News From Proimpulse

We are pleased to announce new features coming February the 18th for our shopping cart. Below are a list of those features.

Product Reviews - This powerful new tool allows customers or even potential customers to comment on / and rate your products. Product reviews come in handy when potential customers are browsing your site; it allows them to evaluate the quality and value of products. As an administrator you’ll have the ability to manually moderate, edit, and manage reviews, and even change your rating graphic.

CSS / XHTML Template Design – All customer facing pages in the new version of the application will be CSS / XHTML driven. This is a major leap forward compared to the tabled version of the application. Besides being more search engine friendly, you’ll be able to very easily customize and change the look and feel of your site quickly. This will give us and our third party developers the ability to rapidly create custom design templates.

Drag and Drop Design Tools – With the new template designs comes our new Drag and Drop design tools. Once in “Design Mode” you’ll be able to change the placement of anything on the front end of your cart by dragging it to the desired location. Additionally you will be able to edit any HTML or CSS code directly from the front end of the site. This is all done using a brand new graphical user interface that we have created.

Template Upload Feature – Soon we’ll be introducing all kinds of new template designs for you to download from the Pinnacle Cart site. And the great news is adding them to your cart is a breeze, you can simply select the template you want from the administrative area of the application and it download it into the cart. You can also switch between templates with a click of a button.

Product Level Promo Codes – Not only can you create promo codes at the global level, but now you can designate which products the promo codes are valid for.

Doba Implementation - Doba provides a place where suppliers can list their product inventory, and you sell these items directly from your site. With over 1.2 million products at your fingertips, you’ll be able to vastly improve the inventory in your cart without the headache of managing inventory and the whole process is complexly automated. These different suppliers will drop ship products right to your customers, so you never have to handle or ship products.

Drop Shipping Feature – The new version will allow you to assign warehouses or drop ship locations to individual products. Therefore allows different rates to be charged by product depending on shipping location.

Improved SEO Tools – We’ve improved our flat URL generation feature to give you more control over the URL’s created by Pinnacle Cart. Want to create a unique URL for a specific product, no problem. These improvements can really assist you with your Search Engine Optimization Efforts.

Image Tags – Another great SEO tool, image tags help search engines better understand what your images are showing customers.

Improvements to One-Page Checkout – We’ve improved our one-page checkout process to make sure you’re customers can check out easier than ever.

Closed Store Feature – Allows you to temporally shut down your store from the administrative area.

MoneyBookers Payment Gateway – Pinnacle Cart is now integrated with the MoneyBookers payment gateway.

Amazon Simple Pay – We’ve added Amazon Simple Pay to our list of supported payment gateways.

Get the jump on your competition and reserve your place in our design queue now!

Local brick and mortar business can benefit from social media marketing by becoming more personal. You can harness the power of Twitter and social media for your offline business. Business marketing is taking a huge shift and moving to social media because of high costs involved with traditional marketing such as television, news paper and magazine ads.

There are many ways that you can market your business via the internet and social media that can cut your adverting cost by more than half plus you will build personal relationships with your customers.

Step out from behind your company and let people relate to you first and then your company brand because you are your company, right? This is personal branding and it makes your customers feel special and it builds loyalty. You like to feel special don’t you? You like to have an owner of a business call you by name when you come to their establishment don’t you?

If you think about it years ago this is how business was done, you went to a local establishment and the owner knew your name, this is the way business is supposed to be.

Your brick and mortar business can build a personal community with Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other social media channels and it can be live and on demand. You can gain loyal customers in real time just be befriending them and making them feel important.

Twitter will let you communicate with your target audience in real time and so will Facebook; you can gain a mass following of targeted people if you set things up the proper way.

I was shocked to do a local search on Twitter for businesses in my local Tri-Cities, Bristol TN/VA, Kingsport and Johnson City area and not see hardly anyone there.

The folks from WJHL news are taking advantage of Twitter and I think this is great but why are there not more business not tapping into this advertising gold mine?

Are you taking advantage of Twitter and social media for your brick and mortar business?

We have just launched our new website and will be adding some new services to what we currently offer. We will be adding Social Media Marketing, Video Marketing, SEO ana PPC Marketing.

We are excited about the new services and what we will be able to do for new and current clients.

Keep an eye out for more good things to come…