Many people are still confused about what Twitter is and does. Some are so overwhelmed with Facebook and other social media out there that they’re totally ignoring Twitter. Well, that’s not entirely true: it has become standard affair to add social media icons to ecommerce homepages (see FastPivot social packages below), but oftentimes the Twitter
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Punk.com: Specialized Online Store Design Feature Showcase
Through the use of bold colors, vivid imagery and clean layouts, Punk.com is a custom work of art, in addition to a strong online store. FastPivot.com’s Yahoo! Designers installed some very cool features that are modeled off of a collaboration of leading retail websites. The custom store areas FastPivot.com’s Yahoo! Designers included were: * Section
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FastPivot.com Yahoo Store Designers Launch Punk.com
FastPivot.com has launched online stores for top national brands since 1997, but during that time has never taken for granted that every store brings something special to the ecommerce community. Take, for example, our most recent launch: Punk.com According to Punk.com’s new about page, it was “the brainchild of the fashion minded folks at Newbury
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FastPivot.com to offer ecommerce store design audits at Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition #IRCE 2010
FastPivot.com’s President, Matthew Ledford and Director of Strategic Services, Grant Henry, will be attending this year’s 2010 #IRCE (Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition) Conference, which will be held from June 8-11 at McCormick Place West, Chicago IL. Both Ledford and Henry will be available (by request-appointment) at the Yahoo! booth (and elsewhere) for the entire
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MixedChicks.net Redesign Announcement and Feature Showcase
Since 1997, FastPivot.com has designed and launched an extensive line of custom Yahoo! Stores. Each one brings something very unique to our portfolio. Any new FastPivot custom store (*custom meaning they didn’t use a style guide) always includes special features worth noting. Take for example our recent MixedChicks.net redesign launch. Have a look at the
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FastPivot.com to Attend "The Mobile Revolution"
FastPivot has been on the forefront of “The Mobile Revolution” since it began. The hot question from our top performing ecommerce store design clients is “how do we go mobile?” The ones who have already had FastPivot design a mobile version of their store have reported two to four times growth in mobile traffic and
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FastPivot Attends Chick-fil-A Leadercast 2010
According to the official website, www.chick-fil-aleadercast.com, the Chick-fil-A Leadercast is a one-day leadership event featuring a premier speaker lineup of the world’s best leaders. [It was] Broadcast LIVE from Atlanta on May 7, 2010, to hundreds of locations throughout the country and world. Among those attending from FastPivot.com were: Matthew Ledford, President; cow, Leta Krieger,
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Will Social Media Replace Email?
With over 400 million Facebook users and 14 million U.S. Twitter users, this growing social platform has the whole world simultaneously boogieing together in virtual harmony. All those clunky communication appliances of yester-year are going to the wayside as perky progressives overtake the digital frontier. Today’s technology is light, loose, smart, and gregarious. Who has
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FastPivot.com Likes Facebook's New "Like" Feature
Facebook is creating an entirely new layer on the web with its new “Like” feature. This feature is being deeply integrated into websites everywhere. Take for example, Pandora, World Soccer Shop (see live product page “like” example page here), and even our own FastPivot.com site (see upper left ). Fastpivot store designers can install this
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Update your organizational chart to maximize social media marketing efforts
It’s eight o’clock in the morning and everyone’s getting prepared for the annual marketing meeting. Social media is the topic of conversation. More and more of the marketing budget is going to social media, so naturally everyone wants to analyze and improve return. As the social media marketing director, you ask yourself, “what more can
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