Indie Retailer - Small Business Resources and Tools

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Each of the businesses referred to on this page are independent of IndieRetailer.com. If you should choose to do business with any of our affiliated partners, your entire business dealings are with that company. This page is intended to introduce you to various other resources that we feel would be helpful to maintaining and growing a strong small business. We will provide you with as fair of a review of each company below their logo or product. If you select a company to review further, you can simply click on their company logo or image and you will be taken directly to that company's home page where you will be able to get more information and make any purchase options you wish.

We are selective as to which programs or products we affiliate with. We have used and benefited from several of them ourselves. As small business owners, we constantly seek and review various products to assist us with website marketing, or marketing our small business, or just simply to make processes more efficient. We believe these products and services are designed to help accomplish these objectives. We hope you will to. Please return to this page often as we review and post new products and services designed to enhance your small business.

XCart eCommerce Shopping Cart Software Xcart is probably the most comprehensive and flexible shopping cart system we've come across. Having conducted ecommerce business online since 1998, we've used several shopping cart systems; none as feature rich and flexible as Xcart. Many add-ons are available to purchase separately if desired. Support is via a HelpDesk system, but very responsive and willing to actually do the work for you for a little extra fee. A very worthwhile program. You can see how we've used Xcart in a few of our online stores at: www.FantasticFelines.com www.AromatherapyCandle.com www.OlavieProducts.com	Lite Commerce Online Store Builder From the same makers of Xcart, Lite Commerce Store Builder has many of the same features as Xcart, but with a more simple user interface and designed with smaller ecommerce sites in mind. Still very flexible and customizable, Lite Commerce is a very good solution for small web stores at a lower cost for the program. Considering their abilities and support, both programs are very reasonably priced.	VisitorVille Website Traffic Monitor "Watch Your Website Traffic Like it's a Movie!" Okay, you want to talk about taking an ordinarily mundane task like monitoring and tracking your website stats and turning into something really fun?!?! VisitorVille takes your web reports and animates them into a Sims-like environment. VisitorVille applies video game principles to help you easily visualize and better understand your web site traffic statistics. It's easy: each building represents a web page; each bus a search engine; and each animated character - a real time visitor to your site! Just paste the tracking code into your web pages, then launch VisitorVille for Windows to analyze your stats and watch your traffic in real time. Don't be fooled by it's game-like appearance though. VisitorVille provides you with an in depth, comprehensive look at your website visitors and Internet traffic and generates more useful information than many higher priced, less fun, programs out there!
SitePal Animated Speaking Characters For Your Site Sitepal is a Unique and interesting program. You can design your own character, record your own message in your own voice, and you can set it to recite several messages in order or at random. Designing the characters is fun because you can choose the gender and apparel as well as background. Once you've designed your character and recorded your message, inserting the code into your page is as simple as 'copy and paste. You can see how we've used this program at www.Ebooks4Tots.com.	Badder Adder MySpace Friend Adder Have a MySpace.com account? Badder Adder will add more friends to your account than you'll know what to do with. This program is surprisingly easy to use and inexpensive. The amount of time you'll save by letting Badder Adder help you build your friends list over night is well worth the modest price. This program is feature rich with several other useful tools to manage your MySpace Account as well. If you use MySpace, this is without question a MUST HAVE program.