"Market leader offered me £100k to close my website down!"

Plantedtanks.co.uk, a brand new online shop specialising in aquatic plants is owned and run by Tony Newsom-Virr. Tony signed up with ekmPowershop.com to build his ecommerce website just a few weeks ago,

“We decided to try ekmPowershop.com as it seemed to be the only ‘cheap’ and no contract shopping facility we could find on the web, plus the interface seemed simple enough. We purchased our shop on the 5th March 2010 and started work.”

Tony used the intuitive control panel offered by ekmPowershop.com and the expert knowledge of their Technical Support Team, to build his new online shop in a matter of weeks:

“We purchased a domain name at roughly the same time (as we purchased the shop) and started to create our store front. We then continued for the next 2 weeks uploading stock – and believe me typing in nearly 200 Latin plant names is a chore! We spoke to ekmPowershop.com’s support team for assistance on product variations and options, how to upload using a spreadsheet and add new products etc.”

Tony set his site live on the 23rd March and bagged his first order the very next day! Going from strength to strength, it is hard to believe that the website is still less than a month old,

“We have already been listed on several of the major industry websites and we are higher ranking on Google and Yahoo than the European Industry leading companies that specialise in these products. We have also had several serious enquiries from competitors to see what we are doing that is making us so successful. Already we are ranked as the 3rd largest importer of aquatic plants in the UK for the fishkeeping industry… we have overtaken one competitor already, and one even offered me £100k to close my website!””

Within 4 weeks of its launch, Plantedtanks.co.uk has taken its competition by storm, and Tony has even been asked to do an interview for the world leading publication for fish keeping! 

How has Tony managed to set up an online business and make such an impact in such a short space of time? 

“Using a combination of ekmPowershop (ecommerce), ekmPinpoint (web stats) and ekmResponse (email marketing) has really shown how you can grow a business on a budget. I want to say thanks to Ekm Systems for ekmPowershop.com and their suite of products. I can honestly say this has completely blown my mind!”

So why does ekmPowershop.com work so well against other shopping cart providers in the UK market place? How can somebody like Tony find instant success with an outlay of just £19.99 per month? 

Antony Chesworth, owner and founder of ekmPowershop.com observes 

“These days there are lots of platforms to choose from when it comes to selling your products online. Many are in the region of £20 per month, just like ekmPowershop.com. 

We were the first company to offer the software as a service model to the UK ecommerce market, and established the price point which has now become industry standard. I’m quite proud to be the originator of such a fundamental model to online retail as we know it.”

Simplicity to the end user (the shop owner) is the key, and of course… performance as standard,

Perhaps ekmPowershop.com’s pedigree in off the shelf shopping cart technology explains why the performance of one online shop to another depends entirely on the platform you choose to build it on. 

Why not give your online business a fighting chance like Tony at Plantedtanks.co.uk from the offset? Choose the right ecommerce provider for your ecommerce venture and turn a pipe dream into reality.