Website Magazine
Read the latest article by Susan Petracco of NetBlazon in the November issue of Website Magazine. The article is titled, Defeating Chargebacks, and can be found in the online and print versions of the magazine, and as a post in the WM blog.
Last week I started noticing how much use I get out of things that are available for free on the web. The Open Source movement has brought about a lot of good, free software - or donation-ware, if you're serious about Open Source products. There's a number of free things I use, but these are my "Fab 5", the ones I really want to share!
(more...)For a long time, Miva Merchant developers have had to deal with the "exclusive or" situation of handling a certain task within the shopping cart framework, or externally via a PHP script. It's not uncommon to see users question how they can run PHP from within, say, a product description or a category header. The standard answer has always been, "you can't". At the most technical level, this is still true; Miva's virtual machine can't run PHP code.
(more...)"Repeat business is what matters, and that happens when you surprise people (for the better). Not when you rip them off."
While I don't disagree with the premise of the problem, Seth Godin's post yesterday completely missed the boat. After years of working with numerous clients and running our own physical goods store online, I honestly believe that there are very few merchants on the web who "have realized that you can make 100% of your profit from shipping and handling and do quite well."
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