Business/Technology Editors
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2000
E-Commerce Play and Advanced Technology offering FREE Member
Registration, ePrize Features and Auction Search to
its Members
LiveUniverse.com (http://www.liveuniverse.com), a leading Internet provider of free, state-of-the-art, Internet tools, today announced the launch of three new sophisticated e-commerce features. Through these free services, entrepreneurs and small businesses are now better able to compete with companies that have multi-million dollar Web development budgets without the burden of developing and managing backend technology.
Member Registration gives members the ability to secure their sites as well as learn valuable information about their customers without investing in a database or hiring a technical staff. The LiveUniverse affiliate Webmaster is able to extract the same information as large sites without spending millions of dollars on technology. As a result, LiveUniverse.com is further breaking down the barriers to entry for Webmasters large and small.
In addition to Member Registration, LiveUniverse.com has partnered exclusively with ePrize. Their joint ezPrize offering allows even the smallest sites to drive traffic and interest by offering major promotions and prize giveaways on their sites including brand new sports cars and large cash pay-outs, all free of charge for the webmaster and user. Recognizing the power of promotions to drive traffic, LiveUniverse pursued ePrize so that together they could develop a tool giving the webmaster the ability to drive even more traffic and usage. According to Promo Magazine's most recent data, the promotions industry generated $85 billion in 1998 and Forrester predicts that 50-70% of Internet marketing budgets will be spent on promotions.
Through an exclusive partnership with Bidxs, LiveUniverse.com also offers an online auction search to affiliate webmaster. Users can browse the net's leading auction sites, like eBay to find any kind of product or item in seconds. This feature not only gives users an incentive to come back and search their catalogues, but also Webmasters can collect a commission on each transaction.
"LiveUniverse.com is extending commerce related technology to its users to increase its presence in the business-to-business marketplace," said Seth Tapper, president of LiveUniverse.com. "Through our service, small businesses now have the ability to showcase their products and services with a professional design minus the cost and backend support. We expect this to be the first of many LiveUniverse.com initiatives to offer comprehensive e-commerce, web-building tools in the category, including the development of a new business-to-business resource site."
LiveUniverse.com will continue to grow its comprehensive network sites to include small businesses and entrepreneurs. Among the many free Web building tools, LiveUniverse.com offers scrolling tickers, quizzes, message boards and greeting cards. Current members and new users simply logon to www.liveuniverse.com and choose the E-commerce and content-related features best suited for their sites needs. Users then follow the on-screen instructions to upload features to new or existing sites.
About LiveUniverse.com
Founded in 1998, LiveUniverse.com is the first, complete solution enabling Webmasters to create entire homepage communities, for free. By using LiveUniverse.com's exclusive Sitebuilder service, users can easily create and maintain their own professional looking community and commerce sites for free. LiveUniverse.com provides the tools, hosts and maintains the homepages and even offers free customer support. LiveUniverse.com's suite of seamlessly integrated, professional quality, free services include -- e-mail lists, Java chat, greeting cards and online auctions- and are designed to enable even the most novice Internet user the ability to create cutting-edge Web businesses and communities fast and free.
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