webalog.biz - Portal Networking

Portal Networking is an innovative approach to eCommerce. Portal Networking allows wholesalers and retailers to utilize a single database structure for product inventory. It eliminates the necessity to duplicate data entry efforts, yet still allows for individualization of each seperate website. Each website has full control over design features including:

Each website also has access to over 130 site reports including:

• Page Views and Page Visits
• Top Directories
• Monthly, Weekly, Daily, Hourly Visits
• IP Addresses
• Views Per Visit
• Search Engine Breakdowns
• Geographic Breakdowns
• And Many More...

Many business owners question the need for an eCommerce solution. “If the store is keeping me busy, why do I need to expand into the internet?” “All of my customers are within driving distance from me, and they enjoy coming to my store.” While these comments may all be true, let’s look at some exciting statistics:

• eCommerce now facilitates over $4.7 trillion worth of sales annually, and this number is rising.
• Over 40% of all in-store customers research products online before purchasing in-store.
• 80% of all websites are devoted to some sort of eCommerce. The more that eCommerce grows, the advantages will go to the store with a website.

Owning an eCommerce site is like having a sales person available 24 hours a day for unlimited customers, in virtually every city on the face of the earth, all at the same time. Now is the time to take advantage of this opportunity.

Two of the real reasons why business owners do not have an eCommerce solution are:

• They have no idea how to start
• They have already tried a website and it didn’t work.

Too often, business owners head into a website project like they head into an advertising campaign. They kind of have an idea as to what they want it to look like, then they let the Advertiser take it from there. The Advertiser runs the ads and business comes in (hopefully).

An eCommerce solution requires much more. A true eCommerce solution needs the attention and dedication that a physical storefront requires. Your physical storefront needs display design, advertising, staffing, inventory stocking, maintenance, and cleaning to stay useful. Your digital storefront requires no less.

Most cookie cutter website shopping cart companies offer standard features, severely limiting the creativity of your site. When curb appeal and store aesthetics account for such a high percentage of customer interest and satisfaction, why put your digital storefront through such limiting structure?

Advantage has a focus for small business. We have experience in retail, wholesale, and non-profit business. We know the ups and downs of ownership. We are more than techheads, we are entrepreneurs, like you. We have the expertise and knowledge to implement the most basic to the most extensive eCommerce solutions you can imagine.

A true eCommerce solution is not a cost, it is an investment. It is an asset, just like any other capital purchased. If it is treated as such, it will grow as your business grows. It will make money, just as your physical storefront makes money.

The hosting plans page lays out four different site plans. Skim through the available options and call us to help make the final decision. Each eCommerce solution is as different as each physical storefront. We can tailor a package just for you.