"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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In case you haven't heard, Rick Wilson and partners have purchased MIVA Small Business Solutions. We'd like to be among the first to congratulate Rick, Russ, Mark, and David. It's exciting to see Miva Merchant getting back into the hands of people who've known and loved it for as long - ok, LONGER - than we have. There are good things on the horizon! The new website resides at www.mivamerchant.com There's also a discussion about the sale over on the MIVA forums. Awesome!

A number of our modules have reached that pinnacle in every software product's lifetime...retirement. Many of these modules have been overcome by the development of MIVA Merchant, the OpenUI, or other offerings. So effective immediately, we are retiring the following modules: Add Product Redirect to Basket Atlas OnePoint ROI Tracker Bulk Set Weight Cat Tree Font Control Checkout Button Label Modify Related Items Header Multiple Category Columns Multiple Category Columns Plus Multiple Search Columns New Product Flag No Savings Upsell Product Dropdown Menu Quick Order Remove Search Form Super Headers and Footers Super Suppression These modules will no longer be supported under our free support plan. It is our hope that streamlining our offerings will allow us to focus our time on improving our more useful modules, and creating new ones.

We've just launched a new Feed Template Library for users of our Ultimate Feed Generator module for MIVA Merchant. Visit the library to find new sample feed templates, and to submit your own. Read the rest of this entry »

We just released a faster version of our Ultimate Feed Generator module. Each feed now includes the ability to process multiple products and categories before refreshing the page (the refresh is to prevent timeouts). This allows for SIGNIFICANTLY faster feed generation times. Read the rest of this entry »