Posted by Miva Merchant
to Design & Development
on April 30th, 2010
This is a guest post by Sabine Sharp of Glendale Designs. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of Miva Merchant.
Retailers have selected Miva Merchant as their shopping cart platform for years, but now, more and more manufacturers are jumping on board! Manufacturers commonly “print” a lot more tangible product information sales tools, and these costs are rising. Miva Merchant is a great way for manufacturers to update product information rapidly and distribute it to their distributors fast! Company strategies can vary depending on the marketing goals; however your objectives can be accommodated in a professional effective way. Listed below are some ways manufacturers utilize their Miva Merchant carts:
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Posted by Miva Merchant
to Ecommerce News
on April 20th, 2010
Help your customers to quickly find the exact product they want in a way that makes sense to them. That is the goal of the next webinar on Wednesday April 21, 2010 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern time with Search Spring and Miva Merchant. Register Here.
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Posted by Miva Merchant
to Store Spotlight
on April 20th, 2010
Imagine three brothers growing up in Naples, Italy, striving to cross over to the United States to live the American Dream. First culinary school, next a move to DC & working up to the top of restaurant hierarchy only to resign and realize your dream. That is the story of Francesco, Emiliano, and Enzo Marra who founded Euro Gourmet over 10 years ago.
Euro Gourmet provides high-end restaurants throughout the Washington D.C. area with outstanding service & premier gourmet foods. Over the past 10 years Euro Gourmet has grown its clientele to include a large portion of the east coast, forcing a move into a larger warehouse to accommodate a growing product list. Now it is time to take on the rest of the country via the internet.
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Posted by Miva Merchant
to Design & Development
on April 16th, 2010
This is a guest post by Joe McDonald, Co-Owner of Durrani Design. Durrani Design, located in Encinitas, CA, specializes in custom website and e-commerce development for businesses of all sizes. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of Miva Merchant.
I first started working with Miva Merchant back in 2001 as a freelance developer. Back then, most people’s first exposure to Miva Merchant (originally Miva) was the result of it being offered as a free shopping cart add-on to their hosting plan. Since it was free software, many small businesses began using it without even really considering other choices. Over the years since then, many free open source shopping cart platforms have come and gone; and while many of those original Miva Merchant customers may have jumped ship along the way in pursuit of that mythical perfect free shopping cart, those who stuck with Miva have been the beneficiaries of a mature, solid, well-built platform that has made millionaires of many of those first small business owners.
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Posted by Miva Merchant
to Design & Development
on April 15th, 2010
You have likely seen that section in the administration panel under the Edit Store screen…”HEAD Tag Content/CSS”. If you’re like most of us, you generally start with something like this in there:
<base href="&mvt:global:basehref;" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link href="css/miva.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.js"></script>
Then you go about building out the site, adding all sorts of JavaScript files and some CSS files. Hopefully, with the importance of Search Engine Optimization on every store owner’s mind, you go into the Domain Settings, click on SEO Settings and enable the SEO-Friendly Store Front as well as the Short Links, giving your site easy-to-share links to help bring in customers.
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Posted by Miva Merchant
to Design & Development
on April 14th, 2010
Vote for DJShadow.com, a Miva Merchant site, to win the best Celebrity/Fan Webby Award. (You can help him beat Jim Carrey & U2!) The Webbys are basically the Grammys of the internet. We are pretty sure DJ Shadow is the first Miva Merchant site to be nominated for a Webby Award. Very exciting!
Who is DJ Shadow? DJ Shadow is a pioneer of the electronic music genre, constant innovator and a premier DJ & music intellect in the world. Plus they have a really cool website. Go vote for DJ Shadow to win at http://webby.aol.com/connections/celebrityfan
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Posted by Miva Merchant
to Store Spotlight
on April 7th, 2010
Tighten your boot laces because today we are heading out to the field with the men and women of our armed forces. Before embarking on our adventure, make sure you have some military boots that will be comfortable since you have a 70-pound pack of gear and 35 pounds of body armor–all to carry on your two feet.
Lucky for you MilitaryBoots.com, this week’s store spotlight, provides nearly 500 boot styles from the top 11 military boot brands. Are you unsure of the perfect boot for your deployment? Make a call to the professional customer service staff because they have the knowledge to guide you to the perfect fitting boot for every mission.
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Posted by Miva Merchant
to Ecommerce News
on April 5th, 2010
Here are two recent developments within the Miva Merchant community that we want to share with all our blog readers…
New Beginners Forum
Are you new to E-commerce or the Miva Merchant shopping cart software? Check out the new Beginners Support Group on the forums, where you get help from a community of veteran merchants & expert developers.
Do you have a burning question you don’t know where to ask or can’t seem to find the answer for? Post it on our forums to get the answer you have been looking for today.
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