Live Superfoods, Bend, OR

Live Superfoods specializes in raw, live foods and supplements to provide you with all the benefits these remarkable products have to offer. Glendale Designs worked closely with Live Superfoods to redesign their site and migrate it from AgoraCart to Miva Merchant 5. And we had to work fast to get the store up and running before the end of 2006. The Miva look and feel has been completely customized and we added functionality versus MM5 out of the box.

A blog (the Live Superfoods Community) was added that lets the staff of Live Superfoods announce new products as well as recipes and other important industry news.

Customer Satisfaction:

A year ago I purchased an existing ecommerce business - www.livesuperfoods.com - that was sorely in need of a site upgrade.  The original store was built on an open source shopping cart, for which I wasn't able to find competent support.  I knew I needed to move to a shopping cart that had a healthy third-party ecosystem, so after investigating a half dozen options, I decided on Miva Merchant 5.  The decision was largely made because of how impressed I was by the quality and professionalism of the Miva developers I interviewed.  I think I interviewed most of the developers on Miva's roster before deciding on Glendale Designs.  

Sabine Sharp from Glendale managed the project. Migration went very smoothly.  Sabine's familiarity with the Miva architecture and feature set was really obvious. She had the new  site up and running - fully functional - in less that 45 days.  No snags.  No interruption of revenue.

As I look back on my first year of owning this business, I'd have to say that hiring Glendale Designs was one of the best decisions I made. I continue to work with Glendale Designs and consider them a valued member of my team.  I would recommend them to everyone except my competitors.

Horse & Rider Books / Trafalgar Square Publishing, VT

Online shopping from the most respected horse book publishers in the world! Find books, DVD's, and videos to suit every equestrian need. Newsletter, customized Miva Merchant 5 shopping cart, Organic Search engine optimization and search engine optimization for Miva Merchant Store, online marketing and directory submissions.

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The Money Source, Kent, WA

Financial - custom loan estimation scripts, Flash, forms. Search engine optimization, marketing and submission.

Customer Satisfaction:

"When it was time to upgrade our web site, we had some definitive goals in mind. We wanted a site we were proud of referring people to, yet it also had to be very functional. We also wanted to drive more business owners to the site via search engines.

Glendale Designs is very knowledgeable, up to date with technology and gets back to us in a timely fashion. They are very easy to work with, hard workers, and have our best interest in mind.

Now business owners can apply for a loan or get financing and leasing quotes 24 hours a day! They can research frequent asked questions, learn more about leasing, or even how to improve their credit scores...thus saving them a lot of money. They can also find ways to get bigger IRS deductions and locate good buys on lease returns and repossessions.

We are continuing to work with UCSI on driving more traffic to the site, which our statistics page shows is progressing."

- Michael Henley - President

Bargainlink, San Diego, CA

San Diego guide to thrift, antique, resale, collectibles, consignment, 2nd hand shops, vintage, specialty stores plus events calendar, online forum, quarterly newsletter and more.

Customer Satisfaction: "When we began the redesign of our website, it was important to work with a webmaster who would understand what we were trying to achieve.  That meant a certain level of trust in Glendale Designs and in its owner, Sabine Sharp.  It also meant good communication -- an understanding on her part of what we wanted and why.  The new look of our site took months of work on both our parts.  What I find so extraordinary about Sabine is her dedication and her willingness to go beyond direction.  And her honesty.  In one or two instances, what we requested was not feasible and she told us so.  She also offered tons of suggestions which helped guide us toward our objectives. 

We have worked with Glendale Designs for 4 years now and although we have been approached by other webmasters who sound good and who may be able to work with us, we have no intention of switching horses in mid-stream.  When we launched the redesign, we had around 57,000 hits.  Following launch, that figure jumped to an astounding 212,000!  We certainly attribute part of that to Sabine and Glendale Designs.

Good communication -- something necessary in all kinds of business -- was also above the norm.  It is especially critical if there are problems or important questions which need a quick resolution.  Sabine was always responsive, often immediately.

It is very difficult in today's world to find someone like her -- someone who appears to care as much about your success as you do.  We recommend her highly.

--Patricia F. Doering -- Editor/Publisher, www.bargainlink.com