Excellent help, always professional and great work. Goes beyond in his work and help, very good to work with.

Chuck is a great pleasure to work with and is very helpful to his clients. His vast knowledge of affiliate marketing and internet marketing as a whole has been a great asset to me. I would recommend chuck to anyone who is looking for a good affiliate marketing manager for their online business.

I’ve known Chuck for many years, so when the decision was made to start a new company, he was one of the first people I approached. His business expertise and savvy, combined with his strong ethics, makes him a pleasure to work with, and a true asset to any endeavor.

Chuck helped us set up our first online shopping cart, and solved a number of difficult problems unique to our business. He also consulted with us on an ongoing basis for several years. He was creative, knowledgeable, trustworthy, highly responsive, and very easy to work with. Although we have never met in person, I give Chuck my highest recommendation, and wish he was still available to work with us. We would work with him again in a heartbeat.

I hired Chuck as a contractor for my own business a couple of times. He showed his expertise in his industry, went above and beyond the call, stood behind his work and was a great guy on top of it. I enjoyed working with Chuck and would easily recommend his products and services as top notch.

I have worked with Chuck over the years-he designed our website. He is an expert in his trade, extremely creative and personable. He has a very high degree of integrity and the work is always done immediately. We highly recommend his services. We have received so many compliments with regard to our website thanks to Chuck!!

Chuck Lasker has been an invaluable resource for my business. His in-depth knowledge and vast experience is paramount. I have trusted Chuck with some of my most valuable and sensitive web site and marketing projects. He is consistently responsive with helpful solutions. Truly, a great resource.

Chuck is one of the most innovative and forward thinking individuals I have had the pleasure of working with/for. His professionalism and ability to not only adapt, but excel in so many diverse disciplines is amazing to say the least. Trustworthy, responsible and thoughtful are just some of the first words that come to mind when I think of Chuck.

I have been working with Miva Merchant for over seven years as a user, a consultant, and now as owner of MerchantTutorials.com, a Miva Merchant Flash Video Tutorial site and Miva Merchant Educational Partner. Why do I prefer Miva Merchant over other shopping carts, especially when some carts are “free?” Here are my 10 reasons:

1. With hundreds of third party modules available (usually for $20 to $100), adding functionality is extremely easy. Alternatively, most platforms, especially open source, require custom programming or, worse, have free open source add-ons that are not supported well.
2. Miva Merchant can be hosted with any of dozens of hosts who specialize in Miva Merchant. Many platforms require you to host with the company itself, reducing your options and leverage for support. Additionally, if you’re hosted with a shopping cart company, and they die, your store is gone forever. All good Miva Merchant hosts will move your site to their servers at no charge.
   
3. Miva Merchant is one of only a few platforms who are investing the hundreds of thousands of dollars to be PCI PA-DSS Compliant by the July 2010 deadline. Any platform that is not compliant will not be able to (legally) accept credit cards after that deadline. Many shopping carts, especially open source, will have to close up after the deadline. http://www.tophosts.com/articles/009189.html
4. Miva Merchant 5.5 is based on MySQL, which is much better than the dBase database format of version 4. It allows unlimited numbers of products, categories, customers, etc., without a loss of site speed. Sites on Miva Merchant 5.5 are significantly faster than the prior version.
5. Most other platforms are written in PHP. This commonality has made PHP applications a target for hackers. All PHP applications, like WordPress, need updates constantly. Usually a security flaw is discovered only after hundreds or thousands of sites are compromised. Miva Merchant is written in their proprietary language (MivaScript), and then compiled so nobody can see the source code. I have not heard of a single security vulnerability with Miva Merchant 5.5.
6. Done right, Miva Merchant can be easily understood from one developer to the next. So, if something happened to your site developer, you could find someone else in the industry who can get in and, within an hour or two, know everything about your site’s setup. With most other platforms, there would be so much custom functionality you’re pretty much forced to use the same developer, and it’s expensive to pay a new developer to reverse engineer his code.
7. Some carts actually charge a percentage of all sales, leading often to hundreds or thousands of dollars a month in fees. This is especially true of Yahoo Stores and Amazon. With Miva Merchant, you can lease your license through a Miva Merchant expert host usually for less than $10 a month when you host with them.
8. Miva Merchant has a dynamic user and developer community that is willing to help with almost any question at the user forums and/or directly. I learned all I needed about Miva Merchant from other users (since my tutorials were not available), so I contribute back as much as I can on the forums. Competing developers, hosts and consultants are very cordial to each other, unlike any other community I’ve seen. This makes the annual Miva Merchant user conference as enjoyable as any conference I’ve ever been to.
   
9. Once you get used to it, Miva Merchant is extremely easy to manage. Check out this video tour of the Miva Merchant administrative area I created to help you see how quickly you could be up to speed.
10. Miva Merchant is extremely flexible. It defaults to a base structure – header, footer, left column navigation, content section, navigation bar…
    
    But you are not stuck with that structure like most carts. There is simply no limit to how you can customize your store with Miva Merchant. Check out the Miva Merchant Store Galleria and you’ll see what I mean. If you are not a designer, you can purchase one of dozens of Miva Merchant skins to get your foundation quickly, and be online with minimal work.

Do you have reasons I haven’t listed, or even reasons you don’t like Miva Merchant?

NOTE: This article was first posted at http://www.chucklasker.com/blog/.

Most of these so-called experts use either black hat methods (immoral methods that can get you banned) or techniques that are so outdated they include something called the “keyword meta tag.” It’s like taking your plasma television to a repair shop and they tell you they may have to replace the “picture tube.”

So it’s very difficult to get SEO help. Additionally, the best SEO work is done by the site owner/manager who knows the target market and the product/service/subject better than any consultant could. That leaves you with a high-risk hiring of a consultant, or spending 10 hours a day becoming an expert yourself. Ugh.

Enter John Limbocker of SEO Dominators.

This is John in the black t-shirt having lunch with me and some others at the 2010 Miva Merchant Conference.

I met John a few years ago at a Miva Merchant conference, and really got to know him over the past year. When I reached a point where I trusted John, I signed up for his SEO Bootcamp. Expecting pap and platitudes, I was completely shocked to find powerful tools, realistic advice, weekly teleconferences where I can ask questions, and advice that actually makes sense. And for Miva Merchant users – John understands Miva Merchant!

I referred John to a friend of mine with a retail site and she has done nothing but sing his praises. “Yes, we’ve been pretty busy. I can only rave about John Limbocker, I give most of that credit to him. I can unconditionally recommend him and his services without reservation. Without John, I think we would have been in a lot of trouble this year.”

John offered a 50% off coupon for his SEO Dominators Club. He has kindly decided to extend that offer for me to post on my blog, here.

Just enter coupon code MIVA at checkout

Then let me know about YOUR experience with SEO Dominators.

NOTE: This was first posted at http://www.MerchantTutorials.com/blog/.

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