Despite the slowdown in the economy, online retail sits in an interesting spot. In fact, a MediaPost blog article goes as far to say that “innovation and e-commerce are looking impervious to economic ravages, at least, for now.” Internet spending for Valentine’s Day was up almost 8½% more than last year Рreports Retail Decisions.
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FREE WEBCAST! Out of the Box—Beautifully! Wednesday, April 9, 2008 1PM ET / 10 AM PT (60 minutes) (Registration Required; limited seating) DOES design drive sales? Join us for a free 60-minute webcast that details how Yahoo! merchants are using great design innovations to set themselves apart AND drive more sales. Learn why you can’t
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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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Thank you to everyone that attended yesterday’s webcast on the Yahoo! Year-End Review.¬† We would like to announce that the winner of the FREE Marketing Audit is Jason Striker of www.drweil.com.¬† Contrats Jason!¬† And thank you to everyone for your continued interested in FastPivot.com’s services.

‘Tis the season when online merchants fixate on their conversion rates like a moth on a warm winter lightbulb. Even now, with Thanksgiving almost upon us and Santa villages popping up in malls everywhere, customers call asking how to improve overall conversion numbers‚ but are stunned when we suggest tweaking anything else.¬† We here at
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FREE WEBCAST! Yahoo Year-End Review Wednesday Nov 28, 2007 1PM ET / 10 AM PT (30 minutes) (Registration Required; limited seating) WIN A FREE WEBSITE ASSESSMENT! Join us for free 30-minute review of the Yahoo! Store 2006-2007 platform changes that affect your site, store and business. All registrants will receive a PDF of the presentation
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“The holidays are coming! The holidays are coming!” You know it, we hear you, and November’s getting shorter by the day. But even as we join the retail universe in the annual lemming-like plunge into the holiday season, a recent comment from a FastPivot retailer made us stop short at the edge of the cliff.
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In the beginning, Al Gore created the Internet. On the third day Jerry Yang and David Filo saw that it was good and started Yahoo!  And while everyone else was resting on the seventh day, Matt Ledford and Keith Enloe founded the company now known as FastPivot. Nothing’s been the same since. Since 1997, we’ve
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