Inviting Friends

Inviting friends to join you in virtualEshopping.com is easy and we give three ways to find and invite your friends to create an account and so they can meet you in the mall.

First, you can find your friends who are already registered with us. Click the invite friends link beneath your friends list on your profile page.

Simply type in their name, city, state, etc., to see if they are already members. If so, invite them and they will appear in your friends list when they accept your invitation.


Secondly, you can invite new friends that you have in your address books of your web-based email accounts. We support the major ones like yahoo, gmail, hotmail, and aol.

Pick your web-based email account, enter your login/pw for that account at right, then a list of your address book friends appears. Select any/all and click invite. You may do multiple web-based email accounts in the same invitation.

You can customize your invitation with a personal message. We always want to offer transparency, so you can preview the email that you will send them with your invitation.

Lastly, we offer you a tool to simply enter the email address of friends you'd like to invite.

So don't let your friends miss out on the fun of virtualEshopping.com! Invite them today so you can share your favorite stores, your "I want it/I got it" stuff, and invite them for a mall date soon.

We want to make your experience in virtualEshopping.com fun and easy. Please send us suggestions at support@virtualEshopping.com or comment below.

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Security Settings

We want you to be confident, comfortable and safe with your participation in virtualEshopping.com. We give you the opportunity to customize who can see your profile and hence, communicate with you.

See the settings at the bottom the edit profile page. You were able to set them up initially and you can modify them at any time.

In addition, when you are in the mall, you can block someone trying to chat with you that you are uncomfortable with. You simply click on the person's screen name in the chat screen and click the "block" button to block them for that session.

If you ever feel that you are being threatened or hassled on virtualEshopping.com, please report it promptly to support@virtualeshopping.com. We want you to feel safe and secure when using the site.

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Special Events

Like any mall, you'd expect us to host special events on a regular basis. We don't plan to disappoint! At least weekly, we'll host a special event - a live guest with a video, music groups, experts with timely topics, celebrities - on one of our two main stages. You'll see a video on demand presentation and the guests will appear live, in persona form, to answer questions from the audience in real time.

Here are a few examples of our pre-launch invited guests to give you an idea of some of the topics we envision. Many will be shopping related.

Here's one of our two main stages:

Come join us each week for our special live events in the mall!

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My Favorite Stores

Share your favorite stores with your friends from our 150+ current roster of web retailers or add your own favorites if they are not currently in the mall. Once you select your favorite stores, they display at the bottom of your profile page.

To create your personalized favorite stores list, click the "Select favorite stores" link on the bottom of your profile page. Then, select your favorites from our alphabetical list of stores and click the "save" button.

If you don't see one of your favorite stores as a participant in our mall, click the link at the bottom of the store selection page as highlighted below.

For your customized favorite store, upload an image of their logo as directed in the screen below, along with their web address and the name of the store.

Next, select the order of all your favorites.

Note: Only your first seven (7) favorites will display on your profile page. The rest will appear in order on the overflow page accessed by clicking the "more" link on your profile page.

When you add a a customized favorite store that is not currently in our mall, we will send them an email on your behalf, inviting them to check out the mall to become a full member to create a storefront and other opportunities. (We will not give them your contact information.)

So have some fun and show your friends your favorite stores. Change them and move them around.

And as always, let us know what you think by commenting or emailing us at support@virtualEshopping.com!

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One Woman's Experience at the Mall vs. VirtualEShopping.com

Why go to the mall when you can shop in your PJ's while the kids are asleep? Meet your friends in the mall and chat, window shop, see special events, collect coupons, people watch and meet new people. All from your desktop!

Let us know what you think by commenting below or contact us at support@virtualEshopping.com.

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Schedule a Mall Shopping Date!

A new feature we're adding with this release of virtualEshopping.com is the ability to shedule a mall shopping date with your friends. You click the "invite more friends" link in the friends section of your profile page and select the last tab on the right. You schedule your mall shopping date and select the people (who must be registered users) who you want to include in your group.



Our system sends everyone on your list an email and asks them to RSVP. You'll get notices of who is going to attend and who cannot and a reminder email will be sent 24 hours prior to the mall date. You can check the status of who's coming by clicking the "Mall Dates" link next to your persona pic in the upper left of the profile page.

Give it a try and let us know what you think! Comment below or email us at support@virtualeshopping.com.

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Billboards and Kiosks

Other features you'll see in the virtualEshopping mall include billboards and kiosks.

Billboards are large windows that can contain any of the elements found in the windows of storefronts: fixed images, slideshows (with up to 10 images), audio, video, and coupons. Similar also to the storefront windows, when you click on one of the billboards, you are transported to the webpage of the featured item or to the homepage of the advertiser.

Here are a couple of screenshots of billboards in the mall:

Kiosks are essentially small billboards with the exact same functionality. They are scattered throughout the mall.

Here's a screenshot of a kiosk:

Clicking on billboards and kiosks in the mall are a great way to find new advertisers you've never heard of or connect with those advertisers you love!

Let us know what you think! Comment below or contact us at support@virtualEshopping.com.

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