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Volusion Releases 101 Tips to Boost Holiday Sales for Online Merchants

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Volusion Releases 101 Tips to Boost Holiday Sales for Online Merchants











Austin, TX (PRWEB) October 26, 2010

Volusion, a leading ecommerce provider for entrepreneurs selling online, today released “101 Tips to Boost Holiday Sales” as part of a free Webinar held at 2:00 EDT to help its customers and other online merchants optimize revenues with the uptick in holiday traffic. The 101 tips were garnered from Volusion’s customers who’ve executed successful holiday promotions in recent seasons, along with the company’s 10 years of industry experience, and intended to help online merchants compete in a more crowded online retail market this year. As a valuable addition to the 101 tips, Volusion’s ecommerce design team also released free holiday web graphics to make it easier for e-retailers to update websites for their busy, gift-giving season.

Industry Stats

    The NRF predicts that online sales will increase 15 percent this November and December and 2.3% overall, which analysts say will be the best year for retail since the recession began. (source: Internet Retailer)
    In a recent survey, the NRF found that 27 percent of U.S. smartphone owners will use their mobile device to research or purchase gifts this holiday season. (source: Internet Retailer)
    According to eMarketer, 27 percent of holiday shoppers last year used social networks to help determine which gifts friends and family might like.

Top 10 Tips

Volusion’s tips range from logistical improvements in shipping and inventory to more innovative marketing tactics, such as how to utilize the latest technologies in social media to optimize your campaigns. Following are ten sample tips:

1.    Ensure the mobile-optimized version of your online store has its logo and the categories are arranged properly.

2.    Share your holiday discounts and highlight featured products daily via social media – this creates a sense of urgency and helps extend your online reach.

3.    Enable social sharing features like Add This™ and the Facebook “Like” button on your product pages. This allows your site visitors to plant the idea for the perfect gift directly on various social media pages.

4.    Update your homepage graphic or slideshow to be completely holiday focused, pointing customers to holiday-related categories or your top-selling products. Volusion released free holiday web graphics to help get customers in the mood for shopping.

5.    Never, ever let holiday shoppers be surprised by shipping charges once they reach the checkout page. Explicitly state the shipping cost before they push the final “Checkout” button. Surprise shipping charges are the #1 reason for abandoned shopping carts.

6.    Don’t skimp on the time spent analyzing orders for fraud. With an influx of orders, it becomes easy to quickly process them without looking for the tell-tale signs of fraudulent activity.

7.    Create bundles or gift baskets of your products and create a specific category for them. You can also place these bundles in other categories you already have. Talk about cross-selling!

8.    Offer exclusive discounts for Black Friday (day after Thanksgiving) and Cyber Monday (first Monday after Thanksgiving). These are both huge days for online sales.

9.    Resubmit your site map sooner than later with your new holiday products and categories so search engines can index and rank them before the selling season takes off.

10.    Submit your products to Comparison Shopping Engines. If you’re new to the game, get started by listing products on free engines like Google Product Search, Bing Shopping and TheFind. Once you do some testing to see which perform the best, consider moving to paid CSEs or hiring a CSE management service. While not as many use CSEs as typical search engines, those who do use this type of product search are more likely to buy.

To view the complete list of 101 Tips, click here.

Customer Quotes

“Creating pre-wrapped holiday gift packages that can be personalized with greeting cards gave us a competitive advantage in recent seasons,” said Jim Richardson, owner of teddy bear store CuddleWorks. “Using a similar campaign and incorporating some of Volusion’s tips this year, we expect a 75 percent increase in traffic.”

“Reducing the cost of and extending the cut-off time for express shipping ensures we accommodate last minute shoppers,” said Blair Rhodes, co-owner of The Pashmina Store. “Changing our normal 30-day return policy to January 15th proves to capture early October holiday sales. This year we look forward to experiencing a 17% increase in sales.”

Supporting Quotes

“Leveraging social and mobile commerce will be critical to pulling in more shoppers this season, and the 101 tips can help online merchants take full advantage of these and other tools at their disposal,” said Clay Olivier, CMO/COO of Volusion. “Our mobile commerce solution and AddThis features are simple and effective ways to catch potential shoppers in the gift research mode and capitalize on these growing shopping trends.”

About Volusion

Volusion is the leader in ecommerce solutions for online businesses. Over the last ten years, thousands of companies have used Volusion to succeed online, including market leaders such as Disney, Motorola, Chicago Tribune, Michigan State University and Crutchfield. For more information about Volusion, please visit volusion.com.

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R2i Releases Open Web Studio, the Next Generation of NukeDK:ListX

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Baltimore (PRWEB) December 4, 2008

R2integrated (R2i), a digital marketing and technology firm, today announced the release of R2i Open Web Studio (R2i OWS), an open source Web development tool. R2i OWS takes advantage of technologies such as AJAX, JSON and jQuery all in one bundled Rich Internet Application framework. R2i OWS is the next generation of NukeDK:ListX, one of the most popular AJAX and Developer Tools for the DotNetNuke™ (DNN™) community (the largest Microsoft based open source project in the world).

R2i OWS will allow developers to build web applications more rapidly; adding custom modules, forms, utilities and widgets to their sites. New features include:

Multiple-platform support in addition to DNN, including SharePoint and .Net
Enhanced performance by a factor of 10
Revamped integrated development environment (IDE) that includes a more intuitive, icon-based interface
Global configuration manager offering a series of templates to support rapid development
QuickBuilder, a rapid form builder using any data source
Support for the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) format, used primarily for AJAX programming
Integration with jQuery, an open-source lightweight JavaScript library

R2i OWS is available for download on SourceForge for free and is currently ranked in the top 500 projects out of more than 137,000. R2i provides three subscription levels — Core, Community and Enterprise – offering varying degrees of information, support and OWS built applications.

Core: free and offers all development level features and access to public forums, forge and wiki areas.
Community: allows subscribers to engage the OWS staff and other members in the community by collaborating on development efforts through real time localized IDE access to the OWS forums, trouble tickets, knowledge base, wiki, Forge and other helpful tools.
Enterprise: provides a more personalized experience with one-on-one access to OWS staff for customized direct support.

“R2i OWS is the result of years of development work and significant feedback from the DNN community and marquee clients like Texas Instruments and TV Guide,” said Chris Chodnicki, CTO at R2i. “By offering enhanced support and social development features, our customers will be able to rely more on R2i and on each other for collaboration, rapid application development tips and best practices.”

About R2i

R2integrated (R2i) is a high growth, next generation digital marketing firm specializing in creating meaningful customer engagement in online environments. R2i provides expertise in social media, marketing and building customer relationships by leveraging online and mobile technologies. R2i possesses a comprehensive set of professional services, including marketing, design, and technology to assist companies with next-generation Website development needs. Complementing its digital marketing expertise, R2i is a national leader in emerging technologies and content management systems, which help customers achieve feature-rich functionality with rapid, cost-effective development. R2i currently has offices in Baltimore, Northern Virginia and New York. To learn more about R2integrated, please visit http://www.r2integrated.com.

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Growth Hormones Direct Releases Tips For Better Sleep

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Mesa, AZ (Vocus) October 8, 2010

Growth Hormones Direct releases tips for better sleep including Growth Hormone stimulators.

Tips for Better Sleep:

1. Set a sleeping schedule and stick to it. Wake up at the same time each day and go to sleep at the same time each day.

2. Don’t nap during the day.

3. Avoid stimulants like coffee and other forms of caffeine.

4. Create a relaxing bedtime routine and stick to it.

5. Create a relaxing, calm and safe sleeping environment.

6. Decrease stress.

7. Address any psychological problems like depression or anxiety.

8. Access appropriate sleeping medications and homeopathic remedies that increase the restfulness of sleep like Growth Hormone stimulators or melatonin, etc.

Dr. J. Ronald Willis of Growth Hormones Direct said, “Sleep deprivation and insomnia are growing problems in the US. And they have far reaching effects. Getting more restful sleep is actually one of the most popular benefits of homeopathic Human Growth Hormone formula and Growth Hormone stimulators.”

According to the Center for Disease Control people are getting less sleep in today’s society than they did 20 years ago. In comparison to 100 years ago…the average American gets 20% less sleep. Over 30 million Americans suffer from insomnia. According to the Better Sleep Council 65% of Americans are losing sleep due to stress.

Growth Hormones Direct urges consumers to watch ‘Science…Meet Nature’ as they reap the benefits of optimizing their hormone levels through proper use of the homeopathic growth hormone formula. Optimal hormone levels allow individuals to enjoy increased general health. Growth Hormones Direct is an Arizona based distributor of quality health foods, supplements, pharmaceuticals and neutraceuticals.

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DNN Corp. Releases DotNetNuke Professional Edition

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Santa Clara, CA (PRWEB) February 17, 2009

DNN Corp., the creators of the industry-leading DotNetNuke® Development Framework, today announced the release of DotNetNuke Professional Edition. DotNetNuke Professional Edition extends the company’s successful solution portfolio, giving users the option of purchasing a “certified” version of the framework. DotNetNuke Professional Edition contains all of the powerful, usable and extensible features that have made the DotNetNuke Framework so successful, with the added security, support and stability features required by many businesses for mission-critical environments.

Over the last five years, DotNetNuke has become an essential framework within many business environments. The quality and flexibility of the code base, combined with a very active and supportive community, have resulted in several hundred thousand deployments. Many businesses now use DotNetNuke for production applications, and require a “certified” version of the product as they make the framework a more central part of their communication infrastructure.

“DotNetNuke Professional Edition is a direct response to requests from our user community,” said Navin Nagiah, President and CEO, DNN Corp. “The DotNetNuke Framework has become integral to our users’ computing strategies, and we developed the Professional Edition to ensure that these customers can confidently deploy DotNetNuke in any environment.” DotNetNuke Professional Edition is optimized for business applications.

“DotNetNuke is a key strategic part of our technology platform; the power and flexibility of the framework help us deliver a constant flow of new business value on an aggressive timeframe” said Jeffrey Sullivan, CIO, ThinkCash Financial. “As our DNN applications become increasingly more strategic to our business, we need the Professional Edition that provides greater levels of support, stability and security.”

DotNetNuke Professional Edition features include:


Guaranteed product issue resolution through premium support channels, enhanced resources and immediate attention from experts most familiar with the framework
Proactive management and communication of security-related updates to minimize potential threats to the stability and integrity of DotNetNuke applications
Second-level testing to mission-critical standards ensuring each release is ready to use in production environments
Certification by DNN Corp. as the production version of the DotNetNuke Framework, with guaranteed early access to functionality and assured inclusion of features in future versions

“Some of our customers had to know that DNN Corp. stands behind the platform before they would tie their businesses to DNN, and that meant the need for a certified and supported version of the software,” said Chris Chodnicki, CTO/Co-Founder of R2integrated Inc. (R2i). “This announcement is a great step forward in meeting that market need, and it demonstrates that DNN Corp. is in tune with its community base.”

DotNetNuke Professional Edition includes the mature DotNetNuke Community Edition core software and essential modules for rapidly creating highly interactive content-rich websites and applications. In keeping with the spirit of the open source development model, the Community Edition will continue to be licensed under the permissive BSD open source license, and DNN Corp. will work continuously to provide innovation and increased value in both versions of DotNetNuke.

Both DotNetNuke Professional Edition and DotNetNuke Community Edition are available now.

About DNN Corp. and DotNetNuke®

DNN Corp. is the creator of DotNetNuke®, the most widely adopted framework for building web sites and web applications on Microsoft ASP.NET. Using DotNetNuke, businesses can quickly develop and deploy interactive and dynamic web sites, intranets, extranets and applications. DNN Corp. provides this framework in both “Community” and “Professional” editions.

The DotNetNuke framework was developed as an open source, community-driven project, and continues to thrive and benefit from an established and active group of users, developers, system integrators, module vendors, skin vendors and hosting providers. In addition to creating and maintaining DotNetNuke framework, DNN Corp. also leads the DotNetNuke “ecosystem” through which DotNetNuke users and customers gain access to a wide variety of complementary technology, services and hosting alternatives. Founded in 2006, DNN Corp. is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. For additional information go to www.dotnetnuke.com.

DotNetNuke® and DNN® are registered trademarks of DNN Corp. All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their respective owners.

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