Hints & Tips for Selling on GroovyCart.co.uk
We’ve posted some "Hints & Tips for Selling on GroovyCart.co.uk" onto the GroovyCart Wiki, where you can add your own ideas simply by clicking on the ‘Add a new comment’ link at the bottom of that page:
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GROOVY NEWS 2
GROOVYCART Group on facebook
We have started a GROOVYCART group on facebook for shop-owners,
customers, in fact anyone who has an opinion on GroovyCart.co.uk.
Come and join us and have a say!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=15911699316
We have added a button to allow you to see all your products on
Google. This is on the View/Edit/Delete Products page from the
Admin Panel.
You Can Now Send Newsletters to Your Customers
Gold band shops can now send Newsletters to their customers, or to
guests that have subscribed.
It's easy, just select the Newsletter link on the Admin Panel, type
in your Newsletter and hit send. There's even a test button which
allows you to send the Newsletter to yourself for proof reading.
List or Gallery Format
Currently, products are listed down the page in list format. Now
Silver and Gold shops can choose either this list style or the new
gallery style which lists thumb-nails across the page.
Security and Digital Certificates
To ensure that your personal information is secure and not
"snooped", we are now using digital certificates to encrypt the data
between your computer and the GroovyCart server.
You'll spot when the digital certificate is being used as a lock
will appear on your browser and the URL will start with "https"
instead of "http".
Whilst talking about security it's worth mentioning that we encrypt
your personal data at database level. This means that if the backup
tapes were stolen or left on a tube-train they can't be read !
Stats
your shop pages. On the right hand side of your Admin Panel under
the Logs/Stats box you will see a count of your visitors in the last
30 days.
Questionnaire
We hope you are enjoying using GroovyCart and are keen to get your
feedback, both positive and negative. If you have any suggestions
on improvements or features you would like to see, please let us know.
We would appreciate your comments.
Please click here (http://www.groovycart.co.uk/Admin/
Questionnaire.php) to login and fill in a short questionnaire.
Lots of Love from the GroovyCart team.
P.s. If you do not wish to receive further emails then you can
unsubscribe using the Advanced Settings from the Admin Panel
Wooo First Post
Well I thought now would be a good time to make my first entry in the blog, and let you all know what we are working on here at GroovyCart.
New homepage
The most noticeable thing I have been working on is a new homepage that will be ready to go live in the coming weeks. So this is a warning not to get too scared when we change over and you think you are lost in the vast abyss of the internet, you will be at the right website, its just we will have changed the colours to reflect our new logo. It is still work in progress, but I can show you a preview of what it should look like because it is unlikely to change dramatically between now and the next update.
For historical reasons I will also put up an image of what is now referred to as “The old home page”.
Site update
Some of the more observant of you may have noticed that on Friday (25th of April 2008) we sneaked out a small update to the website.
This included two main features as well as many other small changes:
Now anyone has the ability to report pages to the GroovyCart team to notify us of any problems or content they do not like via the Report Inappropriate Content button at the bottom of every shop page. .
Also for any silly people that have forgotten their shop login name/password (this includes you Mum) there is now an automatic feature to have a reminder sent to your E-mail address.
See you all at the next blog update.
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GROOVY NEWS
Thank You
Firstly I would like to say a big THANK YOU to all the GroovyCart shops that helped us in our Trial period.
I am happy to say that the trial period has come to an end without any hitches. Thanks for all your help and suggestions - Carry on sending them in!
GroovyCart will continue with a FREE Bronze service with upgrade days available for Silver & Gold services. You can view the prices and features for these levels here.
I would like to welcome THE DOLLY SELLERS! to GroovyCart. It was great to see all your shops springing up over the weekend.
Features
Customers are now more likely to find your products - Google Base Feed
We now have a daily, automatic, direct feed to the Google Search Engine. This will ensure that google is bang-up-to-date with any new products you list in your shop and ensures that customers are more likely to find you. This feed is in addition to the more usual Search Engine “Crawlers” which regularly visit GroovyCart to capture content.
Google has restrictions on the type of content that can be included in the daily feed, e.g content of an adult nature. We have added a new tick box so you can exclude all your inappropriate products. i.e. your nude Sindys’ ! Only joking, lol.
User Agreement
There has been a change to the user agreement, really just taking out the words trial as this is no longer applicable but you may wish to read them.
We have uploaded our first tutorial video onto Youtube click here to view. It was supposed to be a 50 second video, David did his best to comply but despite his quick talking was unable to deliver, it is now down to 3.15 mins, good try David. Hope you have better luck with the second one.
View all shops page
You may have noticed that we have made a slight change in order to tidy up the ‘View Other Shops’ page, we no longer display shops that are in the OFF mode. You may prefer to switch your shop ON with a Welcome message on your Homepage, informing future customers of who you are and what you intend to sell. Please bear in mind that if you leave your shop open and not stocked for too long customers may get fed up with returning and assume it’s inactive.
Security Software Upgrade
We have a security upgrade which needs applying, this should be straight forward and only take an hour or so, to cause the minimum inconvenience we plan doing this at 4am (date to be arranged) I apologise to our overseas shops for whom this may not be quite so convenient.
Questionnaire
We would appreciate your comments. Please click here to login and fill in a short questionnaire.
Lots of Love from the GroovyCart team.
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