SAMS Product Content Box
  • USUAL APPROACH - High Complexity, Duration, Cost
  • Custom development or acquiring software & customizing it to your needs:
    • Complexity and cost of software components
    • Evaluation / selection and acquisition of software
    • Selection, cost and management of high-paid technical resources (whether internal or external)
    • Typical Project Management Issues imposing non-trivial communications & oversight overhead
    • Code and Database design Issues (Good design requires time & money; Bad / sub-optimal design leads to ongoing costs and aggravation.)
    • Ongoing maintenance of code, bug reporting / fixing; database & software updates, hosting provider software changes
  • Additional PAINS
    • Still need high quality Product Content in electronic form to load to your store database.
    • Still need to get SEO consultants for search engine optimization. (So customers can find your products!)
    • Still need to evaluate and select a hosting plan which offers required server-side software
    • Potential for issues / blame-game between IT provider and Content provider after developed site is loaded with real product data
Comparison - At a Glance      
  Custom
Dev.		 SAMS
Pre-Fab		      
Software Cost / Complexity SAMS Better Choice      
Project Team / Cost SAMS Better Choice      
Management Overhead SAMS Better Choice      
Implementation Risks SAMS Better Choice      
Ongoing Maintenance SAMS Better Choice      
SAMS Online Store Approach
  • SAMS Pre-Fab APPROACH
  • Pre-fab Catalog site created with your Product Data - in days
    • No software acquisition / subscription / updating costs
    • No database maintenance / issues to worry about - initially or ongoing
    • No need for dedicated high-paid IT staff - initial or ongoing
    • SEO optimized for improved placement in search engine results
    • Ready to launch by simply copying files over. (HTML, Images, Javascript)
  • Additional GAINS
    • No special hosting plan needed.
    • Costs about a tenth of the Custom Approach (see sample calcs here.)
    • Technology / Architecture chosen to meet business goals and your current situation
    • Easy migration path to more powerful / flexible options WHEN your business volume / margins justify that next step.