Polaris Innovator makes an ideal author or book web site. It is also perfect for professional consultants, coaches, artists, thought leaders, and any small business.
Polaris Innovator gives you the distinctiveness of custom design, with the affordability and control of a content management framework. Our award-winning design team will create a customized theme using your provided materials to give your site a professional branded look. How It Works.
Polaris includes a beautiful Flash video player right on your home page, with clean, easy-to-use controls, free of third-party branding or advertising. Your visitors can watch videos within the player itself or enlarged full-screen.
For maximum visual impact, your Home Page includes a large, interactive messaging area with custom-designed slides that gently cycle. Smaller versions of these slides will also appear on your interior pages. This keeps your most important messages front-of-mind for your visitors.
Attractive and inviting, interactive banners will entice your audience to take actions strategic for your success.
Polaris Innovator makes it easy to edit the content of your pages from any standard web browser. No need to know any code or complicated interfaces. Simply click and a familiar toolbar appears allowing you to modify text, images and links anytime you want to. It's that easy.
Polaris Innovator brings online shopping to a new level of simplicity and ease. A robust, full-featured shopping cart makes selling physical and digital products a breeze for you and your customers. Upload products, add description, preview files, pricing information, and you're done! You can even sell subscription-based products, giving your customers time-limited access to a private membership area. Perfect for authors and consultants who need to sell their expertise conveniently online.
Your Polaris Innovator shopping cart gives your customers a secure, stress-free checkout process. They can easily choose between Paypal™, Google Checkout™, or standard credit card processing. Polaris Innovator is equally friendly to international customers. You can select different currencies and all the customer checkout forms intelligently adjust depending on the country selected!
Polaris Innovator gives you two time-tested tools to encourage repeat business and attract customers - Promotions and Points. Promotions lets you create create discount offers for seasonal, introductory, overstock, freebie, or any other occasion. You can define the discount amount, start and end dates, even specify how many times discount codes can be used! Points lets you automatically award points to customers based on their purchases. When they reach the earned limit they receive a discount on their next purchase.
Growing a subscriber base is centrally important for any web marketing effort. But with the growing amount of information in our lives, many people are wary of signing up for more accounts. Polaris Innovator includes a unique feature that lets you automatically incentivize your visitors to subscribe in the form of a free download which can be a pdf report or an mp3 audio file. An easy-to-use interface makes it easy for you to upload a free gift incentive.
Protect your email address from spam crawlers, and make it easy for your site visitors to take the next step.
One of the most effective ways to communicate the value of your product or service is through testimonials. A third-party endorsement can carry far more weight than anything you say about yourself. With a user-friendly interface, Polaris Innovator makes it painless to add, edit, or delete testimonials that elegantly display in the sidebar of your site and cycle randomly upon page refresh.
The Polaris Innovator interface is designed to be easy enough for you to manage all aspects of your site yourself. But should you need help, our friendly support staff are available via a simple online help desk or email. Most issues are addressed in less than 24 hours.
With Polaris Innovator, you are ready to meet the growing demand for digital products. You can sell any file type with a simple upload. You can even add preview content to give customers a multimedia experience of your product while they browse. Customers can easily mix and match digital, physical, or subscription products in their shopping cart. Once they complete the easy checkout process, they are emailed a secure link that allows them to immediately download. You can easily edit the email notification your customers receive to provide a fully customized and branded post-purchase experience!
An integrated articles system makes it easy for you to write, publish, and archive blog or news articles within one convenient interface. Your site visitors will be able to share your articles with one-click via popular social bookmarking services. A teaser to your most recent article appears on your Home Page, keeping repeat visitors informed of your latest content.
Polaris Innovator comes with a robust email list management and newsletter system, allowing you to collect email addresses from a simple subscription form on your site, manage your list of names and emails, and send text newsletters to your list. Polaris Innovator also integrates seamlessly with your Constant Contact, iContact, or Vertical Response account.
The typical post-purchase email notifications sent by many shopping systems can be rather impersonal. Polaris Innovator lets you custom tune all emailed responses to give your customers an authentic, branded customer service experience. Provide detailed information or guidance specific to your products, or other personal touch. You can even create different emailed responses based on whether customers purchased a physical, digital, or subscription product.
Polaris Innovator is a hosted web service, allowing you to take advantage of regular enhancements and evolution made to the Polaris Core technology. Polaris Innovator sites are hosted on our high-performance servers, saving you the hassle of finding and managing your own hosting account. You'll rest easy knowing your data is safe and secure.
Polaris Innovator is currently in private beta mode, however we are taking on select new customers.
Polaris Innovator gives you:
- The design and functionality of a commercial site at a fraction of the cost
- A modern and engaging brand experience for your visitors
- Advanced tools to grow your customer base such as automatic download incentives to entice your visitors to sign-up
- Smooth product sales with integrated international friendly shopping cart
- Ongoing product updates so your web site evolves with you