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History of Quixtar : Countdown 9/1/99 Revisited |
| Just seven years ago, a few hundred individuals were scrambling to create what has since become the groundbreaking e-commerce business we know today as Quixtar. Based on the ideas generated during a November 1998 brainstorming session, Quixtar.com and the e-commerce business model it supported were built in just nine months. This is where Quixtar history begins. In the summer of 1999, scores of Quixtar Web professionals were breaking all types of site-building speed records – with the help of technical and e-commerce expertise provided by Microsoft, IBM, and other vendors – to create an extremely robust e-commerce site, Quixtar.com. The Quixtar site serves as the e-commerce platform for hundreds of thousands of Independent Business Owners (IBOs) powered by Quixtar. As the Quixtar site was developed, the executive team led by Ken McDonald, Quixtar's former Managing Director, was busy creating a whole new business model that captured the best aspects of Quixtar's sister company, Amway, in tandem with the best the Internet age and the fledging e-commerce industry had to offer. Quixtar services the needs of both Independent Business Owners and customers. IBOs build businesses that allow them to earn income based on sales made at www.quixtar.com resulting from their efforts. To launch a Quixtar business, individuals must register with an existing IBO. Customers pay no fee to shop from a large selection of products and learn from expert advice on health, beauty, home care, and other topics. Products are shipped to their homes and covered by Quixtar’s Customer Satisfaction Guarantee. Customers must register with the identification number of their servicing IBO. If a new registrant does not have a servicing IBO, Quixtar will assign them one. On the strength of Quixtar's new business model, Quixtar IBOs have generated more than $6.8 billion in revenues for Quixtar and more than $500 million for Partner Stores since 9/1/99. For their efforts, Quixtar powered IBO's have earned more than $2.2 billion in bonuses and other incentives. Today, Quixtar is the leading online retailer of Health & Beauty products and among the top e-commerce retailers overall based on sales (Internet Retailer, June 2007). Five years later, Quixtar did it all over again. A brand new Quixtar.com, launched Sept. 7, 2004, helped IBOs take their Quixtar-powered businesses to new e-commerce heights. Nearly all Quixtar employees had a role in this colossal project, which vastly improved Quixtar's usability, functionality and appearance. The new Quixtar.com built on the incredible efforts that resulted in one of the most amazing e-commerce launch dates in history - 9/1/99, the birth of Quixtar. To learn more about Quixtar explore these additional resources:
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