Small Businesses Challenge Large Retailer's Dominance this Holiday Season with Meylah

Ecommerce is a fast growing segment. Small businesses are many steps behind to take advantage of this growing segment. Meylah provides a unique solution that enables small businesses to create their own ecommerce storefront and connect to their local customers easily with influencers in their community. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) December 14, 2013 - This holiday season small business owners win back business from their larger brick and mortar and online rivals with the Meylah's turnkey e-commerce platform. From Cyber Monday and beyond, Meylah offers cloud-based e-commerce that enables small businesses to compete with their larger retail rivals.

"We're connecting buyers and sellers online with online marketplace experiences to power local commerce for small businesses that generate customers' re-investment in their local community," says Chaitra Vedullapalli, Meylah's Chief Marketing Officer and a winner of the 2013 Top Small Business Influencer award.

Meylah helps small businesses augment their local brick and mortar operations providing a feature-rich online solution with PayPal integration, easy image and product data uploading and built-in social media tools, SEO and shopping analytics. Small businesses can grow faster with Meylah because the platform enables a small business to setup and run the solution in a matter of days and at a fraction of the historical cost paid by larger online retailers to build their e-commerce solutions.

As the Boston Consulting Group study "Ahead of the Curve" recently stated there is a sizable opportunities for small business in the cloud if they quickly capitalize on the latest waves of technology innovation. Cloud computing is going to be a game changer for small businesses that learn to leverage online business tools to operate more efficiently and effectively and Meylah intends to make online retailing an affordable way for small businesses to expand their market reach without having to manage an expensive on premise e-commerce solution.

Meylah's Platform allows:
• Local Commerce to be a reality by connecting local businesses with local buyers via a trusted destination commerce portal that integrates retail, service and home based businesses. The Bellevue Chamber's eastside marketplace (http://eastsidemarketplace.meylah.com/) provides a high tech online buy local ecommerce solution connecting buyers and sellers on the eastside.

• Media Companies can now create a seamless integration with their advertisers and drive specific and measurable traffic that leads to sales. Neighborhood Notes has leveraged Meylah's marketplace technology to create Shopfolio PDX (http://shopfoliopdx.meylah.com), an online marketplace built to exclusively feature Portland's independent community of merchants and makers.

• Niche markets can launch their online selling venues and connect their buyers and sellers in minutes. Handmadeology market (http://handmadeologymarket.meylah.com) exists for the purpose of helping artists and makers to successfully sell their handmade and digital goods online, and to feature the newest handmade, vintage, digital and supply items found around the web!

• Organizations can launch their community based resource center to drive awareness, education and exposure. Small Business Trends Marketplace is a one stop location to discover resources in all area of business such as marketing, writing, design, best practices and blogging etc. which are essential to driving traffic and generating revenue for your small business. "We want to give small business owners and entrepreneurs the opportunity to monetize their knowledge and expertise, via Small Business Trends. It's one of the ways we give back to the community." Says Anita Campbell, CEO of Small Business Trends

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