Tuesday 4 November 2008

PepperJamNetwork Store Builder

What would you think about a tool that could fill a virtual store with goods that priced up live and are ready to sell?

I know what you're thinking. You're think 'George lots of affiliate networks use widgets or storefronts from the merchants on their books to make selling online easier so what are you on about.'

Fair comment. It's true that Affiliate Networks such as LinkShare and AffiliateWindow use single merchant storefronts and widgits and you can see examples of their use here for Charles Tyrwhitt Shirts and Cadburys Gifts respectively. PepperJamNetwork's Store Builder tool is different because you can compile into one store items being sold by different merchants.

My example is a store selling merchandise from the recent Batman film, The Dark Knight. In theory the content of this site could come from MGM Store, New Line Cinema, or WBStore. It will however only come from the studio that made the film, but if your store was more general, say a ladies clothes store, you could easily populate it with thousands of items of stock in minutes.

The process is simple.

1. Join PepperJamNetwork.
2. Pick you merchants and apply to join their programs.
3. Go to Store Builder, select the merchants you want to include in your store.
4. Configure the colour and size of the store builder so that it fits seamlessly into your site.
5. Start selling.


This tool is so simple you could build a new store every day. The only difficult part would be thinking up new domains to host them.

George