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Posts Tagged ‘Volusion’
Posted: Thursday, January 26, 2012 in Apps and Plugins, Volusion
 In late December we offered our very own holiday gift to the entire Volusion community: Volusion Snapshot – a revenue tracking iPhone app (available for FREE in the app store). People seem pretty happy about it, if the reviews are any indication…
“If you use Volusion and you have a pulse, you’ll love this app!”
“… a must have for any Volusion store owner”
“Great app! Love it!”
… so we’ve got that going on, but we would never forget our Android-using Volusion brethren. Today, their day has come!
Brand Labs is proud to introduce Volusion Snapshot for Android! In all honesty, it’s been available (for FREE) in the Android Market for a little while now, but we were kinda basking in the afterglow of the first app’s success, so we thought we’d spread the good news around a little to keep the glow going. The problem is that winter’s starting to get us down and we find ourselves in need of some positive reinforcement, so we’re fishing for compliments. Lucky for us, people are already saying nice things about the new Android app…
“Basic and perfect.”
“Gold!”
“What a great App! I love the ability to check in on my store so easily. Thanks Brand Labs”
“This is great, thanks!”
So there you have it. Two great tools for tracking your Volusion store’s revenue when you’re on the go, whether you’re an iPhoner* or an Androider**. Enjoy them as our (FREE) gift to you!
* We don’t believe “iPhoner” is actually a word and frankly, it sounds vaguely dirty. We apologize for its use.
** “Androider” is clearly not a word, but at least it doesn’t sound dirty***.
*** Okay, it sounds a little dirty.
 Anecdotal evidence shows that AutoResponderMax delivers a 7% – 17% conversion rate.
Okay. That was kind of an abrupt lead in, but we wanted to make sure you got the message in case you’re one of those people who only reads the first paragraph of anything. Anyhoo, now that we’ve got that out of the way…
AutoResponderMax is the autoresponder that Brand Labs created specifically for Volusion. It’s a fully automated, multi-featured direct marketing machine and so far, it’s enabled our clients to send over one million emails directly to their customers. It’s easy, it’s affordable and it works around the clock. It gathers product reviews, sends customized sales pitches and a bunch of other stuff to help you keep in touch with your client base. It can also help you to reclaim sales lost to abandoned carts and anecdotal evidence shows that AutoResponderMax delivers a 7% – 17% conversion rate.
See how we brought that right back around?
Posted: Friday, January 13, 2012 in eCommerce
There are plenty of great ways to distinguish yourself from your competition. Some are expensive and time-intensive and some are completely affordable and just call for a bit of creativity. Today, we’d like to talk about an idea that falls squarely into the second group.
One of our longtime clients, Hot Dog Collars, has a completely adorable site. Seriously. First of all, it’s pretty much devoted to dog collars, so that’s pretty cute already. Second, its mascot is a delightful, google-eyed cartoon dog that our in-house illustration team created just for them. See? Adorable. So when the time came to build an identity for their brand, Hot Dog collars knew just what they wanted: seasonal headers featuring their official spokesdog. Since that time, we’ve created a whole bunch of seasonal and holiday headers for them, each one featuring that same smiling mutt. On the brandbuilding expense spectrum, this is a pretty affordable option and it offers a lot of bang for your buck, especially if you have a lot of repeat business.
Click through to see a gallery of our Hot Dog Collar headers. They’re delightful!
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Posted: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 in Volusion
 … like, if you had to grow some tomatoes before April 20th or if you have an aquarium that needs to be really well lit before May. Basically, if you have anything that needs to be really well lit, Sunshine Systems can hook you up. They offer a wide variety of lighting for everything from hobby LED systems to that special something that your average basement gardener might need to make their secret basement tomatoes big, green and sticky… you know… if they’re growing the sticky, green kind of tomatoes.
In addition to designing and building Sunshine Systems’ new Volusion template, we also designed a billboard for them. It’s currently appearing along roadsides in the Chicagoland area. It features some of those secret, basement tomatoes we were talking about… but what if it doesn’t? What if everything that we believe to be true is nothing more than a computer simulation like in The Matrix? Like… what if we only think we designed the billboard, but actually we’re lying motionless in a lab somewhere while some alien scientists plant false memories of designing billboards and Volusion sites? What if we’re not an ecommerce company at all, but just a bunch of human slaves trapped inside a hellish experiment from which there is no escape but we totally don’t know it because the aliens are keeping us sedated with an implanted digital reality? Whoa…
Dude… my hands are so huge right now…
Posted: Monday, January 9, 2012 in Testimonials
Posted: Thursday, December 22, 2011 in Apps and Plugins, Volusion
 A wise man once said “it is better to give than to receive.“ Clearly that man never received an Xbox, but it’s still a nice thought, so we’re gonna go with it.
In honor of this season of giving, we’ve decided to give you the greatest gift of all: we’re going to enable your obsessive need to keep a constant eye on your Volusion store’s revenue by giving you Volusion Snapshot!
Volusion Snapshot (currently available in the iTunes app store) is a completely free and easy way to watch your sales add up during the holidays and throughout the year. We created Volusion Snapshot to be secure and simple and to provide you with the one piece of data we know you’re looking for: revenue. Volusion Snapshot provides current (refreshable) daily revenue figures as well as monthly data, annual data and year-over-year comparisons. Now you can watch your bottom line while you’re on the go without having to constantly log in to your Volusion dashboard. We’re giving you the gift of freedom.
… AND if you happen to have multiple Volusion stores, we have even more good news. Volusion Snapshot will allow you to stay logged in to each of them simultaneously so you can see your online empire expanding no matter where you are.
Brand Labs is dedicated to ecommerce and we’re always working to make it better. Volusion Snapshot is our gift to the entire Volusion community with the hope that it makes your lives a little easier. It comes with our very best wishes for a joyous, peaceful and prosperous 2012!
Happy Holidays!
Posted: Friday, November 4, 2011 in Site Launch
 Spring may well be the first season that springs* to mind when you think of weddings, but autumn has its charms. Spring is delightful for its brash showiness, but autumn has depth – sophistication. The same could be said for autumn brides. Just ask our own autumn bride, Mariell.
Our latest custom Volusion store design client is Mariell, a bridal manufacturer and wholesaler. Founded in 1987, their bridal accessories are available in nearly 4000 retailers nationwide and their new Volusion site will offer all of those clients easy access to their enormous inventory. This is all very good news for anyone who’s in the market for 10 dozen rhinestone-covered fascinators, and who isn’t these days?
Congratulations on your new site, Mariell!
*Some puns are nearly unavoidable. Apologies.
Posted: Monday, October 31, 2011 in Site Launch
 Our latest site launch stands testament to the fact that Reality TV and Volusion go hand-in-hand. Those who follow us closely will remember that some time back we designed a custom Volusion template for, Jay McCarroll (Project Runway, Celebrity Fit Club). Well, we’re once again crossing paths with reality TV with our latest site launch – Tasty Cotton.
This time around, the reality star in question is Top Chef All Stars champion, Richard Blais. He’s endorsing his own line of Tasty Cotton shirts that all have to do with his very particular, very science-fiction-y style of cooking. Known for his use of liquid nitrogen and hair products, Blais’ shirts mix gastronomy and chemistry in a way that is uniquely Blaisian.
Tasty Cotton is the sister store of another of our Volusion template clients, Who Are Ya Designs, so if you love European football or food we’ve got you covered.
 Restyling the product page is one of the most common custom Volusion programming requests we receive. We understand completely. When you’re building your brand identity you don’t want the effort to stop at the product page. That’s why we’re so excited about the custom Volusion product page we just completed for Willow Street Boutique.
Willow Street is a fashion apparel site and since they’re all about creating that special look, they asked us to help them by creating a way to show that complete look on their product pages. They wanted to have the ability to prominently feature items related to the one on the current product page so that the customer could make a whole outfit without backtracking. So if you’re looking at a skirt, you could see the top & shoes that would complete the look. It’s a fantastic way to increase add-on sales… if only there were some way to make it happen… wait. There is. Hire us.
Check out the custom solution we created after the jump…
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Posted: Thursday, October 13, 2011 in Food, Site Launch, Volusion, Volusion Site Design
 Beer makes everything better – bowling, Oktoberfest, dinner with the in-laws, ecommerce… everything.
love2brew is dedicated to beer – like massively dedicated. They can sell you beer brewing equipment, beer ingredients, beer books… pretty much everything except for actual beer beer.
In addition to providing everything you need to make your own personal brew, the site can teach you how to make it happen via love2learn – the love2brew knowledge base.
So, if you’re interested in beer for reasons other than just drinkin’ it, love2brew was built for you.
Side note: look at that glass over there! Look at it! It just makes us want to lick the screen!
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