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This is why you should look after your customers, be honest & offer exceptional pricing, value & service.   This photo was sent via MMS to a colleague at work.  A little South African dorpie is home to this bloke who copied our name and used it for his store.

A polite phonecall, explanation – yes we were very civil about the whole thing.  They will change their signage in the new year. And yes, we have customers in this dorpie too.

We have made it 3 years in a row.  Winner of the Jump Shopping E-Commerce Awards.

2008 proved to be quite a challenge, most of our changes & upgrades to the Autostyle online store consisted of productivity, order processing, and behind the scenes stuff. To the visitor, it would seem that nothing has changed cosmetically.

Our highlight this year include
- breaking the 130 000 visitor & 1.8 million page impression figure

- moving over to Mygate, a faster, more secure and more cost effective payment processing gateway. We now also run a tight integration to process First National Bank ‘cell point’ transactions

- 2 weeks ago we launched our ‘autostyle discussion forum’, a place for us to engage our customers, as well as a little motoring enthusiast community.

Future plans are already underway for a design update, a few shopping cart upgrades and more. Lets hope 2009 see’s us take the award again!

Voting is now open in the 2008 Jump Shopping E Commerce Awards

2008 marks the 3rd year of this prestigious awards showcasing the best in the South African E Commerce industry.

Autostyle Motorsport has been fortunate to be voted winners of the 2006 & 2007 awards.  We need your votes to win the 2008 award and make it three years in a row!

Since being at the helm of Autostyle Online in 2001,  I have successfully grown and pushed Autostyle’s online presence & off-line presence higher and higher.  From a crude .gif animated website receiving 100 visitors a day to a powerhouse php database driven ecommerce store receiving over 130 000 visitors & 1.85 million page impressions a month.

As it stands today, we are the 50th busiest website in South Africa (according to Websites Association of South Africa )

I would also like to ask your vote & support for iGroup, the development company we use for our web hosting, programming & behind the scenes work at Autostyle Online.  I can safely vouch for iGroup’s honesty & dedication in any project they take on.   I have personally known their founder & MD, Marc Seymor for nearly 9 years.  Year after year, they have grown & we have grown.  Proof that hard work, dedication, honesty & strong business acumen is a true recipe for any business & startup.

Vote for Autostyle Motorsport for Best Automotive Website 2008  and
vote for iGroup for Best Ecommerce Enabler 2008

We must be doing something right.  Autostyle Motorsport has made to to the finalists in the “Small business” category of their awards.

It’s that time of year again, the annual Jump Shopping Ecommerce Awards.  Started in 2006, I am proud to say that Autostyle.co.za won the 2006 & 2007 awards for Best Automotive website.

2006 we won purely being the only real online retailer for car accessories and I’d like to think that the revamp on the look & feel was cause for the 2007 award.

Nominations are now open and close at the end of September, after that the voting begins and during the end of October the winners will be announced.
Click here to Nominate: http://www.jump.co.za/awards/2008/

2008 is a whole new level. The last 12 months saw very little change to the overall look at feel of the Autostyle.co.za website. The bulk of my time was spent in streamlining our backend area, product updates, staff permissions, etc etc.   In fact the only noticeable change on our website was our Blog & Photogallery – both of which are add-ons to the actual website. Additionally several new projects are planned to compliment our online store.

All of these are leading to an eventual design overhaul. Yes I am full aware of our crammed design – hopefully toward the end of 2008 a newer, wider & more user interactive design will be up.