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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Thursday, April 14, 1999 Provider Plus Web Pro generated nearly 30,000 shoppable web pages of software titles in about 38 hours for Software Shelf International. The huge database was imported from the Ingram Micro software catalog. The whole store was built in two months with many custom features, directories, search criteria and graphics, for under $25,000. Presently finalizing different "specials" pages and merchant banking gateways, it can be seen at: www.softshelf.com/home.html FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Thursday, January 29, 1999 HVE
went from a regular
sized AOL store
to one of the largest
stores on America
Online -- overnight.
No new personnel
was hired and maintenance
is done rapidly
by same staff. Missing Treasures is a great example of a family business entering the Net for the first time with an adorable -- and practical site which offers to find missing pets around the country! Using technology which normally would have been outside their budget, the site was quickly put up utilizing Provider Plus Web's "Classifieds" template. A customer is able to search their local area codes to see if their pets have been found. What a great idea! ENO.COM sells hundreds of CD Roms and Training Tapes, with links, product catalog, and shopping pages generated by Provider Plus -- with over 1000 products and 200 web shoppable web pages created in about an hour! Watch for our Grand Opening Announcement! In the News! Research-Assistance, a major on-line research paper provider, used Provider Plus-WEB to create a whole site which contained over 300 individual group web pages generated by Provider Plus containing selections from over 25,000 database records (over 100,000 records on the server) -- in just 4 days! All the pages were generated completely shoppable, totally linked in with the search engine, and linked up with all 25,000 records. Search Engine Speed: Under 5 seconds for any record! Six months later, their ENTIRE catalog database was updated and and then re-generated in under 30 minutes! In the News! A First Time PC user entering the Net from a successful mail order business, creates an entire 10,000+ product, state-of-the-art, shoppable Comics and Action Figures Toy Store in a week -- applying nothing more than basic data entry methods of products he is completely familiar with. Copeland's Sports, a chain of 35+ stores in the western United States, started putting together its America Online Store late in winter - So late that AOL Management feared it wouldn't be ready and almost didn't let it go on for Thanksgiving. Instead it had more than enough and has gone on to become the largest and fastest growing store in American Online Marketplace history -- using Provider Plus-AOL store-building software! (AOL keywords: Sports Super) Tuesday, November 24, 1998 Provider Plus Web creates and publishes 20,000 vendor pages with 33,000 products on AOL store in less than 12 hours. The new store pages will be created for Health and Vitamin Express, an early AOL Merchant Partner and user of Provider Plus AOL in 1996. (AOL keyword: vitamin) Information Provider Technologies (IPT) announces plans this week to unveil its new software which rapidly builds small to large stores on the Internet and AOL. (Sunland, CA) IPT, the first 3rd party Vendor tools developer on the AOL Resource Center, was previously known for its software which allowed Copeland's Sports, a chain of 35+ stores in the western United States, to build its original AOL store, make its holiday deadline, and go on to become the largest and fastest-growing store in American Online Marketplace history (late 1996) -- using Provider Plus-AOL store-building software. (keywords:Sports Super) Now in its latest incarnation, running on WIN95/98, NT, and Unix platforms, Provider Plus Web has kept its AOL origins intact but also produces e-commerce and Java enabled shopping pages for the Internet. In recent tests Provider Plus Web has been able to build a complete online store with 350 shoppable web pages containing 1400 products in one half hour, ready for customers to shop (www.livingmall.com/merchant1). The software generates pages from standardized or easily customizable templates. With a single click a merchant can produce shopping pages in either AOL Rainman+ or WWW html format from the same product database. "Previously on AOL, it might have taken 2-3 months to accomplish this manually," says Barry Ira Geller, President of IPT. "The hassle of manually creating and updating pages one at a time as well as the cost-inefficiency of maintaining 2 separate databases for AOL and the WEB has caused many AOL Merchant Partners to stop using AOL's internal shopping structure in favor of just pointing customers to their company website." The result has been that many of AOL's excellent shopping features have largely gone unused and AOL Merchant Vendors have had to spend more money duplicating these features on their Internet web stores. "Now with Provider Plus Web AOL Merchants can again take full advantage of AOL's internal shopping features while still being able to create even the most complex web pages for the Net - and all from the same product database," Geller says. "AOL Management will be able to bring more new merchants online while eliminating many previous costs related to the extensive training and support always associated with building new stores." Provider Plus Web will retail for $1,599 and includes a sophisticated internet shopping cart, powerful search engine, AOL and Internet order extraction software and many other features. The package also includes IPT's Vendors( program for use by a merchant's suppliers. The Company plans to negotiate special Provider Plus Web licensing with AOL Management for Merchant Vendors use. Provider Plus Web is slated for national release by Mid December, 1998. Lite , Mall/Intranet, Developers, and non e-commerce versions will also be released.
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