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CommerceV3 Customer Steve Weiss Music Featured in Music Inc. Magazine Cover Article

August 29, 2012 by KWOxnard

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PENSACOLA, FL and SAVANNAH, GA CommerceV3 customer Steve Weiss Music is being featured in the September 2012 Music Inc. magazine cover article.

“Going Mobile: How Drum and Percussion Dealer Steve Weiss Music Came to Dominate Web Commerce–and Usher in the Next Phase of E-Tail” chronicles Steve Weiss Music’s success in eCommerce through a multichannel approach: print catalog, website, social media and especially an avant-garde mobile version of their site. “Steve Weiss Music makes e-commerce look easy,” says writer Ed Enright in the article, though Weiss himself counters that “A lot of people don’t understand how much work goes into it [...] it’s a constantly changing environment that needs to be worked on full time and consistently.”

“Our CommerceV3 online platform is definitely a part of why we’re successful,” says Dan Sullivan, General Manager at Steve Weiss Music. “We really appreciate all they do for us to help keep our website and mobile version on track.”

“The Steve Weiss storefront shows the kind of results you can get if you invest the time and energy in utilizing all the features and flexibility of our CV3 platform,” says Blake Ellis, CEO and founding partner of CommerceV3. “Steve Weiss Music monitors everything on their site, learns our new features quickly and pushes the envelope when it comes to selling online. It’s refreshing when a company uses the CommerceV3 platform to its fullest.”

About CommerceV3
CommerceV3 has processed over one billion dollars in sales and is one of the few eCommerce platforms that appeals to merchants both large and small. A hosted eCommerce platform with serious power for serious merchants, CV3 is secure, reliable, scalable and customizable. With no transaction or bandwidth fees and unlimited sku counts, you have the freedom to take your online storefront to new heights. For more information, please visit www.commercev3.com.

About Steve Weiss Music
Steve Weiss Music is a Willow Grove, Pennsylvania-based company that provides percussion instruments, music and accessories to percussionists around the world. Since 1961, Steve Weiss Music and industry legend Steve Weiss have been leaders in the percussion community, managing the country’s largest percussion specialty store
to provide unsurpassed selection, customer service and web technology. For more
information, please call 888-659-3477 or visit www.steveweissmusic.com.

CommerceV3 Press Contact:
Katherine Oxnard Ellis
PR Liaison
pr@commercev3.com
888-544-2211
http://www.commercev3.com/

Filed Under: Blog, News, Press Releases

6 Tips to Prepare Your Ecommerce Site for Holiday 2012: published in Multichannel Merchant

August 11, 2012 by Blake Ellis

For some ecommerce companies, the impending holiday season can feel more like a foreign invasion than a golden sales opportunity.

Between the frantic buyers, the fear of site crashes and the incessant call for free shipping (not to mention the threat of blizzards and ice storms), even the most committed seasonal seller might be tempted to stay in bed and pull up the covers.

But just a few timely tips can help turn this year’s holiday push into a long, delightful sleigh ride (or at least a short, exciting trip on a Flexible Flyer)…

To read the full article, please click here.

Filed Under: Blog, Multichannel Merchant Articles, News

The 2012 Multichannel Merchant Awards are Afoot!

August 2, 2012 by KWOxnard

This year’s MCM Awards are underway, and we encourage all of you to apply.

The awards focus on a case study of a particular cross-channel (catalog, email, social media, sweepstakes/giveaways, etc.) campaign that you undertook this past year–e.g. which channels you used, how effective they were and especially, how they helped your sales. As you get ready for the holiday selling season, we know your plate is pretty full right now. But awards like this can be extremely helpful for many reasons.

First, you get noticed by the editors of Multichannel Merchant, the premier online and print publication for eCommerce retailers just like you. Second, it’s a great opportunity for you to take stock of your online marketing efforts to see what’s working (and what’s not). Third, if you win, or even if you come close, the free publicity you’ll receive would be priceless–literally! Free media is where it’s at when it comes to PR, so it can’t hurt to send in an entry.

If you need any help from us crafting your application, please let us know. And of course, if you’d like to mention how CommerceV3 and CV3 Timberline are enhancing your multichannel approach, that would be lovely! Here’s what MCM vis a vis regarding your application: “Your entry should be a case study (PDF preferred) that documents what steps you took to make your campaign cross-channel. It does not need to include revenues generated as a result of the campaign, but should let the MCM Awards judges know what the goal of the campaign was, and how multiple channels were used in conjunction to successfully reach that goal.”Here are the categories in which you can enter:

The MCM Awards 2012 will be broken down into 6 new categories, allowing for Gold, Silver and Bronze winners:

B-to-C Smaller-Size Company (with an annual revenue range of $0 to $10 million
B-to-C Mid-Size Company (with an annual revenue of $10 million to $75 million)
B-to-C Large-Size Company (with an annual revenue of $70 million or above)
B-to-B Smaller-Size Company (with an annual revenue range of $0 to $10 million)
B-to-B Mid-Size Company (with an annual revenue of $10 million to $75 million)
B-to-B Large-Size Company (with an annual revenue of $75 million or above)

If you’re interested, here are a few links to get you started.

2012 MCM Awards page

Awards rules page

And here’s a link to a sample entry created by the MCM staff

Good luck, and please do let us know if you’re entering–and email me if you need any assistance from our team!

Filed Under: Blog, Multichannel Merchant Articles, News

CommerceV3 and Dydacomp Announce Strategic Partnership Expansion

August 1, 2012 by KWOxnard

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 1, 2012

PENSACOLA, FL and SAVANNAH, GA CommerceV3 (CV3), an eCommerce shopping cart platform for multi-channel merchants, is expanding its strategic partnership with Dydacomp, a leading technology provider of business platforms for small and mid-sized eCommerce and multichannel merchants, through tighter integration between the companies’ solutions. http://www.commercev3.com/, www.dydacomp.com

The partnership, first announced in February, allows eCommerce merchants to more easily enhance and expand their operations by using CV3 to capture and convert online sales, while relying on Dydacomp’s Multichannel Order Manager (M.O.M.) to control back office functions. M.O.M. is the leading PCI-compliant commerce management solution for small and medium-sized online retailers.

The expanded partnership moves data more efficiently between the Dydacomp and CV3 systems by leveraging the M.O.M. v8 API. Mutual clients will be able to more seamlessly sync and manage inventory, order processing, fulfillment and shipping. This integration helps eCommerce merchants increase productivity while reducing time spent on back-office processes.

“Dydacomp’s partnership strategy involves selecting best-in-class solutions that enable us to create a variety of comprehensive offerings that will help our customers grow their businesses,” said Fred Lizza, CEO of Dydacomp. “Through this expanded strategic partnership with CV3, users can more closely couple CV3’s commerce management solution with M.O.M.”

“Our partnership with Dydacomp has been very successful, and we’re looking forward to continuing our relationship,” said Blake Ellis, CEO and founding partner of CommerceV3. “Dydacomp is a true leader in the eCommerce market, and its solutions complement and enhance CommerceV3’s. Our customers will benefit significantly from the cost savings and increased efficiencies enabled by our expanded partnership.”

The integration provides CV3 users with another PCI-compliant solution that can import orders, handle point-of-purchase or telephone orders, automate order workflow, track and manage products and inventory data as well as track, organize and access customer information for improved levels of service.

About CommerceV3

CommerceV3 has processed over one billion dollars in sales and is one of the few eCommerce platforms that appeals to merchants both large and small. A hosted eCommerce platform with serious power for serious merchants, CV3 is secure, reliable, scalable and customizable. With no transaction or bandwidth fees and unlimited sku counts, you have the freedom to take your online storefront to new heights. For more information, please visit www.commercev3.com.

About Dydacomp

Dydacomp solves the business automation and order management needs of eCommerce, catalog, DRTV, and traditional point-of-sale businesses worldwide. Nearly 10,000 companies have relied on the Multichannel Order Manager (M.O.M.) solution to streamline processes, increase efficiencies and boost revenue in areas such as inventory control, order entry, customer maintenance, credit card processing, list fulfillment, shipping and more. Through its open API, M.O.M. connects to virtually any eCommerce platform. With M.O.M., SMB clients manage over a million online shoppers daily, nearly ten million in gross merchandise sales every day, and optimize over $4 billion in inventory. Dydacomp’s solutions provide them with the keys to drive business growth. For more information, visit www.dydacomp.com.

CommerceV3 Press Contact:

Katherine Oxnard Ellis

PR Liaison

pr@commercev3.com

888-544-2211

http://www.commercev3.com/

Filed Under: Blog, News, Press Releases

How to Prepare Your Site for Google Shopping; published in Multichannel Merchant

July 11, 2012 by Andy Dunn

Like it or not, Google owns the online search game. So when they announced the launch of a new pay to play model to replace their current free Google Product Search, it sent shockwaves through the ecommerce industry. Clearly this is huge news for all companies who rely on free searches to direct traffic and sales to their websites.

Alas, the free ride is over, with gratis listings in the Google shopping portion of search results ending soon. Instead, you will have to pay Google to appear in Google Shopping. No more free clicks…

To read the full article, please click here.

Filed Under: Blog, Multichannel Merchant Articles, News

CommerceV3 (CV3) to Attend 2012 Internet Retailer Conference in Chicago June 5-8 2012

May 30, 2012 by KWOxnard

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 30, 2012

(SAVANNAH, GA and PENSACOLA, FL) CommerceV3 (CV3) is pleased to announce that it will attend the 2012 Internet Retailer Conference in Chicago June 5-8, the largest eCommerce show in the world. http://www.internetretailer.com/conferences/, http://www.commercev3.com/

This year’s IRCE Conference promises to be both comprehensive and informative, with 575 exhibitors, 8,500 attendees and 175 expert speakers, including keynote talks by Barnes & Noble’s CEO William Lynch, Jr. and Gilt Group’s Founder and CMO, Alexis Maybank. This year’s special guest speaker is Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN’s “Global Public Square with Fareed Zakaria” and editor at large of Time magazine. Dr. Zakaria will address the role of the Internet—one of the United States’ most significant innovations and an area where the US still leads the world—in restoring America’s leadership in the global economy.

Blake Ellis, Founding Partner and CEO of CommerceV3, says, “We’re rolling out some great new CV3 features at Internet Retailer this year, and we’re excited to show them to both our current users and folks who are looking for a great, affordable online shopping cart. IRCE is the biggest game in town, and we really enjoy connecting with the online retail community at the conference. Looking forward to it–and see you in Booth #1721!”

CommerceV3 has processed over one billion dollars in sales and is one of the few e-commerce platforms that appeals to merchants both large and small. A hosted e-commerce platform with serious power for serious merchants, CV3 is secure, reliable, scalable and customizable. With no transaction or bandwidth fees and unlimited sku counts, you have the freedom to take your online storefront to new heights. Timberline Interactive, a resource for multi-channel merchants to grow traffic and orders, streamline order processing and otherwise get the most out of life, is part of the CV3 family of companies.

For more information, please contact CV3 PR Liaison Katherine Oxnard Ellis at pr@commercev3.com, 888-544-2211 or visit http://www.commercev3.com/.

Filed Under: Blog, News, Press Releases

Legendary eCommerce Consultant F. Curtis Barry to Give Talk at 2012 CommerceV3 User Conference

March 7, 2012 by KWOxnard

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 7, 2012

(SAVANNAH, GA and PENSACOLA, FL) CommerceV3 (CV3) is pleased to announce that legendary eCommerce business consultant F. Curtis Barry will give a talk entitled “You Can’t Improve Something You Haven’t Measured!” at its annual CV3 User Conference in Orlando, FL, on Tuesday, March 20, 2012, at 1:30pm in the Hilton Orlando. http://www.commercev3.com/user-conference

Mr. Barry’s session will focus on key measures and analysis that industry leaders use to measure and plan their business’ profitability. Whether it’s your company’s bottom line; how well your merchandise assortment is performing; how to service your customers better and at a cost-per-order that’s affordable; which promotions make money for you–and which don’t; or how many times a customer has to shop from you before you make money, any online retailer can benefit from Mr. Barry’s words of wisdom.

Curt Barry has been in retail, catalog and eCommerce for 40 years. He is the founder of F. Curtis Barry & Company, a multichannel consultancy with services in business intelligence software, inventory management, systems, fulfillment and customer service. http://www.fcbco.com/

Blake Ellis, Founding Partner and CEO of CommerceV3, adds, “We’re delighted to welcome Curt Barry to our line-up of CV3 User Conference speakers this year. Curt is the industry expert in measuring online success, and we’re looking forward to hearing straight from the horse’s mouth about how our customers can ramp up their diagnostics to grow their business quickly and efficiently.”

For more information, please contact CV3 and Timberline PR Liaison Katherine Oxnard Ellis at pr@commercev3.com, 888-544-2211 or visit http://www.commercev3.com/ and http://www.timberlineinteractive.com/. For more information about F. Curtis Barry & Co., please visit their website at http://www.fcbco.com/.

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CommerceV3 is a hosted e-commerce platform with serious power for serious merchants. Secure, reliable, scalable and customizable, with no transaction or bandwidth fees and unlimited sku counts, CV3 takes your online storefront to new heights.

Filed Under: Blog, News, Press Releases

CommerceV3 (CV3) Announces New Partnership with Dydacomp

February 28, 2012 by Marc Bigbie

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Pensacola, FL and Savannah, GA) CommerceV3 (CV3), an eCommerce platform provider for multi-channel merchants, announces a new strategic partnership with Dydacomp, a leading provider of business technology platforms for eCommerce and multichannel merchants. The partnership enables a seamless integration between Dydacomp’s Multichannel Order Manager, the leading PCI compliant commerce management solution for SMBs, and CV3 to sync and manage inventory, order processing, fulfillment and shipping.

The partnership makes it easier for eCommerce merchants to enhance and expand their operations. They can use CommerceV3 to capture and convert online sales while relying on M.O.M. to control back office functionalities. CV3 offers eCommerce tools that users can leverage to create an attractive online presence and increase conversions.

“We are excited about this new partnership,” says Blake Ellis, Founding Partner and CEO of CommerceV3. “Dydacomp is an industry leader in order and inventory management capabilities for multichannel merchants, and CV3 users can now capitalize on M.O.M.’s robust feature set without having to worry about making the connection to their successful eCommerce sites. Plus, now both of our customers can pick the best-of-breed products from each company to create their ideal, customized storefront experience.”

“Dydacomp’s goal is to create comprehensive solutions that produce efficient business processes that will help users grow their businesses,” states Fred Lizza, CEO of Dydacomp. “Through this new strategic partnership with CV3, Dydacomp continues to take the necessary steps to meet the unique needs of each company. CV3 users now have the opportunity to implement the most complete commerce management solution and M.O.M. users can choose to use CV3’s powerful eCommerce platform.”

The Dydacomp and CV3 partnership will allow all clients to simplify and improve the efficiency of their business processes. The integration provides CV3 users with a PCI Compliant solution that can import orders, handle point-of-purchase or telephone orders, automate order workflow, track and manage products and inventory data as well as track, organize and access customer information for improved levels of service.

Dydacomp will also be a sponsor at CommerceV3’s upcoming user conference March 18-20 in Orlando, Florida, which will focus on utilizing all of the features and functionality of CV3, marketing opportunities, general business education and meetings with CV3’s partners.

About CommerceV3
CommerceV3 has processed over one billion dollars in sales and is one of the few eCommerce platforms that appeals to merchants both large and small. A hosted eCommerce platform with serious power for serious merchants, CV3 is secure, reliable, scalable and customizable. With no transaction or bandwidth fees and unlimited sku counts, you have the freedom to take your online storefront to new heights. For more information, please visit http://www.commercev3.com/.

About Dydacomp
Dydacomp solves the business automation and order management needs of eCommerce, catalog, DRTV, and traditional point-of-sale businesses worldwide. Nearly 10,000 companies have relied on the Multichannel Order Manager (M.O.M.) solution to streamline processes, increase efficiencies and boost revenue in areas such as inventory control, order entry, customer maintenance, credit card processing, list fulfillment, shipping and more. Dydacomp’s solutions provide customers the keys to drive business growth. For more information, visit www.dydacomp.com.

Filed Under: Blog, CV3, Featured, Order & Inventory Management, Press Releases

Template Publishing: Pushing Faster to Live Web Nodes

February 24, 2012 by Blake Ellis

As the number of servers running at CV3 has grown, it’s grown harder and harder to push out new information to all of them. This was already becoming an issue in our old data center, and now that we are in cloud we have even more servers that need that information. We’ve already moved from a “push system” to a “pull” system, so that each web server in the cluster pulls it’s own updates from a central repository. This is a more reliable and scalable architecture, but it’s slow and there have been times when the number of changes has overloaded the system. Right now we have scripts that look for updates and “sweep” them in to the central repository.

We are currently working on implementing a queue for updates, so that when you publish a template it lines up to go into the central repository. This is a much faster and more reliable way to process them because it expects at all times to be overloaded so it works just fine whether busy or not. Once in the repository, changes are then pulled to each web node when it checks for updates.

This whole process will first and foremost give us a maximum “time to publish” so that you know when to expect your update to be completed, even if the system is busy and even if your browser happens to be refreshing a page on a web node that updated right before your change went in and has to wait a full cycle to pull your update. Right now our goal is to keep that “worst case” time under ten minutes. Once that timing is reliable and never missed, we can monitor the process for ways to make it even faster.

Please note that all of this refers only to the process of publishing changes from Staging to Live. When you click save while working on a template, your changes can be previewed immediately in your staging area with no delay.

Filed Under: Blog, Inside CV3

Make Good Use of Filters

February 18, 2012 by Christina Focht

Good Day to You All!

A little story about filters…

I know you all have people in your life whom you wish you could ignore, or at least limit their access to specific parts of your life. Wouldn’t it be nice to have filters (or little drop-down menus) for these folks–or even entire groups of people–in your life?

Please select your setting from the following drop-down before contacting me:

Based on your selection above, you now have access to certain parts of my life, and more importantly, one of my MANY different moods! For example, an “Ex Spouse/Partner” would see “NO further options available” or “Ship to Zimbabwe Overnight Express,”…

… while the “Cute Person We Saw Today” might be offered “Dinner tonight?” or “Priority Shipping – Handle with Care.”

Yes, life would be much easier and less annoying with a little filtering available! At least we can take comfort in knowing that CV3 is making life smoother for you and your clients through the “Filter Available Shipping Methods” feature and the “Filter Available Shipping Methods by State” feature. Based on your customer’s selections, the checkout page will only display the shipping methods available to their region/selections. What could be sweeter (other than meeting that cute person I saw today, of course)?

Contact Support today for more information on these cool features!

And if you haven’t signed up yet for this year’s CV3 User Conference in Orlando, Florida, you can check out all of our exciting speakers and sessions here. Hope to see you all in March 18-20–spouses, partners and significant others welcome too!

Have a great week, everyone!

Cheers,Christina Focht

Operations Manager

Filed Under: Blog, Christina's Corner

CommerceV3 Customer Steve Weiss Music Featured in Music Inc. Magazine Cover Article

6 Tips to Prepare Your Ecommerce Site for Holiday 2012: published in Multichannel Merchant

The 2012 Multichannel Merchant Awards are Afoot!

CommerceV3 and Dydacomp Announce Strategic Partnership Expansion

How to Prepare Your Site for Google Shopping; published in Multichannel Merchant

CommerceV3 (CV3) to Attend 2012 Internet Retailer Conference in Chicago June 5-8 2012

Legendary eCommerce Consultant F. Curtis Barry to Give Talk at 2012 CommerceV3 User Conference

CommerceV3 (CV3) Announces New Partnership with Dydacomp

Template Publishing: Pushing Faster to Live Web Nodes

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