The another task for the System Administrator is to update the Website tab. This chapter is written for the distributors who purchased the Website Only option featuring a website with just the “Catalog” and “Specials” pages, and the Website and all entrée.NET features option.

 

If you have the Website Only option your customers can only view your website and do not have the other functions that entrée.NET offers, such as entering orders, but you will still be able to upgrade, at a later date, and have all the features of entrée.NET.

 

At this point in time NECS should have already created your initial website and now you have the ability to make website changes as required for your business. You can change images, update the content on your “Welcome,” “About Us,” “Contact,” and “Directions” pages. You will be able to automatically post your inventory list and specials, from your NECS entrée software, directly to your website, as often as you’d like.

 

Our latest features allow you to control the names of the page links in your website menu and the web page descriptions. You also have the power to customize the keywords list used for search engine optimization for each individual web page in your website.  

 

The Website tab in entrée.NET has been enabled for those distributors who did not purchased the website option for entrée.NET. This access will provide all distributors with the ability to utilize the "Featured Brands" feature for marketing. All the other website options will still be disabled if you have not purchased the website option.

 

If you would like to designate a Website Manager to assist in updating the entrée.NET website for your company proceed to the Manager Setup Tab chapter for the details.

 

The Website tab is composed of two sections which run along the left side of the screen. These include Content, Banner and Colors. Each of these will be described next.

 

Content Overview

Updating the information in your website is a critical part of keeping your customers current with products, specials, and services provided by your business. If your customers know you frequently post your specials then they will make sure to check your website often to find those deals.

 

The content of your website is divided into Blocks, Menu and Pages which can contain text, hyperlinks and images. The image below shows color coded arrows indicating these areas of the web page.

 

Blocks are specific sections of various web pages within your website. The Blocks content areas of your website are:

 

•Blog – allows distributors to post multiple articles or news posts on their website. This feature must be activated in the Settings tab by selecting "Yes" for the "Display Website Blog" option.

 

•Featured Vendors – Posted on your website home page this block allows you to highlight multiple vendors and their products.

 

•Latest News – This block is posted on all of your website’s pages in the lower right corner.

 

•Featured Item – Posted on your website home page this block allows you to highlight specials as “featured items”.

The Menu section of your website currently includes:

 

•Specials – When you check the “Display on website” box for an item in the Specials page, it will display the item on the Specials web page.

 

The Pages section of your website can include:

 

•Home  – The main page of your website and the first page a customer visits.

 

•About Us – Use this page to tell your customers about your company.

 

•Contact – Provides website visitors with contact information for your company including phone numbers for various department and email links.

 

•Directions – Written directions to your office and/or business location(s). Google maps can be embedded into this page.

 

•Place Order – Customers will use this page to place online order using entrée.NET.

 

The Place Order page is not included in the website for distributors who purchased the website only option.

 

Website Examples

 

* Constant Contact is a registered trademark of CONSTANT CONTACT,INC. Corporation.

This is a website Home page displaying the latest entrée.NET features

▪Company Logo.

▪Website Banner Feature for photo slide show.

▪Website Background Feature.

▪Menu with Blog link.

▪Product Catalog Search Feature.

 

 

▪Banner Ads Feature with links to Specials web page, Item Tags, Brand or Class. This content can be positioned at the top or bottom of the website Home page. In this example the Ad is the image of steak with the "Ask us about our Fall Steak Deal" text at the bottom of the page. See the Settings Tab for feature controls.

How Website Registration Requests Work

The Register button will allow customers to access this online registration form to request an entrée.NET account.

 

 

 

•The customer will see this confirmation message displayed in your website.

 

•Once the email (below) is received from the website Register button you can review and process the requests for customer accounts.

 

 

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