Online Store ? Ten Reasons Why Big Commerce Is Number One Choice

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By joeygee007

Free Online store up close and personal
Free Online store up close and personal

I was recently asked if I personally knew of a good E-Commerce shopping cart solution and if I would write a hub page on the subject. I have a passion for writing. I think its because I learned to read and write at 26 years of age.

So I guess I am trying to make up for it now. I am sharpening my skills daily and while it is hard work I believe that practice makes perfect. I have worked in construction and other difficult and labor intensive jobs, most of my life but writing takes a lot more work. It is as rewarding as it is hard. Hopefully I am getting better at resolving other peoples problems with these hub pages. So please be easy on the comments knowing I am sincerely doing my best.

I recommended and still recommend Big Commerce because my experience with the product was so positive and the company and support team world class. I will keep the hub down to a minimum so that you will have time to review an awesome demo video.

If you are anything like me when I was in business selling products I love what I did and was passionate about it. What was hard for me was having to learn all the stuff that goes with doing anything on line. You have to cut through all the crap to get to the good stuff.

I spent months researching and actually using a ton of different shopping carts. It was a night mare. It seemed they that the technology hadn't been perfected yet. I had to learn so many things I would be up twenty hours a day with most of my time learning the tools which I needed to run a successful business.

I can not tell you the endless hours I spent days weeks and months until I ran across Big Commerce. Actually I had picked up a web building tool with a powerful data base and it was then that I was introduced to Big Commerce , The most comprehensive yet user friend shopping cart I had seen to date.

So let me share with you ten reasons why you should try their free trial.It is a pleasure to use and saves you a lot of time. Saving you time you can not make up.Time which you can better use enjoying your family and friends. Time used in building your business and basically time to charge your battery so that you don't burn out. I would work so many hours my dog bit me once cause he forgot who I was. (smile)

Ten reasons Why Big Commerce was my choice

1) Drag and drop mode make real easy for non technical people to modify the look and layout of your online store.

2) Quick Editmakes text changes easy. If you are an advance user making changes to the Html and CSS with out the need of a ftp program which save a lot of time. If you are not advance no worries the system helps you through it with a tutorial very quickly.

3) Online diff tool(advance user) If you are a designer or a developer you will appreciate the built in diff tool. Where you can see the changes you've made to a template or merge releases of a template. It's a very simple procedure that can be done from your browser view and comparing the old and new side by side color coded.

4) Over 50 store designs to chose from that you can change with just a few clicks, when ever you want to freshen up the look of your store . The designs are professionally done and free to use unlike most other solutions.

5) Discounts and promotions rules are easy to create and saved. The system recognizes and applies the rules dynamically and throughout the system.

6) Web pages and contact forms are a breeze with Big Commerce to create. Its never been this easy for me. Navigation drop down menu ... no problem.

7) Adding a Phone Ordersto your online store is an added benefit and a breeze. Its dynamic so you can instantly handle existing and new customers with just a few clicks. With existing customer the fields are dynamically populated with their information making quick and painless.The order takes less than 30 seconds to complete

8) In-store Banners promotions are easily created. Layout and placement easy and quick.

9) SEO (Search Engine Optimization) built in to the system and very sophisticated to help you rank high on search engines like google.

10) Detail Reports to help you optimize sales and helps you make more money from your store .You are going to love this feature it is extremely easy to use but highly effective. It incorporate a lot of new technoloy and not only easy to use but presents the information in a practical way. It even handles your inventory.

There you have it, I hope this hub was informative and useful to you. I hope you have a few minutes to view the demo . If you like what you see take it for a test drive. Its free and like I said I was very satisfied with the company and products.

Sell products online with BigCommerce - try it free!

Guys If you have any questions you know where to find me . Thank you for reading my hubs. If there is anything I can do for you let me know. Help get me out there in front of the crowds.

Joe Garcia

aka Joeygee007

Comments

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mattn78 2 years ago

Hi Joe,

Big Commerce does look like a good option for a new "ecommerce shop" merchant. I followed your link, and the the system is also priced fairly. Thanks for providing this valuable review of Big Commerce.

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joeygee007 Hub Author 2 years ago

Thanks Matt

steven 2 years ago

Joe get's paid every time you click over to big commerce. I would put a blog up also if I got paid to refer someone. :-/

David Bunker 2 years ago

Steven, he took the time to write about it. If you want to click it and go to the site great. If not that's fine too. Why do you care if he makes a buck if someone clicks his links AND buys? He doesn't make anything if they just click his link. Plus they have a free trial so they have nothing to lose.

Personally I use have been using Magento so I have no real reason to post this other than to say that your comment was pointless.

BigCommerce Design 23 months ago

I am a designer/developer and have moved all of my projects from the Yahoo Small Business platform to BigCommerce. I support them 100%

www.thirdeyegraphicsolutions.com

JR 23 months ago

Big Commerce is far easier to use and manipulate than a lot of the other shopping carts I have used such as X-Cart and Volusion. There are some significant coding limits, but for starting and quickly selling online Big Commerce is the way to go.

We have since started about 5 Big Commerce store and are looking to switch the Volusion and X-Cart stores over.

Because we are using it so much now, we have had some custom coded tools built that can greatly increase your efficiency.

If you want to check them out, please visit http://www.bigcommercetools.com.

I hope they help and I hope you have just as good as an experience with Big Commerce as we have.

thedirector227 19 months ago

(applies to US-based customers..perhaps other countries as well)

I have been using BC for several months now and I have been super pleased with their shopping cart system.

Aside from several suggestions I have made on the forums, the only real complaint I have, and that you all should know, is that BC charges you an International Exchange Rate fee every month when you make a payment.

If you look closely at your e-bill through your bank institution, you might notice that your Big Commerce payment goes to a bank located in the UK, not the US.

Now, the charge is nothing substantial, but why do I even have to pay for this? Why don't open a US-based bank account? And if they choose to not open this account, why can't they either include that fee in the price or pay for it themselves?

All I'm saying here is that it's crappy, that's all, and it's more crappy that I caught it. If most of your clients are US-based, open a bank account here and at least pay back some of those fees to the US people. ...we sure could use some of that money right now.

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EverettW 15 months ago

Great article, check out my hubs and let me know what you think.I have been doing articles on this.

Everett Winchester

www.startmybiz.info

Ayden @ Look At BigCommerce 14 months ago

Cheers for the review Joe!

I was going through the list and I was like, when is he going to mention SEO! ... haha...

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