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Now anyone has the opportunity to build an on-demand online eCommerce store with a fully integrated Source and Sell Marketplace.

Launch Cart – the answer for those wanting an online eCommerce store

Launch Cart allows anyone to create an eCommerce store with thousands of products available through the Source and Sell Marketplace. This On-Demand eCommerce Saas platform gives sellers the ability to sell products without inventory costs or fulfillment needs.

Launch Cart allows anyone to create an eCommerce store with thousands of products available through the Source and Sell Marketplace. This On-Demand eCommerce Saas platform gives sellers the ability to sell products without inventory costs or fulfillment needs.

Sell Via LIVE Stream

Launch Cart’s technology allows you to sell products over your LIVE stream with unlimited products, customize limited discounts, a countdown timer, and more.

Launch Cart’s technology allows you to sell products over your LIVE stream with unlimited products, customize limited discounts, a countdown timer, and more.

San Diego, CA, Feb. 02, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A new On-Demand eCommerce Saas platform, “Launch Cart,” has officially launched with the Source and Sell Marketplace, providing a lower barrier of entry, especially for small businesses owners and entrepreneurs worldwide.

Launch Cart gives entrepreneurs the ability to create an on-demand eCommerce store with thousands of products available through the Source and Sell Marketplace, where sellers will be able to sell products without inventory costs or fulfillment needs. Launch Cart also promises higher conversions and higher Average Order Value (AOV) for eCommerce sellers.

The SaaS platform is being offered with a Freemium plan to empower entrepreneurs to have the opportunity to partake in the eCommerce boom without any monthly fees.

Greg Writer, CEO of Launch Cart, explained, “We want to solve the pain points entrepreneurs and small business owners have and empower them to get started in eCommerce with the tools and training the 7, and 8 figure eCommerce sellers have”.

Launch Cart includes features not found on competing platforms like Shopify (symbol SHOP), Big Commerce (Symbol BIGC), WooCommerce, and Wix that include: Customer Reviews, Live Stream Selling, Order Bumps, a WYSIWYG Checkout Page Editor, Page Builder and Post Checkout, One Click Upsells, and Downsells.

This cloud-based eCommerce platform empowers celebrities, influencers, and brands to quickly and easily launch an online “merch” store with products sourced from the Source and Sell Marketplace without spending money on inventory or the supply-side management and fulfillment challenges. There are currently over 330 products available for sellers to choose from.

With the new demands of today’s consumers comes substantial pressure on digital platforms to deliver on those expectations. Businesses and brands today are seeking a user-friendly platform. After all, no customer wishes to browse a website that is challenging to navigate or takes forever to load a new page. This is where Launch Cart comes in.

With Launch Cart’s “On-Demand” eCommerce model, anyone can create a store and offer hundreds of products to sell that they only pay for after they sell the goods. With this model, there are no inventory costs, no fulfillment headaches, and in most cases, sellers don’t even have to create the product photos or descriptions. Launch Cart has made it more accessible.

Launch Cart’s point-and-click platform is so simple that sellers do not need web development skills to get started. The platform was created for everybody, and that includes total beginners. But if users need extra help launching their online store, the platform has a collection of free training videos that will walk them through each step.

The Source and Sell Marketplace is a wholesale marketplace where print-on-demand suppliers, manufacturers, and brands can list their products for Launch Cart sellers to offer their products for sale from their eCommerce store, using the drop-ship and affiliate marketing model. This will eventually create another distribution channel with millions of sellers globally for such brands.

Chairman Bernt Ullmann said, “The Source and Sell Marketplace can revolutionize the opportunity for sellers to offer products from the marketplace using Artificial Intelligence and predictive analysis to create bundles on the fly.”

In addition, Launch Cart’s Source and Sell Marketplace will enable Launch Cart Sellers to cross-sell other Launch Cart seller products, creating a unique and valuable seller’s community.

Launch Cart is an entrepreneur’s all-in-one solution to make, scale, and manage an eCommerce store. Business owners can create and organize an online store, sell in numerous currencies and countries, and manage customers, products, inventory, payments, and shipping with the platform.

Those interested in starting their free online store can visit https://launchcart.com to know more about what Launch Cart can offer. Follow Launch Chart on social media on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram @Launchcart.

For media inquiries, contact Kelly Bennett at Bennett Unlimited PR at (949) 463-6383 or Kelly@BennettUnlimitedPr.com.

About Launch Cart

Launch Cart is a SaaS tech company creating a better, faster, higher-converting eCommerce platform with an integrated Source and Sell Marketplace that will lower the barrier of entry worldwide for tens of millions of entrepreneurs to build an online eCommerce business.

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NOTE: Nothing in this post is intended as Legal Advice.

Always seek the advice of a competent professional advisor or lawyer with any questions you may have regarding these matters.

The SEC has stated in the adopting release that the permitted notices will be similar to “tombstone ads” under Securities Act Rule 134, except that the notices are intended to direct an investor to the intermediary’s platform or funding portal through which the offering is being conducted, such as through a link directing the investor to the platform.

Advertising Restrictions The final rules prohibit an issuer (or person acting on behalf of the issuer) from advertising the terms of the crowdfunding offering, except for limited notices (similar to “tombstone ads” permitted under Securities Act Rule 134) that direct investors to the intermediary’s platform. Information in advertising notices is limited to:

• a statement that the issuer is conducting a crowdfunding offering, the name of the intermediary through which the offering is being conducted and a link to the intermediary’s platform;
• the terms of the offering (the amount of securities offered, the nature of the securities, the price of the securities and the closing date of the offering period); and
• limited factual information about the issuer: the name, address, phone number and website of the issuer; the email address of a representative of the issuer; and a brief description of the issuer’s business. The final rules do not impose limits on how the issuer distributes the advertising notices. For example, an issuer could place notices in newspapers or post notices on social media sites or the issuer’s own website.

In addition, issuers may communicate with investors about the terms of the offering through communication channels provided on the intermediary’s platform, provided an issuer identifies itself as the issuer in all communications.

The final rules also do not restrict an issuer’s ability to communicate other information that might occur in the ordinary course of its operations and that does not refer to the terms of the offering.

While the final rules do not provide a safe harbor for regularly released factual business information so long as it does not refer to the terms of the offering, the adopting release notes that issuers may generally look to the provisions of Securities Act Rule 169 (which permits non-reporting issuers engaged in an initial public offering to continue to publish regularly released factual business information) for guidance in making this determination in the Regulation Crowdfunding context.

In addition, the final rules do not restrict an issuer’s ability to communicate other information that might occur in the ordinary course of its operations and that does not refer to the terms of the offering.

As stated in the Proposing Release, we believe that this is consistent with the statute because Section 4A(b)(2) restricts the advertising of the terms of the offer.

The Commission has interpreted the term “offer” broadly, however, and has explained that “the publication of information and publicity efforts, made in advance of a proposed financing which have the effect of conditioning the public mind or arousing public interest in the issuer or in its securities constitutes an offer…” In this regard, we also note that Securities Act Rule 169 permits non-Exchange Act reporting issuers engaged in an initial public offering to continue to publish, subject to certain exclusions and conditions, regularly released factual business information that is intended for use by persons other than in their capacity as investors.

Issuers should generally look to the provisions of Rule 169 for guidance in making this determination in the Regulation Crowdfunding context.

SEC Release 33-9974, p. 144 (2015) (footnotes omitted).

Rule 169 – Exemption from sections 2(a)(10) and 5(c) of the Act for certain communications of regularly released factual business information.

Preliminary Notes to Rule 169:

1. This section is not available for any communication that, although in technical compliance with this section, is part of a plan or scheme to evade the requirements of section 5 of the Act.

2. This section provides a non-exclusive safe harbor for factual business information released or disseminated as provided in this section. Attempted compliance with this section does not act as an exclusive election and the issuer also may claim the availability of any other applicable exemption or exclusion. Reliance on this section does not affect the availability of any other exemption or exclusion from the definition of prospectus in section 2(a)(10) or the requirements of section 5 of the Act.

3. The availability of this section for a release or dissemination of a communication that contains or incorporates factual business information will not be affected by another release or dissemination of a communication that contains all or a portion of the same factual business information that does not satisfy the conditions of this section.

(a) For purposes of sections 2(a)(10) and 5(c) of the Act, the regular release or dissemination by or on behalf of an issuer of communications containing factual business information shall be deemed not to constitute an offer to sell or offer for sale of a security by an issuer which is the subject of an offering pursuant to a registration statement that the issuer proposes to file, or has filed, or that is effective, if the conditions of this section are satisfied.

(b) Definitions.

(1) Factual business information means some or all of the following information that is released or disseminated under the conditions in paragraph (d) of this section:

(i) Factual information about the issuer, its business or financial developments, or other aspects of its business; and

(ii) Advertisements of, or other information about, the issuer’s products or services.

(2) For purposes of this section, the release or dissemination of a communication is by or on behalf of the issuer if the issuer or an agent or representative of the issuer, other than an offering participant who is an underwriter or dealer, authorizes or approves such release or dissemination before it is made.

(c) Exclusions. A communication containing information about the registered offering or released or disseminated as part of the offering activities in the registered offering is excluded from the exemption of this section.

(d) Conditions to exemption. The following conditions must be satisfied:

(1) The issuer has previously released or disseminated information of the type described in this section in the ordinary course of its business;

(2) The timing, manner, and form in which the information is released or disseminated is consistent in material respects with similar past releases or disseminations;

(3) The information is released or disseminated for intended use by persons, such as customers and suppliers, other than in their capacities as investors or potential investors in the issuer’s securities, by the issuer’s employees or agents who historically have provided such information; and

(4) The issuer is not an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a-1 et seq.) or a business development company as defined in section 2(a)(48) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a-2(a)(48)).

§ 227.204 Advertising.

(a) An issuer may not, directly or indirectly, advertise the terms of an offering made in reliance on section 4(a)(6) of the Securities Act (15 U.S.C. 77d(a)(6)), except for notices that meet the requirements of paragraph (b) of this section.

Instruction to paragraph (a). For purposes of this paragraph (a), issuer includes persons acting on behalf of the issuer.

(b) A notice may advertise any of the terms of an issuer’s offering made in reliance on section 4(a)(6) of the Securities Act (15 U.S.C. 77d(a)(6)) if it directs investors to the intermediary’s platform and includes no more than the following information:

(1) A statement that the issuer is conducting an offering pursuant to section 4(a)(6) of the Securities Act (15 U.S.C. 77d(a)(6)), the name of the intermediary through which the offering is being conducted and a link directing the potential investor to the intermediary’s platform;

(2) The terms of the offering; and

(3) Factual information about the legal identity and business location of the issuer, limited to the name of the issuer of the security, the address, phone number and Web site of the issuer, the email address of a representative of the issuer and a brief description of the business of the issuer.

(c) Notwithstanding the prohibition on advertising any of the terms of the offering, an issuer, and persons acting on behalf of the issuer, may communicate with investors and potential investors about the terms of the offering through communication channels provided by the intermediary on the intermediary’s platform, provided that an issuer identifies itself as the issuer in all communications. Persons acting on behalf of the issuer must identify their affiliation with the issuer in all communications on the intermediary’s platform.

Instruction to § 227.204. For purposes of this section, terms of the offering means the amount of securities offered, the nature of the securities, the price of the securities and the closing date of the offering period.

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https://www.angelnetwork.com – Bernt Ullmann is the CEO & President of Star Branding (https://www.starbranding.com) which was formed as a partnership with Tommy Hilfiger, Andy Hilfiger & Joe Lamastra.

Mr. Ullmann served as founding President & CEO of MESH, a partnership with Li & Fung, as well as President & CEO of Shop Your Way Brands, a division of Sears Holdings Corp.

He was Corporate Vice-President of Donna Karan International, President of Fubu International, Managing Director of Coogi, President of Phat Fashions, and President of New Business Development for Kellwood.

Mr. Ullmann has a BA and a MBA from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

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Here is the formula for doubling YOUR revenues in the next 12 months…

L x C x M x F = Growth Potential

Here’s the legend…

• L = leads
• C = customers
• M = margin
• F = frequency of purchase

It looks like this…

Leads x Customers x Margin x Frequency = Growth Potential

Doubling any of the variables above (leads, customers, margin, frequency of purchase) will double your revenues.

Double them all and you will 16X your business.  Can you double them all?  Doubtful.

Can you double one of them?  Two of them?  Even 3 of them?

Absolutely.

In other words, there are 4 levers you have available to double your revenues in 12 months…

• Increase the number of leads
• Increase the number of customers
• Increase the margin
• Increase the frequency of purchase

Work on optimization of everyone one of these areas and you are virtually guaranteed to double your revenues.  To get more info on marketing please check out www.AngelNetwork.com

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