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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Give Your Yahoo! Store An Early Christmas Gift: Mobile, Social & Re-design
“Hooo Hooo Hooo — Merry Christmas!” “Wait a minute, Santa, aren’t you getting excited a little too early. Summer isn’t even over and you’re running around in your heavy boots and jacket, and seriously– aren’t you sweating like crazy under that big ole bushy beard?” “Listen, kid, I’m making this round for all the Yahoo!
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Yahoo! Store Development: A Core Fast Pivot Specialized Design Service
Since 1997, Fast Pivot has offered complete online retail solutions for Yahoo! Stores of all sizes. It’s not hard to see from our expansive Yahoo! Store development portfolio that our forte is Yahoo! Store design and Yahoo! Store development. Sample Yahoo! Store Development by Fast Pivot Fast Pivot chose to specialize in Yahoo! store design
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Should You Develop Video Games For Your Online Store?
Most Ecommerce merchants struggle to think of new and creative ways to keep customers around for as long as possible and get them coming back as often as possible. (*Obviously, the longer they’re on your site, the more they are likely to buy.) Some online store owners have resorted to black hat methods, but going
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Holiday Sales Prep. Should Start Now:Top Five Holiday Readiness Tips For Ecommerce Merchants
Christmas in August is a far removed concept for most holiday shoppers, but for ecommerce merchants, this is a time to prepare for what is to come. Some reports suggest an 11% projected growth in 2010 online/ecommerce sales this year vs. only a 2.5% sales in overall U.S. retail. To put this in perspective, “in
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Is Your Online Store Telling Lies?
As an Ecommerce merchant, you’ve probably considered a variety of marketing techniques. Everyone wants to get their product moving, so most are willing to try many different tactics to get the job done. Some even begin telling little white lies to hurry the process. The idea of using deceptive marketing techniques is alluring, because they
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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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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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