08/04/09 12:46 PM PST: Merchant Solutions system upgrade on August 6 http://www.ysmallbizstatus.com/status/archives/847 On August 6, 2009, from 9:30 p.m. to 12 a.m. (PDT), we’ll be conducting upgrades to help improve system performance. If you do not see a notice about the upgrade in your Store Manager, your store is not affected. Shoppers may be unable
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The Big Five Fundamentals of E-commerce Strategy. In response to a twitter request from Maureen Alley (@maureenwm ) to post tips for Website Magazine , I had to  resist the urge to go after the latest and greatest e-commerce widget or buzzword to think about long-term success.   Few merchants pull away from the latest
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In June, FastPivot, a Yahoo! Store design, development and strategic solutions agency, launched an incredibly advanced jewelry configurator for TeNo, a jewelry store hosted on the Yahoo! Small Business Platform. Working with a Flash application that was integrated into the Yahoo! Store platform, FastPivot was able to create a dynamic configurator, which allows customers to
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“Your online store’s front page or homepage is the most important piece of real estate on your site. Here credibility must be established for both your store “brand” and for the products you sell. Here you engage users to shop and buy.“ Check the full article by our President, Matthew Ledford’s article at: Perfecting Your
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Microsoft Unlikely to Raise Yahoo Offer РWSJ.com Very tricky corporate dating scene.  Rejection, seeing other people, moving the dates around makes for drama for those of us in the business. One thing for certain: change.   Powered by ScribeFire.

Guys- the best April Fools Joke I’ve found so far today goes to Google (make sure you aren’t logged in):http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html Then:http://tinyurl.com/yokjgf Now if they can just get the Google Calendar version working in time for next year!!! ¬† Powered by ScribeFire.

Are You Taking Advantage of Web 2.0? – Pogue‚Äôs Posts – Technology – New York Times Blog As our team considers ‘social shopping’ and ‘commerce communities’ like the ones we’ve built for Group Publishing’s YouthMinistry.com and www.simplyyouth.com it seems there is are balance and control issues around the voice companies use and the level of
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I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. I’ve noticed that by February, most folks have either stayed the course or fallen off the wagon again. Those New Year’s resolutions packed my local YMCA gym with short-term enthusiasts and unrealistic exercisers for the entire month of January. Taking their cues from late-night infomercials, some of these folks
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The FastPivot/Ydesigns team take the opportunity of National Consumer Protection Week (February 4-10, 2007) to help educate consumers and merchants alike on how not to get Phished! We noticed that PayPal is helping promote National Consumer Protection Week this week and decided to focus in February on helping make the Internet community a better and
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