First customer sees immediate ROI and signs up after the weekend.

Wichita, Kansas (PRWEB) May 13, 2008 -- The eCommerce Merchants Trade Association (www.ecommercemerchants.org) recently endorsed BoldChat (www.boldchat.com), a leading live-communication provider, as an official solution provider for its worldwide membership of online retailers. The partnership arrangement provides merchants with specialized pricing for BoldChat’s robust real-time communication platform.

By offering members a feature-rich system that enables real-time chats, visitor monitoring, and pro-active invitations, all in an easy-to-install and affordable package, ECMTA is advancing their mission to provide best-in-class solutions to online merchants.

"We wanted to offer our members a comprehensive communication tool at a price that we knew would pay back quickly,” said Cresta Pillsbury, Vice President of eCommerce Merchants. “We know how important it is to connect with online customers in order to provide great service at low cost and to increase sales conversions – and that’s just what BoldChat does."

It took just a weekend for ActionGPS.com to experience the value of the eCommerce Merchants and BoldChat partnership.

“After learning about them while attending the eCommerce Merchants Spring Summit in New Orleans, we started a free trial of BoldChat on Friday morning and were so pleased with the response that we signed up for the full service Monday afternoon,” said Ali Masood, President and CEO of ActionGPS.com. “On our first full day of running live chat through BoldChat we converted similar sales through chat as we did over the phone. Setup was simple and conversion tracking along with visitor monitoring have worked wonderfully.”

About BoldChat

While BoldChat now counts many Enterprise-class companies as customers, we began by providing solutions to small and medium-size business. Boldchat's service, with guaranteed 99.9% uptime, has proven so effective thousands of websites across 70 countries now use it to boost online sales and conversion rates, reduce service and support costs, and improve agent productivity through live keyboard-based customer interaction. www.boldchat.com

About EMCTA

eCommerce Merchants is a leading trade association of small and medium sized ecommerce businesses. The organization provides best practices guidance, technology & infrastructure advice and sourcing & supplies solutions to online merchants around the world who use the internet to sell or promote products and services. www.ecommercemerchants.org (READ FULL ARTICLE)

Spring 2008 eCommerce Summit Attracts Record Attendance and Rebuilds Homes in New Orleans

April 28, 2008 New York, NY – Over 500 Internet professionals traveled to New Orleans for the 9th eCommerce Summit (http://www.ecommerce-summit.com) which concluded on April 25th. Merchants from around the world gathered for three days of learning, networking and volunteering for charity with executives from the Internet's leading companies. (READ FULL ARTICLE)

If you are already a member of PeSA ECMTA you may already know of John. I mean, he is hard to miss! I don’t say this just because he knows how to attract attention with his branded 3rdPowerOutlet clothing…

I say it because John is a active member on the PeSA ECMTA Forums and as the first first African American member of PeSA he is a trailblazer who adds real value to the community. (READ FULL ARTICLE)

“One of eBay’s mantras for the last 10 years was that they provide a level playing field for everyone,” says Jonathan Garriss, executive director of the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance, a group of eBay’s largest sellers. “But they now realize that just doesn’t work in today’s competitive environment. So they are doing a lot of things they never did before, like treating their biggest sellers like their customers and giving more things to their better customers. Any business does that.” (READ FULL ARTICLE)