• Transform Payment Processing into a Profit Center  
• Partner with other Vendors
• Profit from marketing a comprehensive product list
• Start selling our Featured Offers

Networked-Enabled E-Commerce

Consider the limitations direct online sellers have today. You can sell anything you like - so long as you own it. With a Network-Enabled platform, however, you have a nearly limitless catalog of partner products you can promote to extend your revenues - and with complete control over what is offered, so you maintain control over your brand.

Similarly, if your business is particularly well-known in one geography, but still seeking its place in a new marketplace, a well-negotiated partnership with a partner in the new locale can quickly introduce you to new customers. And because you're being promoted by a trusted supplier, your market entry gains substantially in credibility.

Vitally, Plimus enables you to shift payment processing from being a cost center to being a profit center. If you can attach a single promotion at a fair revenue share to your sales, you can quickly more than recover the cost of processing, while enjoying all the existing benefits of an advanced E-Business platform.

Extending Your Products' Visibility

If there's one request we hear at Plimus above all others it is this: find us more customers.

The research all clearly shows that the best way to be introduced into a sales cycle is by someone who already has a trusted relationship with the customer. And if there's one spot in the online world considered the Gold Standard for promotion it's the purchase process itself.

By partnering with other Plimus vendors who will promote your products in their purchase process in return for a revenue share, you gain entry to the most coveted advertising space on the Web.

Entering a new marketplace? Seek out a partner who already operates there and enjoy the credibility of being associated with a trusted supplier.

And it's not just promotions. As partners, you and your partners can offer direct BuyNow links to each other's contracts, much as Affiliates do today. This means you can quickly and easily cross-marketing campaigns with other Plimus vendors, who feature your product in their newsletters and other customer communications and drive business in return for a revenue share.

Increasing Your Product Catalog

Our analysis has consistently shown that customers accept well-presented promotional offers at a very high rate - well into the double-digits, for the most part. However, vendors have previously been limited to promoting their own products or entering into complex external reseller relationships that take time away from running their own business.

With Network Sales you can quickly build a partnership with the Plimus vendors of your choice and ensure you never let the opportunity to grow a customer's order pass.

In addition, you can offer direct BuyNow links to your partners' contracts from your own website, increasing the inventory you present to your customers. This can help you to grow the brand of your site from being an outlet to being a robust E-Business, and offer you all sorts of new business growth opportunities.

Monetizing Your Customer List  

As your business grows, you are not only generating revenues, you're also creating a fabulously valuable asset: a qualified, targeted, active list of paying customers. In the past, you were largely limited to marketing your own new products to this audience - but now the whole Plimus product catalog is at your fingertips.

Other vendors seeking to enter into your market would love nothing more than to be promoted to your customer base via your standard communicartions - newsletters, blog updates and so forth. Simply guide your user base to a partner's BuyNow button, and everyone wins: your customers find a product that makes sense for them, your partner gains access to a market, and you earn revenues on each and every sale.

That customer list, always a valuable ongoing internal item, now has the potential to earn a living of its own. Use the Plimus Newsletter system to maintain and operate a regular newsletter service and before you know it you'll be enjoying a revenue stream that hadn't been available before.

Adding Featured Offers for Revenue Growth  

Sometimes there are hours in the day to negotiate a deal; sometimes there aren't. But that doesn't mean you can't participate in Network Sales from Day One.

From the Control Panel, navigate to the Product Catalog, and you'll find a series of Featured Offers. These are offers from leading Plimus vendors who've agreed in advance to accept any other Plimus vendor who wants to promote their product. Simply click 'Sell This Product', follow the short series of steps, and the contract will be available in your product catalog for promotion.

And if you have a product that should be featured and presented to the Plimus vendor community, drop us a line at marketing@plimus.com and we'll do our best to get you listed!

Getting Started Right Now! 

There's no sign-up process, no approvals, and certainly no Plimus paperwork. Log in to your Plimus vendor account, navigate to the Affiliates & Partners area and get into Network Sales.

In this area, you'll find a direct link to the Product Catalog to pick out featured products - or to search the whole community's offerings to find the right solution for you.

You'll also want to visit the Plimus Community to find offers from other vendors and affiliates; post your own offers; and explore the Forums and Blogs that will help guide you to E-Business success