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Online storefronts for retail goods are popping up all over Facebook, with the social network fast becoming a virtual shopping mall. Today, BigCommerce, a company that provides ecommerce software to online retailers and merchants, is adding the ability to create a storefront on Facebook pages.

Called SocialShop, the application allows merchants to display products on a Facebook Page. Merchants just have to add the application to their page, enter their store URL and then choose which products they want to display on the page. The retail platform will show up in a “Shop Now” tab on the page, and allows visitors to share products with their friends Facebook users can then click on a product to learn more but in order to buy the product they will be taken away from Facebook to the merchants store (which is also powered by BigCommerce).

The one drawback to BigCommerce’s application is that the actual transaction needs to take place on the merchant’s BigCommerce website instead of within Facebook. But Mitchell Harper, CEO of BigCommerce, says that this can also draw more traffic to the merchant’s main storefront.

BigCommerce helps small businesses power anything and everything related to an online storefront from search to inventory to online payments to marketing and SEO. And the price for the software is affordable for small businesses, with basic plans starting at $25 per month. The company is currently powering online storefronts for 4000 businesses and faces competition from Yahoo Stores and eBay’s ProStores.

As we’re very grateful for the business we’ve gained through Interspire’s hosted platform BigCommerce, we’re always on the lookout for new and great things they’re doing in the industry. Just so happens that they have made www.Inc.com’s 44th fastest growing company.

Considering Interspire started BigCommerce in August 2009 and has had a growth of 5,000%, there has to be something said for their Hosted e-commerce platform.

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At times we receive inquires for an e-commerce design with BigCommerce. While doing our fact finding to assess the customer needs it’s revealed that many – most really – are under the impression that a template yields sales. Also it’s as if they’re making the design decision of “if you build it they will come”. Well, to be candid, you have to be crazy to think this.

I would think that the only exception to this lofty assumption is that you already have traffic from a brick and mortar store or Google ad words or some sort of external traffic. However, even though you may have traffic, your UX design (user experience design) will increase conversion of sales. After all, the nicer your design, the easier it is to use, the more thought you have put in to the design and ultimately what you would like your customer to do, the more sales you will make.

Elements one needs to consider when designing a e-commerce business strategy.

1. Do you have a call to action, do you know what a call to action is?
2. What’s your unique selling proposition – experience is irrelevant – and how are you different that your competitors?
3. How do you justify a return on investment?
4. How do you stay in a customers head?
5. How do you keep them coming back?
6. What’s in it for the user.
All this can be achieved with a proper assessment of your target market and initiating a development wireframe to initiate a UX.

Well, here it is, the break down of what you HAVE to do when you developing a successful UX shopping cart design.

So now we ask, what is a UX design? curtsy of http://uxdesign.com

User Experience Design (UXD, UED), Interaction Design (IxD), User Interface (UI) Design and other web/application design professionals use the term User Experience Design to refer to the judicious application of certain user-centered design practices, a highly contextual design mentality, and use of certain methods and techniques that are applied through process management to produce cohesive, predictable, and desirable effects in a specific person, or persona (archetype comprised of target audience habits and characteristics). All so that the affects produced meet the user’s own goals and measures of success and enjoyment, as well as the objectives of the providing organization.

User Experience Design (UXD, UED), Interaction Design (IxD), User Interface (UI) Design and other web/application design professionals use the term User Experience Design to refer to the judicious application of certain user-centered design practices, a highly contextual design mentality, and use of certain methods and techniques that are applied through process management to produce cohesive, predictable, and desirable effects in a specific person, or persona (archetype comprised of target audience habits and characteristics). All so that the affects produced meet the user’s own goals and measures of success and enjoyment, as well as the objectives of the providing organization.

This is not the only definition of User Experience Design. The term was coined by Don Norman while he was Vice President of the Advanced Technology Group at Apple. In his own words: “I invented the term because I thought human interface and usability were too narrow. I wanted to cover all aspects of the person’s experience with the system including industrial design, graphics, the interface, the physical interaction, and the manual. Since then the term has spread widely, so much so that it is starting to lose it’s meaning… user experience, human centered design, usability; all those things, even affordances. They just sort of entered the vocabulary and no longer have any special meaning. People use them often without having any idea why, what the word means, its origin, history, or what it’s about.” 1

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Why choose Be A Part Of for BigCommerce

Simply put: Our stance is to be the best Internet Development Strategist for you by offering full consulting solutions and take an interest in getting to know your industry. We know you are not “a web guy” and need a solution to compliment your business. Our approach is unique and is results driven and we do this by maximizing our business acumen.

As there are many elements in developing a comprehensive on-line sales machine, without a selling structure you’re no different than anyone else. The following are the four most important elements we’re going to work on with you.

1. SEO. If you’re not being found, how will you sell?
2. USP (unique selling proposition) why you vs. them?
3. Call to action. Utilizing eye mapping and objection handling. If you’re not enticing the buyers mind set, you’re not selling, period!
4. ROI (Return on Investment)

There’s a lot more to be discussed to ensure you get the best solution for your company. To experience why we’re different, click here to speak with your personal Internet Development Strategist.

Customize. Customize. Customize…

We do not use any other cart, period! With so many shopping cart solutions out there, we found the BigCommerce platform to be the best solution. Sure we could custom code any free open source, but BigCommerce has more features, support beyond any others and is continually trying to be the best e-commerce solution on the market.

We are fortunate to have the skills and experience to custom code anything you may need. We can integrate your POS software, warehouse software, custom code calendars, complex calculators and so much more… We’re here to help you gain the best web site you want for your business that will make you money.

Why we’re a partner?

We are an Interspire Partner because we have been selling Interspire solutions since v3.0 came out almost 3 years ago. We have been working on their platform and have seen every version they have brought to market and added their other products and integrate them into solutions that suit you. We are a partner because we get it, we customize it and we love it!

Marketing, SEO and Branding… Whaaa?

You are looking to your BigCommerce web site to be a serious money machine to generate a sustainable income that you can count on. So why would you ever leave the most important part out? We, will find a solution for you that allows us to maintain branding, incorporate SEO and develop a marketing strategy for you… don’t worry if you don’t know what I just said, we will explain it to you and help you along!

Repeat customers with Email Marketing

You’re now generating sales on-line! However, you need the tool(s) to get your message and new inventory out there for repeat customers. The sure fire way is e-mail marketing! To learn more on how to maximize e-mail marketing , give us a call and speak with your personal Internet Development Strategist.

I was asked a question about our relationship with BigCommerce from our new customer – thanks to BigCommerce – where after reading our last posts he mentioned he was unsure if we were able to handle his request as our relationship with BigCommerce is very new, or it appears to be. I answered, “yes, the relationship with BigCommerce is new, but we have been building Interspire shopping carts for almost 3 years now, which is the exact same company and we were approached by BigCommerce to join their BigCommerce Design Network as we were already a partner for their Interspire shoppingcart. Without hesitation, we said yes. We know it and we love it and do not offer any other solutions for e-commerce. Sure we can custom code anything you would like. But Interspire/BigCommerce has done it all, so why reinvent the wheel?

Through the inquires we have received we have found that little know where BigCommerce came from.  So, I felt it would be a good idea to introduce you to the Interspire Shoppingcart, which is the platform BigCommerce is built on. In short, they are the exact same company. Except, BigCommerce is a SaaS (software as a service) and Interspire is best utilized for custom development and programming for elements of your web site which BigCommerce does not allow and you’ll own the license to Interspire. Things like POS software integration, warehouse inventory integration, custom product fields per product, other API’s and so on… are some of the tasks which are limited with BigCommerce. However, if you enjoy the BigCommerce platform Interspire is the exact same, just with customizable freedom.

Who is Interspire

Interspire is a privately owned company which develops content management, shopping cart, knowledge management and email marketing software used by more than 40,000 organizations worldwide including fortune 500 companies (Intel, Shell, GE), enterprise organizations (Virgin, Ubisoft, Monster.com) and also thousands of small/medium businesses and digital agencies. Read more>>>

Who Is BigCommerce

Learn how to sell online with BigCommerce. Start by bookmarking this page. When you complete a step below, click its checkbox and it will be marked as complete.

Choose what you’re going to sell online

The first step is to decide what you’re going to sell online. If you already have a bricks and mortar store then you may simply want to sell your existing products online. Learn more>>>