Latest news, articles, tips, and tools to help your business succeed. Issue V.04
 
Inside this Edition...
Store Showcase: Malibu Boats relies on MC for their online sales.
Coming Soon... See what's on the MC Horizon!
Company Update: The MonsterCommerce online community is growing!
Shopping Cart Savings: Pay in advance and get free service!
Article Spotlight: Google releases their FREE toolbar, version 2.0
 
 
MonsterCommerce Store Showcase: top 

www.malibuboats.com
   About Malibu Boats
CEO, Robert Alkema's founded Malibu to build ski boats of excellent value and performance. Today, Malibu celebrates its 20th full season of quality boat building and Robert's philosophy has turned Malibu into the largest custom ski boat manufacturer in the world and one of the most technologically advanced companies in the marine industry.
     
 
Coming Soon: top 

Version 4.0 is on schedule!
The MC development team is wrapping up 4.0 development and bug fixes. Version 4.0 has been rewritten from the ground up - making it a faster, more flexible e-commerce solution. Your current MonsterCommerce store will maintain the same functionality with dozens of new features.

In order to make the transition as smooth as possible, we will provide detailed documentation and consistent communication during the entire conversion process. In addition, the MonsterCommerce team will release new training materials and a new support site within the next 30 days.

For a brief outline of newly added features >> click here.
For a 4.0 deployment timeline >> click here.

 
 
MC's "New" Affiliate Program >> 10 Days Until Launch!
Sign-up to become a MonsterCommerce affiliate and earn $80 credit for every business you refer to MC.

MC's new affiliate program enables you to earn credit for word-of-mouth or by simply adding MC's text links, banners or buttons to your storefront. MC's new affiliate program enables you to earn commissions for referrals. When you sign up as an affiliate, you earn $80 dollars for every visitor that signs up with MonsterCommerce!

 
Company Update: MonsterCommerce Online Community top 
 
MonsterCommerce Forums >> Interact with the MonsterCommerce Community


If you have not joined the MonsterCommerce Forum it's not too late! During the first month, the MC forum accumulated 2000 posts, over 200 active users and exceeded 25,000 page views.

The MonsterCommerce forum is a hotspot to ask questions and share e-commerce insight. The forum contains discussion on hundreds of topics including design, search engine optimization, affiliate programs, site critiques, link swapping and more.
This month, Robert Hufault (www.ultimatekeychains.com) and Robert Bell (www.balikingdom.com) earned a free month of service for their active participation in the forum. Thank you to all those who participate in the forum!
 
Shopping Cart Savings: Pay in Advance and Get Free Service! top 
 

Save up to $99.95!

Pay for your monthly service 6 months in advance and get 1 month of free service!

 
Save up to $299.85!
Pay for your monthly service 12 months in advance and get 3 months of free service!
 
Article Spotlight: Google Releases Their Free Toolbar, Version 2.0 top 
 

Google recently released version 2.0 of it's popular toolbar. If you are unfamiliar with the Toolbar, is has excellent features which can be used to browse the Internet, gauge your site's Google Page Rank and many other useful features.

Beta version 2.0 is available for download (takes less than 30 seconds) and includes three new features:

AutoFill: This feature enables you to automatically fill in most "web based forms" with the click of an icon.

Why is it useful? It speeds up web-based transactions and eliminates inaccurate data entry.

How does it work? The toolbar detects and can fill in fields for your name and address (including city, state, zip and country, as well as a secondary "ship to" address), and payment details such as credit card (name, number, expiration, etc.).

Once you have the toolbar, form fields that Google can auto-fill appear yellow. Select which information to include and click the auto-fill button for each field you want to fill.

Is it secure? Your personal information is stored securely on your computer. Your information is not sent to Google or any third party websites. Your credit card data is encrypted and protected by a user name and password defined by you.

Pop-up Blocker: Version 2.0 of Google's Toolbar also detects and prevents distracting pop-up windows. The toolbar blocks unwarranted pop-ups and displays the number of pop-up windows that it has blocked since the toolbar was installed.

Don't want all pop-ups blocked? You can create a list of pop-up windows that you want to see. Press and hold the CTRL key as you click on a link to view pop-ups on a one-time basis.

This means that the toolbar blocks advertisements, but will let pop-ups containing useful information open on the screen.

Blogger Posting: Google invites you to create your own free weblog using its recently acquired Blogger service.

Learn more about and download the Google Toolbar: It's Free!
http://toolbar.google.com/index-beta

System Requirements
Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 or later
(The Pop-up Blocker requires Internet Explorer 5.5 or later)

* Lycos and InfoSpace also launched toolbars this past week.
 
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