GoodBarry GoodBusiness Aims To Make Ecommerce Easier

by Duncan Riley on October 20, 2007

GoodBusiness, a new hosted application package from GoodBarry is aiming to make ecommerce easier for small business owners.

There’s a lot of options in this space, everything from CMS packages through to commercial high end hosted options. GoodBusiness is aimed at small businesses who either cant afford the high end packages, or don’t have the skills available to do it themselves. The package includes website creation, lead management, email marketing, online shopping, blogging, and business analytics in the one system. GoodBusiness offers a “customer centric vision” of a website, with every feature integrated into a central customer database allowing businesses to automatically build customer profiles and track behavior across their online business.

GoodBusiness competes directly with Shopify, a product we reviewed in April 2006. GoodBarry argues that GoodBusiness offers a more customer-centric ecommerce package that provides a complete picture of customer behavior, allowing for better informed decisions; however both packages do provide a similar outcome: a simplified software-as-a-service ecommerce package.

GoodBusiness pricing starts at $39/month for the most basic plan and includes all features. Higher plans are available with more bandwidth, disk space and admin user accounts.

Comments

FakeRichard - October 20th, 2007 at 10:36 pm PDT

GoodBarry argues that GoodBusiness offers a more customer-centric ecommerce package that provides a complete picture of customer behavior, allowing for better informed decisions

I argue that GoodRichard offer a more customer-centric prom picture package that provides a more complete picture of underaged drinking and sexual behavior allowing for better informed decision.

Web D - October 20th, 2007 at 11:25 pm PDT

GoodBusiness is aimed at small businesses who either cant afford the high end packages, or don’t have the skills available to do it themselves

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We have found that small businesses do not have the ability to fully comprehend and utilize all of those analytics.

Also, they are short staffed and can not hire an expert to fully take advantage of all of those features. Most of them are jack of all trades Administrators with a few traditional sales people.

What we have done is to offer optional managed services with our model to accommodate those who need expertise to fully exploit the potential of their analytics and online marketing initiatives

Brett - October 21st, 2007 at 1:41 am PDT

Hi Web D,

Thanks for your comments, but I’d have to disagree that small businesses do not have the ability to comprehend and utilize those analytics.

That’s a pretty broad generalization! =)

In our experience, we’ve seen business owners are getting more and more web-savvy - they need to - and there’s plenty of resources out there that small business owners can tap into to expand their knowledge.

Our current customers love having a range of analytics available to them that they can use to evaluate their business performance - they understand their website is an integral part of their business that they need to have their heads around.

And in any case - there’s nothing stopping web designers and developers building their client’s site on GoodBusiness and managing it for them anyway =)

Cheers

Dave - October 21st, 2007 at 5:26 am PDT

I think it will be more beneficial to specific customers if they provide location based service and extend their reach around the world.

Nader - October 21st, 2007 at 6:35 am PDT

Their graphic “Meet the GoodBarry Family” on the frontpage is somewhat misleading.

How can Free + Free + Free + Free = $39 !?

tim - October 21st, 2007 at 8:11 am PDT

For an open source alternative, check out Magento

http://www.magentocommerce.com/

Tim

THE1000LINKS - October 21st, 2007 at 9:14 am PDT

I think it might help the small business to develop the web system with low cost.

Mayank Kumar - October 21st, 2007 at 9:17 am PDT

Hey tim, how scalable is your open source alternative. Pardon me for thinking in this way, but I always suspect open source solution when it comes to business needs

Aydin Mirzaee - October 21st, 2007 at 9:58 am PDT

Shopify kicks ass.

Aydin Mirzaee - October 21st, 2007 at 10:04 am PDT

although, at the end of the day, I think that GoodBarry has somewhat of a different target market. I wouldn’t call it a “direct shopify competitor” necessarily…

Bardia - October 21st, 2007 at 1:34 pm PDT

Agree, GoodBarry is not really a competitor to Shopify. Although there are some cross overs, we are clearly aiming in a different place. Our goal is to make it easy for small businesses to have an integrated suite of products that they need to be successful online. One of our key competitve advantages is that we built everything from the ground up, so the level of integration and benefits flowing from one area of the system to another is sigificant.

Tony Mars - October 21st, 2007 at 2:06 pm PDT

Hi Bardia,

Your service looks like it could be outstanding and completely unique blend of a lot of formerly dispersed services.

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