WorksForWeb redesigned corporate site released

After several months of development, we are proud to release our long awaited totally redesigned corporate website: http://www.worksforweb.com/. This redesigned website provides more detailed information about our company activity and services, and features in-depth information about our classifieds products: iRealty, iAuto and iLIster. So why did we decide to make the changes and what did we do to improve the site?We created our classifieds products from scratch. It was a long way from simple PHP script to sophisticated yet easy-to-use classifieds engine capable to run large classifieds portals. Our old product sites grew up with the products step by step, from enhancement to enhancement. And one day we realized that our old product sites cannot serve the needs of our top-notched products and it does not reflect our organisation’s current market position. We know that we have to evolve to ensure we can deliver what customers need today. A web site redesign was a great opportunity to evaluate where we are today and where we want to be in the future.

At the beginning of the redesign we outlined the main purposes of the site as follows:

• Enhance customer perception of our classifieds products and WorksForWeb services


• Ensure an online presence in the face of similar moves by competitors


• Provide customers with the ability to view the product demo on-line


• Provide an opportunity to inform people about classifieds scripts in which they may be interested, thus enhancing customer service and increasing sales.

Several months of hard work of designers and developers allow us to present you our new redesigned site. So what’s the value?

We tried to make the web site well presented and provide it a professional appearance. Now the site appears to contain most of the information a customer would require. We use the language and visual cues in a manner that is both internally consistent and consistent with general practice, so our customers do not have to learn any new techniques in order to use the site successfully.

One of the most important challenges was the necessity to consolidate four sites in one (three products sites and one company site) and retain the navigation through the site clear and user-friendly. We worked hard to design 4-level menu. The 1-st level menu presents our company, products and services, the 2-nd level menu navigates you through the scripts and addons available. The 3-d level menu guides you through the information about each product: iAuto, iRealty and iLister, product features, portfolio, demos, documentation, etc. And finally the 4-th level menu (it’s displayed in the right block of the site unlike the previous three menu levels which are located under the site header) invites you to look deeper into the detailed info about product editions and detailed functionality descriptions. If necessary, a site map is available.

We designed the site with our valued customers in mind so we did our best to provide all necessary means of communication. We encourage you to contact us through the contact forms specially designed for pre-sales questions, submitting testimonials and feature requests and general suggestions, besides you can call us or chat via Skype.

We created the site with love and desire to make your surfing through our site and searching for the information smooth and problemless. Our designers tried to make the site attractive and pleasant to look at. You are our most severe judges and the best usability consultants. We are eager to listen to your opinion about our efforts regarding the site redesign. We would like to offer you to fill in a short survey on the site redesign. Your feedback is highly appreciated!

How to write a good success story: CARP - Model

Author: Natalie Kozlova

We live in the world where people are mostly skeptical and need a good reason to listen to you, or choose your product or use your services. Previously we discussed the reasons for writing success stories and today we will learn how to write a success story that makes people believe.

There are a lot of ways to write an interesting and persuasive story and you can easily google them. Today we offer you the CARP-model for wring success stories, the model which is easy to understand and follow and flexible enough to be changed giving you much space for self-expression. Finally it’s quite effective.

The structure consists of four parts:

1. Challenge

2. Action

3. Result

4. Perspective

We call this structure CARP-model. it’s easy to remember even if you are not a fishing lover, isn’t it?

So the CARP-model provides you with the structure for your success story. Let’s dive deeper into the details.

Challenge

The main purpose is to make readers identify with the challenge.

Who had the challenge? Who cares?

What problem, issue or concern needed addressing?

Why was it important?

What was the cost of addressing or not addressing it

Action

The main purpose is to demonstrate how you responded to the challenge and how our product and services can impact the business challenge.

What did you do to address your challenge?

How big was the project? Include inputs (staff, funding, volunteers, research, expertise) and outputs - activities (teaching, facilitation, product development and people (number of people and demographics).

Which product or services by WorksForWeb did you use?

How did our products and services help?

Why do you choose this product?

Result

The main purpose is to show that the benefits are real, quantifiable and compelling

What resulted? Use quantitative and qualitative data to describe important outcomes (changes and benefits) achieved as a result of the actions described earlier.

Who benefited and how? Help the reader understand the meaning behind the change.

Describe the benefits you achieved (including benefits like increased customer satisfaction or reduced stuff turnover) in most-important-to-least-important order.

Perspective

The main purpose is to show that achieved excellent results are the part of continuous growth and you are full of plans and perspectives.

What is the perspective for the future?

Is there a next stage that you now plan to implement?

How do you plan to change your business in future?

What are your goals and intentions?

You just need to follow the CARP-model and it will keep you from becoming confused while writing your success story. Answer all questions and you will get well-structured and clear success story.

And some more tips:

· Don’t forget about the appealing lead to the story

· Use attractive pictures

· Proofread the text

· Use active vs. passive voice

· Read it aloud before submitting somewhere

· If the story seems too long, delete one or more of the least important facts from the story .

· Try to follow the classic structure for writing a success story: Problem and Solution, Before and After, Then and Now.

· Focus on the reader's interest (usually in terms of how clients benefit).

Good fishing!

Marketing Tips: Providing The Competitive Advantage Through Writing Success Stories

Just imagine that your classifieds site is one of the most successful in the on-line classifieds industry, but no one knows about this fact. The both sides - you and your prospect clients - suffer. You are not properly rewarded for your efforts because nobody knows about your excellence and your clients don’t know what good services are available for them to use and how they can be benefitted.

You should do something to make the public to get to know about your accomplishments. How?

We’ve got the answer! Write a success story! Success story, case study, customer testimonial - whatever you call them they are a valuable sales and marketing tool, as their main goal is to impact public and make them visit your site and use your products or services. Almost everybody loves to read about success stories. They are always about a challenge, new experience and looking for solutions.

What Is a Success Story?

In general, success story is an example of a successful practice when a company has achieved documented successful results. Success stories can be as short as 3-4 paragraphs or as long as 20 pages. It can be distributed in print, as PDFs, in the company newsletter, it also can be posted on the Web site, distributed at conferences, packaged and tailored to particular audiences for customer meetings, and sent in direct mail packages.

Why to write success stories?

· To give your readers an example of real successful project. Examples will help to understand difficult concepts and complex business issues. And solutions that can solve the issues.

· To generate empathy to enable readers to empathize with the challenge that you faced in the success story, in case your readers face a similar problem. The goal is make readers to closely identify with the author of the relevant success story.

· To add credibility. People believe success stories because such case studies usually relate a factual situations, besides they are full of real facts. A good success story full with facts and figures can also demonstrate ROI (if the documentation of a return on investment is possible).

· To share your ideas and to learn what works and what doesn’t work.

· To let the public know that you do good work that positively impacts the lives of people

Anyway writing a success story about your business can not only provide the competitive advantage that your business need, but give you additional reason to be proud of yourself which is also important for a successful businessman like you.

“Classifieds in Your Language” Discount Campaign launched

WorksForWeb, a well-known worldwide provider of efficient online classifieds solutions for small and medium businesses, launches a one-month long “Classifieds in Your Language” discount campaign to support further development of language files for iAuto, iLister and iRealty.

The 'Classifieds in Your Language' campaign launches on 7 September 2009 and will last for one month.

Every participant can get up to $100 of discount off any Standard Edition license in exchange for a new lang file for iAuto, iLIster, or iRealty from the Top Wanted list of languages needed (all other promotions are not applicable as part of this offer).

Participants can also get up to $50 of discount off any Standard Edition license (iAuto, iLister, or iRealty) for updating or improving an existing lang file.

In addition to that, five lucky participants selected randomly will each get a Banner Management Addon (BMA) as an extra bonus.

To take part in the campaign, please WorksForWeb official website to get more info about the campaign terms

Questions? Additional Info? Please send your inquiries to our Sales Dept at sales@iautosoftware.com, sales@irealtysoft.com or sales@ilistersoft.com.

Learning SEO: Social Bookmarking For Your Site. Get Started!

List of Bookmarking Sites

In fact, there are 100’s of sites out there you can bookmark your site at. Please, check out our social bookmarking list and build your own.

Connotea.org PR8
Twitter.com PR8
Digg.com PR7
Propeller.com PR7
Reddit.com PR8
Del.icio.us PR8
Stumbleupon.com PR8
Google.com/Bookmarks PR7
Technorati.com PR8
Slashdot.org PR8
Furl.net PR7
Bibsonomy.org PR7
Blinklist.com PR7
Newsvine.com PR7
Folkd.com PR7
Indianpad.com PR6
Myweb.yahoo.com PR7
Blogger.com PR7
Myspace.com PR8
Dzone.com PR7
Swik.net PR7
Lipstick.com PR7
Squidoo.com PR7
Mister-wong.com PR7
Facebook.com PR8

How to add my site to a social bookmarking site?

As an example, let’s add our site to the bookmarks at Google.com. First of all you need to create an account (if you have no account). Ready? Now you are able to store additional bookmarks, tag your bookmarks, and share with anyone interested in your bookmarks.

Adding a bookmark

1. Go to your iGoogle page
2. Find “Google Bookmarks” module.
3. Enter the URL, Name and Labels for your site. Name should be appealing for other people who may be interested in the bookmark. Include the keyword phrase into your title as well.


4. Click “Add” button and your site is bookmarked!



And remember that now you have one more external link to your site. Congratulations!

If you haven't tried a Bookmarking site, join one, and use it for a few months before you make a judgment on how useful it is. And surely use Share Your Site feature provided with our classifieds software to encourage your visitors to add your site to their bookmarks.

Learning SEO: Social Bookmarking For Your Site

Social bookmarking is an activity performed over a computer network that allows users to save and categorize a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. Users may also take bookmarks saved by others and add them to their own collection, as well as to subscribe to the lists of others. It's a tool for personal knowledge management (Wikipedia.org).

In other words, social bookmarking involves saving bookmarks (web addresses) to a public Web site so you can access these bookmarks from any computer connected to the web. Having your site bookmarked in a number of popular social bookmarking sites you drive more traffic to the content at your site. So if you create a piece of content and title it with the keyword phrase you need, you will get a free external link with the required anchor text.

If you wish to create your own social bookmarks, you must register with a social bookmarking site. The part that takes the longest is probably setting up an account for each site, which includes email confirmations. But remember, no pain, no gain, right?

What you need to continue:

- keyword-rich content that provides value at the page of your site
- an appealing title with selected keywords within the title
- time to monitor your accounts at social bookmarking sites
- regular analysis of how long each link pops up in search engines. At some point you will reach a place where you are no longer drawing significant traffic from your older bookmarks, but that’s OK.

Beware of spamming these sites and making your list of bookmarks appear unattractive or an obvious marketing ploy which will net you very little. The biggest problem with this method is time and the relative effectiveness of the links. You have to make sure the content is good and the title passes spam detection else it will simply be deleted. Don’t abuse this by submitting every page of your site, try to be judicious and think about what pages of your site may be helpful and of interest to other web surfers.

There is an opinion that social bookmarking has limited appeal for a SEO professional. The reason is that you cannot count on it to increase site rankings directly, but indirectly it can increase awareness which may eventually provide additional natural linking. Besides many social bookmarking sites do not allow crawlers to follow links, thus the links do not help the page rank. However social bookmarking is still one of the cheapest and the most effective ways to get sites deep crawled and indexed and attract more visitors.

Even if you are not going to base the SEO campaign for your site on this technique it should be in your SEO toolbox of tasks anyway. And don’t’ forget that having great page content accurate meta tags with a solid web design combined with quality links from other pages of similar content contribute best to the end users experience.

WorksForWeb Launches a New Release of iAuto, iLIster and iRealty to Enhance Income Generation from Classifieds Websites

WorksForWeb is proud to come up with a new version of its classifieds software: iLister 4.6.0, iRealty 4.7.0 and iAuto 4.6.0. As of this version, we're offering ability to display video from YouTube, brand new search among users, ability to include a slideshow to listings. You will now have a wonderful opportunity to use WYSIWYG editor in text-fields and make the listings highlighted. Several bug fixes and existing features enhancements have been also added. Along with amazing performance, customizability and speed you can now enjoy the expanded functionality aimed at the providing you as a classifieds site owner with new reliable revenue streams to earn more and more money offering your visitors and clients new options to make their listings stay out of the crowd.

Now users can easily add a vivid and informative slideshow to their listings. Users simply pay for this option to be enabled by the administrator and get access to the opportunity to create an attractive slide show. The slide show includes all necessary elements for comfortable viewing of the slides uploaded for the listing (start/stop/pause buttons, customizing slide changing intervals, etc.)

Another great feature - displaying video from YouTube in listings - will allow you to add a block displaying videos directly from YouTube and similar video sites. This option can be provided by the administrator for any listing on paid basis. The administrator can turn on this function for all listings making this option absolutely free to use for all registered users or this function can be enabled for only several user groups and few listings paid by your clients. Sometimes a short video clip can say much more than words or even a number of pictures, so it’s a good reason for your users to pay for the video in listing and a great chance for them to present the listing in the best way.

The administrator can now create a page with the ability to perform search among the registered users of the site. Users will be able to specify search criteria and view the results which will include the list of the users from the selected group. So you can now enjoy the search among the registered users having all the search opportunities you are used to have with previous versions of iLister, iRealty and iAuto classifieds software. Besides the search results are generated and displayed as a separate page with specific URL where user information is presented (including logo, contacts, links to full user profile and all listings by this user). This feature is a great chance for those dealers who has no their own web-site. The generated web-page can be presented by the dealer to clients and provide on-line presence at minimum costs.

The new version of the classifieds software also offers powerful formatting capabilities for text-fields in listings with WYSIWYG editor to visually improve content and make it more attractive and readable.

New version of iLister, iRealty and iAuto classifieds software provides the ability to highlight the selected listings. It will surely play its positive role in attracting attention of the prospective clients. The administrator of the classifieds site can enable highlight feature and set the price for using the feature. Listing owner can activate highlighting simply by pressing on "Make Highlighted" button and enjoy this additional opportunity to make listings visibly outstanding.

You are welcome to find more information on the changes and improvements implemented to iAuto, iRealty, and iLister on the official WFW website at www.worksforweb.com. Alternatively, you can contact, email or chat with our Sales Team. Please send your requests to sales@iautosoftware.com, sales@irealtysoft.com and sales@ilistersoft.com and we'll be happy to address your inquiries.

New iAuto, iRealty & iLister Release by WorksForWeb

WorksForWeb (WFW), a software development team specialized in the classifieds solutions announces a new release of its top classifieds products: iAuto, iRealty and iLister.

WFW introduces a number of new features to enhance the overall user experience with the classifieds scripts. In response to customer demand and recently collected feature requests, iAuto, iRealty and iLister now include a host of serious improvements in usability, functionality and performance dictated by the advanced industry standards and requirements.

The listing comparison mechanism is introduced in the latest software release. It provides advanced field-by-field comparison algorithms for multiple listings. Unlike some of the industry's market leader portals, all WFW product-based websites now offer unlimited listing comparison capability. Users browsing listings in one category can simply click the “Compare Ad” button and all pre-selected listings will be displayed in the Comparison Results table. Users can also remove some listings from the table to focus closer on the ones that best match the request. Now the eternal problem of choosing among similar products is elegantly resolved in a couple of mouse clicks.

Among the newly added features there is one that performs import and export of user data in both CSV and XLS formats. Those formats are the most typical and widely-used user account formats. This feature is instrumental for backing up and sharing of the customer account base with third party applications (internal corporate db, newsletter scripts, billing software) fast, easily and conveniently.

The latest release also features CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) protection added to block form submissions from spam bots and prevent abuse. Ad ranking system, a great social networking tool, is a great tool to encourage customer participation and sharing of experience.
Now images uploaded to listings on websites powered by WorksForWeb classifieds software can be copyright protected with watermarks. As a site administrator, you can easily add a custom watermark (image or text) to be automatically merged with all images uploaded by your users. As TechFAQ.com points out, using watermarks for copyright protection and security reasons is equally beneficial to the Web site owners as using watermarks as a marketing/branding tool for additional exposure.

In addition to the above features, the new release of iAuto, iRealty and iLister classifieds solutions includes a number of enhancements such as indicators of the max number of symbols allowed for text input fields, and a new and greatly improved availability calendar interface.
You are welcome to find more information on the changes and improvements implemented to iAuto, iRealty, and iLIster on the official WFW website at www.worksforweb.com. Alternatively, you can contact, email or chat with our Sales Team. Please send your requests to sales@iautosoftware.com , sales@irealtysoft.com and sales@ilistersoft.com and we'll be happy to address your inquiries.

New Awesome Features: Do We Actually Need Them?

Over the last few years we've come across thousands of requests for new features, new capabilities, and functions that make the buzz of the industry. Let's take a look at whether you actually need features you may be asking for.

Export of your listings to Autotrader.com, Google Base, etc.

Cool, you've decided that the awesome marketing offer you can lure new customers in is the ability for one low fee to post customers' cool rides not only to your iAuto-based website, but also to Google Base, Cars.com and Autotrader.com. Sure, it'd be nice to expand your customer's capabilities of selling his/her car.

However, let's look at it from a different perspective. In the real life, you can hardly imagine referring your favorite customer to a competitor much stronger than yourself. Next thing you know it is you don't have a business anymore.

However, agreeing to cross-post your listings to Google Base or Cars.com, all you're doing is helping one of your great, strong competitors become even greater and stronger. Next time visitors will go directly to Gbase and post their ads for free. After all, why pay money to Joe the Car Dealer if you can submit it to a directory that is frequented by lots of people, with listings being displayed all over.

Downloading and displaying third party listings.

Every other car dealer who's ever inquired about our listing import feature actually was looking for pumping a million or so listings for starters from Autotrader, Cars.com or similar into his/her iAuto-based website.

Hey, after all it's an awesome deal - you got yourself a car classifieds portal for $219, you pumped 1 million listings from Autotrader, those nice guys that are stupid enough to give away their precious listings, and you're all set to start charging megabucks from ad revenues. If there's a millon listings, then there surely are a couple of millions of visitors, right? One attracts another, correct?

No, not really. A person who's searched for cars in his local area on a few nationwide websites came to realization that there's a certain percentage of listings that repeat themselves from website to website. Then, looking for something unique and authentic, they turn over to you and all they see are all those all-too-familiars posts.

You'd probably think that you've gotten a one-million-worth-of-ads-website for nothing, but all you have is a website featuring a million of somebody else's listings. You are selling your toughest competitors' cars and pretending you're happy about it. Are there lots of real customers with real ads on your website who bring real money, or it's just full of semi-fake ads Autotrader gets huge PageRank, sales, and exhuberant banner ad prices?

It's cool if you have a real website full of real listings from your next door dealers that you have rightfully secured and are getting paid for. It's not so cool, however, if all you're selling is your competitors' cars and not even getting much money out of that.

An awesome website is not a website bulging with fake listings, but a website that is part of the business of finding customers, appealing to their senses with an original idea and a good reason to post their listing, and making sure they renew or sell their vehicle.

Here's a good business idea for a website with just a handful of listings. Secure a deal with US Army and buy a bunch of retired tanks or whatever and post them on your website. Or find an aftermarket dealer selling old tanks and have him advertise on your website for $500 per listing per month.

A handful of such dealers, and you'll be making a ton of money since promoting a similar website on Google is going to be dirt cheap because keywords cost a lot less than the ones like "used car website", and there's virtually no competition.

I have a feeling we'll get back to that discussion later.

New Release, Offers, Business Ideas & More News From WorksForWeb

Hello!

We at WorksForWeb wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! We look forward to bringing you new products, functions and features and see your business prosper and grow because of that.

We have several great news. First, we are glad to announce the release of new versions of all our classified software: iAuto, iRealty, and iLister. We added new cool and exciting features, and made a few important fixes.

Special attention was paid to improving usability, enhancing script performance and implementing features most requested by current and potential users.

For additional information on features and fixes that are part of the new release please refer to the iAuto www.iautosoftware.com, iRealty www.irealtysoft.com and iLister www.ilistersoft.com websites, as well as to our official website at www.worksforweb.com. Alternatively, start an online chat when operators are available or send us an email to sales@worksforweb.com with your questions.

We are also happy to introduce another iLister mod, this time, iLister Career, a job board software. iLister Career employment/job classifieds software is the best tool to create your own SEO-friendly employment website. Recruiters and Career Builders are bound to find the best candidate for the job and the best job for every candidate respectively.

Completely customizable code and look and feel, awesome built-in WYSIWYG CMS, instant switch multi-language support, and a list of capabilities too long to display here – are you still looking?
Give it a try with a 15-day free trial and an online demo at http://www.ilistersoft.com/demo_jobs/!

During the upcoming winter holidays we will offer limited availability of our Sales and Support staff to address your issues. Particularly, our offices will be closed between 31 Dec 2008 and 5 Jan 2008.

However, we will be able to resolve support-related issues (the wait time may increase) and will have someone on duty to respond to sales inquiries process your orders. We apologize for the inconvenience this may be causing you and will try to minimize any impacts on you.

Last, but certainly not least. We are currently are almost finished with the limited time discount offer valid until Dec 31. To summarize, purchase a Standard Edition License of your choice (iRealty, iAuto or iLister) and get a Special Edition License of any WorksForWeb product as a holiday seasonal gift!

/OR /

Buy a Standard Edition with a 15% Christmas discount before 31 December! Use the following coupon code, HOTWINTER08, to claim your discount. Don't let this money-saving opportunity pass you by!

Happy holidays!

Yours,

The WFW Team

WorksForWeb News

Hi there,

We at WorksForWeb are ready for the winter holidays and proud to announce our Hot Winter Offers: Heart-Warming Gifts and Money-Saving Discounts!

You can purchase a Standard Edition License of your choice (iRealty, iAuto or iLister) and get a Special Edition License of any WorksForWeb product as a Christmas gift or buy a Standard Edition with a 15% Christmas discount before 31 December!

We also have launched iLister-based Business Directory and iLister-Based Online Medical Equipment Catalog. With the iLister Business Directory script, you can create a classified business advertising service where businesses for sale, franchise opportunities, and business brokers and expose multiple business opportunities and resources to prospective buyers.

Read more on how to take advantage of becoming the best online resource to advertise businesses for sale in your region or worldwide with iLister Business Directory and Online Equipment Catalog at: http://www.ilistersoft.com/business.html, http://www.ilistersoft.com/solutions.html.

WorksForWeb have launched a new minor release of the iRealty v4.4.1/iAuto v4.3.1/iLister v4.3.1 software. Several bug fixes, a few improvements made in front and back
end, and great perfomance improvements are made.

We are also really glad to announce that the 'Expanding the Boundaries: Online Catalogs and Product Websites Based on iAuto/iRealty/iLister' competition is closed. We are really happy to congratulate our winners! More info about the contest please find at: http://www.worksforweb.com/contests/.

So, don't you think we are really ready for the winter holidays? ;)

Mid-Summer Mega Deals Discounts

Hi,

We are having a Mid-Summer Mega Deals discount week. For a limited time, we are offering two hot deals of the season: a $99 discount for the Standard Edition license of either iAuto, iRealty or iLister. Please use the following coupon during the checkout - HOTSUMMER08 (that's zero-eight, not Oh-eight).

Alternatively, you can buy the Standard Edition of any of our products and get a Special Edition license of any of our products (either iAuto, iRealty or iLister) absolutely FREE!

Please contact our Sales Dept for more details or visit our Promos page.

Returning to Blogging

Hi everybody!

We've been pretty lousy at blogging over the last half a year. Some of our readers may think that our product is dead or forgotten, and this cannot be further from truth.

In fact, we've been very busy over the last several months. We developed a new version of our product, iAuto v.4.x, that had most of its internal structure revamped and improved, templates changed and a number of new features and functions added to make our iAuto even more attractive to our customers.

We then improved it even further by adding SEO features such as SEO-friendly URLs, listing data in description and keywords meta tags, and a great Browse By... feature. You can select up to 7 database fields that you can browse by, narrowing down your results to just a few listings that match your needs closest.

For example, you can have the following Browse by search configuration: Vehicles->Cars->Honda->Acura->Between $0 and $10,000->Zip.

And, of course, we developed two new templates. A single picture is worth a 1,000 words, therefore, the best way to see how well we did is to go to our iAuto Demo page at http://www.iautosoftware.com/demo.html.

To go further, we decided to offer a boat classifieds version of iAuto, iAuto Boats. We've done some research and came up with the iAuto Boats demo for your attention.

Hosted version is a new addition to our versions. It offers iAuto pre-installed, hosting space with your domain and all the functions of the Cpanel at your disposal. And all that for an introductory price of $29.95 per month only.

We will try to be more consistent with posting our news and ideas to this blog, and we'll try to not limit the posts to marketing-related stuff only. Instead, we're hoping to get our product developers and programmers involved as well.

iAuto Vehicle Classifieds Software Version 4.0 Released

We've finally released our new version of iAuto. I'll simply post an ad that we're promoting it with, and if you are looking for additional details and specifics of the new version, you're always welcome to visit our website:

iAuto is a cutting edge PHP vehicle classifieds script. It is a perfect solution for websites that sell any vehicles for land, air, or water. It comes bundled with a fresh car make/model database.

Key features of iAuto include an innovative search engine that allows visitors to search and sort by any field. A ZIP/postal code and radius search capability is provided based on the US ZIP code database. Import of postal codes for other countries is also possible with the existing import utility.

Our new version features a fully editable template-based look and feel. The ability to present listing data is limited only by your HTML coding skills.

One important addition of iAuto is the ability to list multiple listing types (advertise cars, boats, and airplanes on one site) and to create common or custom fields for each type.

iAuto also features user groups that can segregate users between individuals or corporate clients, with custom menus and profiles for each group.

New version offers a multitude of ways to make money with iAuto. You can choose between a pay-per-ad or subscription plans and further add pay-per-feature packages to charge for extra features such as pictures or videos.

Three payment gateways are built into iAuto: 2Checkout, Paypal (with card payment processing capabilities) and Authorize.NET merchant account gateway.

Two iAuto packages are currently offered starting from as low as $219, with FREE TRIAL and online DEMO.

Free lifetime upgrades and frequent functionality improvements make it a worthwhile purchase, giving you the ability to upgrade your website to respond to emerging market trends!

We'll be discussing other details related to the new software functionality and the ways you can use it for your business needs.

Can't Believe We Haven't Updated For So Long

It's very hard to believe all that time passed and we never bothered to update the blog. Horrible! The fact that we've been pretty busy is not a good excuse. We will try to be more consistent posting new stuff here.

We'll try to give you a brief overview of what's been accomplished so far. We are constantly working on improving the quality of iAuto and iRealty. We are improving our internal development processes: work flow management, project and task planning, coding, testing, and control.

We have made substantial product improvements that will appear in the new version of the software to make iAuto and iRealty more reliable, robust, flexible and smart. We've also added several smaller features that improve the overall functionality of the software and make it more usable and powerful.

Our iAuto/iRealty community is growing, and the forum is slowly becoming a focal point where information about updates, fixes, tweaks and bugs is gathered and made available to those who need it.

We've been engaged in several bigger projects where iAuto/iRealty were used as the platform for custom solutions and even developed a totally independent solution from scratch. We will announce one of the projects shortly when it goes live with the permission of the owners.

This should be it for now, we'll be keeping you informed as we go along.

Free iAuto Trial!

We're announcing the Free iAuto Trial program. Those interested in trying iAuto before purchasing can request access to their personal copy of iAuto on our server to test all the exciting features of iAuto.

We will install a default copy of iAuto on our server and you will have access to it for 15 days.

The difference between the live demo and a personal copy of iAuto is that you can modify your personal copy any way you like it. You'll have access to the admin area, you'll be able to modify templates to fit your banners or visual design enhancements. You'll be able to see how Smarty tags work, add iAuto modules and functions, customize the look and feel of featured ads, add Flash to the default template, manage input, display and search forms to set custom data fields, translate iAuto template into your own language and much, much more...

To request your free trial installation of iAuto, please contact our Support Dept at support@iautosoftware.com. For any pre-sale questions, feature explanations, etc. please contact our Sales Dept at sales@iautosoftware.com.

The Halloween Sale!!!

Following a very successful v3.0 introductory sale, and having a few potential clients that have missed the sale, we've decided to give our fans and potential customers a Halloween present.

Here it is. Anyone who buys iAuto Standard or iAuto Special edition between 10 Oct and 1 Nov, is eligible for a hefty 20% discount off any purchase over $150. That includes our iAuto Standard Edition, and, of course, our iAuto Special Edition! Yes, iAuto Special Edition will cost $175.20 until 1 Nov 06, and iAuto Standard Edition will cost only $415.20. We just love giving away presents to our potential clients!

And here's a Halloween present for our current clients. Anyone who purchased an iAuto Special Edition is now eligible for FREE LIFETIME UPGRADES! Please contact our Sales Dept for additional information.

The Unprecedented iAuto Offer

We've been working on the new release of iAuto too hard and too long, and it seems that some damage has occurred with our brain cells. How do we know that? The answer is simple:

Who else in a sane frame of mind would offer a 30% discount on every copy of iAuto Standard or Special for the next three days, starting from 5 October 2006 and ending midnight 8 October 2006????

Yes, during the three-day period between 05 and 08 Oct 06, iAuto Standard Edition v.3.0 will cost $363, and iAuto Special Edition v.3.0 - ONLY $ 153!!!

We are dedicating this October Madness event to the new release of iAuto, and we hope that you are quick and wise enough to jump on this opportunity!!!!

iAuto v.3.0 Is Released

Finally! It's been a challenging week for our team, but we are at the end of the release process now, prepping up for the work ahead on the new release of iAuto.

We have managed to develop and include every functionality we have originally planned to include into the release. It took a reasonably big planning, implementation and testing effort on our developer's team to come up with an extremely useful upgrade of our system, Smarty (tm)-based template management system. We realized that our existing template system was very unflexible and not very usable as far as changes and modifications to templates are concerned.

This new template management system allowed us to optimize the code while integrating it with the classifieds engine, and gave a number of new opportunities to iAuto users, including:

* the ability to easily alter the look and feel of the website
* a tool to create localized versions of the software
* the ability to easily integrate classifieds engine's functionality into the existing websites
* familiarity with Smarty templates saves time and effort for web designers in modding templates for iAuto

We've introduced a number of other changes as well, including a new WYSIWYG editor to replace the old one that didn't perform very well, and streamlined the publications section turning it into a useful . The full list of new and existing features can be found on our Features page.

Our work with our existing customers and our potential customers on adding and implementing features requested has been extremely useful. Special thanks to Mr. Joe Martin from http://www.xtremeautotrader.com/ for his highly valuable comments, suggestions and recommendations that helped make our product better. Particularly, the entry batch processing functionality and mods to the way features are shown have been implemented based on his request.

Also, we've received a number of useful comments and feedback via our web site, and all the requested features are carefully identified, evaluated, prioritized and planned to be included in the future major and minor releases of the software.

To order your copy of iAuto v.3.0 Standard ($519) or Special ($219) Edition today, please visit our Order page at http://www.iautosoftware.com/order.html.

For iAuto Standard Edition owners, upgrading is extremely easy. Please contact our Sales Dept at sales@iautosoftware.com, and we will email you the download link. For iAuto Special Edition owners, upgrading is very easy and it costs only $49.95. Here's what you need to do. To order your copy of iAuto v.3.0 Special Edition today, please follow the link below:

Order iAuto v.3.0 SE Upgrade

In any event, we've already updated our demo with the new version, and you can check it out from our Demo page.

Look forward to your comments, suggestions, ideas and feedback

New iAuto release, v.3.0, is coming soon

We are progressing towards the end of the current product development cycle and are expecting to issue a final release of our new version, v. 3.0, at or around Monday 25 Sept.

We are going to make an announcement on our website and we will send the new release announcements to those who have previously inquired about the new release. The new version is going to have a new Smarty template system that will allow users to modify the look of the website much quicker and easier, as well as provide greater flexibility in terms of applying own or custom design templates to the actual software.

Of course, many bugs and minor system improvements accumulated since the last version's release have also been included in the software, improving the overall stability of the system.