“If you use Volusion and you have a pulse, you’ll love this app!”

“… a must have for any Volusion store owner”

“Great app! Love it!”

… so we’ve got that going on, but we would never forget our Android-using Volusion brethren.  Today, their day has come!

Brand Labs is proud to introduce Volusion Snapshot for Android!  In all honesty, it’s been available (for FREE) in the Android Market for a

Read More]]> In late December we offered our very own holiday gift to the entire Volusion community: Volusion Snapshot – a revenue tracking iPhone app (available for FREE in the app store).  People seem pretty happy about it, if the reviews are any indication…

“If you use Volusion and you have a pulse, you’ll love this app!”

“… a must have for any Volusion store owner”

“Great app! Love it!”

… so we’ve got that going on, but we would never forget our Android-using Volusion brethren.  Today, their day has come!

Brand Labs is proud to introduce Volusion Snapshot for Android!  In all honesty, it’s been available (for FREE) in the Android Market for a little while now, but we were kinda basking in the afterglow of the first app’s success, so we thought we’d spread the good news around a little to keep the glow going.  The problem is that winter’s starting to get us down and we find ourselves in need of some positive reinforcement, so we’re fishing for compliments.  Lucky for us, people are already saying nice things about the new Android app…

“This is great, thanks!”

So there you have it.  Two great tools for tracking your Volusion store’s revenue when you’re on the go, whether you’re an iPhoner* or an Androider**.  Enjoy them as our (FREE) gift to you!

* We don’t believe “iPhoner” is actually a word and frankly, it sounds vaguely dirty.  We apologize for its use.

** “Androider” is clearly not a word, but at least it doesn’t sound dirty***.

*** Okay, it sounds a little dirty.

In honor of this season of giving, we’ve decided to give you the greatest gift of all: we’re going to enable your obsessive need to keep a constant eye on your Volusion store’s revenue by giving you Volusion Snapshot!

Volusion Snapshot (currently available in the iTunes app store) is a completely free and easy way to watch your sales add up during the holidays and throughout the year.  We created Volusion Snapshot to be secure and simple

Read More]]> A wise man once said “it is better to give than to receive.“  Clearly that man never received an Xbox, but it’s still a nice thought, so we’re gonna go with it.

In honor of this season of giving, we’ve decided to give you the greatest gift of all: we’re going to enable your obsessive need to keep a constant eye on your Volusion store’s revenue by giving you Volusion Snapshot!

Volusion Snapshot (currently available in the iTunes app store) is a completely free and easy way to watch your sales add up during the holidays and throughout the year.  We created Volusion Snapshot to be secure and simple and to provide you with the one piece of data we know you’re looking for: revenue.  Volusion Snapshot provides current (refreshable) daily revenue figures as well as monthly data, annual data and year-over-year comparisons.  Now you can watch your bottom line while you’re on the go without having to constantly log in to your Volusion dashboard.  We’re giving you the gift of freedom.

… AND if you happen to have multiple Volusion stores, we have even more good news.  Volusion Snapshot will allow you to stay logged in to each of them simultaneously so you can see your online empire expanding no matter where you are.

Brand Labs is dedicated to ecommerce and we’re always working to make it better.  Volusion Snapshot is our gift to the entire Volusion community with the hope that it makes your lives a little easier.  It comes with our very best wishes for a joyous, peaceful and prosperous 2012!

Happy Holidays!

We’ll be watching the liveblog over at ars technica but, in all honesty, we are NOT among those deeply nerdy and sheeplike consumer drones who will gladly sacrifice their precious time simply to count themselves among the first people to lay their hands on the newest, shiniest toy on the market.

Nope.  Those people are dumb.  Lining up to buy something… pssshhhhh.  That’s just lame.  Only a lame-o would do that.  So lame.

… lining

Read More]]> Starting today at 10am PST, the fine folks at Apple will finally be telling us why we’ll be waiting in line for 11 hours on October 14.  Yes – the new iPhones are coming.

We’ll be watching the liveblog over at ars technica but, in all honesty, we are NOT among those deeply nerdy and sheeplike consumer drones who will gladly sacrifice their precious time simply to count themselves among the first people to lay their hands on the newest, shiniest toy on the market.

Nope.  Those people are dumb.  Lining up to buy something… pssshhhhh.  That’s just lame.  Only a lame-o would do that.  So lame.

… lining up is lame.  Like, sooo lame.

… please don’t get in line in front of us.

Of course, there are a million ways to find and buy whatever you’re looking for these days, but Google shopper is one more step toward that total ease-of-use that turns browsers into buyers.

With Google Shopper, you don’t even need to know the specific brand of what you’re looking for.  If you’re standing in front of it, take a picture.  Shopper will do its level best to locate that

Read More]]> Google Shopper has been a wildly popular Android app since its introduction last year, but until yesterday iPhone users were left out of the game.  All of that changed when the Mac app store started offering Shopper as a free download on Tuesday.

Of course, there are a million ways to find and buy whatever you’re looking for these days, but Google shopper is one more step toward that total ease-of-use that turns browsers into buyers.

With Google Shopper, you don’t even need to know the specific brand of what you’re looking for.  If you’re standing in front of it, take a picture.  Shopper will do its level best to locate that object and offer you a variety of ways to buy it, both online and nearby in the real world.

But let’s say that you’re not standing in front of the thing you want to buy… you just know that you need a cast iron skillet (as shown in the screen shot).  Just say “cast iron skillet” into your iPhone and Shopper will return a variety of choices.  You narrow them to the one you want and that’s when the Comparison Shopping Engine kicks in.

…. which was our whole point in the first place.  If you’re not using Comparison Shopping as a part of your overall online marketing strategy, you need to be.  There are literally millions of sales that are passing you by and you don’t even know it.  We can help you get in the game and capture some of that revenue you’re losing as you read this.  Give us a call.  We’ll set you up.

Now, Carnal DaMMAge’s customers will be able to shop (and buy) on a mobile-optimized Volusion site, eliminating one more barrier between browsing and conversion.

You, too, can have an iPhone-friendly Volusion store for less than a thousand dollars!  (Okay… it’s $995, so not a lot less than a thousand… but still, it’s less.)

If you’d like to capture some of the ever-expanding mCommerce market (quickly and affordably) check out iVoloo.  On the other hand, if you’d like to beat the tar out of someone, but

Read More]]> Carnal DaMMAge, one of the leading online retailers of MMA-related goods, took a big step forward today with the launch of their iPhone-friendly website.

Now, Carnal DaMMAge’s customers will be able to shop (and buy) on a mobile-optimized Volusion site, eliminating one more barrier between browsing and conversion.

You, too, can have an iPhone-friendly Volusion store for less than a thousand dollars!  (Okay… it’s $995, so not a lot less than a thousand… but still, it’s less.)

If you’d like to capture some of the ever-expanding mCommerce market (quickly and affordably) check out iVoloo.  On the other hand, if you’d like to beat the tar out of someone, but you’d like to be sure you’re properly outfitted first, check out Carnal DaMMAge.

The above-mentioned deep love was a big part of the reason that we introduced iVoloo – the first iPhone friendly Volusion store, back in July of 2008.  Back in those days (it seems so long ago), iVoloo was a novelty.  We developed it for a client who sells iPhone accessories, then (drunk with iPhone affection) decided to offer it to the Volusion community at large. 

Read More]]> We loooove our iPhones.  We’re aware of the stereotypes.  We’ve heard the haters and the trolls.  We don’t care.  Our love is pure and magical and could never be diminished by the nattering nabobs of negativism (we so rarely get to quote Spiro Agnew).

The above-mentioned deep love was a big part of the reason that we introduced iVoloo – the first iPhone friendly Volusion store, back in July of 2008.  Back in those days (it seems so long ago), iVoloo was a novelty.  We developed it for a client who sells iPhone accessories, then (drunk with iPhone affection) decided to offer it to the Volusion community at large.  In all honesty, back then, the need for iVoloo was debatable.  There were absolutely excellent reasons to have a mobile-friendly store, but it wasn’t a critical need.  Those times have changed.

Do you remember back when the internet was still in its infancy?  It wasn’t that uncommon to search for a huge brand name, only to find that they had no web presence at all.  You’d just shrug and grab the phone book (remember those?), look up the store and call them to get your questions answered.  However, as time went by, an insufficient web presence became harder and harder to tolerate until finally it seemed like a personal affront to go searching for a store online and come up empty.  We’ve now reached the point where even the humblest of mom & pop operations are virtually required to have a website, lest they risk the wrath of their constantly-connected consumers.  That’s the future of mobile commerce.  You can go ahead and ignore it… for now.  You can ignore all of the research (here, here and here) that shows that consumers are quickly (very quickly) becoming comfortable with mCommerce.  You can frustrate your mobile customers by failing to offer them what they are rapidly coming to expect from their online experience.  You can put all of your eggs in your standard site and hope that your customers are tenacious enough to navigate your teeny-weeny little site in search of what they need.

… or, you could get ahead of the curve (and your competition) for less than a thousand bucks.  Give us a call.  It’ll be easier than you can imagine.

RedLaser is a beautifully simple little app.  For the ridiculously low price of two bucks,

Read More]]> We admit it.  We have unnaturally strong feelings for our iPhones.  We are rarely without them.  If you were to attend a meeting at Brand Labs, you would likely see ten people gathered around a conference table and on that table would be ten iPhones… or nine iPhones and one sad-looking person with a Razr in their pocket.  So, it’s official: we’re dorks.  With that being said, we’ll take it one step further and admit our deep and abiding love for RedLaser – the app that’s likely to change the way the world shops.

RedLaser is a beautifully simple little app.  For the ridiculously low price of two bucks, it will turn your iPhone into a mobile comparison shopping machine.  Let’s say, for example, that you’re at your local Target store and you see a shiny, new toaster that’s just what you’ve been looking for, but you think you might be able to get a better deal elsewhere.  Well, just whip out your iPhone, launch the app and point the phone’s camera at the toaster’s barcode.  In mere seconds, not only will you see a listing of local brick and mortar competitors who also carry that exact toaster (along with what they’re charging) but you’ll also see results from both Google and The Find’s comparison shopping engines… effectively allowing you to search the entire world for the best deal on that perfect, little toaster!  What does this mean for you, the online retailer?  Well, it means you’d better include Comparison Shopping Engines in your marketing efforts or you’ll be missing out on the opportunity to get new customers who might otherwise have never even heard of you.

The world is changing pretty damn quickly these days.  We can help you keep up.

(via Occipital)

The move makes perfect sense for the eCommerce juggernaught as they’re currently on track to earn a half billion bucks strictly through mobile sales.  If only there were some way to put your Volusion store on the iPhone.  Wouldn’t that be great?

(via TechCrunch)