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PhotoVision Video

Professional Photographers resource for DVD instruction and patented Digital Targets for white balance. Constantly being upgraded and added to.

Contact: j.green@spotonagency.com

 

The PhotoVision Story

Quotes from Jonathan Green, Webmaster and Designer, PhotoVision


Please tell us some background about your store

Briefly, the store was originally of the one page checkout, bill you after safely recording the information type of store. Miva allowed us to make the store much larger, simpler to use, and really showcase the products.

What other shopping carts did you consider and why was Miva Merchant better?

OSCommerce, XCart, any number of one-offs. Custom may have been our only other option. With the help of the community that surrounds miva, we were able to really create the site we initially envisioned.

What do you believe is the greatest advantage of Miva Merchant?

The greatest advantage is that as a whole, Miva Merchant has most of the features one would want or need with a store. The flexibility that is being built into the newer variations has to be the best feature.

What were you looking for in an online shopping cart system?

Great recommendations from our long term local partners, Breakforth!They came in after the initial build and converted the store from mivaSQL to MySQL, helped import a 10000+ list of subscribers, and worked with us on some specialty items.

PhotoVision Store Stats:

  • Launch Date: January 2008
  • Products: Currently only offer somewhere around 40 products, but are planning on expanding with the subscribers store, as well as a possible affiliate program with a number of our sponsors.
  • Traffic: We currently receive between 8-10,000 unique visits monthly, with an average of 7-8 pages for each at an average time of about 6 min on the site.
  • Web Host: Marathon Press
  • Store Development: We worked closely with Breakforth!, a local to us company that really turned us on to Miva Merchant. Without their help (especially Jonathan Philbin) we would not have been able to complete this site as we originally planned it!

Helping To Make Their Store A Success...

Below is a list of additional modules and tools that PhotoVision uses to enhance their Miva Merchant store. All of these are available now at MivaCentral.

2008/04/20


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