June 24, 2009
Add Featured Products to your website…
The DistributorCentral web editor tool in your account makes it easy feature products on your website. Using this function on your website can help you advertise and promote products to your customers. This feature also automatically links the products to a details page where your visitors can learn more about the product and order it as well.
Click here or on the image below for an example.
On the example above, you’ll notice that the site is not only using the Featured Products tool, but also has an image uploaded to help enhance the area, which is also hyperlinked to a page on the site that has a more Featured Products.
To add Featured Products on your website, Edit the page you want to put the search area on and select Featured Product for the content type for that block. Click on the image below for reference.
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June 23, 2009
How to add a Category Search area…
The DistributorCentral web editor tool in your account also makes it easy add a product category list area to any page of your website. Inserting this function on your home page of your website can make it more convenient for your customers to search for products.
Click here or on the image below for an example.
On the example above, you’ll notice that the site not only has the Category List area, but also has an image uploaded to help enhance the area, and it is also hyperlinked to a page on the site that has a Full Category List.
To add a Category List area on your website, Edit the page you want to put the search area on and select Product Category List for the content type for that block.
Click on the image below for reference.
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June 22, 2009
Add a Quick Search function to your website…
The DistributorCentral web editor tool in your account makes it easy add a product search area to any page of your website. This is standard on most of our templates and inserting this function on your home page of your website can make it more convenient for your customers to search for products.
Click here or on the image below for an example.
On the example above, you’ll notice that the site not only has the Quick Search area, but also has an image uploaded and text to help enhance the area and to give customers searching ideas.
To add a Quick Search area on your website, Edit the page you want to put the search area on and select Quick Search for the content type for that block. Click on the image below for reference.
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June 16, 2009
The introduction to your website…
An introduction to your website is important since it lets your visitors know upfront what your website and company are about. However, keep it short and sweet, since most website customers are looking to research products and shop rather than read a lengthy bio regarding your business.
If you want to elaborate further about your business, add an “About Us” page on your website, where you can then discuss more about your business origin, mission and concepts.
Click here or on the image below for an example.
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June 16, 2009
Click on the link below to access some great articles regarding small businesses. They range from marketing to finance and technology.
They are from Microsoft Small Business but there are some great unbiased tips available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/resources/marketing/small-business-advertising-branding.aspx#marketing,advertisingbranding
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June 11, 2009
DistributorCentral has created many new templates for you to utilize for websites in your account.
If you haven’t seen our template section in the last six months then you should look again.
As of today, we have 28 templates for you to choose from and we are always adding more and improving those that are already there.
Each of these templates offer the DistributorCentral product catalog and shopping cart. You can also customize the product catalogs available.
Here are a few samples of some of our templates.
You can use the templates that we offer to create multiple websites in your account. You are welcome to change these templates to fit your needs as well.
You can see the list of all the templates we provide by clicking on the Websites Menu in your account on the far right side of the Navigation bar.
Once you have clicked on the Websites Menu, you will see a section titled “Pre-Made Templates.” In this section, it will list all of our templates available.
To view what these templates look like, select Preview on the right side of the template name. If you find one that you would like to use, select Use on the right side of the template name.
This will create a new website in your account.
All of these templates are available free of charge.
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June 10, 2009
Use this new feature to PowerBoost your website:
You can customize the pricing that shows to your customers for products on each of your DistributorCentral websites!
There are a few different options that you can take advantage of when editing the pricing for your websites. There is a $20 charge per website, per month to utilize this feature.
You can mark up the prices with a percentage above Net pricing, mark the pricing down a percentage from Retail pricing, or set the margin for the Retail markup.
This feature could be helpful to those distributors who are creating company stores for their customers or possibly even for those who just want a competitive price on their website for promotional products.
There are many other reasons why you might want to use this new feature to help make your site your own.
Click here to see the instructions to add this feature to your website.
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June 9, 2009
Use this new feature to PowerBoost your website:
You can customize the images that show to your customers representing products on each of your DistributorCentral website catalogs!
There is a $20 charge per website, per month to utilize this feature.
Maybe you would like to add your customers logo to all the products that are listed on their company store website to help them visualize what the finished product will be. . .
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maybe you would just like your own images to represent certain products on your website.
There are many reasons why you might want to use this new feature to help make your site your own.
Click here to see the instructions to add this feature to your website.
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June 5, 2009
DistributorCentral just added more guides to help you learn about your account. You can print these PDF guides off for reference or just save them as a file on your computer.
You can access these by clicking on the Video Tutorials button at the top of your screen.
You will see either a video, guide or even both available for certain topics.
These should be a great resource to answer your questions and teach you more about your DistributorCentral account.
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