The following are select case studies featuring some of Grow Commerce's high profile clients and mass volume users of the Dashboard System. Read on to learn how the Dashboard flawlessly handles millions upon millions of page requests, ecommerce transactions, membership purchases, downloads, video streams, message boards, targeted emails, surveys and much, much more. With the Dashboard System providing the entire infrastructure for some of the most active sites on the Internet, imagine what it can do for your business!
Overview: Chances are you have one of the Freeman products somewhere in your home. The international Freeman brand boasts products in virtually every country on earth. A former Dial Corp division, Freeman Beauty was spun off as a separate entity in 2003, and has enjoyed even greater success since.
Description: The Freeman team chose the Dashboard System for its ability to handle complex ecommerce rules, yet provide a simple interface for non-technical employees to manage all ecommerce and online activities. Freeman Beauty doesn't employ a webmaster, or any other web technology manager - all ecommerce, UPS shipping, inventory management, email marketing, promotions and reporting are conducted by the staff who knows it best. Freeman has used the Dashboard System brilliantly, employing promo codes and gift certificates, to conduct massive promotions with dozens of international magazines.
Responsibilities: Grow Commerce managed Freeman's transition from a webmaster-run environment to an employee-empowered system capable of setting up products, managing inventory, updating images, setting up promo codes, managing bulk email delivery & tracking and much more. The web service model of the Dashboard System enables Freeman to integrate closely with their partners and gives administrators the flexibility to create complex promotions and marketing campaigns - complete with click through and conversion tracking.
Details: http://www.freemanbeauty.com is a high-volume ecommerce site that conducts extensive marketing and promotions with partners in the media and beauty industries. Customers from around the world log into freemanbeauty.com when they need beauty tips or simply want their latest supply of products without making a trip to the store.
Timeframe: Basic site integration was completed in less than 2 weeks. Dashboard System training was conducted with each individual department, as well as group training with the entire management team.
Overview: Metallica is arguably the biggest band on earth sporting a global reach to tens of millions of loyal fans - including paid fan club members in over 180 countries.
Description: The Metallica team chose The Dashboard System to create a state-of-the-art, content heavy repository for all things Metallica, and to provide multiple, independent content areas and web sites with varying user-access levels, including a full paid subscription service.
Responsibilities: The Dashboard System provided a central access point where members of the Fan Club, Management, PR, the Label and even the Band itself - all with different access and publish permissions - can update content, manage users, create and manage price points and subscription periods, create and send trackable HTML emails, manage promotions and even program their own radio station.
Details: http://www.metallica.com One of the highest volume music sites on the internet. Highly integrated with Grow Commerce CMS (The Dashboard System)
Timeframe: Integrated technology into design framework in less than 2 weeks, including revisions to stylesheets.