Four Tips For Prepping Yahoo! Store Product Images For Success

It seems that reports on new ecommerce strategies and technologies are released every few days. This is a fast-changing world, so folks in this industry should expect the aroma of innovation to fill the air almost daily. In a recent email, Amy Tweddle of Diffusion informed FastPivot:¬† “we have just launched the Brandbank Retail Media
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FastPivot To Lead Tweet-Up At Internet Retailer Mobile Conference (#IRMCF10) In Chicago IL., Oct. 12-13, 2010

With Mobile commerce (Mcommerce) soaring this year, migratory shoppers worldwide are flapping about, furiously hawk eying for deals on their mobile smart phones. Mobile commerce merchants serious about pigeonholing mobile shopping sales will be stopping by for a brief nest at this year’s Internet Retailer Mobile Conference (#IRMCF10) in Chicago IL. Oct. 12-13, 2010.¬† Somewhere
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A 140-Focus Is A Selfish Way To Tweet

Those who know Twitter know what the magic number is: 140. That’s the maximum number of characters Twitter allows in a tweet. So when you’re posting big news to the world on Twitter, your entire tweeted message must squeeze uncomfortably into a thimble sized container before Twitter will let you pull the pour lever. There
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Order a Yahoo! Store Re-Design Before Oct. 10th And Receive Free Gifts

Throughout e-commerce land, Yahoo! Store merchants are preparing for the Christmas shopping frenzy. Long before Christmas day, e-shoppers will be filing their nails, adjusting their glasses, and pulling up shirt sleeves, for extreme mach 10 e-shopping. This year will be different: Not only will shoppers expect easy to use standard Yahoo! Store pages to shop
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Is LinkedIn Worthless?

Just the other day, a fellow LinkedIn connection’s posting popped up on our social media radar. It was complaining that LinkedIn just wasn’t helpful. We posed a question to several LinkedIn groups asking whether there was any real value in having a LinkedIn account or not. Out of the dozens and dozens of pro-LinkedIn responses
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Build a Custom Yahoo! Store to Avoid Bad Business Juju

The old adage, “build it and they will come,” isn’t totally true. Everyone can relate to the bricks-and-mortar world example of those “locations” that always seems to fail. Sometimes it’s an entire mall or even a little building that everyone eventually shuns like the plague. Is it cursed, some ask. In a way it is,
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World View: China E-Commerce Considerations

If you’ve ever gone out for a long drive, you may have stopped for gas or snacks at an old country store. It’s possible that you got out of your car, walked up to the front door, pulled on the handle and found the door locked, in the middle of the day no less. Then
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Mobile Stats Indicate Mobile Shopping is a Hassle For Most

According to a 2010 Brandbank’s Report, (figures from YouGov Plc) “the overall trend is one of dissatisfaction with current mobile offerings. Only four per cent of UK consumers claim they find making purchases via their mobile device hassle free.” If you’re asking yourself if you read that right, you did; ONLY 4% of these consumers
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