I just wanted to take a moment to post a Hello to the
PSU community. I have been planning on posting to introduce the Explorz service to the sellers here. Now that this thread has been started I thought this would be as good a time as any.
The Explorz Shopping Portal service was created as a one-stop search portal for buyers and a central place for sellers to promote their products. The service allows sellers to have more control and flexibility over the venue they use to sell online. Explorz’s goal is to help sellers invest in themselves, one seller at a time. Explorz’s revenue is generated through site advertising, which means that there are no costs to sellers for displaying their products on the site.
In addition, there are no featured listings, so every seller’s listing has an equal chance of catching the eye of a potential customer. You can also submit coupons to promote any specials/discounts you are offering.
Creating Explorz was partly from reading this thread:
http://www.powersellersunite.com/post-153512.html#153512.
Listening to sellers, that are exploring other online selling venues and missing the power of eBay's search. Looking for a way to make their products (regardless of where listed) searchable in one centralized location.
Explorz is still in its infancy and we are working hard to build a powerful search engine for buyers to find shopping easier!
We appreciate any constructive feedback and strive hard to address the needs of sellers and buyers. We have quite a number of features planned to also enhance the buyers experience. We will begin to announce and discuss those more as we grow.
We have created a
How It Works page to assist sellers getting their store and products on Explorz.
If you sell on the following sites or use the following shopping cart systems, they are currently compatible with the Explorz service:
Joomla Stores (with VirtueMart)
PSU Stores are Compatible
Blujay Stores
My Seller Stores
eBay - Yes eBay only because members have requested
eCrater Stores
Zen Cart Stores
BuyItSellIt
Php Pro Bid Participating sites:
* YourHighBid
* MilBid
* Anyotherbids.com
* AlsoShop.com
Rscript Participating sites
* UBidRight.com Buy-Sell-Trade With Confidence
As requested by existing members, we will have Webidz and AtomicMall compatible tomorrow.
To learn more about how to use any of the above sites please visit
http://www.explorz.com/community/forumdisplay.php?f=4
We also have a
Wanted ADs area - no registration required for Buyers to post their Wanted Ad.
You may have as many stores as you want, and you can manage them all with ease from just one account.
Below are some sellers with several stores, showing how multiple stores (set up under one account) will display on Explorz:
http://www.explorz.com/profile/juliartz.html
http://www.explorz.com/profile/bays.html
http://www.explorz.com/profile/LadybugAngel.html
Stores are set up with their own Explorz url for example:
http://www.explorz.com/store/Renagades-Relics.html
Note:
Our system automatically scans periodically for new feeds and products to import. So even when you add new products to your online stores, Explorz imports those automatically for you too. The Explorz auto-import process is designed to automatically update your list of products here on Explorz directly from your online selling venue or website. Our system scans for products in intervals to keep website performance optimum, so your products might take a couple of hours before you see them here on Explorz.
Hope to see you on Explorz.com!
Suzanne
*edit - had a typo
*8/29/08 edit - revised the store profile urls, we now have user/seo friendly profile urls.