Use Facebook to Sell

We asked if our resellers use Facebook for business purposes recently and it appears that many of you do.

We are working on other Facebook applications but we have started by creating an RSS feed which you can use on Facebook or on any other
site where you can use an RSS feed.

Below are the instructions for importing the Weekly Hot Deals into your Facebook page.

Step 1
Sign in to Facebook's home page using the email address you registered with.

Step 2
Follow the "My Notes" link from the navigational menu. If you have already entered notes on your page, then they will load for you to preview or edit.

Step 3
Select the "Import Blog" or "Edit Import Settings" link in the Notes Setting section. If you are already importing from a blog, the URL will appear here. You can only import from 1 source at a time. Simply "Stop Importing" if you want to change to an RSS feed.

Step 4
Enter the URL for the RSS feed in the box.
PLEASE NOTE: You should use your own discount code instead of the sample code ND?????? below. Your Discount Code can be found on the right hand side of the home page at http://www.resellersonly.com/member

Your Hot deals URL is : http://www.nextdaypc.com/main/rss/bestbuys.aspx?ID=ND???????

Check the box next to the statement that you actually own the content.

Step 5
Click the "Start Importing" button. Facebook will import the content of the RSS feed for you to preview. If everything looks good, then go ahead and hit the "Continue" button. Now your RSS feed is automatically imported into your "Notes" section.

Step 6
Set your privacy levels to determine who is allowed to view your notes, which now contain your RSS feed.

That’s all there is to it. Every Tuesday, when we create new Hot Deals, your Facebook page is automatically update with the latest Hot Deals.

Get Ready for the Season

Whether you like it or not, Christmas is just around the corner and Internet sales usually spike during this time. To make sure you can capture as many sales as possible we have created a Holiday Gift Guide with nicely categorized products. Your customer can search by category and by price and we've made sure there is something for everyone. We've put a link on every page of the storefront so they can't miss it.

Banners
If you have your own web site (click here if you don't) you can put some great new banners on it and capture those sales directly from you site. Go to the promotional tools after logging into you reseller account and get the HTML code for these banners.
Good luck and feel free to shop around yourself.

Beta version is ready for testing

We have just uploaded our second version of our ResellersOnly.com Beta site, version 1.1. We have added robust error trapping and worked out some bugs we found after the first release.

Please feel free to test it but please read the notes below before you do (the URL is at the bottom)

1) If you want to give us feedback, please include a URL and describe what you were doing if you experienced an error. Please send any feedback to betafeedback@nextdaypc.com . We do encourage feedback and we certainly use it, but we do not reply to these emails

2) Some areas on the web site appear to have links but do not function as such. This is intentional, these areas are not finished and will appear in a future version.

3) You can use your current reseller ID and password to log in.

4) The old site will be available until we launch the production version of the site here: http://www.resellersonly.com/login.asp

Ok, here we go: http://www.resellersonly.com/member

Have fun and please let us know what you like, dislike and if you experience any issues.

Protecting your Reseller Account

When I opened my mailbox this morning I found the following question from a reseller: Why do my customers have to sign up before they can see anything on the storefront?

Every once in awhile this question seems to return along with another question I get asked: What do you do to make sure my customer places an order through my reseller account?

In general, the most important thing for us is to make sure that you feel you can rely on our services. Without you as a reseller we would not be able to sell any product so it is in our own best interest to make sure that you and your customers keep coming back.

To answer both questions, and maybe more, let me describe the paths your customer might take to get to the storefront. It all has to do with cookies and linking.

1. If your customer has never visited NextDayPC.com before and types in http://www.nextdaypc.com/ he will see a secure sign in page, where he will be asked to set up an account and to include a discount code. To try this just delete your NextDayPC.com cookie, close all browser windows, and visit http://www.nextdaypc.com. If you think that this is just what your customer might do, make sure you give them your discount code.
   


2. The most common path for your customer is probably from clicking a link on your website or in an e-mail. To get detailed instructions on how to do this, click here. As soon as that customer goes to the storefront, a cookie with your discount code is placed on the customer's machine and from then on and determines the look and feel of the site and the product pricing. This takes us to the next possible path.
   


3. Once your customer has a cookie and returns to the storefront, even if they just type in http://www.nextdaypc.com, the discount code information will be read and the pricing and layout will change on the fly. Your customer will never see this secure sign in page.

If your customer decides to delete the cookie, he returns to the first option described above, leaving him with the option to sign in or to create a new account. If he signs in because he had created an account previously , the storefront will recognize the customer, associates him with the appropriate reseller and will put another cookie on your customer's machine.

I hope this clears up the some of these questions. Feel free to comment on this post or ask me a question by clicking here.

Storefront Linking de-mystified

We have been getting a lot of emails lately requesting a little help linking to certain areas or pages on NextDayPC.com. With the holiday season right around the corner it will probably pay off re-visiting your links and making sure everything works the way it should.


What NOT to do...
Make sure you never link to the storefront without including your Discount Code. Your Discount Code is the 9-digit Code starting with ND0. You can find this code on the home page after logging in to your account at http://www.resellersonly.com/. For the examples below we will use ND0123456 and the links have been disabled.

Linking to the Home page
Only for the home page there are 2 ways to send your customers there. Let's start with the most difficult one;

1. Because of engineering issues we advise you to use this one on your web site, it is more reliable and will modify any old or incorrect cookies. Use the following format
   http://www.nextdaypc.com/main/default.aspx?&rsmainid=ND0123456 and replace the Discount Code with your own.


2. We also have the option for a "simplified" URL. You can change that in your storefront settings on www.resellersonly.com . When you're visiting customers, for printed material or in your email signature you can use something like this www.nextdaypc.com/art . Of course this is much easier to remember than the first option.

Linking to ANY page
The formula for linking to any page on nextdaypc.com is quite simple.
Once you have located the correct page on the site just copy the URL (see image below) and add the following string:
&rsmainid=ND0123456 where you replace ND0123456 with your own Discount Code. The result would look something like this:
http://www.nextdaypc.com/main/products/details.aspx?PID=2735863&rsmainid=ND0123456



Again, you can do this with any page on the storefront.