• As a Vendor, what advantages
    are there to me if I participate?

    Hummingbird World Media provides your
    products with a large web-site with better
    search engine rankings than a small,
    individual site. If someone searches for a
    keyword related to your product, the sites
    with the most pages are listed higher in
    search engine rankings than smaller sites,
    even if all of the pages are not related to
    your product. A larger web presence equals
    a larger exposure of your products to the
    public. Hummingbird World Media currently
    has over 3000 web pages.

    Because customers have access to all
    vendor products once they enter an
    individual vendor's portal, it provides a cross-
    pollination of audiences for all vendors on
    site, improving every vendors' exposure.

    Hummingbird World Media builds and
    maintains your web-pages for you. We pay
    the credit card processing fees on your
    behalf. We market your products, both on
    the web and via sales catalogs to brick and
    mortar stores including large chain
    purchasing departments as well as small
    indpendents.

  • I already have my own website.
    Why can't I participate using it?
    Hummingbird World Media requires a
    uniform look for all of its web pages. The
    content may vary but the formatting and
    theme are consistent. This is so shoppers are
    assured they are in our domain as they
    browse and have not stumbled off onto an
    unknown site with no guarantees.

    We require that all payments go through our
    credit card processor - PayPal. This is the
    only manner in which we can guarantee our
    customers secure payment processing and
    prompt product shipping.

    Although search engines take into
    consideration the amount of links a web-site
    has in determining search engine rankings,
    links do not have as much weight in their
    criteria as sheer presence. By having all
    vendor products on one site, it improves
    search engine rankings and exposure for
    everyone.

  • Do I still own my products?
    Yes. You still have full ownership and full
    control of your products. The copyright at
    the bottom of each Hummingbird World
    Media web page pertains to website content
    only, and ensures that your product images
    and descriptions have copyright protection
    while being on-line.

  • Who sets the pricing on my
    products?
    You set your own prices, however, we will
    send you a worksheet upon product
    approval of all the items you will need to
    consider when doing e-commerce such as
    shipping and packaging costs. You will want
    to ensure that your profit margin can absorb
    these costs. In certain instances, depending
    on the nature of the products, we will stock
    and ship from our facility if you desire us to
    do so. The fee for this service would be
    arrived at after taking into consideration the
    nature of the product being shipped (i.e.
    weight, amount of packaging required if
    fragile, etc.).

  • How do I get approved?
    Start with an email to
    cuttingedge@atlanticbb.net. You should
    include full contact information, and general
    information on the products or services you
    are wishing to list.
Frequently Asked Questions
HUMMINGBIRD
World Media
What is Hummingbird World Media?
Your on-line Mall
Copyright © 2007 Hummingbird World Media/Double Edge Press All Rights Reserved.
Hummingbird World Media is a
cooperative media outlet designed to
bring maximum exposure to our vendors'
products and inspire consumer confidence
in on-line purchasing of those products.
How does Hummingbird World
Media work?
  • Vendors submit their product line to
    Hummingbird World Media for
    evaluation of both their product and
    the vendor reliability.

  • Hummingbird World Media ensures
    the quality of the product and
    guarantees the workmanship.

  • Hummingbird World Media ensures
    the reliability of the vendor and
    guarantees shipment when ordered.

  • Hummingbird World Media builds
    an additional 'wing' to their website
    displaying the products offered (this
    increases the page count on the web-
    site and provides more prominent
    search engine rankings).

  • Because Hummingbird World Media
    is one very large web-site, all
    purchases go through one secure
    payment processor-PayPal. No one,
    not even Hummingbird staff, sees
    payment information, thus providing
    a secure purchasing environment for
    consumers.

  • Hummingbird forwards all orders to
    the vendors for fulfilment. Payment
    for the order is forwarded to the
    vendor once the order has shipped,
    ensuring prompt and reliable ship
    times to the customer. If the vendor
    fails to ship the order, the purchase
    price is refunded back to the
    customer.

  • There is no charge to the vendor for
    web-site building, domain name
    acquirement, credit card processing,
    advertising or catalog inclusion.
    Hummingbird World Media retains a
    10% commission on each sale. If
    you make nothing, we make nothing.

  • Hummingbird World Media
    provides a monthly, quarterly or
    yearly statement, depending on the
    volume of a vendor's sales, and a
    year end 1099 for tax filing.


  • If you currently have a domain name
    and would like to participate, we
    can add your products and forward
    your domain.