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Narendra Shahi runs a craft exporting business and retail shop in Nepal. Eager to expand his business to buyers outside Nepal, he realized he needed an online presence. Rather than give up a portion of his sales to a third party, he chose OpenEntry.com as a platform and created his store ThirdWorldCraft.com. He found it easy because the OpenEntry platform is all based on Google tools like Picasa.

As he started selling more crafts online, Narendra soon outgrew the 100 product capacity of the free store. So he upgraded to a $200/year Premium account to be able to list 1,000 products. The Premium account also removed the Google Ads appearing on each page of his free store. But he still faced the challenge of getting buyers to find his store among the billions of websites online. And he also struggled with getting them to trust him. So he joined the OpenEntry marketplaces NepalHandicraftMarket.com and B2BFairTradeDirect.com that provided the visibility, credibility, and trust that would have been impossible to generate on his own and drove trusting buyers to his store. In 2012 he sold more than $25,000 online.

Liz Lighton runs a wholesale business in New York designing a beautiful line of cotton clothes that she has manufactured in India, and then sells in specialty stores and select department stores nationwide. Although her wholesale business is successful, she realized that if she could sell some of the pieces she already had in inventory at retail prices, she’d receive two and a half times what she does wholesale. But she was too busy running her wholesale business to open a physical store and didn’t know how to create an online store. Then she heard about OpenEntry and now the experiences User Support Team in Nepal, besides building her store with a beautiful custom template, is also maintaining it from emails that Liz sends from her phone.

Liz is widely known and has a loyal Facebook following. Her Premium account also included mounting her store into her Facebook page (http://goo.gl/D7riS) where many of her fans feel more comfortable. In the past year, her $800 investment in OpenEntry support services has generated thousands of dollars of low-hassle sales

Rob Jennings and his father run an antique business in London and has tried most of the available e-commerce platforms. He chose OpenEntry because it is the only one that allows him to upload products directly from his phone to their store (Antiques-AntiqueFurniture.co.uk). This feature makes his life a lot easier, because he can’t always get to a computer when he is out purchasing items at estate sales or auctions. Being able to upload photos directly from his phone to his store enables him to spend more time finding the best antiques and less time tweaking his store.

Pamela Pascual is a Filipina living in San Francisco, California. She has relatives all over the Philippines that are urging her to help them promote the sale in the US of a range of Filipino products. So Pamela and her family are helping a selected number of small scale Filipino exporters that they know and trust to build their OpenEntry stores. She is aggregating them into the now preliminary marketplace NM.OpenEntry.com/Archipelago. Then she'll provide the visibility, credibility, and trust to promote the online sales of the items by the vendors that she and her family trust and can monitor. Pamela and her family will collect a commission on all sales generated by the marketplace.

The World Fair Trade Organization has 170 groups representing 400,000 grassroots artisans in poor countries all over the world. Currently the producer groups sell to a long chain of middlemen that only pay them about 12% of the final price. But even though most of the groups have OpenEntry online stores, buyers still have trouble finding them, much less trusting them. So OpenEntry has built the WFTOMarket.com marketplace comprised of the stores of its members to leverage its high-profile brand to the benefit of them all.

Cesar Guevara is a young, web-savvy entrepreneur in Lima, Peru. He earns income by charging local small and medium enterprises (SMEs) $155 each to build their OpenEntry stores (http://goo.gl/tEBUJ). His clients find it easy to update their stores because instructions are in 57 languages, including Spanish. Cesar also earns a 25% commission from any services (such as Premium accounts) that his clients purchase from OpenEntry.