January 2007
  Happy New Year!
  ScanAlert Partnership Announcement
  Forum Updates & Contest
  Blending video and e-commerce
 U.S. Online Retail Traffic Spikes Day after Christmas
 Planning Ahead for 2007
  How to use e-products with 3dCart
  Using Customer Groups to control product/page permissions
  Latest News
  Happy New Year!

From all of us on the 3dCart team, we'd like to wish you a Happy New Year!


ScanAlert Partnership Announcement

We've begun working with ScanAlert to provide you all with discounted rates for services such as the HackerSafe logo, and PCI compliance tests. We are finalizing details and we will send out information to everyone in the mailing list with more details in the next 2-3 weeks.


Forum Updates & Contest

We would like to invite you to take a look at the 3dCart Forum (if you have not done so yet). The forum is setup for merchants to discuss the software (3dCart) as well as other issues such as payment, shipping, marketing, and other e-commerce related topics.

For 2007, we are starting a contest!

We will select a forum member (at random) every month and give them a $200 coupon that they can use towards design services.

To participate, simply visit:

http://forums.3dcart.com

Register if you have not done so. In order to qualify you will need to ether create or reply to at least 1 topic during the month.

The first drawing is going to be on February 15th!



 
  E-commerce Articles
 

Blending video and e-commerce
Some retailers are capitalizing on the explosive growth of online video, seeking to better showcase products and entertain and engage customers. Read more...


U.S. Online Retail Traffic Spikes Day after Christmas
The day after Christmas, traffic to the retail websites in the Nielsen/NetRatings eShopping Holiday Index grew 35 percent year over year, from 20.9 million in 2005 to 28.1 million in 2006. Read more...
Planning Ahead for 2007
Now is a great time to start thinking about how to drive traffic to your website next year, like getting the word out on TV, radio, and direct-mail campaigns. Read more...

 
  3DC Tutorials
 

How to use e-Products with 3dCart
E-Products allow you to sell products such as MP3’s, e-Books, PDF, and just about any type of digital file. Unlike conventional products, e-Products are generally emailed to the client upon purchase. The 3dCart shopping cart system can automate the whole process for you and give access to the e-products purchased immediately after the client has paid for them.

Download Tutorial


 
 

Using Customer Groups to control product/page permissions
At times, you may want to limit access to certain parts of your site to new visitors, but give access to existing customers. For example, established customers may get access to support pages that are not available to visitors, or, you may have a set of products that you only allow existing customers to purchase.

Download Tutorial

 

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