Ecommerce Hosting

Yahoo! Corporate Merchant Program

Let a consultant show you the power of the Yahoo! Merchant Solutions platform and help you migrate to cost-effective e-commerce hosting. The Yahoo! Corporate Merchant Program is designed to help mid-size and large merchants take full advantage of Yahoo!'s hosted storefront platform to:

• Lower IT costs and increase efficiency
• Boost online sales and new customer acquisition
• Improve the stability, security, and performance of your web site

Contact us today to learn how you can put Yahoo! Merchant Solutions to work as a solution to your business needs, or read on to learn more about the benefits of the Yahoo! Corporate Merchant Program.

Leverage Yahoo!'s Internet Expertise and Consumer Reach

As the front-end of your corporate e-commerce systems, your web storefront must be exceptionally reliable and secure. It must be capable of scaling to handle seasonal traffic swings and rapid growth in e-commerce transactions. Developing a web storefront to handle these challenges, along with sophisticated marketing and merchandising strategies, is a complex and costly proposition.

Yahoo! Merchant Solutions offers a powerful and cost-effective alternative to building and maintaining a web storefront on your own: a hosted solution. Built on the same world-class architecture that powers one of the largest Internet portals, Yahoo! Merchant Solutions provides robust infrastructure and leading-edge technology that can scale to meet demand, without forcing you to invest in additional servers or IT personnel.

Yahoo! Merchant Solutions also reduces your development load by providing all of the functionality you need to operate your storefront, including a shopping cart, customer checkout system, and product catalog management. This industry-leading functionality is combined with data import and export capabilities to ensure that your online store can leverage your investments in inventory control, accounting, customer relationship management, and other backend systems.

Plus, Yahoo! Merchant Solutions gives you access to powerful online marketing tools and distribution opportunities that allow you to tap Yahoo!'s broad consumer base.

Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Platform Benefits

Our comprehensive storefront platform enables established merchants to:

Lower IT costs and increase efficiency.

• Access web storefront services at a fraction of the cost of in-house options, thanks to Yahoo! Merchant Solutions economies of scale.
• Eliminate high R&D, management, and maintenance costs associated with your web storefront and redirect those resources to core business activities.
• Avoid the cost of over-provisioning your systems to support infrequent periods of peak traffic volume. Take advantage of Yahoo! Web Hosting's scalable infrastructure instead.

Develop on a flexible, customizable platform.

• Easily customize the Yahoo! Merchant Solutions platform to meet your unique requirements.
• Integrate your Yahoo! online store with your existing backend inventory control, accounting, and customer relationship management systems.
• Leverage industry-leading authoring tools to develop a robust online store quickly and easily. For example, the Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Extension for Macromedia Dreamweaver enables you to retrieve information from your Merchant Solutions catalog and use it to build out product merchandising web pages - all within the robust Dreamweaver editing environment.
• Access experienced developers in the Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Designer Network for further help in reaching your goals.

Improve your site stability and performance.

• Trust in the same infrastructure and security standards that support the global Yahoo! network of products and services.
• Boost your level of customer service with our state-of-the-art hosting facilities, support, and Yahoo! technical expertise.

Increase sales and reach new customers.

• Sell your products in Yahoo! Shopping, the leading shopping portal on the Internet.
• Implement advanced merchandising features to maximize the value of each customer visit and capitalize on sales opportunities.
• Access exclusive marketing tools and partnerships with leading marketing solutions providers to enhance your customer acquisition capabilities.
• View detailed reports and statistics to measure success and identify sales opportunities.
• Increase sales conversion rates with the Yahoo! Shopping Cart.

Corporate Merchant Program Benefits

The Corporate Merchant Program offers specialized pricing and services for large merchants who wish to further customize the Yahoo! Merchant Solutions platform to support distinctive storefront designs, backend integration, automated processes, and other advanced features.

You are teamed with a Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Consultant who can advise and help you plan your migration to the Merchant Solutions platform and show you how to exploit its capabilities to maximize your sales. Your Yahoo! Consultant will connect you with the resources needed to customize the platform, including experts in:

• Web design
• Web development
• Yahoo! Merchant Solutions and business system integration

Who Else Uses Merchant Solutions?

These companies know Yahoo! is a web leader, providing secure, reliable, scalable e-commerce protection for the most critical component of their business: Sales transactions.

Merchant Solutions Customers:

Alight.com American Bridal Anna's Linens April Cornell Avalon Garden The Aviation Shopping Network Baseball Hall of Fame Ben & Jerry's Callaway Golf Cirque du Soleil

Crabtree & Evelyn Eureka Company Gately's GoJane Guggenheim Museum Herrington Catalog Imax Store NASA: Kennedy Space Center Pepsi-Cola Store Road Runner Sports

Sanyo Fashion House SFMOMA The Sportsman's Guide Stash Tea The Tech Museum of Innovation Vermont Teddy Bear Yahoo! Gear Yosemite Nat'l Park Zebra Hall

Contact Us to Learn More

Ready to lower your IT costs, boost online sales, and improve your web site stability, security and performance? To learn more about integrating Yahoo!'s powerful web storefront into your existing infrastructure, please contact us today. You'll be asked to tell us a bit about your business, and a Yahoo! Corporate Merchant Program consultant will contact you to discuss your specific needs.

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