Customer Quote

"The Seattle Storm turned to Explore Consulting to deliver an effective, professional Amazon Webstore under tight time constraints. We are thrilled to launch our e-commerce site off the heels of the 2010 Championship season. The Explore team was proactive, responsive, and overcame obstacles with urgency, all while being a pleasure to work with. We’re excited about the early success we’ve seen."


- Karen Bryant, CEO, The Seattle Storm


"Our new website is so awesome. I refer to it with our dealers while on the phone with them. They really like it and it gets them looking at the site as their main source of product information. Thank you for all of the hard work, it is paying off already."

- Jim Vessiny, Account Executive, Ultimate Support


"We are 100% satisfied with this round of the web store. Works Great, Looks Great! A lot of hard work by all parties involved. We are very impressed with Explore!"

- Michael Scott, CEO, Paramount Lighting


“I’m glad we can share the same enthusiasm for Smashbox’s e-commerce opportunities, it means a lot and makes working with your team a pleasure while making my job a heck of a lot more fun and exciting! Looking forward to 2010!”

- Luigi Raffo, Senior Manager - E-Commerce Development & Operations, SMASHBOX COSMETICS


For examples of our web prowess, please visit our web portfolio.



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Seattle Storm Amazon Webstore Case Study
Amazon Webstore Practice Overview
CloudConnect For Amazon
The Amazon Webstore platform provides you with a branded eCommerce site backed by the support, selection, and expertise of Amazon. You can feel confident knowing that your Amazon Webstore is going to be up and running when your customers come clicking. Key benefits to Amazon's world-class eCommerce and merchandising technology include:
  • Orders are processed via Amazon's trusted payments system. No merchant account, separate shopping cart software, or hosting is required.
  • Millions of active Amazon customers can use their login credentials to buy products on your Amazon Webstore.
  • Use Amazon’s extensive merchandising and community features like Top Sellers, Recently Viewed Items, and Customer Reviews.
  • Sell items from Amazon.com on your own Webstore and earn Amazon Associate Program referral fees*.

    *Amazon Associates for Webstore: Webstore Associates only supports Webstore sellers who have the Amazon Checkout option. Amazon Checkout must be enabled in order to use this widget. Webstore sellers may optionally link to the Amazon Associates program to receive commission. Amazon Associates program, not Webstore, is solely responsible for commission, eligibility, and registration of Amazon Associates.
With over 8 years of experience implementing and supporting eCommerce platforms, Explore Consulting knows eCommerce, and we’re ready to help you with your Amazon Webstore Design & Implementation project. As an Amazon Webstore Solution Provider, our team will help you harness the powerful, reliable, and secure Amazon platform by providing the following services:
  • Branding and logo creation
  • Design customization
  • eCommerce strategy
  • Inventory management
  • Categorization of your items
  • Order management
  • Content management system
  • Reporting
  • Promotions
  • Search engine optimization
  • Analytics
Are you looking for assistance with your eCommerce project from an Amazon Webstore Solution Provider? Explore Consulting can help. Call 425.462.0100 or Contact Us to talk with one of our solution architects about your project.

Examples of our work:

American Greetings

American Greetings

American Greetings Corporation is a global leader in innovative social expressions, known mostly for their greeting cards. While experienced with web site development and having a large and established online presence, they engaged with Explore Consulting and Amazon Webstore to help build out a new online offering. They needed a quick, low-cost solution for testing this new business line and a partner that could design and implement a new site based on their current identity.

"I personally want to say thank you to the Explore team for their time and effort on this project. With your guidance and patience we were able to learn the platform and launch the site in a very short amount of time."

- Tim Soltis, Sr. Product Manager, American Greetings

Seattle Storm

American Greetings

In their eleven-year history, the Seattle Storm have won the WNBA championship twice and made the playoffs eight times including the last seven years in a row. In 2010, the team achieved an unprecedented feat, becoming the first team since the WNBA Finals expanded to a best-of-five game series to sweep its way through the postseason and the only team to finish the regular season and playoffs unbeaten at home.

In an effort to better capitalize on the sale of team merchandise, the Storm needed an effective, professional Webstore that would embody the spirit of a championship organization and provide them with a turnkey approach to managing product lines, inventory, and online sales. All of this had to be delivered under a tight timeline in order to capture holiday revenues, and the Storm turned to Explore Consulting and the Amazon Webstore platform to make it happen.

ApogeeSource

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ApogeeSource Before ApogeeSource After

ApogeeSource is a retailer of a broad set of products using Fulfillment by Amazon and the Amazon Affiliates program. Running on Webstore 1.0 they had a design that was difficult to navigate and didn’t portray the sophisticated image they wanted. Explore worked with them to define their design and usability goals then built design mockups for review and analysis. Lastly, Explore rebuilt their site with new features such as drop down menus for easier assortment navigation and a rotating category spotlight on the homepage to educate their customers on their variety of offerings.

Art of Appreciation

Art of Appreciation

Art of Appreciation has been in the gift basket business since 2000 and prides themselves on beautifully unique designs with luxury touches. They turned to Amazon Webstore to reduce costs, increase web site functionality, and capitalize on their Amazon Marketplace presence. With a new design in mind they came to Explore Consulting for the expertise to implement their ideas in a timely fashion.

"You guys did an awesome job on our site and we are very delighted with the results! The building process was very easy and we were especially impressed with our designers ability to grasp our design concepts with very little difficulty. She truly did a beautiful job!"

- Anji Cozart, Founder/CEO, Art of Appreciation

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