On Wednesday, June 30th this advanced notice (see an abbreviated version of the message below) was emailed to Yahoo! Small Business Developers regarding the new Paypal/AmEx agreement: On July 13, 2010, a new agreement between American Express and Paypal will take effect.  This agreement affects merchants using PayPal Website Payments Professional, who accept direct payments
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FastPivot.com Rallies Support for Local Triathlete Badly Hurt in Cycling Accident
FastPivot.com , along with other Asheville NC based organizations including; Foot Rx, Liberty Bikes, Carolina Fatz, Sycamore Cycles, Jus’ Running, Asheville Tri Club, Biowheels, Hearns Cycling, Industry 9, Ultimate Direction, Chi Living, Have a Cup of Coffee, Highland Lake Inn, The Rush, Asheville Women’s Cycling, Blue Ridge Cross Fit, Andy Grabowski, CTS, GloryHoundEvents, Ski Country
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More online merchants searching for "Yahoo! Store Designers"
In comparing our May/June 2010 search analytics from those in January/February 2010, we are seeing trends which suggest that Yahoo! Store design services are becoming a higher demand online merchant solution. According to FastPivot’s data, online merchants (or bricks-and-mortar retailers who want an online store) are more frequently and precisely targeting their search for RTML
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FastPivot Refreshes AdaptiveMall.com's Yahoo! Store Design
Back in March of ’07, FastPivot’s Yahoo! Store Designers first introduced AdaptiveMall.com to the online world of ecommerce. Although the design options they used at that time were cutting edge, it’s impossible to let a few years go by in what is now the age of digital technology and expect your online store to stay
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FastPivot Yahoo! Store Developers Partner With BuyStream Product Video Publishing
FastPivot is very excited to partner with BuyStream.TV! The trend of interactive and video represents the engaging and creative innovation our clients expect! BuyStream’s innovative, fully Yahoo! Store integrated video shopping product will work superbly both in store and in the video search engines like YouTube, says FastPivot President Matthew Ledford. According to their production
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Is Your Yahoo! Store Outdated? Sign Up Now to Get Our "New" Yahoo! Mobile Store Beta
Since introducing Mobile Yahoo! Store Beta in the last newsletter, our waiting list has quadrupled. FastPivot has a reputation for being quick and efficient, but with the world lining up for a mobile version of their Yahoo! store, we’re encouraging Yahoo! Store merchants to sign up now to avoid longer wait times. In this Youtube
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FastPivot Team Take-Aways from Reading "Re-Work" Together
Ecommerce company FastPivot.com confronts day to day challenges in the virtual office space that are often unknown to those operating within the bricks-and-mortar corporate world. Within our virtual framework exists a special sub-culture that requires a special attention to the way we work and communicate. As we strive to excel, we have found many useful
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2010 Internet Retailer-Yahoo! Merchant Summit Re-Cap by Grant Henry
FastPivot’s Director of Strategy, Grant Henry, had this (below) to say upon his return from IR 2010: This year‚Äôs 2010 Internet Retailer Conference in Chicago (#IRCE) represented many things for ecommerce as a whole. The number of paid attendees grew substantially this year, along with the size of the show floor, the number of new
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FastPivot Delivers Social-Mobile Presentation & Giveaway at Yahoo! Merchant Summit 2010
At this year’s June 11th Yahoo! Merchant Summit in Chicago, FastPivot’s President, Matthew Ledford, fixed his gaze upon an eager audience, as he has done at dozens of other ecommerce conferences, to make the case that social media & mobile shopping are the future of ecommerce. The convergence of social with the exponential growth of
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How fast is the Yahoo! Mobile Commerce Store growing?
FastPivot randomly selected 15 Yahoo! Store clients for a mobile ecommerce for the Yahoo! Store case study (See Mobile Ecommerce for the Yahoo! Store Youtube presentation below): Yahoo! Mobile ecommerce user analytics data indicated that there was an average increase in mobile traffic of 68% and an increase in revenue of 119% in just five
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