As we continue to improve our ability to help your business grow, we need your guidance and input to ensure we are headed in the right direction. We have put together a brief survey covering general e-commerce business considerations and a couple of questions specifically related to your online store. Survey responses will be accepted through Wednesday, May 24, 2006.

In this month's MIVA Small Business Newsletter: Discover some easy tips for lowering your store's cart abandonment rate from Practical eCommerce contributor Nick Loeser. Tiffany Guarnaccia of Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising firm Searchfeed.com shares some insight into using PPC to promote your online store. View our Developer Spotlight on Gilligan On-Line, a MIVA developer that has been working with the software since before it was ever called MIVA Merchant. Plus, learn about a great new online resource for all online business owners.

Store owner Nick Loeser is an e-commerce expert. He's had plenty of prior experience running an e-commerce site and has used Yahoo Store for his shopping cart solution with mixed results. After a few years of design limitations and other frustrations, he switched his store over to MIVA Merchant. Learn about his experiences with MIVA Mercahnt 5 and his store, OutdoorFurniturePlus.com, in this month's MIVA Galleria feature story.

Howdy,

Cpanel has enhanced the interface that installs and manages initial installations AgoraCart from within the Cpanel environment.

If you have access to the latest and greatest versions of cpanel via your hosting account, you will find the ability to upgrade your store as Cpanel updates their core files, the ability to move or copy your store to another directory (duplication and moving with the click of a link), and a cleaner interface.

All in all, it's very nice and adds more functionality in managing your initial AgoraCart based store installations.

Mister Ed