subject: Ecommerce Hosting - 1shoppingcart : A Short Review [print this page] If you are an online marketer who does not want to get involved in the configuration issues surrounding many shopping carts, you should consider Ecommerce Hosting - 1ShoppingCart is a good example of what is available in the marketplace right now. You pay a monthly fee and they handle the server maintenance.
For marketers the fact that the program has a built-in autoresponder system is a valuable asset. With this facility you can easily contact your customers on a regular basis and tell them about new releases for example. You can even publish an ezine and distribute it to your customers regularly. The program also allows you to add customers manually, although this is limited to 10 per day to prevent spammers from abusing the system.
A further important reward of the system is the built-in affiliate management system. This is invaluable to online marketers who have their own affiliate program. Affiliates can easily be added and managed from the admin section. You can even create promotional links which can be used by our affiliates in the marketing of your products. It can also be combined with the autoresponder system to form a powerful promotional tool.
The software can be used to sell downloadable material like ebooks as well. The program will create a temporary link where your client can download the ebook or file. The maximum size of such a download is limited to 7mb at this stage.
1ShoppingCart also comes with integrated ad-tracking. This enables you to not only trace from which website a particular customer came, but even which ad brought him to your website. You can therefore easily ascertain the effectiveness of different ads and different ad campaigns. There is also a built-in form generator which you can use to create sign up forms etc.
Ecommerce Hosting - 1ShoppingCart is a full-featured solution for online marketers. You might not immediately need or be able to use all its many features. It will also take some time to get to know how all of them work. But in the end it means that the program can grow with your needs.
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