Revenue Generation/E-Commerce

One of the primary missions of Techcafeteria is to help non-profits develop sustainable revenue sources that will hold them up when donations and grant funding are down. We cut our teeth at the granddaddy of social enterprises, and it's a personal mission to spread self-sufficiency to the organmizations that provide social value. Techcafeteria offers:

• Strategic Retail Consults: What is your retail strategy? What e-commerce avenues are available, at what investment? What is the appropriate level of activity for your organization? How does it tie in with your overall mission?
• E-Commerce Development: Add e-commerce to your web site. Accept credit cards. Set up a separate web site. Build a community around your e-commerce. Tie e-commerce into your overall web strategy.
• Online Storefront Set-up and Strategies: Why invent a wheel? E-Bay, Amazon, Craigslist and hundreds of other web sites offer instant e-commerce infrastructure. Which is right for you?
• Traditional Retail Technology Planning and Deployment. Do you operate one or more retail stores already, or do you want to open one? Do you need point of sale, inventory management, promotional support that ties "brick and mortar" to e-commerce?

Competencies

• Hands on experience developing the strategy and deploying technology to support inventory management and point of sale for an 18 store retail thrift organization;
• Author of an award-winning retail reporting system/data warehouse (see the Work Samples for links to articles and a presentation on that system);
• Lead strategist and implementer of E-Commerce for the above-mentioned thrift operation.
• Advanced knowledge of E-Bay, Amazon, Craigslist and other online marketplaces, including E_Bay Giving and other features of benefit to non-profits;
• Expertise with open source E-Commerce platforms. Experience hand-coding interfaces to online credit card processing services.