When: Next Tuesday (3/29/11) What: Webinar: How Yahoo! Store Merchants Can Use Socia Q&A Widgets to Create More Dynamic Product Reviews Register Ecommerce merchants have been loving social mainly because their customers do, but when the typical merchant tries to use social to promote product, the let-down is palpable. Why? Social shoppers want to ask
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Tweets Worth Less Than Likes?
eCommerce marketers always have to ask themselves “where am I going to see the best bang for my buck.” Bucks don’t just mean money, but as we know social media marketing is considered more or less “free,” but what’s not free is time. Time is one of a eCommerce marketer’s most valuable resources. When it
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Dell China is listening to you on Chinese Social Media
This is a guest post from our Chinese social media expert Weidong “Jim” Zhang: At the end of last year, Dell, who has continued to improve on their customer services and engagement via social media, launched the Social Media Listening Command Center. At the Dell Social Media Listening Command Center kick-off ceremony, the CEO of
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Recent Upgrade to Yahoo! Store Floating Mini-Cart Empowers Chrome Users
Back in March of 2010, Yahoo! Store officials announced that a new “Floating Cart Manager” could be installed within Yahoo! Stores. FastPivot responded immediately by offering merchants a Yahoo! Store floating shopping cart feature option. Just the other day a new update made the Yahoo! Store Floating Mini-Cart available in Chrome. Prior to this ,
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Internet Retailer & Yahoo! Store Blog Features FastPivot's Custom Facebook Contest App. Built for eCreamery
When we first published the ecommerce success story, showcasing the Facebook contest app. custom-built for eCreamery‘s icecream contest, we knew this was big news, but had no idea it would gain the attention of national web media so quickly. The article, “eCreamery Lures Shoppers With a Contest” by Zak Stambor debuted on Internet Retailer’s news
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How Customer Service Made The Difference to This Yahoo! Store Merchant
When Poopbags.com was searching for the right Yahoo! Store agency to help install some enhanced features for their Yahoo! Store, they had no idea they would find Leta Krieger at FastPivot. She was what made the immediate difference between FastPivot and the six or seven others Poopbags.com spoke with about getting such enhanced features as
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U.S. Businesses Need Face On These Top 5 Chinese Social Media Places
By guest blogger, Weidong “Jim” Zhang Because one in five people in the world are Chinese, it’s likely that the Chinese market will one day soon (if it’s not already) affect your business. Many U.S. based businesses have realized that China isn’t just the world’s top exporter, but is now developing into what many experts
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How Ecommerce Merchants Should React to Google's Recent Algorithm Reconfiguration
eWeek.com’s recent article “Google Algorithm Change Targets Content Farms” is important news for us all to consider. Though most ecommerce merchants strive to do the right thing, it’s not hard, especially when every stroke of strategy counts, to slip into the ditch of SEO sleaze. Once done, it’s tough to climb out and scrape off
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BoardGames.com's Yahoo! Store "Kinged"
The travel time from one end of the Yahoo! Store game board to the other depends on who’s playing the game. Yahoo! Store merchants have been known to ponder their position for years without making one move toward productive design. The winners are those merchants who realize that this “game” of ecommerce is a fast
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Tracking mCommerce’s MOST WANTED – Trends & Insights
Join sleuths from FastPivot.com & Monitus.net (March 8, 1-2pm EST) as they put a magnifying glass over mCommerce’s digital web. Yahoo! Store mobile merchants will be clued-in to critical metrics for tracking visitors and sales. The “insiders” would rather keep this previously sealed data off-limits, but during this tech-lab intensive mCommerce webinar there will not
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