Dear Clients,
This will be the first in a series of newsletters that will serve to highlight the progress we are making towards reaching our goals, and feature important information related to our services. Our goals:
Our focus is on making sales, service & marketing tasks (1) possible, (2) more effective and (3) more efficient. |
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| Online shoppers spent $30.1 billion, excluding travel, during the 2005 holiday shopping season (10/29 - 12/23), up 30% from 2004, according to a Goldman, Sachs & Co., Nielsen/NetRatings report. Click here for full press release. Our Premier Shopping Cart System provided the means for over $350K in sales to occur through client websites in 2005. Our initial projections for 2006 are over $1M. Nittany Web Works' e-commerce clients got a larger piece of the pie this year, mainly due to the use of our pay-per-performance Internet marketing integrations(PDI) & management services (IMM) being used in conjunction with our Premier Shopping Cart System. (PDI=Product Data Integration, IMM=Internet Marketing Management) Click here to learn more about our E-Commerce & Marketing Platform. |
On the website hosting front, in 2005 the number of sessions(closest approximation of visitors) for the websites we host was up 326%. The following table shows the past 3 years of overall hosting data:
We encourage all of our hosting clients to monitor their website traffic using Urchin regularly--this data can be invaluable to managing your online presence and marketing efforts. |
| We added two members to our staff in 2005: Alice Hostler, Internet Marketing Management and Christine Hopkins, Accounting. We are currently in the process of adding another Developer/Systems Administrator, and in some months we will be adding a Sales/Client Service Executive. |
We are currently in the planning stages of upgrades to our existing web-based services and some brand new integrations.
We will announce each significant upgrade as they are completed. As always, if you have any suggestions that would improve your experience with us, please let us know. Efficiency improvements are always occurring, but we thrive on your feedback. |
| Please visit our featured e-commerce websites: | ||
 newbalancealtoona.com |
 sparklesgiftbaskets.com |
 tadpolecrossing.com |
| We look forward to serving your needs in 2006 and in the future! We appreciate any friends or business associates you can send our way, as referrals are primarily how our business has grown over the past 6 1/2 years.
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