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Leverage your Best Sellers to Increase Conversions

Positioning. Cross-selling. Highlighting customer feedback. It’s likely you’re already doing these things to take advantage of your highest performing products.

But you might not be doing everything you can to leverage those best sellers. We’d like to tell you how to use them to get even more conversions. With the launch of hundreds of micro-stores on our ecommerce platform, we know what factors lead to success. Now, we’re sharing the strategy in our newest white paper.

In this whitepaper we’ll also show you how to:

• Lower pay-per-click costs
• Strengthen sales for under-performing products
• Make your SEO more effective 

Click here to download the white paper

Achieve the Ultimate Ecommerce Scalability with Multifront v6.2

Znode Inc is pleased to announce a major version release of Multifront™. The newest Multifront release, v6.2, expands upon scalability with highly tuned database and application layers.

Multifront is the best choice for online storefronts that require flexibility and performance scalability.  With the performance enhancements included in release v6.2, Multifront running on a single CPU can support 4+ million unique visitors per month with a catalog size of 100,000 products and 10 storefronts. 

The system can then scale easily  by adding additional CPUs and load balanced web servers.  See for yourself by accessing our comprehensive Load Test Results.

Multifront is the industry-leading .NET ecommerce platform which enables businesses to create and manage one or multiple storefronts using a single system.



Get more information on Multifront at www.znode.com/multifront

WallPops! Launches on Multifront

WallPops! (www.wall-pops.com), a company that sells movable, reusable wall decals, recently re-launched their ecommerce presence on Znode's Multifront™. 

Using Multifront, the new WallPops! site makes it easy for customers to sort through almost 750 products to find the ones they're looking for, and related items.

WallPops! products are sold at major retailers including Target, Home Depot, Lowes, Barnes & Noble and more.  Multifront's Store Locator functionality enables customers to easily locate the nearest store that carries these products.

Rise Above the Competition with Multifront

The online retail space is getting crowded. It is becoming more and more important for retailers to clearly differentiate their brand and stand above the others.  At Znode we have lots of experience creating winning strategies for retailers from virtually every industry. 

Znode's Multifront platform in essence gives you a best-practices framework for orchestrating a strategy that can help you effectively beat the competition.  We have created a comprehensive white paper to analyze these strategies.

Click here to download the white paper

Multifront Hotfix 6.1.2.1 - Fixes logging issue on Localhost

When debugging or running under localhost the Multifront base library logs an excesive number of messages which could impact performance. This issues does not happen on a production URL and is limited to "localhost" only.  

All customers who are using MultiFront v6.1 SP1 should download and apply this hotfix to their code base.

Download the hotfix from: http://www.znode.com/support/downloads.aspx

Znode Releases Multifront v6.1 Service Pack 1

Znode has released a service pack (SP1) for Multifront v6.1.  This service pack includes 2 minor releases v6.1.1 and v6.1.2 packaged together in a MSI.  A patch is also available separately for customers who may prefer to do manual upgrades.

Multifront v6.1 SP1 addresses various bugs including some critical issues. It is highly recommended that customers upgrade their Multifront installation using the included patches. 

The release notes are included in the MSI package. Please contact your account manager for more information including download links and documentation.

Click here to access patches and release notes 

Introducing Multifront v6.1 - With Advanced Globalization

Znode released Multifront v6.1 earlier this weak – a major upgrade to our Flexible .NET Ecommerce platform with rich features that take content personalization to a whole different level.

Enterprises with a global presence or localization requirements can now take advantage of Multifront’s powerful Globalization capabilities. With Multifront you can create a single store with multiple languages or multiple stores personalized for different regions.

Multifront allows unprecedented targeting of content and promotions based on the target audience or locale. This enables online retailers to increase customer satisfaction and brand loyalty thereby achieving a significantly higher ROI.

Multifront’s unique faceted technology enables advanced content personalization that is not possible with any other ecommerce platform in the market today.

Here are some of Multifront's globalization features:

• Allow customers to switch between multiple languages on a storefront
• Website appearance can be completely customized for each locale
• Set different products and pricing based on selected locale
• Present different content including images and rich media based on locale
• Customize shipping, taxes, currency and units based on locale
• Administration tool allows content editor with full control over the localization capabilities including personalized content, site look and feel and more

At Wawa food stores, a personalized web site supports multichannel sales

 
This news story was published recently in the Internet Retailer about how Archer Group used Znode technology to create a personalized multi-channel web site for Wawa Inc., a chain of 570 fresh food and convenience stores:

http://www.internetretailer.com/dailyNews.asp?id=33400 

Znode at the TechColumbus Innovation Awards

Znode was nominated for the "Best Product" category at the TechColumbus Innovation Awards held at the Columbus Convention Center.  Here are some pictures of Znodians from the event last night...

  

 
 
 

Tom Bruce appointed as Znode CFO

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Tom Bruce as the new CFO at Znode effective this week.

Tom has 11 years of professional experience in financial and strategy-based leadership roles for growth-oriented organizations.  Mr. Bruce’s diverse mix of roles and accomplishments provides a unique set of qualifications that are building blocks for the successful business model execution for many ventures.  

Most recently, Tom served as the Vice President of Operations and Finance for VenJuvo, Inc., where he led the company to create facility, software and resource planning protocols designed to support the rollout of multiple fortune 100 retailers.  Prior to VenJuvo, Tom built and sold a practice that provided financial advisory and accounting services to growth-oriented companies.