- This Control Panel is your central system view to your profile and activities in
the OnlyBusiness.com community and marketplace .
- From this point, you can link to all of the tools and services offered through the
system and you can manage your own website profile and products through the appropriate
links on the left hand navigation bar.
- Clicking the ‘Control Panel’ link on the upper right hand side of the
page (above the search box) will always bring you back to this page as the main
Control Panel.
- Clicking the ‘Home’ button on the left hand navigation bar will always
bring you back to the Control Panel main page.
- Clicking the ‘Home’ button on the upper right of the page will take
you to the home page of the system, allowing you to browse through all of the other
OnlyBusiness.com member profiles, products and offerings, as well as any special
events and/or activities that OnlyBusiness.com is promoting.
- You can also click directly through to the most recent activities/offerings in each
component by clicking on the contents of the twelve ‘QuickView’ blue
boxes in the center of the page.
- By clicking on any of the left hand navigation links, you will find further information
on those specific tools and services in the pages themselves.
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Manage Categories and/or Products |
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- By clicking on this link, you are able to manage all of your product and/or service
listings as well as the categories that they appear in within your website profile.
- You can add categories by clicking on the ‘Add Categories’ button and
then entering the name that you would like for your category and clicking ‘submit.
- Under each category, you can add products by clicking on the ‘Manage Products’
button and then filling out the required fields in the product description form,
as well as uploading an image for the product.
- You can also add any product to the OnlyBusiness.com Auction and Tradelead sections,
by clicking on the radio boxes that indicate those items, found under the product
description page.
- To add a product as an Auction and/or Tradelead, please follow the fields in each
of those sections and enter your response in all of the mandatory fields (marked
with a * ).
NOTE:
- If you delete a category, you will also delete all of the products that you have
placed under that category.
- If you delete a product, you may also delete all of the auctions and/or tradeleads
related to this product, if you select to do so from the pop-up window(s) provided
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Manage Website and Products |
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- By clicking on any of the ‘Manage Website’ buttons in the center of
the page, OnlyBusiness.com members are able to manage their website profiles and/or
their products, services and categories from this location.
- Edit Site and/or Build Your Sophisticated Design
- This will allow OnlyBusiness.com members go through the sophisticated website builder
program, and build or edit their web profile.
- For further details on this, please go to the
Learn More section on the Web Builder page
- By clicking on any of the ‘Trade Leads’ buttons in the left hand nav
bar, OnlyBusiness.com members can add, edit or delete products / services to the
Trade Lead section of the marketplace. This includes ‘Want to Buy”
and ‘Want to Sell’ leads and Business Opportunity leads
- By Clicking on this link, you are able to add products into the OnlyBusiness.com
auction.
- For a detailed help section for the auction, please click
here
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Manage Business Groups |
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- By clicking on this link, members are able to manage their OnlyBusiness.com network
and community.
- Creating business groups allows you to build communities of common interest in order
to invite and communicate with your own network of associates around a common interest.
- By clicking Create Group, members can create their own networking
group and invite as many business associates as they want. Groups can be given a
name which best describes that particular network e.g. “ David’s Apparel
Supplier Group”.
- Members can freely message each other within the group and also connect the group
to their respective OnlyBusiness.com websites.
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Manage Network Members |
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- By clicking on this link, members are able to invite business associates to their
OnlyBusiness.com network.
- This allows individuals to join the members OnlyBusiness.com network of associates.
- Members can also choose whether or not their networks are private or public i.e.
whether their network associates may be viewed by visitors to their website profile,
seen as a link off their website.
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Manage Address Book |
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- By clicking on this link, members are able to create and manage the contact details
for the associates in their network (e.g. email, OnlyBusiness.com website address,
phone, mobile/cell, fax, Instant Message details, etc).
- This allows members to quickly and easily communicate with their network of associates
through a variety of communication channels.
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Manage Orders / Inquiries |
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- By clicking on this link, members are able to view and manage all the orders and
inquiries that are sent to them through the OnlyBusiness.com system.
- This allows members a snapshot view of all orders and inquires they have received
through their website profile online catalog or through the OnlyBusiness.com Trade
Lead and Auction consolidated listings.
- Members are also able to receive messages and notifications on products, auctions
and/or trade leads that they want to buy.
- Members are able to easily respond to orders or inquiries by using the powerful
OnlyBusiness.com communication and notification system.
- By clicking on this link, members can receive, send and respond to notifications
within the system.
- You can also view the status of the notifications of the system.
- The OnlyBusiness.com mailbox allows members to view and manage all sales and purchasing
communications (e.g. Purchase inquiries) from a single location.
- By clicking on this link, members are able to schedule all of their system activities
in their network.
- This tool can be applied as an easy-to-use calendar, linking all timed activities
related to OnlyBusiness.com, in one single place (e.g. online meetings, scheduled
chats, discussions with associates, pending auctions or general day to day activities).
- By clicking on this link, members are able to choose and designate whether their
business groups and networks are private or public i.e. whether their network associates
may be viewed by visitors to their website profile, seen as a link off their website
- By clicking on this link, members are able to edit their OnlyBusiness.com profile
- Having a detailed profile gives other potential members more insight into your company
and gives them a greater comfort level in engaging in business transactions with
you.
NOTE: Company Profile vs. Website Profile
Your company profile is a description of your business and you as the business owner.
Your website profile is your onlybusiness.com web presence that presents your products
and / or services.
- OnlyBusiness.com members will select a base template for their website from one
of the choices below, or you can search through our library of templates, using
the ‘Search’ dropdown menu provided.
- All templates meet the OnlyBusiness.com structure for ease-of-use by prospective
customers to purchase your products and/or services. This includes having 4 initial
site links/pages (which are standard for all users), with the option of adding further
site links and pages as required.
- Default templates are templates with minimal pre-set styling and/or imagery, and
members have greater flexibility in adding header images and adjusting page layout
in these default templates.
- Pre-designed templates provide members with a pre-set base design for their websites,
with all areas of their website (i.e. text, links and images) still being fully
editable, where required. This does not include the header image, which is fixed.
- To select a template, click on the ‘radio button’ below the template
you would like to use, and click the ‘Next’ button to proceed.
- The tools on this page allows OnlyBusiness.com members to design their base template
selection for their website.
- By using, and selecting from, the choices below, you will be able to customize the
look-and-feel of your website to meet your company’s branding requirements.
- You can preview the site you are creating at any time, by clicking on the ‘Preview’
button that is placed within the top and bottom blue bars.
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Site Links
- This area allows OnlyBusiness.com members to create the required links on their
navigation bar and the pages that those links connect with.
- You can also change the order of the links on your page by clicking on the direction
arrow to move a link up or down in the order that the links will appear on your
website.
- NOTE: The ‘Home Page’ link is locked in the
first position, and the ‘Contact Us’ link should typically appear in
the last position.
- You can also delete any of the links you have added, but note that this will also
delete the content you have added into that page.
- By selecting the radio button on any of the links and clicking ‘Edit’
just to the right of it, you can change the menu / page caption of the link (i.e.
the name of the link) and the page title (i.e. a description of the page).
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Adding a New Page
- When adding a new page, please put in the name that you would like to appear on
your site navigation bar.
- The page name should not contain any symbols (e.g. Apostrophe’s, Periods,
Comma’s, etc)
- NOTE: Page names should be short and a maximum of two
words, with a total of 8 characters.
- Within each page, you can change the menu / page caption of the link (i.e. the name
of the link) and the page title (i.e. a description of the page).
- NOTE: The menu caption cannot be changed for the top 4
links/pages that are provided as base pages of your site (i.e. home, About Us, Catalog/Services,
Contact Us)
- This area allows OnlyBusiness.com members to create the required links on their
navigation bar and the pages that those links connect with.
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Search Engine Terms
- On the ‘Home Page’ link, you can enter 10 keywords for search engines
that best describe your business.
- This helps you to have your website Search Engine Optimized, so that your site will
achieve better rankings and positions in the search engines when a web user is searching
for your types of products and/or services.
- You are also able to insert a page description for the home page that will also
help your site to achieve better rankings and positions in the search engines
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Manage FREE Dedicated Domain Add On |
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Domain Forwarding with Domain Masking ( www.godaddy.com)
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- From the Domain Names menu, select Manage Domains.The Domain Control Center opens.
- In your list of domain names, select the checkbox next to the domain name(s) you
want to forward.
- Click Forward.
- In the Domain Forwarding section, select Enable.
- In the Forward To field, enter the URL you want to forward your domain name(s) to.
- In the Redirect Type area, select one of the following:
- Redirects to the site you specified in the Forward To field using a "301 Moved
Permanently" HTTP response. The HTTP 301 response code tells user-agents (including
search engines) that the location has permanently moved.
- Redirects to the site you specified in the Forward To field using a "302 Found"
HTTP response. The HTTP 302 response code tells user-agents (including search engines)
that the location has temporarily moved.
- Click OK.
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A DEDICATED DOMAIN NAME: If you do not have a dedicated domain
name, please go to www.godaddy.com
to register your dedicated domain name.
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Manage FREE eCommerce Add On |
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- Sign up for a Paypal ‘Premier’ or ‘Business’ account (see instructions below)
- Open the Paypal website ( www.paypal.com
)
- Click on the ‘Sign Up Now’ button
- Click on the ‘Start Now’ Button under the ‘Premier’ or ‘Business’ account section,
and follow the Paypal registration instructions for creating your PayPal account
- Once you have a registered PayPal account, please enter your Paypal ‘email ID’ into
the box provided on OnlyBusiness.com (see example below) and your website will automatically
be eCommerce-enabled, allowing your customers to purchase your products and/or services
using their credit cards.
PLEASE NOTE: Paypal is a completely separate entity
to OnlyBusiness.com and any fees, charges, time delays and/or transactions incurred
through the use of Paypal’s services are independent of OnlyBusiness.com. OnlyBusiness.com
derives no profit from, and accepts no responsibility for, any payments/transactions
processed through Paypal.
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