This story should get some attention seeing as the phrase, “How To Sell In Facebook” has not been documented by Google until now. Pretty cool that iDotMind.com, a small Internet technology and E-marketing company in St. Louis, Missouri, got this idea to market first and forever documented that feat in Google’s cache. But even cooler than all that is that if you’ve ever wanted to sell something directly to Facebook friends through your Facebook page, you couldn’t until now.
FYI: St. Louis is located far far away from Silcon Valley.
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iDotMind built the first ever Facebook E-commerce application that you can actually sell real stuff in. That is you can sell your friends more than animated hearts, virtual kisses, and other lame stuff. No, if you want to sell cool stuff like skateboards, consumer electronics, etc…, using the Facebook network AND have your friends put your online skateboard store app into their Facebook, you can.
Call it a Facebook E-store if you will, but the guys over at iDotMind have officially christened it the iDotCart ™ “Sell In Facebook Store.” The iDotCart E-commerce online shopping cart is a remarkable and revolutionary new idea built on some solid long-time community developed open source software. Which is especially cool since that not only illustrates the new paradigm of software development, but also shows that revolutionary market responsive benefits can be made out of the dedicated sweat of a couple guys in a matter of about a year. And, they’ve done this without a lick of capital from a big time venture capital firm.
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Loads inside facebook
“We have been using the OSCommerce / Zen-Cart ™ codebase for shopping carts for a long time and chose it as the foundation for our Facebook App,” says Computer Scientist, and owner Dan Walk. “It’s stable, it scales as well as anything else in its class, it comes with tons of dedicated core developer support, a thriving community of fans, and fits right into our service oriented business model.”
“People First” Service As Service VS Software As Service (”SAS”)
Rather than just take an open source community developed app and mash it up into something that fits into a niche Walk and his partner Nestor Wheelock have created cohesive, holistic, and artistic combination of fully managed hosting, software as a service, plus “people first customer service” philosophy.
“In our experience, you have online DIY store owners who maybe break even or make a little because they have a decent product and can find a self-service e-store product through a mega-host or Yahoo or Ebay or something. But the people who are actually making the money, like 30k-40k a month in gross, have more than 1 person doing the technical management and managing the marketing and day to day customer service of the site,” says Wheelock.
“Secure, Robust, Scalable, Fast, Easy….”
Because of the robust nature of the time tested code base and the tons of community and custom developed features that are available through the e-store shopping cart’s administrative interface, it is possible for the website, marketing, and online store teams to work together and capitalize on the competition by using the iDotCart’s many powerful features.
- Sell your products IN your Facebook to your friends
- Have your friends sell your products IN their Facebook to their friends
- Fast, Secure, Reliable
- Fully managed hosted software service
- Expert store set-up support with real American people who need jobs
- Multi-currency, multi-brandable, multi-payment capable
- E-Marketing tools built right in with People First Support Services standard
ready for whatever you throw (or kick) at it
“My team integrates seamlessly with the iDotCart and its optional support and management services available through iDotMind. My ad agency, my copyrighter, my marketing manager and even our venue vendor appreciate how easy the iDotCart has made it to have a worry-free dummy proof system for selling and fulfilling our tickets online. What makes it so cool now is that my entire roster of fighters can help sell tickets in their Facebook,” Says Rob Donaker, Vice President of Shamrock Promotions, a professional boxing, kickboxing, and mixed martial arts promotion company.
It also works great for nightclubs, promoters, entertainment venues, and retailers that cater to the youth niche market. iDotMind is about to take its iDotCart to the next level of beta testing by incorporating it into a multi entertainment venue and merchandising market. If you would like to participate contact iDotMind at http://idotmind.com/sales/ or
Call iDotMind Toll Free: 1-866-491-0577.
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Written By Nestor Wheelock
Systems Architect and Client Support Guru
http://www.iDotMind.com
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