Doubled their Sales
Guy Blaskey from www.poochandmutt.com describes how RomanCart has helped double their sales.
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"RomanCart has worked as a great solution for Pooch & Mutt (www.poochandmutt.com). I first heard about RomanCart through PayPal. They recommended it as a good cart to use with PayPal Pro.
It was really easy to set up and use. I really appreciated that you could set up your account for free, so I could work out how to integrate it with my site without having to pay out.
I used to work at a design agency where we would charge upwards of £30k for a website with a fully functioning CMS and e-commerce system. Poochandmutt.com is built in Wordpress, which is a free CMS. This works perfectly with RomanCart, enabling me to have a very efficient e-commerce site for less than £150/ year including the hosting, URLs and cart.
The product manager is very easy to use and there are some great features that have really helped us, for example the promo codes help us to test the effectiveness of our advertising in different magazines, which saves us a lot of money in the long run.
We now do thousands of pounds of sales each week through Roman Cart (and have just started taking dollars through our US RomanCart). I would highly recommend it to anyone. We easily do double the sales through RomanCart that we did through our previous cart and this is partly down to how easy RomanCart is for customers to use on our site.
" Guy Blaskey www.poochandmutt.com |
Jonjoe Lewis uses RomanCart on www.mgrovercodes.com and www.instant-radio-code.co.uk. He explains how RomanCart has helped his businesses increase profits.
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"When we started using RomanCart sales doubled and we had lots of positive feedback from our customers about our new payment system and the security of it. We have used RomanCart now for some
time and love it so much we have it on many of our websites including our most popular sites, www.mg-rover-radio-codes.com and www.digitaldogtag.co.uk. Our sales have tripled recently as we have introduced PayPal
as a payment option which was just a simple click or two within RomanCart.
RomanCart is a simple, secure shopping cart that benefits both the user and the customer." Jonjoe Lewis www.mg-rover-radio-codes.com www.digitaldogtag.co.uk |
Sean Bissett-Powell from www.snmstuff.co.uk a model making and wargaming online store describes how RomanCart increased their profits four-fold.
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"We integrated RomanCart to our website in September '08 - a painless process, it's remarkably easy to use. Since then, our website turnover has grown from an average of £750 a month to just short of £3000 a month, a four-fold increase. More importantly, it has enabled us to take the business from a part-time hobby job making a little pin-money, to the point where this month, we take it full-time. Without RomanCart, this wouldn't have been possible. The functionality it offers has enabled us to process orders far more efficiently, and grow our international business enormously due to the fabulous flexibility it offers for shipping methods. We look forward to growing SnM Stuff to the point of being a significant player in the model-making and wargaming field, and plan to use RomanCart as an integral part of our long-term strategy."
Sean Bissett-Powell www.snmstuff.co.uk |
Increased Search Engine Ranking
Martin Weare from www.ponyandcarriage.co.uk explains how RomanCart increased their search engine ranking, profits - and lots of other benefits they encountered along the way!
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"In a nutshell RomanCart Rocks for our business and here is why!" 2008 - 2009 Using a well known all encompassing cart a dozen sales max and no increased viability or ranking in Google for our website. 2009 - 2010 Added shop pages to our website and implemented RomanCart, now we have daily year round regular sales from both national and international customers, and our website has a massively increased Google visibility using this shopping cart solution. As a small Business this is what it's all about effectively using the Internet and RomanCart as a tool boosting our onsite sales. Our Story! We started our rather niche business (Pony and Carriage Ltd) retailing Horse and Carriage Driving Equipment approximately 4 -5 yrs ago. It was all a bit on the fly but we did know the Internet needed to play a big part because our market is so niche, so we set about making our first website , one of several improved versions as our website skills improved as time went by. At the same time of our first website we started to sell items on EBay maintained a good service and quality of goods, direct enquiries started to come in from both eBay Website and other advertising, but after a couple of years we were getting worried that still a reasonably high proportion of our business was eBay related 'too many eggs all in one basket' and all that. If it lights your fire, the technical stuff! We looked long and hard with; by this time a degree of technical know-how for an all encompassing Internet shopping solution to add to our website with the ability to customise but also suck items from our eBay account with the idea of cutting the initial input work down and maintenance of two selling platforms. We chose a well known encompassing shopping cart solution Z** Cart and got some external technical help in the initial setup and plug-in for eBay, sat back thinking good job done and waited for the sales to roll in! It Didn't Happen. Somewhat deflated at this non event we tried all sorts, further customisation and SEO - ad words the lot, it was cumbersome - complicated, we were never happy with the limited customisable display and description areas for products and above all it wasn't making money or adding to our business . Time for a Re Think! If only we could have our products displayed how we want look professional and have total control over the whole solution including our own individual webpage page Search Engine Optimization and Simple within our capabilities of understanding and doing. Stumbled across RomanCart, and thought I can do this and wow it does stock control and a lot lot more! Nothing to lose lets go for it (We haven't Looked Back) the sales started to come in even before we had got half way into implementing it. Our Google page rankings for our shop pages are good so adding ranking and visibility to our website, a big importance if you're not seen you won't sell. So all in all we have nothing but praise for RomanCart and their shopping solution, its reliable simple, evolving with even more great features and above all RomanCart has increased our direct sales 100 fold. Ok so what's the down Side! A willingness to try another approach - a bit of in-house hard work, and a degree of website knowledge. But honestly you don't need much of an understanding or technical ability and at worst because the whole shebang is so simple you could easily have an understanding and effectively convey your requirements to a friend or whoever does you website , RomanCart have excellent tutorial videos and forum to help even the technically challenged. Martin Weare www.ponyandcarriage.co.uk |
New to Selling Online
George Burr from www.redcliffe.co.uk an exhibition supplies store tells how RomanCart helped them start selling online.
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"One of the best moves we ever made after setting up our website was signing up for RomanCart.
The range of functions is extremely useful to me, such as the Product Manager, which allows me to easily import my products into RomanCart and update any product descriptions, prices and delivery charges without having to make any html changes to my website.
Other great features include the Sales Reports and Marketing Tools, which allows me to up sell and cross sell more products and includes the ability to sign up new prospects. This has allowed me to increase sales and find out more about how the prospect discovered our website, so that we now know which is the most effective way to gain new customers.
Best of all is the Sales Manager, where we can see at a glance, all on one page, the current orders in progress, which orders are waiting to be shipped and which have been paid for - truly invaluable. New orders received by RomanCart are signaled by a confirmation email to us and when the order is shipped to the client they get a confirmation email that their order has been shipped to them.
I was impressed by how easy it all was to set up and especially the helpful screen-casts that demonstrate the many different features of RomanCart."
George Burr www.redcliffe.co.uk |
