Third Annual CommerceV3 User Conference a Success!

March 10, 2011 - PRLog -- (CHICAGO, IL)  Over 100 CommerceV3 merchant customers, vendors and sponsors met last week at the Third Annual CommerceV3 User Conference in Chicago, IL, attending cutting-edge technology sessions, networking with fellow e-commerce companies and learning valuable new features of the CV3 online storefront software.  http://www.commercev3.com/

CommerceV3 co-owners Nathan Focht and Blake Ellis are thrilled with the turnout for the third version of this user conference, held for the first time in Chicago to make it easier for their nationwide user base to attend.  “We listened to our customers,” Ellis explains, “who wanted a conference in the middle of the country so our East and West Coast customers could more easily take advantage of the incredible variety of seminars.”

Focht agrees, adding, “We also responded to the feedback from last year’s conference in Savannah by expanding the range of seminars relevant to everyone—from our newest CV3 customers to companies who’ve been with us for years.  Our goal was to help our users, both new and old, learn how CV3 can boost their business, including web marketing with CV3 and our partner company Timberline Interactive, general business education and meeting some of our vendor partners.”  Some of the information-rich sessions included talks on Micro Stores, A/B Split Testing, Effective Page Design, Reporting in CV3, Email Marketing, Customer Management & Promotions, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as well as some of the 75 newest CV3 features, especially CV3 Mobile Commerce.

Customers like Dan Whitsett, owner of CV3 customer SecretsinLace.com (http://www.secretsinlace.com/), appreciate the attention they get from the CommerceV3 staff, both at the conference and afterward.  “I find the conference really helpful,” he says.  “Other user conferences seem to be more about fixing bugs, but Nathan, Blake and their CV3 team are more responsive.  At last year’s conference, they said, ‘Here’s your opportunity to ask us for new CV3 software features’—then they actually went and built them!  Another great thing is the networking.  We’re launching a European version of our site, and at this year’s user conference, I met the owners of another company who created one last year.  So we talked about how they set it up, the business structure… the CV3 user conference is always a great place to bounce ideas off of other companies in your same situation.”

CommerceV3 is a hosted e-commerce platform with serious power for serious merchants.  It’s secure, reliable, scalable and 100 percent customizable.  With no transaction or bandwidth fees and unlimited sku counts, you have the freedom to take your online storefront to new heights.

For more information, contact Katherine Oxnard Ellis at pr@commercev3.com, 888-544-2211 or visit http://www.commercev3.com/.

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Launched in 2001 by Blake Ellis and Nathan Focht to handle the e-commerce needs of web customers, CommerceV3 (CV3) quickly gained steam and spun off into its own company. CV3 now powers hundreds of e-commerce sites across the U.S. and Canada.

CV3 has processed close to $1 billion in sales and is one of the few e-commerce platforms ideal for merchants of all sizes. A flat-fee subscription model keeps the platform relevant for small retailers, while advanced marketing, integration and segmentation provide power for larger merchants. While most e-commerce companies tout their user base, we keep ours small, preferring to cater to serious merchants driving serious revenue.

A 2009 merger with Timberline Interactive brought a full suite of growth services to CV3. List segmentation, cross sells, purchase path optimization and abandoned cart offers are now baked into the platform, with the option of full-service internet marketing, project management and back-office integration as needed.