Make sure all retail systems are GO for Black Friday and Cyber Monday

As with brick-and-mortar stores, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are critical days for B2C sales. Holiday e-commerce revenues account for up to 40 percent of annual sales for many companies. Be sure your website performs reliably on all types of browsers, mobile devices, etc., to maximize sales during these revenue intensive days.

Being proactive to prevent problems- it’s not too late

You are reviewing site operations daily to better understand the changes in traffic and to be proactive about solving problems before they turn into outages, delays, or worse yet inventory or supplier problems.

Online retailers must also focus on profiling and optimization for holiday readiness. Studies continue to show correlations between page load speeds and website responsiveness to increased revenue.  Black Friday and Cyber Monday are two days you want to be (more…)

How to Participate at Decisions Spring 2012 – Microsoft Dynamics

(Part 3 of 3)

I mentioned in Part I of this series that I had great results from the first virtual tradeshow I participated in as an exhibitor.  That event was hosted by Microsoft, and they never ran it again.  I think the feedback from exhibitors was poor, which at the time, was surprising to me.  Now that I’ve attended and exhibited at a few, I can see why many companies don’t get out what they put into them…and why some attendees feel that their visit didn’t pay off.

Here are 5 ways to ensure a virtual event will be complete waste of your time

In other words, don’t do these things – you’re killling a viable, extremely effective way for customers and solution providers to connect cheaply and easily.

1.  Don’t take the time to set up your booth so it’s usable by attendees (more…)

What to Expect at MSDynamicsWorld Spring 2012

(Part 2 of 3)

nChannel will be exhibiting at MSDynamicsworld’s Decisions Conference during the GP day scheduled for June 18th.  If you’ve never considered exhibiting or attending a virtual tradeshow, here’s a chance to experience one of the few really well produced online shows so you can what they are supposed to be like and the value you can get from them.

Just like a regular Conference, the Decisions event has a guidebook or schedule of events that you can review once you’re registered and inside the online conference.  Prepare yourself…it’s like entering real conference center, complete with the sounds and virtual people walking around. The difference is you don’t need to take a bus or walk 5 miles to get to the food, a place to sit, a conference session or the exhibit hall. (more…)

MSDynamicsWorld Spring 2012 and the Value of Virtual Tradeshows

Why Aren’t We Doing More of These? (Part 1 of 3)

Decisions Virtual Conference 2012

Back in 2006 Microsoft floated an opportunity to several distribution-focused independent software vendors that I was initially skeptical about. The concept was a virtual tradeshow and while it appeared to be a neat concept, it was crazy expensive and I couldn’t help but think “Is the market really ready for this?”

I ended up paying to participate as a virtual exhibitor, and I ended up conversing with potential partners and customers all over the world (but very few in North America). We closed just one opportunity from this event which more than paid for itself, but Microsoft never ran it again – apparently because many participants weren’t as lucky as me (?).

I mentioned the program to Adam Berezin at MSDynamicsWorld about a year later. At the time no one had money to attend or exhibit at traditional shows, and using this concept (more…)

Register Today for a Sneak Peek of nChannels New GP Connector

Connect Microsoft Dynamics GP with your ecommerce website in under 40 minutes. See it live May 31st!

Thursday May 31st at 12:00 PM EST

NEW – Microsoft Dynamics GP Connector

New Capabilities Hot Off the Press

Cloud-Based Reporting

Log in to nChannel through any internet connection to view total sales from web sites, or stores by day, week, month, or year. View sales by tender, or drill into details to view sales for a particular store or channel.  Our new reporting capabilities contain online templates to view additional up-to-the-minute customer and inventory reports too such as inventory by location, accounts receivable, and more.  We’ll showcase this feature in our upcoming webcasts, or you can request a quick demo here.

Create and Manage Unlimited Price Lists

Creating and managing price lists for all sales channels has never been easier.  This new feature enables users to create price lists and assign them to items for each sales channel or location.  Select items by brand, manufacturer or supplier. Apply pricing for specific time periods, and even choose pricing to reflect the sale price, regular or supplied price.  With the ability to create and save forumula’s executing promotions is a snap.

Integrated Field Sales Orders Included!

For those customers that want to take sales to other venues, our new Field Sales Order capabilites enables users to create orders and sales transactions from any tablet or smartphone from any place – at a tradeshow, street fair, or customer site. Field sales orders will be sent to Microsoft Dynamics RMS, a supplier, or any other system you choose.   With our new Mercury Payments Systems connector customers can take credit card order and  assign shipping charges.  Best of all – this capability comes with every nChannel subscription – no extra fees, software or contracts needed!

So Why Aren’t You an nChannel Partner Yet?

nChannel Value Added Resellers can provide multi-channel capabilities to customers in a do-it-yourself environment.  Run your own sales cycle, quote your own work, subscribe and support new customers – without specialised training, resources, or fees.  Resellers earn monthly recurring revenue for each subscription account, and 100% of implementation and support fees.  Have a customer in mind?  Attend one of our webcasts, or contact us for complete details. Click Here! for the nChannel Partner Page