Will You Miss The Mobile Commerce Train?

Everyone has heard prognostications of trends to come, only to later wonder whatever became of them. What makes the mobile commerce movement any different? Mobile Commerce Is The Next Logical Step Mobile commerce is not a pair of high-fashion shoes that will be in this year and out the next. Mobile commerce is not an
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Five-Ingredient Secret Recipe For Social Media Jugglers

Seasoned social-media-lites are the circus jugglers of the internet; forever tossing multi-planar social media posts, sidestepping noisy crowds, and scanning the sky for incoming mail. Meanwhile, these social media stars are expected to engage bleachers full of social media fans that have seen it all. Without a secret recipe for success, these social media sprites
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Video Commerce Webinar: Using Product Video Can Increase Conversion Rates 6-30%

Video Commerce for Yahoo! Stores: How to Leverage the Internet’s Fastest Growing Medium View more webinars from FastPivot. During this webinar, Matthew Ledford, FastPivot President and Mark Thomas, Buystream.tv CEO discussed video commerce (the practice of using video to promote what you sell online) for Yahoo! Store merchants. Early in the webinar, a live survey
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Duke University "Social Media" Class Brought Asheville Non-Profit Leaders Together

FastPivot’s Jonathan Poston presented on “Social Media Road-Mapping for Non-Profit Organizations“ at this September 9th, 2010 Duke University Workshop. This social media workshop is one of many Duke University workshops in which non-profit leaders attend in order to complete the distinguished Duke University Non-Profit Management Certification. A full class of local non-profit leaders attended this
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A Classic Yahoo! Store Re-Wrap Success Story

Even with the highest quality Birnn Vermont chocolate pirouetting under the pixelated “golden” foil of this “before” site, cocoa aficionados might still snub their noses. A truffle might melt in your mouth, but the wrapper must widen the pupils before taste buds begin to dance. Just a glance at this new chocolaty Yahoo! Store re-design
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Designing A Single Product Ecommerce Store Website

Earlier this summer, FastPivot Yahoo! Store developers launched 2010worldcupplate.com, a unique single product ecommerce website selling commemorative World Cup plates. This project is an example of a rapid design Yahoo! store. A one-page checkout was developed for this single product website (instead of the traditional multi page checkout). While this single product website has less
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Developing Mobile Websites To Satisfy Hungry Mobile Shoppers

Back in 2009, a PR newswire distributed COMPETE press release stated: “Key findings from Compete‚Äôs Q3 2009 Smartphone Intelligence survey include: 37 percent of smartphone owners have purchased something non-mobile with their handset in the past 6 months.” This sort of data was a catalyst for ecommerce store owners everywhere to upgrade their standard store
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