AmeriCommerce Partners to Send Data to Comparison Shopping Sites

January 14, 2009 – AmeriCommerce, a leading provider of shopping cart software and storefront solutions, teamed up with GoDatafeed.com, provider of affordable datafeed management services, to automate the submission of AmeriCommerce stores’ products to various comparison shopping sites including Shopping.com, Shopzilla, NexTag, Google Product Search and many more.

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“Both GoDataFeed and AmeriCommerce are designed to help merchants drive more traffic to their sites and our integration provides our retailers with a turn-key solution to promote products on a variety of comparison shopping sites and affiliate networks,” said Ed Sturrock, AmeriCommerce Product Manager. “GoDataFeed’s robust and user-friendly platform simplify datafeed marketing, optimize product listings and update Americommerce store information automatically—saving our merchants valuable time and resources.”

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Now, AmeriCommerce clients can instantly import their product data into GoDataFeed’s system to automate their datafeed marketing efforts. GoDataFeed has created a seamless import process that automatically retrieves AmeriCommerce stores’ product data and updates it daily. To introduce the service, GoDataFeed will setup AmeriCommerce merchants’ first three feeds on the GoDataFeed system-- a $225 value--at no cost, during their first month’s risk-free trial.

“We are excited to provide AmeriCommerce clients with effective datafeed management that will accelerate their marketing efforts on multiple retail channels,” said Ro Grosman, GoDataFeed’s Director of Technical Operations. “GoDataFeed empowers AmeriCommerce merchants by giving them the right tools to enhance their visibility on the comparison shopping landscape and give their stores a competitive edge.”

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As sales shift away from brick-and-mortar stores, research [1] indicates that online retail sales are expected to exceed $300 billion in sales by 2012 and 75 percent of online shoppers purchase products they research on comparison shopping sites. Optimizing product feeds is a key element in shopping channel success and GoDataFeed’s software has all datafeed templates and categories built-in, making it easy to optimize product data to each shopping site’s unique requirements.

GoDataFeed’s Web-based, sleek-user interface is designed with the Web 2.0 experience in mind, catering to retailers, SEM firms and hosting companies. The software supports more than 50 Comparison Shopping Engines and affiliate networks, including:

Become, Shopzilla, MSN Cashback, Shopping, Google Product Search, Yahoo! Shopping, NexTag, CNet, Shop.com, TheFind, Pronto, PriceGrabber, PriceRunner, Smarter, Share-A-Sale, ShopMania , MyCoupons, Oodle, Play.com,

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About AmeriCommerce

AmeriCommerce is a full service e-commerce solution provider. In production since 2000, the AmeriCommerce shopping cart software is built on the concept of marketing performance, ease of use, and customization. AmeriCommerce pioneered the Multiple Storefront Technology™ and provides their customers with everything they need to design and operate successful online storefronts

AmeriCommerce Benefits:

Multiple Storefronts™ Management in 1 unified administration console

Free upgrades for life

Advanced theme engine providing control over the entire store layout

Product, Order and Customer management tools

Rule based analytics, shipping, discounts, payments, regions and more.

User defined tag based searching

Depth of features is unsurpassed, do what you do today…but better with the AmeriCommerce Shopping Cart Software!

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About GoDataFeed.com

GoDataFeed is reshaping the delivery of product feeds to the major comparison shopping channels with an innovative solution that properly and effectively automates, optimizes and analyzes the data feed management process. GoDataFeed empowers online retailers and search engine marketers by providing an affordable, time-saving solution to increase traffic and visibility on more than 50 comparison shopping sites and affiliate networks.

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Serving online retailers, hosting and search engine marketing firms, GoDataFeed strives to meet the individual needs of each merchant and exceed customer expectations. GoDataFeed’s staff provides one-on-one customer service to meet the unique demands of each company and works with each client- from setting up customized feeds to implementing tracking—to ensure feeds are delivered properly and are driving motivated buyers to their site. GoDataFeed also caters to companies who wish to delegate the entire data feed setup process.

GoDataFeed’s software engineers and marketing specialists have developed ecommerce solutions for online businesses since 2000. Responding to the popularity of comparison shopping channels, GoDataFeed’s team combined its collective knowledge of best ecommerce and shopping channel marketing practices to create a single, user-friendly application to manage the product feed process. The GoDataFeed team has been quoted by retail industry sites including Practical eCommerce, Ecommerce-Guide.com, Small Business Informer and ECommerceOptimization.com.

source:http://www.americommerce.com/news/americommerce-partners-with-godatafeed-to-simplify-data-feed-marketing-to-comparison-shopping-sites

Multi-Channel Order Fulfillment is Causing Tectonic Plate Shifts

Changes for Manufacturers, Retailers, Distributors or Logistics Providers in Product Shipping Units of Measure are Confronted with Increases in Numbers of SKUs to Manage

The explosive growth of electronic commerce may not be as significant to our planet as the tectonic plate shifts that occurred millions of years ago, but an argument could be made that the growth of electronic commerce is forcing similarly dramatic changes at virtually every business. Changing market forces are creating opportunities for greater profits and increased market share for those that take advantage of this changing business environment. Unfortunately for some, these tectonic business shifts we are participating in will not take millions of years or decades in which to extract key business changes.

The tectonic plate movement principle, also referred to as the conveyor belt principle (a little ironic for those of us in the world of supply chain and distribution), is actually an interesting analogy for today’s company being confronted with changes to its fulfillment requirements. Whether you are a manufacturer, a retailer, a distributor or a logistics provider, you are witnessing a change in your product shipping unit of measure mix and are confronted with an ever-escalating growth of SKUs to manage.
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The common thread for everyone is smaller order quantities. I bet if you looked at your order records from three years ago and compared it to today, most of you would see that your trend line for full pallet orders is heading south, while the trend lines on orders for cases and individual items is growing at a much greater rate. The shift in product mixes is what is causing this tectonic plate shift in our industry. And we’re very early in the life cycle of supply chain evolution and plate movement.

 I read an interesting statistic the other day from Inbound Logistics Magazine which found that 90 percent of retailers had not yet settled on their fulfillment strategies. These next 24 months will see many strategic decisions being made.

It’s been interesting to compare the conversations and questions we engage with at Vocollect today versus those of a couple of years ago. Virtually every company we engage with today has as one of its top three topics of conversation our ability to help them better enable a multi-channel order fulfillment strategy. The need to address direct to consumer order fulfillment and smaller direct to consumer orders is forcing big change. These organizations are looking for what I call “flawless execution with flexibility”.

The other component we are seeing with increasing interest is around ensuring customers are able to support the growing maze of government and customer traceability requirements within their existing cost structures (as an example, see the recent public announcement from a well-known global grocery retailer around traceability and its announced support for Voice Pick Code functionality). It’s exciting to engage with thought leaders who are focused on optimizing their operations and thinking about what their world might look like in five to ten years.

Voice technology continues to excel as a flexible alternative for companies reconfiguring their operations to meet the challenges inherent in a multi-channel order fulfillment facility. As the need for cost- effective handling of smaller line item order quantities grows, the viability for voice technology as a logical investment selection choice expands.

Another area where we have seen increased interest and discussions is around optimizing the processes to handle what I call “bulk” product items. Organizations are looking to develop a more consistent best practices approach throughout their operational portfolios which will enable them to better utilize and cross-train a common worker pool.

We’ve seen a tremendous change in overall engagement these past years from businesses that several years ago were not a good fit for voice technology due to their highly mechanized environment and high levels of full-pallet order fulfillment. Today, we are seeing these same facilities adding voice technology to their existing environment. These businesses now need greater flexibility, without having to risk their present-day operation. Voice by its very nature provides businesses with the ultimate in flexibility. That’s why I stated earlier that we are seeing customers looking for flawless execution with flexibility. A changing market is causing businesses to change their previous methods and processes.

Now, you may be wondering if I think everyone will make it through to the other side, or will some suffer the same fate as the dinosaurs? If you are thinking about the question, you already know the answer. There are a lot of smart people out there. Those that take advantage of the shifts occurring will prosper and those afraid to proactively address the changes in front of them will let the market and their customers dictate their future fate.

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