eCommerce and Miva Merchant | Lasker Consulting - eCommerce, Social Media, Website Design and Consulting

Lasker Consulting is all about helping you get more customers, spending more money, more often. That’s what it’s all about, right? We don’t get caught up in prettiness, showing off, seeking add-on projects or building our portfolio. We are about building your business. Period.

Miva Merchant Consulting Services Chuck Lasker has been working with Miva Merchant for over 10 years, full time since 2003. Chuck is the official tutorial creator for Miva Merchant and speaks at the annual Miva Merchant User Conferences.

David Lasker has been working with Miva Merchant almost as long, full time since 2004. David has a unique ability to code functionality that other developers will declare impossible. It’s this out-of-the-box thinking that has lead to some amazing site capability and services for our clients.

Following are some of our featured services for Miva Merchant.

Miva Merchant 4 to 5.5 Upgrade

The bulk of our business over the past two years, we’ve done dozens of upgrades to help merchants become PCI-DSS compliant and continue to accept credit cards on their sites. With the CSSUI option while upgrading to Miva Merchant 5.5, we recommend taking this opportunity for us to redesign your site with CSS for search engines, faster load times, and compliant code.

Ecommerce Site Design

Whether you’re using Miva Merchant, eCMS or another cart, we have the experience needed to create a high-conversion site with a user friendly interface. We have designed literally dozens of ecommerce sites over the years, and redesigned many more. Check out our Portfolio for a quick list of a few of our designs.

Miva Merchant Email Newsletter Signup in Checkout

Do you have an email newsletter system like MailChimp, Constant Contact or iContact? Do you wish you could let people sign up while they’re checking out in your store? Now you can, without any need for manual data entry.

With this service, we’ll create a custom checkbox on the OINF, OSEL, OPAY or INVC screen (your choice) in your Miva Merchant store that auto-subscribes your customers.

Benefits:

Eliminates the separate newsletter signup process for your customers.
Allows customers to opt in or not with the checkbox.
Eliminates manual entry or imports to your email system.
Allows multiple checkboxes to sign up for multiple email lists all at one time (news, specials, daily updates, etc.).

One newsletter list $149:

Multiple newsletter lists $199:

Miva Merchant Site Socialization

We will completely integrate your social media with your store.

Including:

Facebook Like button on each product, category and content page that points to that page directly.
Tweet This button on each product, category and content page that points to that page directly.
Optionally any other social media share button, like StumbleUpon, Digg, Google Buzz, Squidoo, etc. (studies show less share options give better results so we recommend no more than five options).
Large selection of social media icons to choose from.
Optional: A live feed of your Twitter account embedded on your site.
Optional: Live Twitter search feed on a content page, such as a feed of all Tweets with a particular hashtag.

WordPress Integration into Miva Merchant – $497

Having a blog is essential for many reasons, from search engine optimization to simply communicating to your customers. Until now, a blog had to be a separate entity from a Miva Merchant store. The problem is, when the search engines and others link to your blog, it’s not getting you any link juice for your store. And normally the look and feel of your blog is very different from your store, a usability no-no.

With our new service, we will set up a WordPress blog directly inside your Miva Merchant store. You manage your blog – posts, pages, categories, tags, comments, etc., from your WordPress administrative area, but it all shows up inside your Miva Merchant store.

Benefits:

Custom integrated to have the same look and feel as your store, using your store’s CSS for text, header tags, etc.
Allows dynamic content, like a mini basket, on your blog pages.
Uses WordPress, which is used by millions of sites.
Allows widgets and plugins*
If you have an existing WordPress blog, we can pull in all your previous WordPress content and redirect the links so you don’t lose search engine rankings, for an additional $250.

Miva Merchant WordPress Integration Example Video:

* Tested with many popular plugins and widgets, but some will not work without custom modifications.

Miva Merchant Multiple Address Checkout – $497

Address, Checkout and Shipping Supermod modules have been available for a long time. However, the checkout process is not intuitive by default. We have developed a more intuitive, usable checkout system using these modules that allows customers to ship to multiple Ship To addresses, with separate shipping methods for each shipment. Watch this video for an example:

** Requires Emporium Plus Tool Kit Module ($45)

Site Analysis and Recommendations – $195

This full site analysis includes performance optimization testing with recommendations, suggestions for functionality and usability, investigation of problems and potential problems, all from an expert outside view.

Site Speed Analysis – With an average 3 second wait time, speed matters
Search Engine Optimization Analysis – Are you breaking Google rules? What can you do to go further?
Backlink Analysis – Who’s linking to your site and are they good links?
Code Analysis – Is your code up to spec? Does it work in all browsers?
Usability Analysis – We perform usability testing and provide expert advice.

Complete Affiliate Program Setup – $597

Creating an effective affiliate program is more than just installing some affiliate software or module and offering a percentage of sales. To attract those individuals and organizations that will send customers to your site, you need to present a professional, well thought out affiliate program. This fee includes the installation and setup of an external program (iDevAffiliate or Post Affiliate Pro) or setup with a third party affiliate network (such as ShareASale) and everything from affiliate signup application to affiliate instructions and support materials, plus training you on maintaining the program.