Watch Busy Bees in Action!
Guaranteed Performance,
Cost Effective Lead Generation

A.  Most women like to research and make buying decisions online. The Internet is also in dier need of more content specific, niche sites. People, products, and companies tend to get lost within the large search engines. If you advertise on a site that combines both a local and category search mechanism within a niche specific site, you will receive more qualified and relevant leads.

Shopping is second nature for many women, and Girl Shop Spot was created to make online shopping a more natural and enjoyable experience. It's a user friendly site that was developed with the customer in mind. Many women like to shop and find what they are looking for on the web before making buying decisions, scheduling services, or visiting the nearest shop. Here you can advertise your products, services, and businesses on a user friendly, content specific site. A much better solution for business owners, than the generalized ads that sell for so much today.

A.  We are a community within a site that functions as vertical search to support small business growth locally and nationally. You're in the Spotlight at Girl Shop Spot! Our focus is on customers finding you and your business, not on finding general people sharing other companies products. Nor is it your typical social community made to just share and network. We target all women who love to shop or who are in need of finding you. So when shoppers come to our site they are searching the services and products your business provides. As our logo states, we are "A Shopping Resource for Today's Modern Woman." We help women find what they need, when they need it!

Fun, Cheerful, Clean Design
There isn't anything distracting about GSS's design or functionality to take away from your spotlight!

Easy Set-Up
Set-up in a few easy steps and page goes live instantly.

Awesome Search Capabilities
Many search options for shoppers to choose from! Search by category and/or locally with Girl Shop Spot's Quick Search functionality.

Built-in SEO
Built-in SEO on each individual Shop Spot page!

Meet. Interact. Learn.
Meet, interact, and learn from your customers through the Shop Talk function.

Blog It
Use Shop Talk as a mini blog to drive interest and help with SEO.

Instant Notification
Inquiries, reviews, and Shop Talk comments are directly e-mailed to you. No need to sign-in.

Instant Updating
Easy to add, upload, and edit with instant updating 24/7.

Only Pay for Performance
You don't pay for the high bounce rate that pay-per-click ads charge. You are charged ONLY if a shopper shows interest in your ad.

Watch Buzy Bees
Watch and measure busy bees in action! You can learn what products or services are most clicked, what images work best for your ads, and what visitors click to learn more.

Pre-Qualified Leads
You receive more qualified leads than ever before. You'll be able to link to your website from your ad to your home page and from the 18 product/service "Must Haves." You also have the opportunity to come in direct contact with customers through many different options on your Shop Spot.

Measure Ad Activity
You will also be able to measure all visitor activity, including how many total clicks to each interaction and and where they clicked from to find you down to specific keywords.

Create Hipe
Create, automate, and measure sales and specials!

Manage it All
Manage your Shop Spot ad, reviews, & Shop Talk how ever you see fit. Measure, budget, create, and update 24/7.

       Advertiser's receive an interactive ad full of multimedia.
       These ads create consumer interest.
       Advertisers pay less for their leads, while being able to measure the value-to-cost ratio.
       The exposure and initial click is free.
       Tells the advertiser if the consumer pursued more actions and showed interest in what they are selling.
       The tools are managed by the seller, along with ability to set a cost threshold.
       Each interaction a shopper has with a Shop Spot is recorded.
       Records who, what, when, and from where, down to specific keywords.
       Cost conscience sellers only pay for real leads, customers that are showing real interest in their store.
       Shows sellers how to take control of their advertising.
       Three reports are given to measure specific interaction and cost.

Customer tracking of product and service popularity, in-depth reports and details of customer actions will be priceless as we move into 2010.

A.  We only get paid when we perform by getting you qualified leads. After you set-up the basics of your listing, you will be asked for your credit card information in order to begin set-up for the measurement tools. Your credit card is charged ONLY when a specific interaction has been made. The statistics of these interactions and their totals will be found under Interaction Report in your administration pages. At the end of each month your total will be reflected and charged to your credit card account.

A.  We believe that there is a real need for a more comprehensive internet advertising pay structure. In the current economic times, companies are looking for ways to cut costs, but still remain competitive. Pay-Per-Interaction allows companies to do both and Girl Shop Spot is here to bring it to you!

On GSS, the seller has the opportunity to create an interactive ad that is full of images and content in order to measure what's working, what people are interested in, and what they click on to learn more. Why wouldn't they? The more things you offer your customers to interact with in an online ad, the more qualified your leads become, which in turn lowers the bounce rate of that ad that you would typically pay for in Pay-Per-Click advertising. You may be thinking how? Before potential customers contact you, click to your site or must haves, they have already learned about your business and what you're selling. These leads have already been pre-qualified and that's something you want to pay for.

Pay-Per-Click advertising is short text ads, typically found on very large search engines. Many times these ads create high bounce rates. You generally end up paying more for your leads, while not being able to measure the value-to-cost ratio, other than the gross traffic rate. There are other types of advertising that may offer an image and short description with the Pay-Per-Click model. What you are paying for is simply the initial click made, which doesn’t tell you if the person pursued more actions or if that’s as far as they went.

A.  To set-up shop click on the "Member's Registration" link also found on the very top right corner of this site to begin registering as a new advertiser. After registration you may click "Begin Shop Spot Set-Up." You will also be immediately e-mailed a password to sign-in anytime. You can learn more about your Shop Spot on the Why GSS page.

To set-up PPI simply sign-in and under "Shop Spot Management" select each tool with the Bumble Bee that uses the PPI Model in order to set the measurement for each. After you select each PPI tool, this will automatically track all interactions for that specific measurement. Here is where you can also enter your budgeted total amount for each paid interaction per month. All other free interactions are measured once a PPI Tool has been selected. Click the link "Interaction Report" to the right of the page anytime to view your analytics. This page is where you can select the month and one of three reports to view your Shop Spot's traffic and Interaction Report.

A.  Not all interactions cost, but all can be measured. Pricing starts for as little as $0.02 and can be found to the right of this page in the green box under PPI Membership with Measurement or even more information can be found on the pricing page.

A.  Yes, each paid interaction can be set at a maximum amount that you choose. We have no minimums you have to set. When all your paid interactions have exceeded your budgeted amount for each month, your Shop Spot will become a basic listing until a new month has been started. If your budget has run out for any of your interactions for that month, you may increase them at any time.

A.  Our goals are to help educate advertisers on how shoppers interact with their ads by delivering them tools to manage and measure their ads. We hope that Girl Shop Spot sellers take full advantage of all the functionality the site offers, familiarizing themselves with cutting edge technologies that are being offered online today to help them market their business more cost effectively.

Many advertising sites that seem to offer a one-stop-shop e-commerce solution (or any advertising for that matter), still don't offer sellers cost-effective measurement tools to learn what interactions lead customers to make their purchases from their ads. They don't, for instance, track how many times a product or service image has been viewed, so you can measure the conversion rates for each. Are they clicking to view specials? How often are these specials clicked versus how many sales codes are used or entered? From where are they clicking to find the seller's ad?

Through GSS you know you've made an impression from your ad. But what’s even better is that you can measure specifically what they are interacting with, and from where they are coming to find you. Not only do you streamline lead generation, your Shop Spot literally becomes an online marketing laboratory. You get to test and retest promotions, experiment with your product or service mix, and refine your communications with prospects and customers.

We also don't believe in having to pay for something unless it's really working. Pay-Per-Interaction^TM is the ONE and ONLY way advertisers can trust that they will get the exposure but won't pay for un-interested passersby.