:
1. The overall look and feel of the desktop version hasn't changed except the new icons
2. Speed of the product remains the same no major difference
3. New set of Features introduced such as Google Checkout, PayPal for e-Commerce
4. Enhanced Item matrix wizard, added import of item matrix items
5. Added a new feature for Merging duplicate accounts, which is good
6. Introduced basic gift card concept for desktop only
7. Everest E-Commerce can be managed easily with lots of preferences in the backend.

Not so Good Points:
1. Everest E-Commerce is now on .NET platform and supports only 1 template and its built on base dynamic/modern template, we expected they would use amazing template which is widely used coz of amazon look and feel
2. HUGE disappointment that some features like Google Checkout, Paypal and Kits are now clubbed as eStorefront Professional and is charged $$$$, these are features that every other e-Commerce product must have, and Everest decided to charge for it.
3. Source Code not available for building your own logic this is insane, it blocks solution providers like us or developers to customize their business logic, you can defintely make changes to look and feel of the template and add make few small changes to code but you won't be able to integrate seamlessly with the e-Commerce site.
For example: If you wanted customize so that you could give away FREE item everytime shopper purchases item X, this was possible to do in 4.02, however in with .NET version its not possible coz of non-availability of source code.
4. No integrated Gift card and Loyalty program combo available yet, not possible to redeem gift card over the web

More in-detail comparison list will be published, as we unearth new set of features and its usage.

CPC (Cost Per Click) Vs CPA (Cost Per Action)

2008-05-21T11:37:00.000-07:00

The e-Commerce industry is evolving through search engines, e-commerce business owners are spending their marketing budget to get traffic by advertising online through Google Adwords, Yahoo Overture or MSN Ad centre by participating in their PPC (Pay Per Click) or CPC (Cost Per Click) campaigns or even by advertising in price engine feeds such as pricegrabber or shopping.com websites.

Now, Microsoft has taken an revolutionary step in marketing & advertising by pushing their CPA Model (Cost Per Action) which is more beneficiary to business owners, since they will be paying only if they get orders/quotes/any action that results in merchant's objectives being met.

Microsoft launched its CPA model today (21st May) by introducing "Live Search Cashback" Program, this program allows e-Commerce websites to advertise with MSN and get listed on their comparison site for products being searched and when shoppers search on search.live.com or search.Msn.com and visit advertisers websites and place order or take appropriate action, shoppers get anywhere from 2% to 20% discount based on merchant offerings and merchant pays Microsoft for per conversion/action.

This is truly going to change the way shoppers are going to search, we could expect more numbers/traffic on Microsoft's search engine platform (Search.live.com) and this is a great initiative to drive quality traffic and sales.

Everest e-commerce customers should be engaging themselves to join this cash back program and get quality traffic and increase their sales.

We offer data feed management to Google, MSN and other price engines to submit your product catalog in real time to be listed on comparison engines.

Visit Everest E-commerce data feed, SEO and customization pages.

A Week in New Orleans - Great food and great seminar

2008-05-01T17:47:00.000-07:00

If you hear someone say "New Orleans" you would think about the “jazz festival, great sea food, Mardi gras and Katrina “...

Well this time of the year it was little different there were 2 parallel seminars related to e-Commerce right in the downtown of New Orleans, of course "Everest World" with its new version in .Net venued at Marriott and the "e-Commerce Summit" venued at the Convention center from ECMTA.

We at InfoSourcing made sure to attend the e-Commerce Summit to understand the new trends in the e-world and looked very closely for what it had to offer.

Everest World had good attendance with 100+ customers. As I spoke to few of them, they were happy that the seminar took place after a long gap and were excited to see the new 5.0 version with new features, however they were little disappointed as they didn't see live version and it was all presentation (ppt) files ....

My views of e-Commerce Summit/ECMTA: e-Commerce Summit had pretty good turn out too with major competitors like Google, Yahoo, MSN eBay and other e-Commerce vendors.
I did notice a new trend in field of e-Commerce “drop shipment/shipping” which was the buzz word, even Amazon is a key player, they are allowing business to use their warehouse for drop shipping and charging businesses nominal fee for handling, packaging and shipping ...

e-Commerce merchants do see this very attractive and the need for EDI becomes even more important ...

If you are in New Orleans, don't miss to visit French quarters, make sure to feast on "beignets in Cafe De Monde" (pic on left), I had my share early morning around 1:30 am, seriously it tasted good after couple of drinks in the local bar .....

I went to few local restaurants for some great Gumbo and Jambalaya, walked on the streets of Bourbon, hopped in & out of local bars, and enzoyed the nite life it had to offer ...

Friday morning checked out of the hotel and took the local car train to Garden district and wrapped up my visit to the beautiful (devastated) city of New Orleans - what an experience by itself ....

Not to forget, met some ex-colleagues, resellers, customers with whom we worked and interacted last few years ... Overall a great place to visit and a great reason to visit New Orleans.

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Everest World User Conference and E-Commerce Summit, Where the rubber hits the road .....

2008-04-21T21:16:00.000-07:00

Everest World User Conference and ECMTA E-Commerce Summit, 2 good seminars are hitting the road t'row Apr 22nd in New Orleans.

We will be attending ECMTA annual conference in New Orleans scheduled from Apr 22nd to Apr 24th, 2008 and we are proud memeber of ECMTA.

InfoSourcing, is focused on helping small and medium business with eBusiness strategy and making it easier for business owners to sell online and provide valuable services.

By attending such seminars we will be able to carry fwd this knowledge to all our clients and make them successfully, whether they are using Everest E-Commerce or other e-Commerce packages, this seminar surely will add value, however few of my Everest reseller network will be attending the Everest seminar so its a combo deal in New Orleans.

I will be blogging on both seminars so stay tuned to my blog for more reviews and if there is anybody out there who wants to network with me, do email me or visit our website http://www.info-sourcing.com/

I 'm so looking fwd for some shrimp, jambalaya, walk on bourbon street and hang out in french quarters and if time permits play 9 hole with few friends ...

.Net is this the New Technology for E-Commerce Solution?

2008-04-09T16:59:00.000-07:00

New Technology = New Thinking

New Technology evolves coz of new thinking and something I came across about new "Everest", Everest Software newest version 5.0 will be unveilied in New Orleans (beta) this April’08.

Having heard about the new .Net Version of e-Commerce definitely excites many of us, maybe because we all are tuned with Microsoft way of thinking & using its products.

Thinking about new technology and new release, one has to weigh-in all the possibilities that could happen if you are planning to switch or upgrade from lower versions.

You will get new feature sets that will automate your business process
You will have learning curve to adapt with newer version especially since they are integrated and all-in-one software
You will have to consider your existing customization (backend application, e-Commerce website and reports or any other customization you might have done), take backup of your database review all your code and keep it ready & handy to re-apply.
You will have spend few hours/days of working with support team and have them hand hold you guys during migration

With new technology there is always ups and downs, let me explain, .Net is advantageous because the application could be faster since all your code is compiled and tons of features integrated within the product will make business owner succeed online and attract with ever growing world wide audience.

However it could be disadvantageous coz, all your existing website ASP pages are indexed and the new technology uses .aspx pages and this needs to be re-indexed by search engines such as Google, MSN, Yahoo & others, so that means one has to take care of redirecting (301 redirects) to let engines know there are new pages and to drop the old pages and to redirect all traffic to.aspx pages. – CHANGE #1

All your optimization code and customization done on the ASP pages website now needs to be ported to .Net template, remember .Net is new way of coding it can be coded using multi languages such as VB.Net or C# (C Sharp) so the coding is not the same. – CHANGE #2

Other concern is, in .Net you can really knock down all your intellectual coding into compiled coding which is good if you don’t want others to see your code, but what if you have customized your ASP pages with queries etc, now you want to carry forward those customization to .Net and you might be stranded coz if the e-Commerce vendor doesn’t provide you with all the source code, its quite essential that e-Commerce vendors provide source code (code behind) to write your own custom mods else it’s catch 22 scenario. – CHANGE # 3

So consider this for example: AspDotNet Storefront an e-Commerce vendor and one of the best .Net storefront shopping cart application we have seen, they have different flavors of the same application and each flavors has different features set, however their basic flavor has no code behind, that means you can’t customize that edition, however the higher or advanced versions provide you with the source code (of course it cost $$) to customize and compile your code, which makes it easier for business, who don’t like canned templates. – GOOD BUSINESS SENSE

So always weigh in the Pros and Cons of switching to new technology and new version by identifying what’s good for you, it’s better to understand whether .Net is good for you and also how much customization you can do with the availability of source code versus out of the box feature sets.

Earlier days "Technology" used to evolve once in 5 years however off lately it evolving at rapid pace almost every year, its hard to keep up with technology but business owners need to weigh in cost of switching versus cost of remaining on old technology, but if old technology can help you make same $$$ it’s better stay on it.

More to come about technology and new way of thinking as we hear more from the market.

InfoSourcing Inc., re-launches its brand new Website, focused on customer interface

2008-04-09T16:53:00.000-07:00

InfoSourcing Inc., re-launches its brand new Website, focused on customer interface -- April 5th, 2008

Info-Sourcing, the leading solution provider for Everest Software and other ERP vendors, launched a brand new customer-focused, interactive website this month.

The site, http://www.info-sourcing.com/, is designed keeping in mind the simplicity to navigate and rich customer experience in finding the affordable services.
InfoSourcing Chief Executive Harsha Sarjapur says: "At InfoSourcing we have always taken customer care very seriously, talking and listening to our customers and taking their views on board."

InfoSourcing is leading custom solution provider for ERP products like Everest Software, Interprise Suite and others, we provide turnkey solution and services from selling of licenses, development, implementation, customization and support services.

Check out our new website http://www.info-sourcing.com/

Everest World - User Conference

2008-03-17T00:03:00.000-07:00

Everest World User Conference - Everest Software is launching its first user conference in New Orleans in Apr, the conference is geared towards Everest customers, developers and system integrators.

It's right time they organized this seminar, since Everest is equipped with SDK and the new version Everest 5.0 being around the corner, it would be good to see if the development team takes over the sessions during the seminar to show us glimpse of the software and its power, something to look fwd in April as it unveils in New Orleans, captial of jazz festival ...

Visit Everest World for more information ...

Everest E-Commerce NEW website CoastCoin.com - Success Story from InfoSourcing Inc.

2008-02-01T12:37:00.000-08:00

Coast To Coast Coins Implementation Success Story
Coast to Coast Coins, is one of America's largest and most respected rare coin companies, located in Columbia, Maryland. They specialize in rare coins, foreign coins, collectible coins for collectors and investors across US.

Coast Coins needed trusted solution partner who could change their eBusiness, and considered us for implementing their website http://www.coastcoin.com customization which uses Everest E-Commerce.

InfoSourcing has proven its track record of understanding its customers, their requirements and business model and have launched their eBusiness successfully. The website was launched in Dec' 07 and ever since their web orders have doubled and tripled with over 5000+ web orders in month of Jan and average order amount of $100 and with 50K hits to the website, as gold prices soar the website orders too.
Our customization included following features:
1. Everest E-Commerce template customization
2. E-Commerce functionality
3. Integration of Bullion prices (Gold, Silver, Palladium, Platinum) real time price as market price varies.
4. Guest Login and Checkout for faster checkout process
5. Request Catalog, Top Sellers, Sitemap and numerous other features that integrate with Everest in the back and automates their business process making it much more efficient.
6. Finally our SEO package optimize their website to gain top organic search results.

It's always a pleasure to see our clients do such great business and we believe "when clients succeeded we do succeed too ...."

A new website for numismatic people, get their and start collecting old, rare, new mint coins from Coast To Coast Coins, visit their website http://www.coastcoin.com

Everest now digs into SEO

2007-12-18T12:41:00.000-08:00

Just ran into this news article on another website, Everest now is offering SEO? The out of the box product doesn't support SEO and they have introduced this offering as part of their customization.

Everest Software Expands e-Commerce Suite and Delivers Customers More
Services to Drive Online Revenue ... DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--December 11, 2007--Everest Software ®, the leading provider of business
operating systems for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced
the availability of Everest ® Search Engine Optimization (SEO). As more
customers turn to Everest Software to manage their total Internet storefront
operations, Everest delivers a SEO service that maps how visitors will search
for you, together with how search engines will find you.

We at InfoSourcing have been doing Search Engine optimization for last 3 years and have driven traffic to several Everest E-Commerce websites and few results worth showcasing here.

1. Keywest Aloe - For Generic keyword "Aloe" with 23 million sites we appear on Page 2 of Google search results http://www.google.com/search?q=aloe&hl=en&start=10&sa=N
2. Keyword "Aloe Sun care" - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=aloe+sun+care+
3. Keyword: Banana lotion very specific term on Page 1 organic results http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=GGLJ%2CGGLJ%3A2006-35%2CGGLJ%3Aen&q=banana+lotion
4. Keyword: data feed management 11 million sites compete for this keyword and our own site comes up on rank 2 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=GGLJ%2CGGLJ%3A2006-35%2CGGLJ%3Aen&q=data+feed+management

Our SEO Package consists of valuable web based utilities which help business owners to optimize their website at easy. Keyword selections for Everest categories and items, item aliases. Sitemap generation for Google and Yahoo, Froogle analytics and Google analytics integration and submission to 100+ search engines for detailed comparison click here

We can offer 30 to 40% lesser that what most of the competitors (Everest) offer in the market and we optimize the entire site not just few keywords and we also offer various customization such as new template look and feel, new features, Google checkout and Paypal integration .. Visit our website and take a look at what we do and contact us for a FREE SEO demo today.

Everest 4.0 Migration Success Stories

2007-09-19T13:21:00.000-07:00

With new release every year it becomes challenging task for solution providers to implement any custom changes done to Everest Software, we carefully follow each and every release and make our migration strategy for our clients who want to switch from older version under our support plan.

a) Recently our client Learning Things migrated from 2.1 ver to 4.0.1 and all the customization were carried fwd.
b) Keywest Aloe Holdings had numerous customization done from us and they successfully migrated from 3.0 to 4.0.1 latest release as of Sep 18th, we had customized their e-Commerce website and several utilities including our Add-on module "Gift Card", their site is now live at http://www.keywestaloe.com/

With this current release of 4.0 ver the migration has been smoother from older version to higher version and defintely it will make Everest's clients happy and makes solution providers like us to take control of the customizations better and we hope it continues that way and Everest will aim for better support in future.

Google Checkout seamlessly integration with Everest E-Commerce

2007-06-26T18:39:00.000-07:00

How about FREE transactions till end of this year for all your credit card payments, does it sound good to you?

Google Checkout, the new online payment method just like PayPal, now being offered by Google, take advantage of this great promotional offer from them by integrating your e-Commerce checkout, with no fees for all your online transactions till 2008 you got nothing to lose but to gain your web customers.

We have successfully integrated Google Checkout with Everest E-Commerce edition, using the XML API orders are seamlessly integrated with your backend Sales Order creation, so orders are created at both places, Google as well as in Everest.

Check out our integration approach and screenshots here ...

Integrated Gift Card & Loyalty program solution for Everest Software

2007-06-07T06:40:00.000-07:00

We provide complete gift card and loyalty programs that are reliable, easy to use, and affordable. For larger companies, we provide cost-effective, powerful transaction processing systems that allow these organizations to bring gift, loyalty or any kind of stored-value card program in-house.

Total Integrated Gift Card Solution includes
a) Gift card solution for retail store and web

b) Loyalty Program solution for retail store and web

c) Seamless integration with Everest software

Gift Card, Loyalty program, add-on modules for Everest Advanced Software, maximize revenue and customer retention.

Everest Customer Viking Motorcycle on Metric Crusier Build Off

2007-04-07T23:09:00.000-07:00

Everest Customer Viking Motorcycle on Metric Crusier Build Off - Kick off Videos on You Tube . For more info about Metric Revolution Click here

We are proud to be part of their SEO strategy and helping them gain their rankings on Search engines and wish them best of luck for this competition.

Andy, Myself, Justin and Marty in LA, Aug 2006

Everest to Everest EDI, Intergated Custom Utility

2007-04-05T12:28:00.000-07:00

Everest to Everest (E2E) EDI - E2E module enables vendors to interact by sharing information about their Inventory stock movement and drop shipping activities in a automated process.

Wholesale vendors and e-tailers can now generate drop ship PO's for their Vendors and have our E2E system create automatically SO's and update the sytem on both sides with shipment tracking information and stock updates, this seamessly integration reduces the time gap and improves efficiency between 2 business using Everest as their ERP products.

Vendor A - Could be accepting orders on their e-Commerce, POS, phone orders
Vendor B - Full fills their orders and drop ships them
E2E - Automates the process of generating Sales Order, stock updates and captures shipment tracking information for Vendor A on daily basis.

To Know more about this program click here Everest EDI and its process.

Everest Advanced 4.0 version rolls out for its customer

2007-03-01T20:29:00.000-08:00

Everest's new version 4.0 much awaited by customers and solution providers has few interesting updates across the ERP system, but fails poorly in e-Commerce area and advancement of feature rich for business but does open up for SDK Add-In's allowing solution provider and Integrators to bridge the gap ...

Reviewing the 4.0 features, they have covered across the system enhancing the purchasing area quite a lot, thats only significant enhancement that is visible throughtout 4.0 other than the below listed features ...

Everest Advanced 4.0

Streamlined Purchasing
3-Way Matching
Purchase Receipt Enhancements
Multiple Purchase Orders on a Single Purchase Receipt
Accounting using an "Accrued Purchases" Account
Purchase Invoices
Create a Single "Purchase Invoice" from Multiple POs
Landed Cost
Flexible Distribution Methods for "Add-On" Costs
Landed Cost Details
Item Replenishment Improvements
Single PO for Multiple Locations
Faster Setup for New Items
Item Defaults
SEO Readiness
SEO Guidelines
Search Engine Visibility
E-Commerce SEO
Titles and Keywords for Product Pages
Site Map Generation for Efficient Search Engine Crawls
Expanded SDK
SDK APIs
SDK Add-Ins
SDK Developer's Guide
Improved Administration
Security Control and Assignment
Security TemplatesUpgrades and Server Management
Expanded Data Import Tools
Data Import Improvements
Versatile Freight Import Allows Importing Zone and Rates
Technology Update

Gift Card, Loyalty program, add-on modules for Everest Advanced Software, maximize revenue and customer retention

2006-12-12T07:11:00.000-08:00

Gift Card and Loyalty Program 'Add-on' module for Everest Software

We provide complete gift card and loyalty programs that are reliable, easy to use, and affordable. For larger companies, we provide cost-effective, powerful transaction processing systems that allow these organizations to bring gift, loyalty or any kind of stored-value card program in-house.

Gift card and loyalty program is seamlessly integrated with Everest backend desktop, POS and e-Commerce, so your sales team is selling more and your customers are happy with your loyalty services being offered. We have tied up with Swipe IT technologies to provide powerful gift card solution for Everest Software."

Gift Card, Loyalty program, add-on modules for Everest Advanced Software, maximize revenue and customer retention:

Contact InfoSourcing http://www.Info-Sourcing.com

Keywest Aloe chooses InfoSourcing as their Solution provider/partner for Everest Software

2006-11-08T20:05:00.000-08:00

KeyWest Aloe, Fresh Aloe Spa care, Skincare, Suncare, Perfume and Fragrance for Men's and Women's located in Florida has gone live with our SEO and Custom solution that we put together over a period of 6 months, working in the backend and doing all heavy lifting, it wasa disaster when they worked with E2 Solutions LLC and we had to turn that around ...

Few of the custom work we have implemented:
1. Search Engine Optimization for www.KeyWestAloe.com
2. Custom Matrix feature customized as most of their products are assembly items and not matrix type as they manufacturer their products and sell them online, we built a custom matrix solution http://www.keywestaloe.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=20776&eq=&Tp=
3. Custom pages for 3 column look and feel for index and items pages
4. Request Catalog feature integrated with Everest
5. Ability to give product for FREE during promotions, the item gets added into shopping basket automatically
6. Custom Stock Transfer application allowing to manage your stock movement much better than what Everest provides read here http://www.info-sourcing.com/Everest_Software/Everest_Advanced_stock_transfer.htm
7. Custom Utility to create normal inventiored items to assembly items
8. The most interesting project "Gift Card and Loyalty Program" coming soon

Keywest Aloe, recently opened their 3rd retail store their growth is positive moving fwd ....

Everest Stock transfer customization

2006-10-09T19:04:00.000-07:00

Everest Stock transfer Customization

We recently built custom solution for Keywest aloe by building stock transfer module, easy to use and track all your stock movement within Everest ....

Stock transfers in Everest is simple one-step process by which stock is moved from one bin to another when a stock transfer document is created, however business with multi-location can't keep track of stock when they are constantly being moved across locations..

Read more about by visiting our website

Wisp Router goes live with our SEO & custom solution

2006-09-06T14:55:00.000-07:00

Wisp Router website was hosted earlier using on oSCommerce solution, they had gained sufficient exposure to search engine before switching to Everest solution, during the migration few of the concerns were SEO friendly website and integration to PayPal.

There primiary reason to switch was "they needed a itnegrated software ..." Everest is a good fit as they deal with parts and labor/training, ecommerce, CRM etc...

InfoSourcing customized their everest e-commerce website using amazing template, since their earlier site had same look and feel as amazing, we optimized their template and also plugged in SEO dashboard and Froogle Analytics along with froogle data feed...
One of the most important feature they needed was "PayPal Integration", their site is now live and they have been taking orders using Paypal as their payment method ...

Few more things left withour SEO work and they are good to go ... Checkout www.Wisp-Router.com

Everest PageBoost - is it a good approach for SEO?

2006-08-16T22:41:00.000-07:00

Everest PageBoost, inventor speaks out on usage of this patent pending technology.

Overview:
I devised this product to boost online traffic from search engines for e-Commerce websites. This products was a hybrid technology allowing you to create powerful static html content pages with meta tag information and also capability to tweak the pages with page title, links and other information which is rich in content and provide same look and feel of e-Commerce site (with few restrictions in feature set like custom kits, item matrix etc ...)

Few people have a bad feeling of using Pageboost for search engine stratgegy coz either they don't know how to use or either the product doesn't support enhanced features. After I left the Company no enhancement was done to it, that explains it all ..

Problem: Is PageBoost a good approach or would it be a possibility of duplicate content? Yes it is a good approach to use pageboost, however it is not good if your prompting the pageboost files and your e-Commerce pages simulatenously that might lead to duplicate content issues within the site itself.

Solution: Create pageboost files and keep them as your startup pages on your webserver and promote it to search engines and shoppers. For example http://www.homeschooldiscount.com/ they have their website pages listed as static and when the shopper clicks on "Add to Cart" then dynamic website comes into picture as a result their indexing and Pagerank has increased. If you do search on Google for their website you would see 600+ links are indexed, http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-40,GGLG:en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ehomeschooldiscount%2Ecom%2F

However if you create static pages and don't make it start up pages and use them as landing pages or doorway pages without linking them from dynamic site then google might ignore them as duplicate pages of same information they might not penalize it but will ignore it completely. We have see clients dropping of search results as result of this alogrithm change made by Google this march, 2006.
Alternatively there are other softwares which does URL rewrite and makes your URL look funny but it works for search engines.

Bottomline, use Pageboost the way it needs to be used, if you need help ask us and we would be more than happy to help Everest customers.

I shall look fwd for patent being approved, it has been 3 yrs since applied.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5983227.html
http://www.freshpatents.com/Html-page-generator-system-and-method-dt20050303ptan20050050458.php

Status: Docketed New Case - Ready for Examination
Application Type: Utility
Status Date: 05-12-2006

Viking Motorcycle's SEO strategy success story update

2006-07-18T17:12:00.000-07:00

Viking Motorcycle launched its new Everest e-Commerce website www.RideVMC.com Jan 1st week, 2006 and they are enjoying the benefits of going live on Froogle data feed, within span of 6 months they have accumlated 200+ customers/shoppers from Froogle/Google with a revenue of $20,000, from froogle hits with roughly above 1% conversion.

Andy, President of Viking Motorcycle says "Froogle has been their one of the best Search engine (SEO) strategy and it has helped them to address some of the customers whom they wouldn't have marketed for in their regular email campaigns or magazine advertisements, it is truly a eye-opener for us ..."

InfoSourcing has once again proven its SEO strategy for its customers and will continue to serve its customers towards profit.

Shopping feed management for Everest E-Commerce

2006-07-01T10:57:00.000-07:00

Shopping feeds and comparison shopping engine, is one of the ways to achieve high traffic to your e-commerce website apart from PPC and organic results.

InfoSourcing's data feed management provides "value" based approach, our feed management is not based on total number of products, instead we charge "per feed", so business owners can list all of their products unlike other providers at affordable prices.

To read more about our data feed services and programs click here to visit our website

Everest E-Commerce "Catalog Request" Integration

2006-06-30T11:04:00.000-07:00

Retailer's with e-commerce website can now integrate their catalog request directly from Everest E-Commerce website seamlessly integrated into backend.

Our "Catalog Request" add-on module can be plugged into any templates and start accepting new subscribers for your catalog, thus expanding your subscription base.

Catalog Request, is flexible enough to specify the product code for your FREE catalog within Everest and track all of your subscribed customers for the year. Upon requesting catalog information shoppers will be providing their billing and email address easy enough to target them.

Catalog Request is LIVE and can be viewed at KeyWest Aloe website

Ask us how to integrate "Catalog Request" with Everest E-Commerce and Everest backend, our e-commerce specialist can help you to increase sales and boost productivity.

Shopping Price engines - An overview

2006-06-23T21:56:00.000-07:00

E-Commerce websites draws traffic through organic, paid links and price engines. Price engines have become really popular in today's ebusiness strategy, as it reflects shoppers who are searching for buying products/goods and they are looking for best deals by comparing several different merchants products online.

Getting such prospect buyers have a higher ROI factor for your business and hence we suggest submitting your product catalog to price comparison engines. The best price comparison engines is "Froogle" a shopping comparison engine from Google.
Froogle allows listing of your products for FREE no pay per click compared to other price engines such as Yahoo Shopping, Price grabber and others ..

InfoSourcing develops optimized quality data feeds for price engines, we have developed data feeds to following price comparison engines. (We include Froogle feed for FREE in our SEO package to promote your e-business).

Froogle
Yahoo Shopping
AOL Pinpoint
Become.com
MSN Shopping
NexTag
PriceRunner
PriceGrabber
Shopping.com
Shopzilla (BizRate)
Smarter.com
Jellyfish (new)

PayPal Integration with Everest E-Commerce

2006-06-16T10:46:00.000-07:00

PayPal Integration is consider as one of the basic payment methods that every ecommerce website should have, why? coz there are million users who have PayPal account and would like to transact using the trusted Payment network.

We at InfoSourcing understand that need and developed an add-on module to integrate PayPal with Everest e-Commerce. This integration is seamlessly and it works by adding a new payment method type in the backend, web enabled it and start to accept Paypal users and increase your online sales.

PayPal provides 2 kind of services "standard/basic" and "IPN", both differ in terms of communicating through the website, the basic service switches from your website to PayPal's site and back upon transaction to your site, whereas IPN allows to do the transaction without shopper having to leave your website, both services have pro's and con's in terms of implementation and usability and we can implement both type of services.

What's Next?
Now onto another interesting topic, Paypal has been the leader in online payment system, till Jun 28th 2006, as it will meet its rival Google, who is coming with his own payment system known as "GBuy" or "Google Payments" and it will be worth to watch the game. We haev already made arrangements to provide GBuy to our Everest customers on case-to-case basis as we are in the process of beta.

Tune into our blog or subscribe to recieve updates on PayPal vs GBuy coming soon ...

Automate your Everest Item alias creation process

2006-06-13T07:45:00.000-07:00

Item alias in Everest Software is a pretty neat feature allowing you to clone a specific item and categorize, saves creation of same item over and over. But if this process of creating Item alias could be automated then you could save whole lot of time.

For example: If you have a website dealing with parts and accessories, if each part fits different models and types, then you could use Item alias feature and setup such that you have 5 item alias per item and you can put them in different categories which I term it as "Single Item in Multiple categories" now you can have same item in different categories and your shopper can find it easily.

Auto Item alias utility, is one such utility built by InfoSourcing which allows you to create item alias in minutes across multiple categories and you don't have to go into Everest and create one by one, instead use this utility to automate your process of creation and save time.

For more information on this Everest custom utility click here

Everest Software - 2006 American Business Awards Finalist

2006-06-12T15:58:00.000-07:00

Everest Software - 2006 American Business Awards Finalist in "Best New Product: Computer Software".

The American Business Awards also known as "Stevie", is taken from the name Stephen, which is derived from the Greek for "crowned."

Everest Software's 3.0 is almost their in terms of achieveing the completion of being called ERP software for small and medium business (SMB), it is achievement to see Everest being up there and NetSuite not competing in this space, but Quickbooks is in a different category by itself.

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Wishing them all the best, it has been awhile since they bagged any awards lately ...