Thousands of small businesses rely on the AIT (ait.com) turnkey e-commerce solution as their conduit to the online sales market:

• A civil engineer working part-time from his home in California
• A Virginia man who sells oysters on the half shell nationwide
• A Colorado couple that has built a digital parts and accessories warehouse for motorcycles

Richard Cantwell relies on AIT to power his second career, growing oysters along Virginia’s Eastern Shore, delivering fresh seafood to landlocked areas. “People in the Midwest or Southwest can place an order online and have fresh oysters on their table in 24 hours,” says Cantwell. “For my business, orders are paid for before they’re processed and shipped. Going online has been absolutely no risk.”

What does this mean for you?
Online spending will reach 170-billion dollars this year with the bulk of that activity to occur in the next few months. A study by comScore detailed the search habits of more than 83-million Americans during last year’s holidays, putting numbers to the Internet’s effectiveness as a driver of online and offline sales. Nearly 9-million of the consumers who were studied made an online purchase; twice as many used Internet research as the springboard toward offline buying.

The complete solution
The AIT’s e-commerce package includes a free shopping cart plus secure payment gateway and merchant account, a suite that is applicable to both the Internet-based entrepreneur and the traditional merchant. “Online spending keeps increasing, and our value is in making transactions easy to execute when consumers are ready to buy,” said Clarence Briggs, AIT’s Chief Executive Officer. “The success of our customers in doing that speaks for itself.”