[^_^] E commerce web-hosting solutions

Internet presents more and more possibilities for successful promotion of your
e-business in global markets. Similarly internet also presents you with a number
of service providers out of which only few can guarantee you quality. And that
is the most the most important thing you should keep in mind before you choose
your e-commerce service providers.
In order to have a successful e-business, you not only need to have a good
e-commerce website design but also a perfect ecommerce web hosting platform.

An extremely important aspect while choosing a e-commerce host is the uptime,
which means the time when your website would be available to the visitors.
Apparently if a host is offering a 90% uptime guarantee, it means you website
can actually be down for almost 36 days in a year! Never settle for anything
less than 98%. Your store front being available to your customer 24 hrs/seven
days is the most important aspect of your e-commerce web site and to ensure that
you have but to choose a quality host.
A quality e-commerce web hosting should have the following features:
* Internet Merchant account solutions
* Credit Card Processing and Payment Gateway services
* Merchant Accounts for Internet,
* Virtual terminal for key entered Mail Order/Phone Order sales
* Retail and Auction businesses facility
* Integration of different shopping carts & software systems
* Online reporting and real time transaction management
* 24 hr technical supports and availability of the user manuals
* Facility to integrate your ASP-based enterprise e-business database, dynamic
content and commerce management software in an open application server
environment.
Managing an e-business could be one of the easiest thing to do if you initially
do a good amount of research and planning to have your e-commerce website
designed, developed and hosted in the most professional manner.
Ecommerce website design plays an integral role for getting long-term business
benefits from your site. The success of your e-business depends on a large
extent on how well your site performs and accomplishes the various business
related tasks to meet the financial goals. Most of the search engine experts
agree that e-commerce web design can greatly affect performance & visibility in
the organic search engine results.
To summarize, the special e-commerce web design features you can look for in
your e commerce web site should include the following:
* Quickly organize your products (including additions) at your storefront or
home page
* Create product categories, catalog items, and upload pictures of your
products.
* Process sales orders, enter tracking numbers, and send instant email
confirmations to the customers and the concerned staff.
* Keep accurate records of your customers and their orders.
* Create reports that track sales and site usage.
* Track inventory levels for all the products in your store.
* Update product information using rapid entry screens for speed and
efficiency.
* Export your sales information in industry standard formats compatible with
popular accounting packages.
* Your website is compatible with most major credit card payment processing
solutions
* Integrated product search page.
* Built in modular fashion, allowing for free future upgrades and addition of
new features.
E-commerce Web Marketing
Your E commerce web site can have facility to create, schedule, and send highly
effective, personalized email marketing campaigns that reflect your branding and
image at a fraction of the cost of traditional media. Many e-commerce web
hosting providers offer you extensive library of colorful eye-catching
templates, and facility to create messages with your own themes and styles.
Now-a-days, the advanced e-commerce web hosting solutions and web marketing
packages have the viral marketing features included as a part of your e-commerce
web site promotion.
Viral Marketing:
Viral marketing is a strategy that encourages individuals to pass on
a marketing message to others, creating the potential for exponential growth
with the exposure it get to the professionally created messages, it encompasses
the following tools:
1 Loyalty Building Tools
* Adding the personal touch to your business communications is now possible
with triggered auto-emailing event reminders like (Birthdays, warranties,
anniversaries etc.)
* Leverage your current customer base to advertise for you by providing them by
providing 'refer to a friend link.'
* An Invite Tool has the capacity to take "viral marketing" and 'email
marketing to new heights. It lets your patrons play "host" at your establishment
for arranging an event and invite a large number of people participate in it.
2 Survey Creation Tools
These tools allow you have the ability to collect names, email addresses, and
profile information from the people who visit your website. With these tools you
can build your own survey/ sign-up-forms using a without any HTML experience
required! All subscriber information is automatically segmented and delivered to
your secure and proprietary database.
For a busy e-commerce web site, dedicated servers with a number of windows and
Linux web hosting plans only can provide you with the best service.
If looking for affordable e-commerce web hosting; virtual web hosting is the
perfect choice which provides better control than the shared environment and
saves you from some of the worries of dedicated servers.
About the Author
Andy Lewis is an expert author on varied topics related to web hosting.
ServerPlex provides you the highest quality ecommerce hosting solutions and
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2003Peter AndersenMarketing Secret Optimal Positioning (c) 2003 Written by
Focused Impact Media Group http://www.focusedimpact.com Commercial
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