Mobile commerce (mcommerce) is growing at a rapid rate: There are 280 million mobile phones in the USA. By 2011, 50% of mobile phone users will be using web-enable smart phones. Of current smart phone users, 37% have made a purchase from their phone. FastPivot randomly selected 15 client stores for a mobile commerce case
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FastPivot reveals Mobile-Store-Design-Beta Innovation during Internet Retailer Chicago #IRCE 2010
When FastPivot’s President Matthew Ledford and Director of Strategy Grant Henry arrived at this week’s Internet Retailer, Chicago, Conference with a Mobile-Store-Design-Beta crowds flocked. With the world going mobile, many more shoppers are making purchases from their smart-phones everyday. Online stores that aren’t willing to build a mobile version of their stores are losing customers
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Additional Details Now Available on FastPivot's Yahoo! Shopping Cart checklist for improving sales conversion
We recently published a blog titled Boosting Yahoo! Store Sales With FastPivot’s Yahoo! Shopping Cart Checklist for Improving Sales Conversion. Within that blog, we included a checklist of questions that should be frequently asked in order to help identify conversion obstacles within your Yahoo! Store shopping cart. Posted below are the checklist questions along with
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Boosting Yahoo! Store Sales With FastPivot's Yahoo! Shopping Cart checklist for improving sales conversion
Improving sales conversion is a multi-layered process. However, many obstacles to sales conversion can be weeded out right within the shopping cart. These frustrating catches might not completely stop your Yahoo! Store shopping cart from rolling, but it’ll sure slow it down, which can be just as bad. The words slow and online¬† shopping won’t
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Improving Your Yahoo! Store With Top Ten Design Tips for Better Sales Conversion
If you’ve been asking yourself lately, “how can I be improving my Yahoo! Store,” one answer that should always be at the top of the list is improving Yahoo! Store sales conversion. FastPivot.com has created a “Top Ten Design Tips for Better Store Conversion Checklist” (see below), which should prove useful for Yahoo! Store owners
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FastPivot Prepares for Yahoo! Merchant Summit Next Week
Yahoo! will be hosting a summit for its merchants on June 11th, 2010 in Chicago, immediately following the Internet Retailer Conference. Among other keynote activities, Michael Ober, Senior Manager of Account Management for Yahoo! Small Business, will demonstrate how merchants can increase order value and improve website conversions.¬† FastPivot.com’s Strategic Director, Grant Henry, along with
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FastPivot.com Yahoo Store Designers Give MyKnobs.com New Look
Great ecommerce store design is a blend of artistic creativity and masterfully programmed functionality. In the MyKnobs.com before and after screen captures below, it’s easy to see what a difference a few new brush strokes makes to a well established store. Store Design Before Store Design After The above screen captures don’t represent an entire
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Defining, Interpreting & Improving Conversion Rate
According to Wikipedia, the definition of conversion rate ” is the ratio of visitors who convert casual content views or website visits into desired actions based on subtle or direct requests from marketers, advertisers, and content creators.” Deriving a conversion rate may be a matter of doing a simple calculation, but understanding the basis and
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SLI Systems' May 2010 Newsletter "Partner Spotlight" is FastPivot.com
A long standing partnership between FastPivot.com and SLI Systems was noted in this month’s May 2010 edition of the official SLI Systems’ newsletter: Over a decade of online store design, programming and strategic consultation has attracted the attention of innovative start-ups and national brands alike into the FastPivot portfolio. While specializing in Yahoo! Store design
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FastPivot.com's Yahoo! Store Designers Give EmpireImports.com New Face
FastPivot.com’s Yahoo! Store Designers are proud to raise the curtain on EmpireImports.com’s new face lift. As you can see below the old store was burdened with a heavy, aged, pallor that can only lead to one place: the ecommerce morgue. After a few clips and tucks, we lifted the veil to see new luscious features
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