March 2002 DancePlus.com Newsletter

Hi Everyone: 

It's been a few months since I've updated our faithful newsletter subscribers, but I've been busy building a new DancePlus.com site from the ground up. We are almost finished and the new site will have some new features that I hope everyone will like. Here is a sample...

FEATURES OF THE NEW SITE

  1. The ability to create an account so you don't have to enter your shipping information every time you order.
  2. The ability to offer big specials and savings that have bben traditionally restricted to in store sales like our "buy 5 get one free" deal.
  3. A perpetual basket on each page so that you can see what you have added to your cart already.
  4. And many more...
SPECIALS

We have extended some promotions and added some new ones. There has never been a better time to get save a bundle at DancePlus.com. Here's a run down on our current promotions:
  1. We still give all our North American customers free shipping on every order.
  2. Launching with the new site is our Buy 5 - Get 1 Free
  3. An incredible markdown on Klaus Hallen CDs! We've slashed the price of 14 different Klaus Hallen CDs to by more than 50% (while quantities last). Just click on the "Best Buys" button on the left hand side of the screen to access savings on over 30 popular CDs.

NEW RELEASES

We have just added six new CDs that were just released. 



To see the new releases just click on the new releases button on the left hand navigation bar at the site (http://www.danceplus.com). The first 6 are the new releases we added this week. Visit our site to see the cover art, a list of all the tracks and their dances, and to listen to sound clips from each track. 

Here's the quick run down on the new releases. 

  1. Dancing Latino: Ole (16 tracks) - Buy this CD for the Rumbas
  2. Bassano Open - Vol 3 (23 tracks) - This is a great CD. Listen to the first track "Romantic Dream".
  3. Dance Charts Hits zum Welttanztag 2001 (19 tracks) - Great Tangos from original artists Malando and Stanley Black.
  4. Love Inside (14 tracks) - A nice mix of tracks and some hard to find hustles.
  5. Bill & Bobbie Irvine Awards - Vol. 3 (23 tracks) - Several of the tracks are provided in both vocal and instrumental format. The slowfox trots stand out.
  6. Mster Dance Festival 1 (22 tracks) - Seven of the tracks on this CD are provided in both vocal and instrumental formats. A great standard CD with memorable waltzes and tangos.

Hope you enjoy checking out these new releases. 

TECHNICAL UPDATES

One of the challenges of building a site is trying to ensure that every visitor has the same experience regardless of whether the user is on a PC or a Mac, using Explorer or Netscape, or has this video card versus that video card, etc.

As you know, Microsoft and Netscape have launched numerous versions of their browsers over the years and there is no standardized approach to how each of the browsers operates. It can be a nightmare. According to our research 90% of users use Microsoft browsers. Therefore, it is the group that we must satisfy first and it is also the browser that we design the site to. 

Additionally we have decided to provide our sound clips in the Microsoft Windows Media format as the player is free and widely accepted. Unfortunately because this is not our product and is instead a Microsoft product it is Microsoft that is in the best position to support this product. It is also next to impossible for us to know what on your computer system may be causing you to have problems listening to the clips. It could be a hardware conflict or the problem could stem from another piece of audio software you have installed or even an unrelated software application could be causing a problem. 

It is impossible to diagnose this problem by email or over the phone. However, that said, we still appreciate hearing about any technical problems you may be having and it is our aim to try to provide a smooth experience for as many visitors to our site as possible. In fact the small percentage of you that were having trouble with our current shopping cart emptying before check out, has prompted us to rebuild our site from the ground up and we will be launching our new site shortly. A new site however, will probably bring a new set of compatibility issues that regardless of our testing will probably still crop up. We ask you to be patient with us, and know that we will endeavour to solve as many compatibility issues as we can.

Thank you again for your support and we will talk again soon.

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Sincerely, 

Linda Wilson 
Internet Manager 
http://www.DancePlus.com 

1-888-844-4122