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Everest Forum - Forum for the missed ones

2008-07-17T09:49:00.000-07:00

Everest Forum

Everest is all set to have their second forum in Las Vegas in Sep 15, 16th 2008, if you missed attending New Orleans Everest World, then you have another chance to meet up in Las Vegas and get hands on experience of Everest 5.0.

Since its launch and introduction of new features and functionality they had to hold the new version till 5.0.1 for its complexity and depth of the product and make easy tranisition to newer version.

Everest Forum would be a good time to attend since the product would have matured and its right time to make the switch just before the holiday seasons starts or you could postpone your migration till end of the year, so you could really make some decision sitting in Las Vegas MGM Grand Casino hotel.

Las Vegas known as city of lights, Casino bar and most famous "what happens in Las Vegas, stays in Vegas ..." well what are you waiting for if you missed New Orelans its time to hit Vegas and learn the new 5.0 and have some fun in the city.

Integrated Gift Card Solution - The Purple Cow

2008-06-21T16:51:00.000-07:00

Integrated Gift Card Solution for Everest Software - The Purple Cow

As we pass through blazing hot Summer and Fall season entering into the gift season we will see drastic usage of gift cards by retailers, ecommerce and businesses.
Gift card captures the attention of any shopper who passes by your website or your retail store, another way of sharing gifts with loved ones.

Seth Godin, author of "Purple Cow" writes in his book
"You're either remarkable or invisible, make your choice". Seth uses "purple cow" as a metaphor for getting attention, one of the marketing strategy to adopt.

Small and Medium Business (SMB) need to adopt to the concept of having a purple cow to attract customers/shoppers and we relate "Gift Card & Loyalty Program" as one of your Purple cow, by offering such programs/services you can attract & retain your customers as they surf through online or offline in the store.

Gift Card brings new customers to your store and loyalty program retains your existing customers, moving into Calendar year of holiday seasons sales figures are driven by providing such services to your customers, the concept of Purple cow is very effective way of marketing.

Whether you are in retail, e-tail (ecommerce), wholesale, distribution model you should have "Purple Cow" on your side to attract customers, some of our clientele enjoying our purple cow for the season are We Got Soccer (www.WeGotSoccer.com) and Tire Plus (www.TirePlusBrand.com), and few more to go live before the season starts.

Ask us how we can help you to paint your cow in Purple?

Read more about our integrated Gift Card Solution for Everest Software here.

Everest 5.0 the new avtar (version)

2008-05-29T20:43:00.000-07:00

Everest Software released its much hyped about Everest 5.0 version, we had glimpse of its new features and functionality and we are happy to inform that the new version looks good so far, but we are waiting for it to hit the road and see how it performs.

Good Points to consider:
1. The overall look and feel of the desktop version hasn't changed except the new icons
2. Speed of the product remains the same no major difference
3. New set of Features introduced such as Google Checkout, PayPal for e-Commerce
4. Enhanced Item matrix wizard, added import of item matrix items
5. Added a new feature for Merging duplicate accounts, which is good
6. Introduced basic gift card concept for desktop only
7. Everest E-Commerce can be managed easily with lots of preferences in the backend.

Not so Good Points:
1. Everest E-Commerce is now on .NET platform and supports only 1 template and its built on base dynamic/modern template, we expected they would use amazing template which is widely used coz of amazon look and feel
2. HUGE disappointment that some features like Google Checkout, Paypal and Kits are now clubbed as eStorefront Professional and is charged $$$$, these are features that every other e-Commerce product must have, and Everest decided to charge for it.
3. Source Code not available for building your own logic this is insane, it blocks solution providers like us or developers to customize their business logic, you can defintely make changes to look and feel of the template and add make few small changes to code but you won't be able to integrate seamlessly with the e-Commerce site.
For example: If you wanted customize so that you could give away FREE item everytime shopper purchases item X, this was possible to do in 4.02, however in with .NET version its not possible coz of non-availability of source code.
4. No integrated Gift card and Loyalty program combo available yet, not possible to redeem gift card over the web

More in-detail comparison list will be published, as we unearth new set of features and its usage.

CPC (Cost Per Click) Vs CPA (Cost Per Action)

2008-05-21T11:37:00.000-07:00

The e-Commerce industry is evolving through search engines, e-commerce business owners are spending their marketing budget to get traffic by advertising online through Google Adwords, Yahoo Overture or MSN Ad centre by participating in their PPC (Pay Per Click) or CPC (Cost Per Click) campaigns or even by advertising in price engine feeds such as pricegrabber or shopping.com websites.

Now, Microsoft has taken an revolutionary step in marketing & advertising by pushing their CPA Model (Cost Per Action) which is more beneficiary to business owners, since they will be paying only if they get orders/quotes/any action that results in merchant's objectives being met.

Microsoft launched its CPA model today (21st May) by introducing "Live Search Cashback" Program, this program allows e-Commerce websites to advertise with MSN and get listed on their comparison site for products being searched and when shoppers search on search.live.com or search.Msn.com and visit advertisers websites and place order or take appropriate action, shoppers get anywhere from 2% to 20% discount based on merchant offerings and merchant pays Microsoft for per conversion/action.

This is truly going to change the way shoppers are going to search, we could expect more numbers/traffic on Microsoft's search engine platform (Search.live.com) and this is a great initiative to drive quality traffic and sales.

Everest e-commerce customers should be engaging themselves to join this cash back program and get quality traffic and increase their sales.

We offer data feed management to Google, MSN and other price engines to submit your product catalog in real time to be listed on comparison engines.

Visit Everest E-commerce data feed, SEO and customization pages.

A Week in New Orleans - Great food and great seminar

2008-05-01T17:47:00.000-07:00

If you hear someone say "New Orleans" you would think about the “jazz festival, great sea food, Mardi gras and Katrina “...

Well this time of the year it was little different there were 2 parallel seminars related to e-Commerce right in the downtown of New Orleans, of course "Everest World" with its new version in .Net venued at Marriott and the "e-Commerce Summit" venued at the Convention center from ECMTA.

We at InfoSourcing made sure to attend the e-Commerce Summit to understand the new trends in the e-world and looked very closely for what it had to offer.

Everest World had good attendance with 100+ customers. As I spoke to few of them, they were happy that the seminar took place after a long gap and were excited to see the new 5.0 version with new features, however they were little disappointed as they didn't see live version and it was all presentation (ppt) files ....

My views of e-Commerce Summit/ECMTA: e-Commerce Summit had pretty good turn out too with major competitors like Google, Yahoo, MSN eBay and other e-Commerce vendors.
I did notice a new trend in field of e-Commerce “drop shipment/shipping” which was the buzz word, even Amazon is a key player, they are allowing business to use their warehouse for drop shipping and charging businesses nominal fee for handling, packaging and shipping ...

e-Commerce merchants do see this very attractive and the need for EDI becomes even more important ...

If you are in New Orleans, don't miss to visit French quarters, make sure to feast on "beignets in Cafe De Monde" (pic on left), I had my share early morning around 1:30 am, seriously it tasted good after couple of drinks in the local bar .....

I went to few local restaurants for some great Gumbo and Jambalaya, walked on the streets of Bourbon, hopped in & out of local bars, and enzoyed the nite life it had to offer ...

Friday morning checked out of the hotel and took the local car train to Garden district and wrapped up my visit to the beautiful (devastated) city of New Orleans - what an experience by itself ....

Not to forget, met some ex-colleagues, resellers, customers with whom we worked and interacted last few years ... Overall a great place to visit and a great reason to visit New Orleans.

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Everest World User Conference and E-Commerce Summit, Where the rubber hits the road .....

2008-04-21T21:16:00.000-07:00

Everest World User Conference and ECMTA E-Commerce Summit, 2 good seminars are hitting the road t'row Apr 22nd in New Orleans.

We will be attending ECMTA annual conference in New Orleans scheduled from Apr 22nd to Apr 24th, 2008 and we are proud memeber of ECMTA.

InfoSourcing, is focused on helping small and medium business with eBusiness strategy and making it easier for business owners to sell online and provide valuable services.

By attending such seminars we will be able to carry fwd this knowledge to all our clients and make them successfully, whether they are using Everest E-Commerce or other e-Commerce packages, this seminar surely will add value, however few of my Everest reseller network will be attending the Everest seminar so its a combo deal in New Orleans.

I will be blogging on both seminars so stay tuned to my blog for more reviews and if there is anybody out there who wants to network with me, do email me or visit our website http://www.info-sourcing.com/

I 'm so looking fwd for some shrimp, jambalaya, walk on bourbon street and hang out in french quarters and if time permits play 9 hole with few friends ...

.Net is this the New Technology for E-Commerce Solution?

2008-04-09T16:59:00.000-07:00

New Technology = New Thinking

New Technology evolves coz of new thinking and something I came across about new "Everest", Everest Software newest version 5.0 will be unveilied in New Orleans (beta) this April’08.

Having heard about the new .Net Version of e-Commerce definitely excites many of us, maybe because we all are tuned with Microsoft way of thinking & using its products.

Thinking about new technology and new release, one has to weigh-in all the possibilities that could happen if you are planning to switch or upgrade from lower versions.

You will get new feature sets that will automate your business process
You will have learning curve to adapt with newer version especially since they are integrated and all-in-one software
You will have to consider your existing customization (backend application, e-Commerce website and reports or any other customization you might have done), take backup of your database review all your code and keep it ready & handy to re-apply.
You will have spend few hours/days of working with support team and have them hand hold you guys during migration

With new technology there is always ups and downs, let me explain, .Net is advantageous because the application could be faster since all your code is compiled and tons of features integrated within the product will make business owner succeed online and attract with ever growing world wide audience.

However it could be disadvantageous coz, all your existing website ASP pages are indexed and the new technology uses .aspx pages and this needs to be re-indexed by search engines such as Google, MSN, Yahoo & others, so that means one has to take care of redirecting (301 redirects) to let engines know there are new pages and to drop the old pages and to redirect all traffic to.aspx pages. – CHANGE #1

All your optimization code and customization done on the ASP pages website now needs to be ported to .Net template, remember .Net is new way of coding it can be coded using multi languages such as VB.Net or C# (C Sharp) so the coding is not the same. – CHANGE #2

Other concern is, in .Net you can really knock down all your intellectual coding into compiled coding which is good if you don’t want others to see your code, but what if you have customized your ASP pages with queries etc, now you want to carry forward those customization to .Net and you might be stranded coz if the e-Commerce vendor doesn’t provide you with all the source code, its quite essential that e-Commerce vendors provide source code (code behind) to write your own custom mods else it’s catch 22 scenario. – CHANGE # 3

So consider this for example: AspDotNet Storefront an e-Commerce vendor and one of the best .Net storefront shopping cart application we have seen, they have different flavors of the same application and each flavors has different features set, however their basic flavor has no code behind, that means you can’t customize that edition, however the higher or advanced versions provide you with the source code (of course it cost $$) to customize and compile your code, which makes it easier for business, who don’t like canned templates. – GOOD BUSINESS SENSE

So always weigh in the Pros and Cons of switching to new technology and new version by identifying what’s good for you, it’s better to understand whether .Net is good for you and also how much customization you can do with the availability of source code versus out of the box feature sets.

Earlier days "Technology" used to evolve once in 5 years however off lately it evolving at rapid pace almost every year, its hard to keep up with technology but business owners need to weigh in cost of switching versus cost of remaining on old technology, but if old technology can help you make same $$$ it’s better stay on it.

More to come about technology and new way of thinking as we hear more from the market.

InfoSourcing Inc., re-launches its brand new Website, focused on customer interface

2008-04-09T16:53:00.000-07:00

InfoSourcing Inc., re-launches its brand new Website, focused on customer interface -- April 5th, 2008

Info-Sourcing, the leading solution provider for Everest Software and other ERP vendors, launched a brand new customer-focused, interactive website this month.

The site, http://www.info-sourcing.com/, is designed keeping in mind the simplicity to navigate and rich customer experience in finding the affordable services.
InfoSourcing Chief Executive Harsha Sarjapur says: "At InfoSourcing we have always taken customer care very seriously, talking and listening to our customers and taking their views on board."

InfoSourcing is leading custom solution provider for ERP products like Everest Software, Interprise Suite and others, we provide turnkey solution and services from selling of licenses, development, implementation, customization and support services.

Check out our new website http://www.info-sourcing.com/

Everest World - User Conference

2008-03-17T00:03:00.000-07:00

Everest World User Conference - Everest Software is launching its first user conference in New Orleans in Apr, the conference is geared towards Everest customers, developers and system integrators.

It's right time they organized this seminar, since Everest is equipped with SDK and the new version Everest 5.0 being around the corner, it would be good to see if the development team takes over the sessions during the seminar to show us glimpse of the software and its power, something to look fwd in April as it unveils in New Orleans, captial of jazz festival ...

Visit Everest World for more information ...

Everest E-Commerce NEW website CoastCoin.com - Success Story from InfoSourcing Inc.

2008-02-01T12:37:00.000-08:00

Coast To Coast Coins Implementation Success Story
Coast to Coast Coins, is one of America's largest and most respected rare coin companies, located in Columbia, Maryland. They specialize in rare coins, foreign coins, collectible coins for collectors and investors across US.

Coast Coins needed trusted solution partner who could change their eBusiness, and considered us for implementing their website http://www.coastcoin.com customization which uses Everest E-Commerce.

InfoSourcing has proven its track record of understanding its customers, their requirements and business model and have launched their eBusiness successfully. The website was launched in Dec' 07 and ever since their web orders have doubled and tripled with over 5000+ web orders in month of Jan and average order amount of $100 and with 50K hits to the website, as gold prices soar the website orders too.
Our customization included following features:
1. Everest E-Commerce template customization
2. E-Commerce functionality
3. Integration of Bullion prices (Gold, Silver, Palladium, Platinum) real time price as market price varies.
4. Guest Login and Checkout for faster checkout process
5. Request Catalog, Top Sellers, Sitemap and numerous other features that integrate with Everest in the back and automates their business process making it much more efficient.
6. Finally our SEO package optimize their website to gain top organic search results.

It's always a pleasure to see our clients do such great business and we believe "when clients succeeded we do succeed too ...."

A new website for numismatic people, get their and start collecting old, rare, new mint coins from Coast To Coast Coins, visit their website http://www.coastcoin.com

Everest now digs into SEO

2007-12-18T12:41:00.000-08:00

Just ran into this news article on another website, Everest now is offering SEO? The out of the box product doesn't support SEO and they have introduced this offering as part of their customization.

Everest Software Expands e-Commerce Suite and Delivers Customers More
Services to Drive Online Revenue ... DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--December 11, 2007--Everest Software ®, the leading provider of business
operating systems for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced
the availability of Everest ® Search Engine Optimization (SEO). As more
customers turn to Everest Software to manage their total Internet storefront
operations, Everest delivers a SEO service that maps how visitors will search
for you, together with how search engines will find you.

We at InfoSourcing have been doing Search Engine optimization for last 3 years and have driven traffic to several Everest E-Commerce websites and few results worth showcasing here.

1. Keywest Aloe - For Generic keyword "Aloe" with 23 million sites we appear on Page 2 of Google search results http://www.google.com/search?q=aloe&hl=en&start=10&sa=N
2. Keyword "Aloe Sun care" - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=aloe+sun+care+
3. Keyword: Banana lotion very specific term on Page 1 organic results http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=GGLJ%2CGGLJ%3A2006-35%2CGGLJ%3Aen&q=banana+lotion
4. Keyword: data feed management 11 million sites compete for this keyword and our own site comes up on rank 2 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=GGLJ%2CGGLJ%3A2006-35%2CGGLJ%3Aen&q=data+feed+management

Our SEO Package consists of valuable web based utilities which help business owners to optimize their website at easy. Keyword selections for Everest categories and items, item aliases. Sitemap generation for Google and Yahoo, Froogle analytics and Google analytics integration and submission to 100+ search engines for detailed comparison click here

We can offer 30 to 40% lesser that what most of the competitors (Everest) offer in the market and we optimize the entire site not just few keywords and we also offer various customization such as new template look and feel, new features, Google checkout and Paypal integration .. Visit our website and take a look at what we do and contact us for a FREE SEO demo today.

Everest 4.0 Migration Success Stories

2007-09-19T13:21:00.000-07:00

With new release every year it becomes challenging task for solution providers to implement any custom changes done to Everest Software, we carefully follow each and every release and make our migration strategy for our clients who want to switch from older version under our support plan.

a) Recently our client Learning Things migrated from 2.1 ver to 4.0.1 and all the customization were carried fwd.
b) Keywest Aloe Holdings had numerous customization done from us and they successfully migrated from 3.0 to 4.0.1 latest release as of Sep 18th, we had customized their e-Commerce website and several utilities including our Add-on module "Gift Card", their site is now live at http://www.keywestaloe.com/

With this current release of 4.0 ver the migration has been smoother from older version to higher version and defintely it will make Everest's clients happy and makes solution providers like us to take control of the customizations better and we hope it continues that way and Everest will aim for better support in future.

Google Checkout seamlessly integration with Everest E-Commerce

2007-06-26T18:39:00.000-07:00

How about FREE transactions till end of this year for all your credit card payments, does it sound good to you?

Google Checkout, the new online payment method just like PayPal, now being offered by Google, take advantage of this great promotional offer from them by integrating your e-Commerce checkout, with no fees for all your online transactions till 2008 you got nothing to lose but to gain your web customers.

We have successfully integrated Google Checkout with Everest E-Commerce edition, using the XML API orders are seamlessly integrated with your backend Sales Order creation, so orders are created at both places, Google as well as in Everest.

Check out our integration approach and screenshots here ...

Integrated Gift Card & Loyalty program solution for Everest Software

2007-06-07T06:40:00.000-07:00

We provide complete gift card and loyalty programs that are reliable, easy to use, and affordable. For larger companies, we provide cost-effective, powerful transaction processing systems that allow these organizations to bring gift, loyalty or any kind of stored-value card program in-house.

Total Integrated Gift Card Solution includes
a) Gift card solution for retail store and web

b) Loyalty Program solution for retail store and web

c) Seamless integration with Everest software

Gift Card, Loyalty program, add-on modules for Everest Advanced Software, maximize revenue and customer retention.

Everest Customer Viking Motorcycle on Metric Crusier Build Off

2007-04-07T23:09:00.000-07:00

Everest Customer Viking Motorcycle on Metric Crusier Build Off - Kick off Videos on You Tube . For more info about Metric Revolution Click here

We are proud to be part of their SEO strategy and helping them gain their rankings on Search engines and wish them best of luck for this competition.

Andy, Myself, Justin and Marty in LA, Aug 2006

Everest to Everest EDI, Intergated Custom Utility

2007-04-05T12:28:00.000-07:00

Everest to Everest (E2E) EDI - E2E module enables vendors to interact by sharing information about their Inventory stock movement and drop shipping activities in a automated process.

Wholesale vendors and e-tailers can now generate drop ship PO's for their Vendors and have our E2E system create automatically SO's and update the sytem on both sides with shipment tracking information and stock updates, this seamessly integration reduces the time gap and improves efficiency between 2 business using Everest as their ERP products.

Vendor A - Could be accepting orders on their e-Commerce, POS, phone orders
Vendor B - Full fills their orders and drop ships them
E2E - Automates the process of generating Sales Order, stock updates and captures shipment tracking information for Vendor A on daily basis.

To Know more about this program click here Everest EDI and its process.

Everest Advanced 4.0 version rolls out for its customer

2007-03-01T20:29:00.000-08:00

Everest's new version 4.0 much awaited by customers and solution providers has few interesting updates across the ERP system, but fails poorly in e-Commerce area and advancement of feature rich for business but does open up for SDK Add-In's allowing solution provider and Integrators to bridge the gap ...

Reviewing the 4.0 features, they have covered across the system enhancing the purchasing area quite a lot, thats only significant enhancement that is visible throughtout 4.0 other than the below listed features ...

Everest Advanced 4.0

Streamlined Purchasing
3-Way Matching
Purchase Receipt Enhancements
Multiple Purchase Orders on a Single Purchase Receipt
Accounting using an "Accrued Purchases" Account
Purchase Invoices
Create a Single "Purchase Invoice" from Multiple POs
Landed Cost
Flexible Distribution Methods for "Add-On" Costs
Landed Cost Details
Item Replenishment Improvements
Single PO for Multiple Locations
Faster Setup for New Items
Item Defaults
SEO Readiness
SEO Guidelines
Search Engine Visibility
E-Commerce SEO
Titles and Keywords for Product Pages
Site Map Generation for Efficient Search Engine Crawls
Expanded SDK
SDK APIs
SDK Add-Ins
SDK Developer's Guide
Improved Administration
Security Control and Assignment
Security TemplatesUpgrades and Server Management
Expanded Data Import Tools
Data Import Improvements
Versatile Freight Import Allows Importing Zone and Rates
Technology Update

Gift Card, Loyalty program, add-on modules for Everest Advanced Software, maximize revenue and customer retention

2006-12-12T07:11:00.000-08:00

Gift Card and Loyalty Program 'Add-on' module for Everest Software

We provide complete gift card and loyalty programs that are reliable, easy to use, and affordable. For larger companies, we provide cost-effective, powerful transaction processing systems that allow these organizations to bring gift, loyalty or any kind of stored-value card program in-house.

Gift card and loyalty program is seamlessly integrated with Everest backend desktop, POS and e-Commerce, so your sales team is selling more and your customers are happy with your loyalty services being offered. We have tied up with Swipe IT technologies to provide powerful gift card solution for Everest Software."

Gift Card, Loyalty program, add-on modules for Everest Advanced Software, maximize revenue and customer retention:

Contact InfoSourcing http://www.Info-Sourcing.com

Keywest Aloe chooses InfoSourcing as their Solution provider/partner for Everest Software

2006-11-08T20:05:00.000-08:00

KeyWest Aloe, Fresh Aloe Spa care, Skincare, Suncare, Perfume and Fragrance for Men's and Women's located in Florida has gone live with our SEO and Custom solution that we put together over a period of 6 months, working in the backend and doing all heavy lifting, it wasa disaster when they worked with E2 Solutions LLC and we had to turn that around ...

Few of the custom work we have implemented:
1. Search Engine Optimization for www.KeyWestAloe.com
2. Custom Matrix feature customized as most of their products are assembly items and not matrix type as they manufacturer their products and sell them online, we built a custom matrix solution http://www.keywestaloe.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=20776&eq=&Tp=
3. Custom pages for 3 column look and feel for index and items pages
4. Request Catalog feature integrated with Everest
5. Ability to give product for FREE during promotions, the item gets added into shopping basket automatically
6. Custom Stock Transfer application allowing to manage your stock movement much better than what Everest provides read here http://www.info-sourcing.com/Everest_Software/Everest_Advanced_stock_transfer.htm
7. Custom Utility to create normal inventiored items to assembly items
8. The most interesting project "Gift Card and Loyalty Program" coming soon

Keywest Aloe, recently opened their 3rd retail store their growth is positive moving fwd ....

Everest Stock transfer customization

2006-10-09T19:04:00.000-07:00

Everest Stock transfer Customization

We recently built custom solution for Keywest aloe by building stock transfer module, easy to use and track all your stock movement within Everest ....

Stock transfers in Everest is simple one-step process by which stock is moved from one bin to another when a stock transfer document is created, however business with multi-location can't keep track of stock when they are constantly being moved across locations..

Read more about by visiting our website

Wisp Router goes live with our SEO & custom solution

2006-09-06T14:55:00.000-07:00

Wisp Router website was hosted earlier using on oSCommerce solution, they had gained sufficient exposure to search engine before switching to Everest solution, during the migration few of the concerns were SEO friendly website and integration to PayPal.

There primiary reason to switch was "they needed a itnegrated software ..." Everest is a good fit as they deal with parts and labor/training, ecommerce, CRM etc...

InfoSourcing customized their everest e-commerce website using amazing template, since their earlier site had same look and feel as amazing, we optimized their template and also plugged in SEO dashboard and Froogle Analytics along with froogle data feed...
One of the most important feature they needed was "PayPal Integration", their site is now live and they have been taking orders using Paypal as their payment method ...

Few more things left withour SEO work and they are good to go ... Checkout www.Wisp-Router.com

Everest PageBoost - is it a good approach for SEO?

2006-08-16T22:41:00.000-07:00

Everest PageBoost, inventor speaks out on usage of this patent pending technology.

Overview:
I devised this product to boost online traffic from search engines for e-Commerce websites. This products was a hybrid technology allowing you to create powerful static html content pages with meta tag information and also capability to tweak the pages with page title, links and other information which is rich in content and provide same look and feel of e-Commerce site (with few restrictions in feature set like custom kits, item matrix etc ...)

Few people have a bad feeling of using Pageboost for search engine stratgegy coz either they don't know how to use or either the product doesn't support enhanced features. After I left the Company no enhancement was done to it, that explains it all ..

Problem: Is PageBoost a good approach or would it be a possibility of duplicate content? Yes it is a good approach to use pageboost, however it is not good if your prompting the pageboost files and your e-Commerce pages simulatenously that might lead to duplicate content issues within the site itself.

Solution: Create pageboost files and keep them as your startup pages on your webserver and promote it to search engines and shoppers. For example http://www.homeschooldiscount.com/ they have their website pages listed as static and when the shopper clicks on "Add to Cart" then dynamic website comes into picture as a result their indexing and Pagerank has increased. If you do search on Google for their website you would see 600+ links are indexed, http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-40,GGLG:en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ehomeschooldiscount%2Ecom%2F

However if you create static pages and don't make it start up pages and use them as landing pages or doorway pages without linking them from dynamic site then google might ignore them as duplicate pages of same information they might not penalize it but will ignore it completely. We have see clients dropping of search results as result of this alogrithm change made by Google this march, 2006.
Alternatively there are other softwares which does URL rewrite and makes your URL look funny but it works for search engines.

Bottomline, use Pageboost the way it needs to be used, if you need help ask us and we would be more than happy to help Everest customers.

I shall look fwd for patent being approved, it has been 3 yrs since applied.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5983227.html
http://www.freshpatents.com/Html-page-generator-system-and-method-dt20050303ptan20050050458.php

Status: Docketed New Case - Ready for Examination
Application Type: Utility
Status Date: 05-12-2006

Viking Motorcycle's SEO strategy success story update

2006-07-18T17:12:00.000-07:00

Viking Motorcycle launched its new Everest e-Commerce website www.RideVMC.com Jan 1st week, 2006 and they are enjoying the benefits of going live on Froogle data feed, within span of 6 months they have accumlated 200+ customers/shoppers from Froogle/Google with a revenue of $20,000, from froogle hits with roughly above 1% conversion.

Andy, President of Viking Motorcycle says "Froogle has been their one of the best Search engine (SEO) strategy and it has helped them to address some of the customers whom they wouldn't have marketed for in their regular email campaigns or magazine advertisements, it is truly a eye-opener for us ..."

InfoSourcing has once again proven its SEO strategy for its customers and will continue to serve its customers towards profit.

Shopping feed management for Everest E-Commerce

2006-07-01T10:57:00.000-07:00

Shopping feeds and comparison shopping engine, is one of the ways to achieve high traffic to your e-commerce website apart from PPC and organic results.

InfoSourcing's data feed management provides "value" based approach, our feed management is not based on total number of products, instead we charge "per feed", so business owners can list all of their products unlike other providers at affordable prices.

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Everest E-Commerce "Catalog Request" Integration

2006-06-30T11:04:00.000-07:00

Retailer's with e-commerce website can now integrate their catalog request directly from Everest E-Commerce website seamlessly integrated into backend.

Our "Catalog Request" add-on module can be plugged into any templates and start accepting new subscribers for your catalog, thus expanding your subscription base.

Catalog Request, is flexible enough to specify the product code for your FREE catalog within Everest and track all of your subscribed customers for the year. Upon requesting catalog information shoppers will be providing their billing and email address easy enough to target them.

Catalog Request is LIVE and can be viewed at KeyWest Aloe website

Ask us how to integrate "Catalog Request" with Everest E-Commerce and Everest backend, our e-commerce specialist can help you to increase sales and boost productivity.