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Another Customer Success Story
"We contacted Explore Consulting to migrate a previous webstore to an Amazon Webstore. Explore launched our home page design, developed internal pages, and scripted custom navigation. Explore did an awesome job on our new Amazon Webstore and we are very happy with the results!"
- Patrick Wilkerson, Director of Business Relations

Customer Spotlight: Fan The Fire

Fan The Fire (www.FanTheFire.com) is an e-commerce website offering a wide selection of sports merchandise and apparel. They carry products for 60 collegiate teams as well NBA, MLB, and NFL, and their mission is to provide their customers with great prices, high-quality products and superior customer service.

Fan The Fire wanted to upgrade their existing webstore, so they turned to Explore to help revitalize their ecommerce presence and launch on the Amazon WebStore platform. Explore beautifully executed Fan The Fire’s design concept throughout the webstore and implemented a custom navigation scheme to handle their unique requirements. Fan The Fire proudly boasts a new, improved Ecommerce presence on the Amazon WebStore platform and sales are “on fire”.

Visit www.FanTheFire.com now or see more sites in the Explore web portfolio.

Upcoming Events

SuiteWorld 2011
When: May 8 – 12, 2011
Where: Marriott Marquis Hotel, San Francisco, CA
At SuiteWorld 2011, you'll have an unparalleled opportunity to network with your peers and get the insights, inspiration and training you need to run your business faster and smarter in the cloud. For more information and to justify the trip, visit the SuiteWorld 2011 homepage Demo Now.

Northwest NetSuite User Group
When: June 16, 2011
Where: Bellevue, WA
Join us for the next NWNUG meeting at our downtown Bellevue location, where you will participate in a forum for local NetSuite professionals to share best practices and technical solutions, interact with peers and industry experts, and gain insight on NetSuite and related technologies. Our main presentation will be focused on 3rd Party NetSuite Solutions & The NetSuite Ecosystem. Visit www.NWNUG.org to learn more.

Featured Add-On
Facebook Webstore for NetSuite Overview

The Facebook Webstore App for NetSuite was built for e-tailers utilizing the NetSuite Site Builder e-commerce platform, helping them easily, quickly and inexpensively sell more products by creating a shop tab on their Facebook Fan Page showcasing products from their existing NetSuite online store. With over 500 million active users of which 50% of them log on to Facebook in any given day and the strong desire for business owners to monetize their Facebook presence, this is a great way to expand your shopping audience and allow fans to share products. Key features of this highly managed, Cloud based solution include:

     • Rapid Deployment into an Existing Facebook Fan Page as new Shop Tab
     • Automated AR Collection Escalation
     • Low Start-up & Ongoing Costs
     • NetSuite Manages all Product Merchandising, Cart, Checkout,
        Order Processing, Fullfillment and Customer Service
     • Leverages NetSuite’s Site Builder Add-on
     • Open Architecture for Extensibility

Download the Facebook Webstore for NetSuite Overview datasheet.

Explore Add-Ons For NetSuite

Explore Consulting is an innovative NetSuite Solution Provider that is continuously developing solutions and services for extending NetSuite.

Check out some of our most popular solutions:


Web and Ecommerce • Google Analytics • Omniture Analytics • Product Reviews • Warranty Management • Shipping Estimator • Store Locator CRM • TAPI Phone Integration • Warranty Management Accounting and ERP • Cycle Counting • Subscription Management Module	Integration • CloudConnect™ • Automated Software License Keys • 3rd Party Logistics Connector • CNET ChannelOnline Connector • UltiPro HRMS Connector Mobile • Field Sales Rep (FSR) • Advanced Price List (APL)
Learn more about the Explore Add-ons for NetSuite.

Explore Consulting – An Amazon Webstore Solution Provider
Amazon’s Webstore eCommerce platform has taken the web by storm since its release in 2009, and Explore Consulting has teamed up with Amazon to deliver a host of services for successful design, implementation, and integration services. This quickly maturing platform is helping eCommerce veterans and novices alike reach their customers in new and exciting ways while keeping costs low. Amazon Webstore allows you to:

     • Create a custom, branded eCommerce website
     • Leverage the strength, security and reliability of Amazon's infrastructure
     • Get your products in front of tens of millions of customers by listing on Amazon.com
     • Improve customer experience using Amazon's reliable fulfillment network

Learn more about Explore’s Amazon Webstore offerings.

NetSuite Tips

Each month we will provide our NetSuite customers with tips on how to use the product more efficiently and how to perform complex or unintuitive tasks. We hope that you find these tips helpful.

Custom KPI

NetSuite’s Key Performance Indicators portlet is a terrific tool for staying on top of your critical business metrics. Using real-time data, the Key Performance Indicator allows users to display metrics on individual aspects of your business, compare those metrics over time, and flag those values that are outside of the norm. Using the Key Performance Indicators portlet, you can filter out the “noise” of the details, and gain a relevant, summarized view of only those key business metrics you need to help drive important business decisions. Continued…

Read the complete Custom KPI NetSuite tip.

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Do you need more automation within your unique workflow or business processes? NetSuite's SuiteScript technology is the most flexible, powerful, and extensible way to customize your NetSuite system. It can be triggered on user events or scheduled, can create or modify data, communicate with external data sources, or string together a multi-step workflow process. Enables creation of front-end user interfaces on the fly using standard HTML or UI objects with a NetSuite look and feel.

Some example scripts:

     • Visual Map of Actual Inventory Location in the Warehouse
     • Automated AR Collection Escalation
     • Estimate/Order Discount Approval
     • Order-based Drip Marketing
     • Subscription Management
     • Software Key License Generation
     • Automated Billing

Each month we add new scripts to our website. Download FREE examples from our SuiteScript Library or contact us to discuss your specific business requirements.

Explore is Hiring!
Here we grow again! Explore is seeking experienced candidates for the following key positions in our Bellevue, WA location:

     • NetSuite SuiteScript Developer (Bellevue & S.F. Bay Area)
     • Web Designer/ Developer
     • Senior Amazon Web Services Developer
     • NetSuite Implementation Consultant (Bellevue & S.F. Bay Area)
     • Senior SEO Consultant
     • Senior Microsoft .Net Developer

Send a resume and cover letter to: Resumes@ExploreConsulting.com.

See all Open Positions.

Facebook Design & Development Services
Follow Explore on Facebook and keep up-to-date on our events, client portfolio, client reviews, photos and our discussion board threads!

Explore is now offering Facebook customization and development services for our clients.

See how some of our clients are promoting their business on Facebook:
Smashbox Microsoft Pagliacci Pizza Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Evil Bikes Red Giant Project Grace Guild	Upper Playground The Onion PCC Natural Markets BabyLegs Kaseya Cycling 74 GigaPan Systems

Read more about Explore's complete Facebook service offering.

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