SSN is a guide to the tested best shopping websites in the world. Our testing technologies have the ability to test many safety and reliability features of any merchant online. No other company possesses such consumer oriented testing software and results and our users know that. We have used these technologies to test thousands of top merchants from Amazon on down successfully mining useful safety and reliability information for consumers. We have used our data to create the first standard for Internet safety and reliability on the web. As visitors browse our listings they are able to compare each site to that standard.

We provide consumers with unbiased information, allowing the consumer to refine their search to find the best merchants on the Web. This all interprets to very high performance listings for our advertisers. Safe Shopping Network users are shoppers looking to buy - our average click-through rate to merchants is over 70% throughout our site and the average click-to-purchase rate is 5.4%.


Management

Patricia Shennum
Patricia Shennum is one of the company's co-founders and owners. She has been with the company since the beginning in 2000. Her son, Mark Ryan was the original founder and visionary of Safe Shopping Network. . Since her son's passing in 2007, Patricia has taken his place as President of the company. Patricia was involved in the development of Gold Rush in 1998 which helped spark the affiliate network industry. Gold Rush was later bought by Commission Junction, one of the Internet's most successful and leading affiliate networks. Patricia has been a special education teacher for twenty-four years. She holds masters degrees in Behavioral Sciences and Special Education. She has had basic on-the-job training from her son, Mark, and entering her ninth year of experience with Safe Shopping Network handling a wide variety of all sections of the company.

Dr.John M. Ryan.
Dr. Ryan has recently joined VPC Network from Intel and is one of the company's co-founders and serves as the COO and Senior Vice President of Test Technology. Dr. Ryan's extensive background in statistics, network controlled quality and highly efficient flow systems led to his development of the company's Internet based across-the-web test technologies. Dr. Ryan has previously held a number of international management positions with Intel, Seagate Technology and Read-Rite Corporation and as a private consultant where he has developed and implemented world-class manufacturing and quality systems throughout Asia. Dr. Ryan is a frequent contributing author having published pieces in several quality, factory of the future and software journals.