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Startup of the Week: Shotfarm

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Each week we will share a Chicago company with you. We hope that you will benefit from their services and get to know, partner, meet with or invest in these companies.

Shotfarm What does Shotfarm  do?   

 

When a retailer wants to sell new products online, they need to get product images and information from each of their manufacturers to display on their ecommerce site.  Since every manufacturer uses a different method of transfer to distribute these assets (CDs, ftp sites, asset management systems, email attachments or DropBox links), the process of collecting and managing these files is incredibly time-consuming for retailers. This inefficiency alone costs the retail marketing industry more than $5 billion a year.

 

Shotfarm's free Product Image Exchange--a single platform where all manufacturers can post their product images and all retailers can come to download them--centralizes the transfer of these assets to reduce that inefficiency by 85%. Shotfarm features a familiar gallery-style interface, batch uploading, image quality requirements, automatic request reminders and customizable sharing and downloading, all within a secure, permissions-based environment. One system, one password, one workflow and 100% free.

 

For companies looking to further increase their productivity, shotfarm offers several low-cost plugins to help standardize and process the files found in shotfarm's library, including renaming, resizing, editing and hosting. 

Why do you care?   

Retailers and manufacturers know that waiting on product images slows time to market, causing them to lose valuable sales. With product assets from all manufacturers consolidated into one location, retailers can quickly self-serve when they need product images or information, gaining the competitive advantage of getting those products online faster. Manufacturers benefit from a significant reduction in image requests as well as the internal efficiency of having a collaboratively-managed, up-to-date asset library. 

Special Offer:

Retailers: If you're looking for images that aren't already in shotfarm's library, our account team will contact and work with those suppliers to bring them on board - free of charge.

 

Manufacturers: Let shotfarm's data ingestion team upload your entire image library and product information for you at no cost! Just email us at [email protected].

 

Contact: 

For more information contact, Mike Lapchick, CEO, [email protected].

Best, 

 

The CEC Team

www.chicagolandec.org

 

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