I really love our statistics page.  In fact, it may be one of my favorite pages anywhere.   I really like checking how many FurnishWEB users are currently online (145 right now and 622 in the past 24 hours).  Its really cool!

But yesterday our lead developer, Jeff Roberson, pointed out to me during a Skype chat a fact I'd overlooked:

Jeff: Hey Barry.  Have you looked at the stats page recently?

Barry: Yes.  Look most every day, why?

Jeff: Our clients sales are over 1/2 billion dollars?

Barry: You're kidding, right?  I mean, that's a lot! 

Jeff:  Nope.  Its true.  Check it out:

Jeff: See.  That is sweeet.  You should blog about that.

And so, I am "blogging about that".  Even though 3 of our 25 clients do not post sales to FurnishWEB, we're still over 1/2 BILLION DOLLARS in our clients sales over the past 12 months.  Significant!

So what does it mean to dive into social media?  And will it help me connect to our users, our current customers, potential customers, and partners?

Beginning our plans to "dive into" social media.  Follow along as we share our ups, downs, successes, and lessons ...

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Here at FurnishWEB we believe in sharing. The Downloads feature is a great way to share relevant information with your Staff, Dealers, and Sales Representatives.

What is the downloads feature?

It's a separate tab on the website that is viewable by all users and allows you to share any type of file/link. The individual files can be anything, Word Documents, PDFs, Excel, Images, etc. Each of these files has it's own permission based on the types of users invited to FurnishWEB.

How do I upload files?

If you are a staff user you click on the Downloads Tab and then on the Add Download link at the top of the screen. You'll see a form like this one appear :

The when download is selected a file box let's you browse for a file on your local computer to upload to the website. When the link option is selected you can enter the URL of the site or file you would like to linke too ( make sure it is publicly accessible). The Category options let you either select a existing category or add a new one. The Title let's you enter a friendly name for the file/link you are adding. The Remark box lets you add a description to give more information out the file/link. The Seen by option lets you control who can see the file/link on the Furnishweb. If Dealers is selected all users can see the file/link. If Reps is selected then Staff and Reps can see file/link, and if Staff is selected only Staff can see them.

How can I use the Downloads feature?

You can upload any useful information you have that you would like to share with your users, for example:

• high quality logos for printed ads (Helps reduce mailing costs and phones calls.)
• Special Sale/Promotional Price Sheets (Make sure you add a Starting and End Date)
• Market Information
• Color PDF versions of Collection Brochures
• Print Quality ads for your dealers to use
• Link a your blog
• Link to a shipping site

The possibilities are endless. So what are you waiting for? Go upload some information for your users. Share already!

We've replaced our website which was primarily static HTML with a Blog/CMS program.

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We are updating the current www.furnishweb.com site.

Thank you for Your Patience.

FurnishWEB has been successfully moved to a bigger, faster server with the latest server software upgrades. The move took a lot of planning & testing. Over the weekend, we shut down FurnishWEB from 8:00 PM Friday EDT to around 12:00 Noon Sunday EDT while copying & testing all the programs & data. After a couple of hiccups, we brought the new server online for full system testing on Saturday which went very well. So we cut over to the new server late Sunday morning.

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Our users asked and we listened. FurnishWEB has always had Order search and filter capabilities but it just wasn’t working great for everyone. This latest release addresses those issues and provides greater flexibility for anyone searching or browsing orders.

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Now, with Smart Sales, we have data accumulated and reportable for entire territories. This allows a sales rep or sales manager to compare year-over-year data for a territory ... product, dealer, and collection data aggregated, totaled, and sortable quickly and easily. There's even a series of PDF reports to snap shot the data for printable review.

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The grayed out tabs at the top of your screens are features that have not yet been activated by that manufacturer.

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FurnishWEB supports most image formats. We recommend JPEG images for quality and file size. By default Furnishweb sets categories of Primary, Alt. Photo, and Print Version.

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