e-commerce

Does anyone know of miva merchant host providers in New Zealand or
Australia??

Thanks

Jan

Miva Hosting in New Zealand or Australia



We are with Web Farm www.webfarm.co.nz

They offer a package that includes Miva Merchant for e-commerce.

Deborah Currie
Manager
Computer Pulse Ltd
www.computerpulse.co.nz

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of ( i N e t ) -> Jan
Dunlop
Sent: Wednesday, 21 March 2001 2:00 p.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: [mru] Miva Hosting in New Zealand or Australia


Does anyone know of miva merchant host providers in New Zealand or
Australia??

Thanks

Jan

Miva Hosting in New Zealand or Australia



Jan,

Check out www.webarama.com.au for Australian Miva Hosting.

Dave Hooper.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of ( i N e t ) -> Jan
Dunlop
Sent: Wednesday, 21 March 2001 1:00 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [mru] Miva Hosting in New Zealand or Australia


Does anyone know of miva merchant host providers in New Zealand or
Australia??

Thanks

Jan

e-commerce



Everything about the site looks fine to me, the thumbnails could do with
shrinking a touch and perhaps you could link the text as well as the images
on the intro page. Prices look OK from a European perspective. Speed seems
OK for Miva but it is your night time over here!

There is a problem with ssl, it is saying "the security certificate is not
yet valid or expired" but it's valid from 7/11/00 to 7/11/01 so it must be
OK.

The login account has both secure and non-secure items which upsets ie5 -
generates a meaningless warning about view non secure items. This happens on
all the basket and account pages twice per page.

I would carefully consider the use of Upsales seems a bit pushy.

Wouldn't take an outside US, is this deliberate? Set it to AK with a UK
address all OK

Got 4 of the famous "page cannot be displayed" messages for one
transaction -seems too high to be acceptable 3 of these were in the ssl
area.

And my card got declined (Visa test number)

Re the search engine thing, the great majority of our sales are as a result
print advertising at a ratio of 10 to 1. Your site obviously has some very
high quality product with a commensurately reduced general appeal. I would
seriously consider advertising in some of the up market baby and "society"
mags. In the UK "Country Life" would be ideal!

Good luck

John



John Lodge
http://marinestore.co.uk

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Goodell" <[email protected]>
To: "miva discussion" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 8:09 AM
Subject: [mru] e-commerce



WAY OFF TOPIC!

Okay e-commerce gurus, take a look at my beautiful site:
<A HREF ="http://www.nurserybright.com <http://www.nurserybright.com> and tell me">http://www.nurserybright.com <http://www.nurserybright.com> and tell me</A>
why I haven't had a single order in the two days my store's been open. I
had over 250 unique visitors a day after paying big bucks to get to
number one on Goto.com for all the relevant search terms (which also
puts you at the top on AOL, Netscape, Go/InfoSeek, Lycos, and quite a
few others). But none of the visitors placed orders and none of them
sent email or called.

Is it something about my presentation? navigation? products too
specialized? too high priced? not enough information? Miva too slow? not
enough traffic?

I just added the Boppy pillow and all the name brand logos on the front
page tonight in hopes of adding some credibility, figuring maybe they
were scared off by the handmade aspect of the products.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.