Growing Your Online Business

Infopia Summit 2007!

It always seems to go by so fast - blink and it's gone. With all of the preparation, planning, and excitement that goes into an event like the Infopia Summit, the time we get to spend with clients is always too short.

Like previous years, I continue to be amazed by the innovative ideas that Infopia clients bring to the table. It is these ideas that help me and the rest of the product management team to plan for the coming year and really focus on the needs of the retailer.  One of the most interesting ideas (and something I haven't heard from our clients for a few years) is the idea of sharing inventory between sellers.  Certainly something we will think about!

If you missed it, you really missed out!  And in case you are wondering what you missed - here are some great candid photos from the show!

The format of this year's Summit allowed attendees to work with Infopians to create an executable plan for 2007 - including SEO, Listing Strategies, Analytics, and Customer Management. So what are your plans for the year?  We'd love to hear about them, especially the Account Managers!

David

Up, Up, and Away: Infopia Summit 2007!!

Infopia’s annual conference for Marketplace Manager users is just around the corner, Feb 28 - March 2.  At the Summit you’ll get in-depth information about the features and capabilities of Marketplace Manager, you’ll see the product roadmap, and you’ll get to enjoy all beautiful Salt Lake City has to offer.

Why you should attend:

            Experience new innovations from eCommerce partners

            Hear the latest news and best practices from eCommerce experts

            Share ideas through collaboration with eCommerce peers

            Expand your expectations of online selling

This event is not only a great opportunity for Marketplace Manager users to learn how to optimize and enhance their business, but a great opportunity to spend time with Infopia staff.  Product Managers, Trainers, Executives, and Account Executives are all available and always excited to exchange ideas with our users.  In a world of email, instant messaging, and trouble tickets – face-to-face interaction is a welcome change and always leads to exciting new ideas for your business and Infopia’s software.

For more information check out: http://infopia.com/summit07/index.shtml, and to register head to: http://infopia.com/summit07/register.shtml.  If you have questions or need more information contact us at: summit07@infopia.com.  We look forward to seeing you!

Infopia Wins ‘Breakthrough App of the Year’

It was like the Oscars. Kind of.  It was a black-tie affair. Kind of.

 
OK – it was a Hawaiian style awards ceremony hosted by salesforce.com’s CEO Marc Benioff to recognize the best of the best in customer and partner achievements for 2006 at salesforce.com’s annual user event, Dreamforce.  Infopia was selected from over 300 solutions as one of four finalists (ok, I gave a way the punch line and killed the anticipation with my title) for the ‘Breakthrough App of the Year’ award to the partner who broke new ground by building a new solution for the AppExchange platform.   

The anticipation was great, the tension could take your breath away as the winners we recognized in the Hawaiian rock concert type atmosphere.  As Infopia’s name was read, my heart skipped.  It is all a blurr from there.  I stormed the stage.  Jon, one of our lead developers, on my heels.  We ran, we jumped, we pumped our fists into the air, took the award, jumped some more…..then I realized I am very close to hitting Marc Benioff in the face with my Appy Award (a dancing hula girl doll mounted on a trophy base). 

The acceptance speech was short, but emotional.

So that was that.  A moment to remember for the rest of my life and a moment to be entered in the journals of Infopia history.

 

Support for uBid Auction Site

More options for sellers to reach new buyers and optimize their selling portfolio.  Infopia continues to provide new solutions to give Infopia merchants a competitive advantage.  Not all marketplaces are created equal, and uBid provides unique advantages to sellers and buyers as uBid takes an active role in managing the payments, security, customer care, reporting and product marketing for sellers.

“uBid.com has sold over a billion dollars of merchandise since our start in 1997 and has over two million unique visitors every month for the simple reason that we make online selling and buying easy and safe,” said [spokesperson], [title] for uBid.com.  “Because Infopia’s platform is a leading standard in eCommerce, their support for uBid.com is important to give some of the most successful online retailers seamless access to our marketplace and therefore much higher revenue.”

Infopia’s chief executive officer, Bjorn Espenes, added, “We are pleased to be partnering with the most important e-marketplaces, since it is absolutely critical that we enable our customers to do business wherever and however the want online.  Our work with uBid.com is especially fitting, since it brings together the marketplace that people trust with the eCommerce engine that businesses trust.”

The Launch

Welcome to the new, fresh, and exciting Infopia weblog.  Infopia will utilize this to share information with our customers, partners, prospects, competitors (oops!), and provide an opportunity for Infopia merchants to share information amongst each other.