Purpose
This module was developed for publishers utilizing Buyers Guides, who need to manage a variety of listing options within their directory. These listings can offer different advertising packages to different advertisers....automating the process of buying and posting their company information to the directory.
Description
This tool allows you to designate what listing options are available for your Buyers Guide Directory. (For an example: Gold, Silver and Bronze). Each one of these listings may offer different criteria to the vendor advertising such as: Hotlink to their website, ability to list their distributors, products, logo, advertisements and even have enhanced listings (ensuring their company is listed first within the category search).
Buyers Guide listings allows you to better manage your directory listing products, and expand the breadth and range of companies who want to be in your listing (small, medium and large).
How To Use
When records are entered within this module, and the Site Wizard Manager is set up to allow sites to be 'sold'. You can link the Site Wizard manager to the front of your website, offering a wizard based menu to your member to select what modules they want for their site.
Tips About This Module
The initial set up of this module, to work in unison witht he Site Wizard Manager is time consuming, requiring that information about each module available including price be entered. When finished, however, you are left with a robust 'do-it-yourself-online-site-building-store.'
NOTE: This module allows you to 'group' modules together for particular 'suites'. This is because some modules relate to others and 'go together' (like Issues and Articles). In this way, you can combine modules, or suites of modules to allow for bundled solutions . (Such as Gold, Silver and Bronze site packages). In this event you are interested in doing this, simply enter a record with the name of your package (i.e. Gold), and then select the modules that go with that package. This does of course assume that you have 'first' entered the indivdual records for each module, in which to group them. Groupings of modules can also have their own price to consider the bundle.
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| Different fields are presented to the vendor, based on the listing 'type' they selected (Example: Gold, Silver or Bronze). |
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An example of a Buyers guide search by category
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The individual
listings may offer different features such as logo, hotlink, enhanced
listing. This is an example of different vendor listings displaying
based on their options.
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