We have had a great response to our special offer to run your very own on-line Web Store for you - using our ESD Service. Nearly 30 new Web Stores have been created for our Partners and many of these are already live – taking advantage of our Low 6% Transaction Fee in the first year. Remember: This is a managed ESD Service – so you don’t even have to waste your time maintaining your on-line store and making product revisions or uploading serial numbers. You also don’t have to worry about multi-lingual Customer Service – as we take care of that for you with our 3 offices and 31 Toll Free numbers. Due to the great demand - we have decided to extend the offer period until 31st October 2004. Hopefully this means more of you will be able to take advantage of this great service and offer. For more details click here.

We have a large number of technical resources and white papers for you to read and view here at ComponentSource. You can read these to get an understanding of a new technical area or market sector that you might like to enter – we cover Microsoft .NET, Java J2EE/EJB, BEA Weblogic Workshop JWS Container technologies and more. Or you can read some of the business and commercial white papers – like The Open Market for Components and our ROI on Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Components white paper. The ROI paper may help give you a different perspective on how a large corporation may estimate a software development project and hence the value of your software component. Visit our Web Site to read the White Papers.

Many of you ask for advice on licensing and pricing from us and quite often we find that publishers initially undervalue their products. This can be a serious mistake – as you cannot expect a Corporation to believe that you have a serious product for their mission critical application – if it only costs $149. So how do you know if your current product price is below or above average? And should I therefore be increasing the value of my software product by raising the price? A useful piece of data for you to know maybe our average order value here at ComponentSource – which in June 2004 was $728. This is not a “blip” it is fairly typical and shows that a large number of our products and orders are in excess of $728. Which makes you wonder why so many of you have products on our site at $499 or less – doesn’t it? Email harryk@componentsource.com if you would like advice on your licensing and pricing model.

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