Vicki of No2Alike Jewelery asks: “Hi, I am being asked to partner with someone, exactly how does this work? Will they get any of my profits from my website and how will this benefit me and my business? Is this a good idea? I don’t know anything about this. Thank-you, Vicki”

Thanks for the great question Vicki.

What is it?

A partnership allows you to display a link to your store on their store and vice versa.  Checkout Shop JunCk’s partnerships:

How does it work?

If you accept a partnership request your stores will be automatically linked on your store homepage.  If you want to seek out partners you can easily do that in the Network -> Find Partners section.

Should you do it?

If you like your partners store and what they are doing then YES you should do it.  It will help you get more traffic to your store.

Will they get any of your profits?

No.

We just added Amzed Designs to our list of talented designers you can hire to design your store.  Check out our full list here.

Buying things on your store just got a little sweeter.  Give your customers coupon codes to receive a discounts on their order.  You can give customers two types of coupons 1) Percentage based and/or 2) Free Shipping.

After creating a coupon code, customers will see a new field to enter a optional coupon code. When they enter a valid coupon code, they’ll see a discount in their total.

This feature is available to all Pro and Super customers.  To use this feature head over to Marketing -> Give Coupons and create a coupon code.

Bonus Feature: Make the coupon public and we will list it on our public store coupons page!

One of the best ways to get natural organic search results on Google/Yahoo/Bing is to put your main keywords in your website title.

Now you can modify the title tags of your store.  Go to Marketing -> Basic Tools and enter in your website title.

What should your website title be?  It should be your store name and what you sell.

Ask yourself: “What do I want my potential customers typing into Google to find me?” - That is what your website title should be.

Feel free to ask me for suggestions on what your website title should be in the comments.

Our custom CSS now has helpful comments and is structured it to be easier to read.  We also added a nifty “Fullscreen” button so you can use your entire computer screen to work on your CSS.

Add an extra page to your store! Use this page to add a customer testimonial section, more information on your products, pictures of your customers, or anything else you can think of.

This page will be added to the main navigation in your store.  Enjoy!

Allow bloggers/publishers/YOU to easily display your products on any website. 

Check out this video tutorial on what this feature is and how to use it:

This is what an embedded product looks like:

TV Saurus Tee

$15.00

The embed button is right next to the share links located on all stores:

Flying Cart is looking for a talented programmer to add to our small team. We need an expert PHP coder who knows how to think outside the box. We are looking for someone who is passionate about ecommerce and small business, and is filled with creative ideas about how to help business owners. Design skills would be a bonus. You must be located in San Francisco or willing to move there. (We are not there yet but will be soon.)

You should:

• have a minimum of 10 years of programming experience with at least 5 of those in the web startup world

• have expert-level knowledge of PHP, MySQL, Javascript/AJAX, OOP, MVC architecture and PHP frameworks, web-app scalability, SVN, HTML, CSS. You should have a good working knowledge of Photoshop and SEO/SEM.

• be able to get things done independently

• consider yourself an entrepreneur at heart

• be passionate about ecommerce and small business

• have good writing and communcation skills

• have a good sense of humor

If you are interested in this position, we want to hear from you. Write us an email (info@flyingcart.com) telling us where you think ecommerce will be in two years and how you can make it better. Please include links to the last three projects you worked on (no resumes please) and the name of the last book you read.

I’m still on my local kick.  You can now enter in your local listing on Microsoft through the Local Listing Center on Bing.

Thank you to Lisa Barone of Small Biz Trends for the tip!

Google Base now requires you to add in your location. This is an effort to make their search engine local friendly. In the next 30 days you need to login to your Google Base account and enter in your location and accept Google’s new terms of use or your account will go inactive.

Read more about the changes on the Google Base Blog.