Getting to Know You

[AmericanShippingCenters]

Re: Personal and Company Introduction

Welcome to the forums Jeff.

Is your service compatible with MIVA Merchant? As in are you folks familiar with the shopping cart and are able to integrate your services with it?

Depends on the medium you would choose to transmit data to our warehousing operations. We also have software developers who specialize in EDI applications, so integrating with MIVA wouldn't be a problem.

We are interested in forming a working business relationship with MIVA, and will be contacting them to see what type of options may be available to help us with the integration process for any of their customers that may choose to do so - perhaps something along the lines of a preferred vendor program. We are currently a preferred national vendor for a few other larger franchise corporations.

[stepjack]

Re: Getting to Know You

Name: Stephen Jackson
What I Do: President/Owner of Scent Design.
Mivite Since: About winter of 2006.
Something you may not know: Self taught and self implemented the entire ecommerce website. What a huge PITA that was. It's cool to have an idea that is the only one out there and it actually works! ;)
I'm a web designer and father of 2 little ones. It's very cool to be a part of a community of other 'outside the box' risk takers :)

[gomblue]

Re: Getting to Know You

Name: Soren T
What I do: Part of a family retail business in northern Michigan that has been around since '71. Help direct the ecommerce portion of the business.
Mivite since: September 2001
Something you may not know: I'm a huge fan of U of M athletics. I have season football tickets. As a student, I had front-row, center-court, seats for basketball during the Fab 5 era.

maybe our coolest fan

[JoeVodkaSauce]

Re: Getting to Know You

Name: Joe Malewicki
What I do: Try to pay the bills while living in Fairfield County CT! I actually worked for Hyperion Solutions (now Oracle) for 10 years as a Technical Specialist. Now - I pack boxes of sauce and make gift baskets for a living (hopefully a lot more then I've been doing in the past year). Basically I built and have been running ceriellofinefoods.com for about 6 years now part time. I used to have pallets of sauce in my basement and Holiday shipping always was fun (wife loved having boxes in our living room next to the tree). I decided 1 year ago this week to leave my "secure and financially stable" corporate world job and go head on into the eCommerce world. I'm self taught for web-design and "barely" Miva knowledgeable but thanks to the help I receive from these forums I think we may be able to launch our new Miva 5 site in the very near future!
Mivite since: July 2007 (using since 2001)
Something you may not know: I married my high school sweetheart who I met in the Soviet Union in 1990 on an overnight train to Leningrad. The funny thing is we only lived about 26 miles away from each other back home in CT! We have 2 kids (Noah who turned 3 in July 2007) and our little princess Olivia (4 months old). She wasn't part of the "master plan" when I quit my job last year. Oops.

I can't offer much in the way of "Miva advice" right now since I'm really just beginning to dig into it but I can leave a thought for all you "eCommerce die-hards" trying to make a living off the Internet:

"An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartar sauce with him."

So grab your tartar sauce and get in your boat!

Thanks again everyone!

[Brandon MUS]

Re: Getting to Know You

Name: Brandon
What I do: I work for a St. Louis based company in the fashion industry (that's about all I want to give away) that has multiple ecommerce websites (3 now, 2 soon). My official title is Web Developer, and I do almost everything web related except the designing.
Mivite since: I started with the company circa October 2005, so that was when I was first introduced to it all.
Something you may not know: I have recently become addicted (literally addicted) to wakeboarding and I plan on trying out wakeskating as soon as the weather in St. Louis gets back to warm -- it's going to be a long winter.
More tidbits: My strongest language is PHP, and I have a ton of experience with XHTML and CSS (I have been making tableless webpages since before it became the "cool thing to do"). I have spent countless hours making our Miva store use as much PHP as possible, including complete rewrites of the category pages, product pages and the login screen. We also use a custom admin interface and numerous intranet applications for managing the website.

[Ben @ eMediaSales]

Re: Getting to Know You

Name: Ben
What I do: Currently, I am working with eMediaSales company
Mivite since: Since Jan, 2006. I joined MIVA Operation in India as a Support Engineer and left the company as a Sr. System Analyst. From the very first day, I liked the way MIVA software (specially MIVA Merchant and MIVA Script) work. I tried hard to learn MIVA Scripting and as a result I have a small MIVA documentation (hard copy) library at my home. I have almost all the books and reference materials which are related to MIVA software.
Something you may not know: I like to work in the night and full time in the weekend. I appreciate all the employees of MIVA for their efforts to make this company a unique one in the world and my special thanks goes to Mr. Mark Hughes, Mr. Clark, James McCormick, Cagdas Ucar, Alex, Scott, Keith, Dennis and all. <br>
Mr. James E Harrell is my ideal guru and I want to follow their steps to become a perfact technologist.

[Dakota@eMediaSales]

Re: Getting to Know You

Name: Dakota Green
What I do: College student, going for my Associates in Computer Science. I'm also a freelancing creative writer and web designer. I just recently took the tag "freelancing" since I just fool around with web sites now that I have a bunch of free time.
Mivite since: February 2008. Was introduced to Miva by James Harrell, and was a guest of his at the Miva Merchant Conference.
Something you may not know: I've been hit by a car 9 times. Does that make me the Johnny Knoxville of these forums?

[dlamb]

Re: Getting to Know You

Name: Dan Lamb
What I do: Web Development for BDU.com and Tactical.com
Mivite since: NOOBI to the core with Miva, will be on this site more than your bandwidth will allow...lol
Something you may not know: Pretty much everything as I'M A NOOB

[titlehere]

Re: Getting to Know You

Name: Ryan Evelyth
What I Do: Web monster and product database manager of Nordic Needle, Inc.'s website (currently in phases of a massive re-design) and senior print designer/editor.
Mivite Since: Summer '07
Something you may not know: Despite the namesake, I'm a lady.

[indianapolisseo]

Re: Getting to Know You

My name is Craig Cooper, I am President of USA Dental Websites, www.newfamiliesfordentists.com, and President of Indianapolis SEO, www.indianapolisseo.com

Both of these companies work hand in hand to ensure that clients are ranked appropriately at the top of search rankings.

So if anyone out there is looking for a dental website, let me know.

Look forward to reading more posts. thanks,

Craig

[GDesigns]

Re: Getting to Know You

Name: Sabine Sharp (Myers)
What I do: SEO and Miva Merchant marketing, customization and design - amongst other online services - full time since 1999
Mivite since: 199? - since KoolCat, whenever that was...
Something you may not know: I train dogs - personal protection dogs as well as detection dogs - previously Schutzhund (back in Germany)

[HighRank]

Re: Getting to Know You

Name: Scott Peterson
What I do: I began doing SEO work as the webmaster of a software company in the suburbs of Boston. My job there started out being about cleaning up errors in the code, adding new content, and looking for ways to get our potential customers to find us. This led to my discovery of the concept of search engine optimization, through a newsletter offered by the makers of a software application I used. Through my own research, I found other sources, spent a lot of time studying (as I still do), and eventually everything I did with that site was based on the concepts of SEO.

I'm now a freelance SEO and SEM consultant. I still do the occasional design of new web sites, but I don't consider that my profession. I consult with companies, individuals, and organizations on both new and pre-existing sites, doing all I can to make them as good as they can be and to send them increased traffic from exactly the audience they seek to serve.

Mivite since: 2008

Something you may not know: still secret :)

[lesliekirk]

Re: Getting to Know You

Name: Ryan Evelyth

Something you may not know: Despite the namesake, I'm a lady.

A lady I have know for a long time now, is named Pete ;)

[lesliekirk]

Re: Getting to Know You

Let me "re-introduce" myself. Many of you have known me as Leslie Nord (leslienord) - Friend of Miva Merchant, Volunteer Moderator, Webs Your Way, that annoying chick who's always taking pictures at the Miva (Merchant) Conferences and maybe by a few other things ;)

Technically, I have been Leslie Kirk since 1999, some of you even got to meet my husband at the last conference, but I continued to use Leslie Nord for a number of reason, one being so many of you knew me as that.

Some of you may have noticed the "Super Moderator" under my user name and wondered "how did she do that?" A few weeks back the opportunity of my life time presented itself and I now work for Miva Merchant. This has been my dream ever since I started working with Miva Merchant v1 back in 1997/98.

I owe a big thanks to James Harrell of eMediaSales and the opportunities that he has given me throughout all these years, starting back with the Copernicus Business Club have been priceless. I truly feel the time I have spent working with him has helped to open the door to my dream.

So I've hit the ground running and am very excited. I can't wait to see everyone again in February at the Miva Merchant Conference!

Something you may not know: I coach Pee Wee bowlers - ages 3 to about 8.

[[email protected]]

Re: Getting to Know You

Hello Everyone!!

Name: Victor Brown
What I do: Business Analyst by profession but I have a lot of technical experience with e-Commerce technologies & learning new things is what I like the most. I do web-designing/writing simple modules in Open Source etc.
Mivite since: Very New. I worked for a client who uses MIVA Merchant and that's how I started learning the things. Hope to get support of all you experienced folks.
Something you may not know: I write poems too!!