Web Sites for Jewelry Stores Have you considered getting a Web Site for your Retail Jewelry Store? As you may know, getting a website is becoming easier and more affordable than ever, but a website that works for your retail jewelry business has been harder to find than you may have thought -- until now. Abbott Jewelry Systems, arguably the most experienced technology firm concentrating on just the retail jewelry industry, will build your website based on time-honored jewelry retailing principals, and provide your website with a link that automatically updates your site with new items, clearance items, repair status, special order arrivals, etc., directly from the EDGE And perhaps the best thing of all, the overall cost of your Edge integrated website will actually cost less than a similar professionally designed site that would need to be maintained by a web designer. The Jeweler's Web Site by Abbott Jewelry Systems Includes... Professional Website Design. Choose from our gallery of general layouts, and our professional design staff will create a website that accurately reflects the character of your store. Send us any existing corporate identity materials, e.g., recent advertising, stationery, a photo of your store front and signage, and we will design your website to complement and augment your existing image. Design services start at $1500 and run up from there, depending on how elaborate you want to go. For more detailed information, click here. Your Own Domain Name. As of March, 2008, there are around 95 million domain names registered in the United States, and this number is growing by about 2 million names every month. In this environment, your first choice for a domain name is probably already taken. We will research the available names, and help you pick an appropriate name for your business from several available choices. Your Own Email Addresses. You may choose up to five email addresses at your new domain name, and we will either "host" those email addresses on our mail server, or forward any mail sent to those five email addresses to any email address you specify. For example, if your new domain name is " www.william-jewelers-llc.com", then we can forward any email sent to " sales@william-jewelers-llc.com" to " williamthediamondguy@aol.com", and forward any email sent to " service@william-jewelers-llc.com" to " irepairwatches@yahoo.com". Additional email addresses can be purchased for annual fees of $50/ea, $200/five, or $350/ten. Each mailbox has a limit of 50MB. Inventory Gallery Pages. Your website will contain "gallery" pages, which will be automatically filled with thumbnail photos and prices from your in-store database, based on criteria that you and we develop together. Each of these thumbnails links to an item detail page, which will have a larger photo of the item, and the full description from the in-store database. Up to 200 items is included in the basic package, additional increments of 100 items can also be purchased for $50/yr. Information Pages Our designer will prepare several "information" pages for your website. You can choose these from a list of ready-made pages, and/or specify your own specific content. Once the designer is done, you can modify the content portion of these pages through your Edge software, without any risk of damaging the graphical design of the site. Web Site Hosting. Every web site needs a place to live. Just as your word processing documents are stored on the hard disk of your office computer, the pages of a web site are stored on the hard disk of a web server. All of our web sites are stored (or "hosted") in Telco-grade data centers with multiple redundant connections to the internet backbone for maximum reliability. Hosting fees are $600/year. Traffic Reports. Once your web site is up and running, you will naturally want to know how many visitors you are getting, which search engines are bringing them to you, and which items your visitors are looking at. We provide weekly and monthly reports that help you see this information clearly. Automatic Uploads. Each week, you will run a program in your store that will extract "new" items and "sale" items from your in-store database, and upload them to your website. This automatic upload process is one key aspect of our web offering. The ability to keep your website up to date with current items ensures that your website will always be "fresh" and attract visitors to your web site and your store. Typically, a business will pay a web designer to maintain their website in this manner. With The Jeweler's Web Site by Abbott Jewelry Systems, your web site is automatically kept up to date with the items from your in-store database, at a fraction of the cost. In addition to keeping your website populated with fresh inventory, the upload process also uploads the status of all your service jobs, so your customers can visit your website to see if their repair is ready (provided that you upload frequently). And, as already mentioned, this same upload process updates your website with any changes you may have made to your information pages. This automatic upload software, closely integrated with The Edge, is available for a one-time fee of $600. | 
