In this Issue...
 INTRO |
New Developments...more coming
In December I said we were not going to miss a month
with the newsletter. I was wrong. We were so busy in
February and March working on new partnerships and
site enhancements that we really didn't have any new
news. Now, we have more than we can fit into a
single issue.
Be prepared to receive two newsletters from us this
month. This first issue will focus on some of the
new partnerships we have been working on, and the
second issue will be focused on new site features
and our recommendations for avoiding issues with
some existing and coming IE updates that could
affect the Flash movies in your sites.
Our first announcement is slightly delayed, but
we're actually still working through the details.
With PixelMill in its' eighth year and growing at a
significant pace, we made the move to incorporate
PixelMill, which will no longer be under the
auspices of Advantrics, LLC. I have assumed the role
of President & CEO of PixelMill Inc., and my charge
is to move PixelMill forward as an industry leader.
For this to occur, I have set aggressive goals to
expand product selection, develop exceptional
educational and support materials, and increase
opportunities for SiteBuilders and customers to
benefit from our growth. I look forward to this
challenge, and welcome any of your comments or
suggestions for ways to make PixelMill better.
Please
visit our blog for more about our management
team and this announcement.
Please read on to find out more about our new
ProStores enabled e-Commerce templates, and please
take a moment to answer our short customer
satisfaction survey.
by Jason Reckers, President
& CEO - PixelMill Inc.
 SURVEY | Customer Satisfaction
The following is a link to the first in a series of surveys that PixelMill will be conducting in 2006.
We kept this survey short (2-3 minutes) to just get a general feel for your satisfaction with PixelMill and our products. Future surveys will go into more detail, so we can better understand what products, support, and services will best suit your needs.
At the end of the survey, provide us your
PixelMill username or email address and we will
apply a $5 credit to your PixelMill account for a
future purchase.
April 2006 Customer Satisfaction Survey
Thank you for your participation!
 PRODUCTS | ProStores-enabled Templates
PixelMill announces the availability of Web templates built for
ProStores' e-Commerce solution. These
ProStores-enabled templates are built to fully integrate with the dynamic features of the ProStores' solution. With just a few quick steps any ProStores customer can get a head start on launching their new store or upgrade to a fresh design for their existing store.
ProStores, an eBay company, enables small- and medium-sized businesses to sell products and services online through a completely customizable virtual storefront at their own internet domain. A few of the many excellent features I like about ProStores are:
- Ease of use - I built a store for my son, using the ProStores system, and I'm impressed with the ease of getting the store started and inspired by the confidence of having all of the commerce pieces
I need to take and fulfill orders. Within a few hours, I had an account set up, added the PixelMill template, added a handful of products, and was able to see the store functioning live.
- Integration with PayPal - Being a long-time advocate of PayPal, I found the integration of PayPal's new Website Payments Pro to be an excellent feature. With PayPal's low-cost 'merchant' solution, it was perfect for minimizing my initial start-up costs and ongoing transaction charges. Plus, they offer a couple months free with the integration of both solutions.
- Integration with eBay - Over the years, I have found that there are a number of things that I want to sell online. eBay was one of the obvious first choices, but I started to realize that there are some products that do not sell well through eBay during certain parts of the year. With the ProStores solution, I can have the product listed in my Web store and then easily post it on eBay when the timing is right.
We, at PixelMill, have long refrained from supporting any full-featured e-Commerce solution. Other than promoting the valuable tools
PayPal offers, we were never 100% comfortable with any e-Commerce solution that provided a complete storefront. Most grew out of small programming houses that were more code oriented rather than marketing focused. Many of these companies built quality solutions and had hard working teams, but we always had concerns with their marketing experience and the long-term viability of their solutions. In a constantly changing environment, one couldn't be certain that these e-Commerce companies had the financial backing to effectively adapt.
Then came eBay Live 2005, and the announcement that they were launching ProStores. I looked at my colleague, Greg Snow, and said "Now, that's an e-Commerce solution with the right idea and the perfect financial backing." We have been fortunate to work with the team at ProStores. The process of working with them and integrating our templates further reassured us that this is a solution we can confidently recommend to our customers.
This brings us back to today. We are proud to introduce the first of many templates built to fully-integrate with ProStores. We will continue to work closely with ProStores to ensure that the PixelMill templates are always easy to implement and designed to take full advantage of the ProStores solution.
Please take the time to visit our
Templates for ProStores landing page to learn more about these templates and the ProStores e-Commerce solution.
Visit our
ProStores-enabled catalog today!
by Jason Reckers, President
& CEO - PixelMill Inc.
SPRING SPECIAL | Coupon -
15% off your order
Enjoy this Spring discount for 15% off any your
order!
Coupon: 15% off your order
Code: April2006Disc
Expires: 5/15/2006
Enter the coupon code in Step 2 of the
checkout process.
Freshen your site with a new look!
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