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Back to School Homepage: Free Volusion Graphics to Decorate Your Site

Celebrate going back to school in style with new homepage graphics, created just for you by our design team. Show off your special sales for the new school year!

To save a graphic for uploading, right click on the image and hit Save Image As.

Uploading your Back to School Graphic
From the admin area of your site, click on the Settings Wizard button, located to the left of the Instant Help button. Then under the Design Wizard section, click on Your Content. Under the Home Page Article section, you can now upload your previously saved image so that it is displayed on the homepage of your site.

These copyrighted graphics are intended for the sole use of Volusion clients only. Use of these graphics by other sites or competitors is strictly prohibited and can result in legal action against the offending parties.

Kevin Sproles Nominated for The 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year

volusion entrepreneur of the yearWe are pleased to announce that Volusion’s own CEO, Kevin Sproles, has been chosen as one of five finalists for Entrepreneur Magazine’s “2008 Entrepreneur of the Year”!

Kevin’s constant drive and passion keep his team motivated to develop and promote the best Ecommerce Solution on the market. I can’t imagine working for a better CEO, or someone that is more deserving of this award.

Here’s what a few of Kevin’s other employees had to say:
- “He’s the hardest working guy i know, and helps motivate everyone around him to push harder.”
- “I always wanted to work for a company that treated me like a person and not a number. With Kevin as my boss, I feel like my opinion truly matters here.”
- “Kevin is a visionary. He continues to push us to create the best, most innovative products out there while always making sure we are serving the customer’s needs.”
- “Kevin’s one of the most driven people I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with. His focus and dedication to this company and its employees is inspiring.”
-”His vision is impeccable. He’s like an 80 year old soul in a 25 year old body.”
- “Kevin’s outlook for the future of our company and the overall business acumen continues to surprise me even after working with him for over two years. I truly love being part of this company and the journey that he is helping to guide for all of us here.”

Congratulations Kevin! Please take a moment to cast your vote for Kevin today at Entrepreneur.com (Please act now, voting ends on August 20th).

You can learn more about Kevin and how Volusion got its start back in 1999 by visiting the About Volusion page.

-Stacie Leonard, Ecommerce Marketing/Copywriting

Andy Keeler Uses Volusion to Offer Trade Show Displays to a Growing Online Customer Base

Andy Keeler chose Volusion as the provider for his first online business over three years ago to sell portable trade show displays and exhibiting accessories. Their eco-friendly, custom-looking trade show booths are highly configurable and the business takes a clean, modern approach to exhibit design that is professional and appealing to their growing customer base. Even after years of using the software, Andy constantly finds new ways to improve his business. “I still learn something new every time I open up my back end, simply because there are so many great features.”

Using Volusion’s product option features, MODdisplays offers customers an informative and easy way to order their highly customizable products online. “Over the past few months, we’ve taken great care to perfect our product options. Our goal is to offer our customers every option on our website that they could possibly purchase over the phone, and to do it in a way that is intuitive and user-friendly. Volusion has made that task incredibly easy. As a result, we’ve seen a drastic increase in online ordering. Our clients now have the ability to fully understand the product, and have a firm grasp on what they are actually purchasing. Thanks to Volusion, it’s easy for our customers to get us all the information we need to fulfill their order.”

In regards to favorite features, Andy finds Volusion’s back-end especially useful for easily adding their customizable products. “We love the Inventory/Products section. It’s incredibly easy to change descriptions and images as well as make new products. If we want to add a new product to our website, we can do it in less than five minutes. This is especially impressive for us because we’re not like a typical online store that simply pushes boxes from place to place. Everything on our website is highly customizable, and as a result our products require much more fine tuning before they can be released.”

Andy found that when starting and growing his online business, it was important to have a feature rich solution with everything available in a single back-end. “Volusion simplifies the process of adding new products, changing images and descriptions, and adding product options. Thanks to the features Volusion provides, we are able to keep our website consistent throughout. Minor design tweaks and reformatting are incredibly simple.”

What advice does MODdisplays have for other online store owners? Put simply, “keep moving”. As Andy says, “Don’t allow yourself to rest or get complacent. Even if your website is the best in your industry, keep working. Every time we make an improvement to our website (even in an insignificant area), a customer takes advantage of it and the result is more revenue for our company!”

You can checkout MODdisplays trade show displays, banner stands, literature holders, trade show cases, trade show lighting, graphics, trade show counters, and more now at MODdisplays.com.

-Stacie Leonard, Ecommerce Marketing/Copywriting

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