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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:
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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/

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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/.

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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.”

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 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.

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January 10, 2012

(SAVANNAH, GA) CommerceV3 (CV3) is proud to announce a move to the cloud for long-time client Steve Weiss Music. Steve Weiss started collecting unique and rare percussion instruments over 45 years ago, which over the decades has evolved into being the leading specialty retailer of percussion instruments, music and supplies.

A CommerceV3 partner since 2006, Steve Weiss Music has developed its shopping cart utilizing many of the tools for which CV3 is known. Now, the move to the cloud promises an even faster shopping experience for Weiss customers, as well as added security, as the application on the cloud is completely PCI compliant.

“We’re really excited about the cloud,” says Dan Sullivan, general manager of Steve Weiss Music. “We were the first customers on Commerce V3 to use the cloud for product images, JavaScript and CSS. We built our own system with input from CV3’s admin staff, so uploaded photographs went to Amazon S3 instead of to our server. After it worked for us, CV3 started doing it with all of their customers.”

How exactly does the cloud enhance their business? Sullivan explains that “overall, our customers’ biggest gripe is always downtime, and we feel the move to the cloud resolves that. We’re also crazy about website speed; we do all kinds of optimization, and if we can shave one fifth of a second off our page-load time, we’ll spend time making that happen.”

Sullivan adds that proximity and bandwidth are what make the cloud so appealing to online retailers, whose customers shop from all over North America. “It comes down to CDN–content delivery network,” Sullivan says. “If a customer lives in Oregon and our website is hosted in Savannah or Atlanta, that shopper gets information from Georgia, which can take a second or two. By contrast, the CDN offers five to six locations all over the U.S., so if the customer is in Oregon, that same photograph will come from a server closer to them. Instead of taking one second to load, maybe it takes half a second. When CommerceV3 made the change, it sped up our website a lot, and now all aspects of our website are on the cloud. Google statistics show that increasing website speed by 1/2 of a second can increase conversion by twenty percent. That’s crucial for us.

So far the results have been promising. “Visitors are shopping longer, buying more, and new visitors are converting more often. We’re excited to see where CommerceV3 goes from here.”

Blake Ellis, CommerceV3’s founding partner and chief executive officer, adds, “Hosting options have come a long way in the last ten years, and this move puts us ahead of the curve. We did it to open the door to new possibilities for CV3 and our merchants–things like private clouds, distributed databases and more. We’re just getting started. In fact, site speed hasn’t even been our focus yet, so hold on to your hats in 2012!”

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 PCI DSS Level 1 certified, 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.

To sign up for our newsletter and get marketing tips for growing your business online, please click here. For more information, please contact CommerceV3 and Timberline Interactive PR Liaison Katherine Oxnard Ellis at pr@commercev3.com, 888-544-2211 or visit http://www.commercev3.com/ and http://www.steveweissmusic.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.

CommerceV3 (CV3) proudly announces the launch of a new mobile e-commerce site for Tahoe Mountain Sports (TMS), which sells top industry brands of quality outdoor gear, clothing and footwear, both online and in its store in Lake Tahoe, California.

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November 17, 2011

(SAVANNAH, GA) CommerceV3 (CV3) is proud to announce the recent launch of a new mobile e-commerce site for Tahoe Mountain Sports (TMS), an e-commerce operation from its founding in 2004. TMS sells top industry brands of quality outdoor gear, clothing and footwear, both online and in its store in Lake Tahoe, California.

A CommerceV3 partner since 2009, TMS decided to move into the fast-growing mobile segment of the market in 2010. TMS owner David Polivy says the decision went through several stages.

“About a year ago our Google analytics started to show a huge spike in mobile visitors from iPhones, tablets and Android phones,” Polivy reports. “There was a lot of industry talk about mobile commerce, and we decided to get involved. The next phase became how to implement it at TMS, which led to the question: do we go with a third-party provider? Or do we work with our existing shopping cart partner [CV3], who could hopefully provide a seamless experience between our regular website and the new mobile site? That question was front and center in a lot of e-commerce conversations.”

How did TMS decide to go with CV3 Mobile? “We wanted a seamless experience,” Polivy says. “The same navigation, the same imagery, and most importantly, the same promotional codes, shipping and payment methods. We wanted the customer to be able to shop on a desktop computer or on a mobile phone and not wind up in some third-party Netherland where options were more limited. That became the crux of our commitment to go with CV3–to ensure a seamless move from mobile to desktop, plus the ability to use the same tools on both sites.”

The build-out process was more complex than either TMS or CV3 expected: “The snag had to do with the development environment; mobile’s such a fast-moving, ever-evolving target, with many different operating systems and devices, so making sure it worked in all those places was our biggest challenge. It took a while for tech teams at both companies to get up to speed, which meant testing on eight types of phones and tablets, plus a lot of back and forth, open communication and constructive feedback. Kudos to both the CV3 and TMS development teams for having the patience to see it through!”

Results have already been impressive in the few weeks since launch. TMS has seen a significant increase in conversion rates from mobile devices. And, Polivy adds, the fact that 13 percent of their traffic comes from mobile devices helped TMS hold strong to their commitment to mobile, and to launch as soon as possible.

“Mobile’s been increasing at a faster rate than traffic from anywhere else,” he says. “Though we haven’t created specific promotions for mobile yet, we’ll start doing that soon. Also, we want to enable our physical customers to access store information, such as where to find us, what we have in stock, etc., before having to make the trip over here. That will save them gas and hassles.”

Should smaller e-commerce companies take the risk of implementing mobile? Polivy thinks so. “While we’re not an Internet 500 or multi-million dollar retailer,” he admits, “for our size, we’re keeping up with both the tech world and what the consumer is doing. If 30 percent of people get email on their phones these days, checking messages and clicking links, then we want to be there, making it easy for them to navigate our site, find products and purchase them in a quick, no-hassle, manner.”

Finally, Polivy feels that if other CV3 users or prospective customers are curious about what mobile can do for their e-commerce business, they owe it to themselves to talk with the CV3 staff. “We were early adopters–guinea pigs, if you will–so CV3 mobile implementation is now much easier. And if more CV3 users enable their sites for mobile, that will make the CV3 network even stronger. We hope we can serve as example of what’s possible for CV3 mobile sites.”

Blake Ellis adds, “The team at TMS is great to work with because they’ve really thought mobile out. They know their customers, they watch analytics and they don’t cut corners. They’re not afraid to do the work to get it right, and it was a great pleasure to help them launch this important new facet of their business.”

CommerceV3 has processed close to 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 PCI DSS Level 1 certified, 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.

To sign up for our newsletter or get marketing tips on growing your business online, please visit http://www.commercev3.com/. 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.tahoemountainsports.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.

CommerceV3 and Timberline Interactive announce the recent launch of a new shopping site for their long-time customer, SERRV, a $9.5 million fair-trade network connecting artisans in developing countries with customers and volunteers across the US.

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November 15, 2011

(SAVANNAH, GA) CommerceV3 (CV3) and Timberline Interactive are proud to announce the recent launch of the new shopping site for their long-time customer, SERRV (www.serrv.org), a $9.5 million fair trade network connecting thousands of artisans in developing countries with customers and volunteers across the United States.

A Timberline partner since 2005, SERRV has created a website to support and supplement their catalog sales of unique gift, home decor, clothing, jewelry and other items made by artisans and farmers in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe. Serena Sato, Director of Marketing at SERRV, says the process of working with Timberline and CV3 to revamp their website was a pleasure from start to finish.

“I can’t say enough good things about Timberline and Deb Brisson [Timberline’s VP of Software Development]” Sato says. “She’s done an amazing job, and our new site is a huge improvement over the old one. Deb helped us problem solve, take advantage of opportunities, and even agreed to be on call when issues came up. We could not have done it without her, for sure!”

The SERRV redesign features several improvements to the site, Sato says: “We now have more flexibility in how to categorize products. For instance, we can use one, two or three tiers, which makes it much easier to navigate. Also, CV3 cross-sell options now allow us to use that field to focus on our artisan stories, which we’re really excited about. Images are now nearly double the old size, which makes a huge difference in the look and feel. The new redirects have also helped us a lot, as has the ability to do top and side navigation. And we love the zoom, which highlights the hand-crafted quality of our products. Though we’re a non-profit, it’s really important that our customers see us not just as a charity site, but as a purveyor of high-quality products. In so many ways, the capacity of the new site has helped us display our products and our story in a manageable, flattering format.”

Sato reports excellent results for the new SERRV site when comparing sales from October 2010 to October 2011, including a 22 percent increase in individual consumer order sizes; a 30 percent increase in individual consumer purchases; a jump to just under 50 percent of orders coming in via the new web site, a slight increase over 2010; and a 12 percent increase in wholesale store orders, with nearly 60 percent of those orders coming in via the new web site.

Timberline’s Deb Brisson adds, “Working with Serena and the rest of the SERRV team was fantastic. They are all very smart, driven and focused on producing a high quality shopping experience. Due to the complexity of their pricing and business rules, we spent a lot of time up front determining how to structure their data so that each of their different customer types would see the appropriate display, product and pricing information. We did this by heavily utilizing the CommerceV3 customer group and promotion tools, a very robust strength of the platform.”

CommerceV3 has processed close to 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 and Timberline PR Liaison Katherine Oxnard Ellis at pr@commercev3.com, 888-544-2211 or visit http://www.commercev3.com/, http://www.timberlineinteractive.com/ and http://www.serrv.org/.

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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.