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Overview:
Competing online for promotional products and wearables customers can be a daunting challenge. How do you beat your competitors to the punch? A storeBlox 2.0 e-commerce site can give you the edge. With unprecedented features and flexibility - and a product model built to handle the complexity of promotional products and apparel - storeBlox 2.0 is the most advanced weapon for your online battles.

Whether you're competing against the big boys or shooting for regional dominance, storeBlox 2.0 provides the tools you need to build a successful online business. In fact, storeBlox 2.0 is the only industry platform that encompasses all the aspects of building a web business:

 Get Them: Pull users in with built-in search engine optimization for natural queries, including direct integration with cost-per-click advertising. Show them your identity with completely custom design.
 Keep Them: Keep users coming back with seamless round-trip order management. Get them back to your site over and over with automated specials and featured products rotation and activation. Keep them on-site with complete internal banner ad management.
 Analyze Them: Track user activity and export user lists for email blasts. Track and export form submissions like quote or sample requests to any outside system for processing. Analyze traffic patterns, conversions, and search strategies with advanced analytics.

storeBlox 2.0 has unrivaled support for industry-specific requirements, and no one has as much experience building highly flexible, high-availability promotional products sites as eBlox. We bring nearly a decade of industry expertise to each project and consult with you extensively to design and build a site that reflects the unique aspects of your business.


storeBlox 2.0 Features at a Glance: (click here for a complete feature list)
 NEW FOR 2008! Embedded media support: Manage embedded media of any kind using the Banner Management system or embed videos or multimedia directly on product pages for product demonstrations.
 New for 2008! Dynamic Product Image Rollovers: Upload multiple color variations for you products and see the variations instantly just by rolling a mouse over the thumbnails. Rollovers and thumbnails generated automatically.
  • Custom Design: Our designers produce a custom look and feel for your website from the ground up using your identity standards. See our current site list for examples of our world-class design capabilities.
  • Product catalog: Store and manage up to 25,000 products; advanced search capabilities; mutliple catalog support; product imports and automated SKU generation also available.
  • Multistore System: Create customer-branded stores from catalogs at unique subdomains [more]
  • Apparel Configuration: Simple, one-page configuration makes setup and editing of the most complex size/color product models quick and easy [more]
  • Marketing Tools: QuickFlyers, QuickSample, PDF Flyers and a host of exclusive features keep your distributors coming back to do business with you.
  • Product presentation: Multi-column pricing, multiple product image/configuration support and automated image management and resizing. Includes automated generation of product XML for export and integration.
  • Global attribute management: Complete pricing and attribute management. Create custom product models, search filters and more with a completely customizable attribute management system. [more]
  • Selling tools: Related products, Recently Viewed Products, Specials, Featured Products and live updating of most popular products.
  • Automated indexing: Display clickable, indexed lists of automatically-generated categorizations such as budget and lead time.
  • Shopping Cart and Order Management: Multiple Item configurations, art upload and order editing/approval system. Full support for inventory, shipping management, re-orders, coupons and discounts
  • Marketing tools: QuickFlyers provide multiple-product, customizable flyers for push content as well as customer-created content. Customizable sell sheets enable user customization of PDF-based flyers.
  • webBlox Content Management System: Total management of dynamic content including product information, banner ads, catalogs, news, frequently asked questions.
  • Integration-ready: XML architecture enables import and export to and from accounting, ERP, CRM or order-entry systems. eBlox has nearly 10 years of experience integrating our high-performance web platforms with back office systems.

storeBlox 2.0 Exclusive Features:


Search Engine Optimized:
storeBlox 2.0 provides a strong foundation for search engine readiness and pay-per-click tracking. Search engine optimization and online advertising for promotional products and wearables can be a tricky business because so many businesses are competing for commodity search terms like "shirt" or "ceramic mug." storeBlox's rich data model and support for unlimited tags gives you the ability to create and maintain the kind of rich data that garners better organic search results. With your own managed FTP area and templates, you can create landing and campaign pages with ease. Search and marketing features include:
  • Automatic title tag generation
  • Advanced, rich content model including product filtering/tagging
  • Managed FTP for static page creation
  • Static URL generation from dynamic pages
  • Deep integration with referral and conversion tracking


MultiStore:
Need to customize look and feel or even pricing for specific audiences? Need "blank" stores for distributors to re-brand? MultiStore lets you create customer-branded stores from catalogs at unique subdomains (e.g. dellshop.storeblox2.com) for a personalized, custom shopping experience for your key customers. Use customer logos and colors for a truly unique experience.
  • Unique branding for each store: Change logos, colors, URLs and identifying info for each site
  • Pick the product mix: Each Multistore can be set up to use its own catalog - or, use one catalog to create dozens of stores.
  • Simple administration: Quickly create, change or disable stores in the webBlox administration system

Samples: Outdoor Store  |  IBM Store

Use Multistore to create a variety of custom-branded product experiences:
  • Affiliate Marketing: Allow local organizations or affiliates to have their own branded web presence with your products
  • Niche Market Catalogs: Gear a version of your catalog to a particular industry using custom branding and product selection.
  • Sub-stores: Create product or audience-specific stores – like a "USB Drive Store" – to drive additional traffic or pull in specific search audiences


Apparel Configuration:
Never before has an e-commerce system offered such complete control over size/color options. storeBlox 2.0 apparel management includes mixed color/size availability and automated SKU generation for individual combinations. Even the most complex size/color product models are supported, and simple, one-page configuration makes setup and editing quick and easy. Features include:
  • 3-Dimensional Matrix Pricing: A true 3-dimensional pricing model means that color, size and column breaks are all supported independently. That means that availability, price and ordering of products can be handled simply no matter how complex the underlying model may be. Youth and large size price and availability on limited colors, for instance, is simple to set up and maintain.
  • Automated SKU Generation: SKU suffixes for color and size are appended automatically to individual combinations.
  • Line-item Availability: Products may be activated/deactivated on a line-by-line basis within the configuration.
  • Order-at-once: Customers may order multiple sizes/quantities on a single page.


Global Attribute Management:
With a completely customizable product model, storeBlox 2.0 frees you from constraints on product information and pricing. Global filters and fields enable customization of products and searching/filtering of products based on your criteria. Need to give visitors a way to find products made in the USA? Or products made of denim? Simple filter creation and application makes it easy. You can even constrain filters to product listings, so that a filter to find incandescent vs. LED lights will only come up in relevant listings.

Global pricing attributes provide total control of pricing options including rush charges, decoration fees, setup charges, run charges, and even options like polybagging or gift boxes. Global management and availability makes it easy to apply to products and quickly customize at the product level.

Global attribute management gives your site power:
  • Better Targeting: Filters and fields allow you to drive customers into desired categories with unmatched precision
  • Better Search Engine Indexing: Detailed, structured product data helps enhance search engine relevance
  • Accurate pricing: Get complex orders right the first time, or allow customers to create accurate quotes online in seconds

Ready to step up to storeBlox? Contact us now!

 

eBlox provides e-commerce, integration, consulting and search engine optimization services to distributors and suppliers selling promotional products and apparel online. Comprehensive web site design, branding and marketing services for any company looking to sell online.
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