Outsourcing Fulfillment

I've seen a request a number of times on this thread about persons
interested in information about outsourcing their fulfillment; This article
may be of interest:

<A HREF ="http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/solutions/building/article.php/3505611">http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/solutions/building/article.php/3505611</A>

Nick J West

Outsourcing Fulfillment



Great article and all you need after all is TruXoft's XML module for Miva
Merchant to post your orders automatically to the fulfillment center
(iFulfill is even preset).

Andreas Toman
PCINET, LLC
Miva Development, Installation & Upgrade
"E-commerce is the next step in the evolution ..."
www.pcinet-llc.com


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick J West
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 2:28 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [mru] Outsourcing Fulfillment

I've seen a request a number of times on this thread about persons
interested in information about outsourcing their fulfillment; This article
may be of interest:

<A HREF ="http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/solutions/building/article.php/3505611">http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/solutions/building/article.php/3505611</A>

Nick J West

Outsourcing Fulfillment



Nick,

Thanks for the link! Very interesting information.

Tom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Nick J West
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 1:28 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [mru] Outsourcing Fulfillment
>
>
> I've seen a request a number of times on this thread about persons
> interested in information about outsourcing their fulfillment; This article
> may be of interest:
>
> <A HREF ="http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/solutions/building/article.php/3505611">http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/solutions/building/article.php/3505611</A>
>
> Nick J West
>
>

Outsourcing Fulfillment



Many thanks to everyone who responded. Based on your suggestions, I will do
the following:


Get rid of the rapid-fire.us redirect and run merchant on stylepup.

Start Optimizing keywords

re-think color scheme & add more dog pics.

Now, am I going to have a huge fiasco with miva and module licensing if I
transfer the store to stylepup.com (and get rid of rapid-fire.us
alltogether?) Can I just copy the mivadata folder from rapid-fire.us (they
are both on the same server)

Thanks,

Anthony V




----- Original Message -----
From: "Julie Thompson" <[email protected]>
To: "'Anthony V'" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: [mru] online sales dillema (suggestions welcome!)


> Anthony,
>
> I really should be working my other job (accounting) but I am bored with
> the numbers, so I thought I'd take a moment and give you my dimes worth.
>
> First, the meta refresh from stylepup.com to rapid-fire is a big no-no
> with SE. You may never get into the SE at all due to just this one thing.
> Use a 301 redirect at the server level.
>
> Next, as Andreas mentioned, really need to optimize. Your title tag on
> your storefront is 'doggy'. Title tags are the easiest piece of real
> estate to optimize. Find the keywords that customers type in and optimize
> for those. Wordtracker.com is great for this purpose.
>
> While you are optimizing and waiting for the SE to pick you up
> organically, start a PPC campaign with Adwords and Overture.
>
> HTH
>
> Julie
>
> Andreas Toman wrote:
>> Try to google for your site. NIL! Read about search engines and optimize
>> your site or nobody will find you. Have a look at your meta-tags. Some
>> state
>> 'test' ... hmmm ... looks like you have to improve this ;o)
>>
>> Andreas Toman
>> PCINET, LLC
>> Miva Development, Installation & Upgrade
>> "E-commerce is the next step in the evolution ..."
>> www.pcinet-llc.com
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony V
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 4:24 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [mru] online sales dillema (suggestions welcome!)
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've been a lurker on this list since 2000 when I opened my first
>> Merchant store. The store, www.BoulderingGear.com sells rock climbing
>> equipment... not exactly a broad market by any measure. The store saw
>> limited success but soon began to suffer as competition arose. Today it
>> pretty much sits there gathering a paucity of orders. Back when the
>> store was successful, I was working as a climbing photographer and the
>> site was more or less advertised by electronic word of mouth. Since
>> then, my involvement in the climbing community has waned and so have
>> sales.
>>
>> I recently opened www.stylepup.com, a site which sells dog clothes and
>> accessories. The site has as broad appeal as any, with potential
>> customers everywhere. (Even if you don't own a dog, you probably know
>> someone who does.) Pricing is on par or lower than most other sites out
>> there (and there are many other sites out there), but sales are nil.
>> Admittedly, wholesale sales (non-web) of the exact same products are
>> huge, with spencer gifts carying many of these products. In addition, at
>> a local consumer pet show we attended, our booth was flooded with people
>> buying multiple products.
>>
>> I really want this site to flourish rather than tank, and would welcome
>> any and all remarks, comments, suggestions or even harasment over the
>> fact that dogs would be made to wear such things ;)
>>
>> thanks in advance,
>>
>> Anthony V
>
>