Comments on: Network Solutions: A rant http://www.invesp.com/blog/ecommerce/network-solutions-a-rant.html Conversion Rate Optimization Blog Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:14:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: anon http://www.invesp.com/blog/ecommerce/network-solutions-a-rant.html/comment-page-1#comment-6880 anon Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:55:28 +0000 http://www.invesp.com/blog/ecommerce/network-solutions-a-rant.html#comment-6880 I ran a software development company. I worked with countless companies. But none of them came even close to the technological disaster known as Network Solutions. They simply could not do ANYTHING. From php, to their various worthless software. I ran a software development company.
I worked with countless companies.
But none of them came even close to the technological disaster known as Network Solutions.
They simply could not do ANYTHING. From php, to their various worthless software.

]]> By: L http://www.invesp.com/blog/ecommerce/network-solutions-a-rant.html/comment-page-1#comment-6788 L Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:13:18 +0000 http://www.invesp.com/blog/ecommerce/network-solutions-a-rant.html#comment-6788 So which platforms DO you like? We have several stores on the Yahoo Store platform. We have been very happy with it for the most part. They are a hosted solution, but they have several stores in the Internet Retailer top 500, so they are suitable for larger stores. (The issue becomes that your revenue share becomes prohibitively expensive.) We have been testing ShopSite, because it has the ability to exactly mimic our Yahoo URL structure. So it provides a backup plan if we need to migrate away from Yahoo. We have also tested Volusion and have two or three stores running on it. It is search engine friendly if you go out of your way to set it up correctly, and the back end is very robust. But overall, we don't really like it, and will not open any further stores with it. We wanted to try Magento, but it still requires too much programming expertise to get going. We are semi-technical and couldn't figure out how to launch a store and gave up before launching the first store. Support is available, but it is very expensive. We tried Ebay Prostores several years ago, and hated it. Didn't even launch. So which platforms DO you like?

We have several stores on the Yahoo Store platform. We have been very happy with it for the most part. They are a hosted solution, but they have several stores in the Internet Retailer top 500, so they are suitable for larger stores. (The issue becomes that your revenue share becomes prohibitively expensive.)

We have been testing ShopSite, because it has the ability to exactly mimic our Yahoo URL structure. So it provides a backup plan if we need to migrate away from Yahoo.

We have also tested Volusion and have two or three stores running on it. It is search engine friendly if you go out of your way to set it up correctly, and the back end is very robust. But overall, we don’t really like it, and will not open any further stores with it.

We wanted to try Magento, but it still requires too much programming expertise to get going. We are semi-technical and couldn’t figure out how to launch a store and gave up before launching the first store. Support is available, but it is very expensive.

We tried Ebay Prostores several years ago, and hated it. Didn’t even launch.

]]> By: Edward Rayne http://www.invesp.com/blog/ecommerce/network-solutions-a-rant.html/comment-page-1#comment-6787 Edward Rayne Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:16:03 +0000 http://www.invesp.com/blog/ecommerce/network-solutions-a-rant.html#comment-6787 Thanks for the heads up about Network Solutions. We have a client that was looking at them but after sending them this link they are looking elsewhere. For several reasons they are only looking at hosted solutions, is there one or two you would recommend? Thanks for the heads up about Network Solutions. We have a client that was looking at them but after sending them this link they are looking elsewhere. For several reasons they are only looking at hosted solutions, is there one or two you would recommend?

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