About GetZooks

About GetZooks

Introduction

GetZooks© is an e-commerce software development company providing individuals, businesses, communities and charities with two primary online services: the GetZooks© Club; and the GetZooks© World Mall. The GetZooks© Club is a separate members club, owned and operated by members and the Eleanor Roberts Educational Fund. The Mall is owned and operated by GetZooks© World Mall, a California corporation managed by a Board of Directors.

The GetZooks© Club is an international e-commerce business club that empowers its members to prosper from sharing their favorite products and services over the Internet through word-of-mouth social networking. The emphasis is on providing useful information to others and “sharing what you love", without requiring any direct sales activity. The uniqueness of GetZooks© comes from allowing regular people to indirectly make sales, no one is required to become a sales-person; to compliment passive social sales we also offer incredibly powerful tools for the professional Internet marketer.

The GetZooks© WorldMall provided to all our members is an international online shopping mall that facilitates shopping anywhere in the world, in the shopper’s preferred language and currency. The WorldMall consists of City Malls that facilitate shopping by location, Specialty Malls that cater to special interests, and Custom Malls created by GetZooks© Club Members. A powerful internal search engine allows the online shopper to compare pricing while shopping, they can searching products by: SKU Number, Product, Category, Featured Stores, Recently Added, and Custom Malls. Small businesses are well served by placement in the GetZooks© World Mall Catalog as it then allows any GetZook member to refer a sales to that business. To our knowledge, GetZooks© is the premier location for small or individual Internet businesses wanting to increase sales by utilizing an affiliate sales program.

The Problems We Address

For Individuals:

Employment opportunities are rapidly shifting from traditional Industrial Age sectors, such as manufacturing and retail sales positions, to the global Internet enabled knowledge market. In order to survive and succeed, workers need to adapt to this trend, a tend that will only continue; here is why.

On-line sales are increasing every year relative to “brick & mortar” retail store sales, this means job loss for many in the retail sector.
Corporations are downsizing staff by closing stores or dealerships, cutting store hours and retail jobs, and hiring fewer people.
Outsourcing of manufacturing jobs to places like China, and even outsourcing of knowledge jobs to places like India, will only continue to grow due to new information technology.
Mechanization replaces real people with computers or machines. This allows corporations to spend less and do more, faster, more reliably, and cheaper than human employees.

For Businesses:

With the shift to a more global economy, community based businesses now need to expand into new global markets, this means reaching those markets.

The most effective means for reaching these markets is word-of-mouth advertising through social networks. Traditional advertising, on the Internet and off, is no cost effective. The average person using the Internet is now exposed to over 3,000 advertising messages per day, most people hardly even notice them anymore. What is most effective is "word of mouth" advertising, in other word honest sharing of of products and services; which can be monetized through social discussions and networks.

The Solution

GetZooks© provides people with user-friendly and inexpensive tools, training, education and relationships to facilitate the successful development of knowledge market businesses. With GetZooks, former “brick & mortar” store owners and sales personnel can compliment current sales by transitioning to selling some products online, through an unlimited number of CyberStores with products in their area of knowledge or interest.

GetZooks© CyberStores and CyberMalls offer brand name products, merchant processing, insurance, drop shipping and tracking. These stores can be placed almost anywhere on the Internet, including social networks like MySpace and Facebook. Additionally, GZ Club Members can create and host unique personalized CyberMalls on their own GetZooks© webpage.

Background

GetZooks© was initially created as a charitable fund raising division of the Eleanor Roberts Educational Fund. Due to the response of individuals during the pre-launch period GetZooks, Inc. was re-filed as a stand-alone corporation. Although the company is now for-profit it retains the charitable, corporate, and non-governmental partners it began with. As part of GetZooks© outreach program, we were an official sponsor of the United Nations International Day of Peace Global 24 Hour Multi-Media Broadcast in partnership with Pathways To Peace, Unity Foundation, Culture of Peace, Peace Portal, and others.

GetZooks© has relationships with numerous corporate vendors, some of which are interested in becoming more involved as partners. Additionally, Members with corporations or small businesses wishing to have their products distributed through GetZooks© CyberStores and CyberMalls are seeking partnerships.

GetZooks© also has multiple private partnerships with faith groups of various denominations and beliefs participating in GetZooks© Charity Program. Qualified charities receive a Free CyberMall for fundraising from sales to constituents, and an ad free Community Internet Portal through our partner maintaining the Trunity Platform.