FastPivot, a world class eTail development agency, is now hiring: Yahoo! Store programmers / developers well-versed in using RTML, PHP (basic), Java Script, CSS, and XHTML/HTML to create e-commerce store solutions. Not only should our programmers love working on the Yahoo! platform, but they should also be task / deadline oriented, flexible, and great at
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By Matthew Ledford, FastPivot CEO Today I’m going to talk just a little bit about connecting, converting, and committing: the three Cs of online business.  Essentially, every online business has to have each of these three working to some degree to be successful. Connection Connection is the one that most people think about.  How are
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We have featured GlobalShopEx.com in an increasing number of blogs lately, because international business for U.S. based etailers has exploded. Those not prepared to go global have been asking us about high quality solutions, and we have been referring them to our partner GlobalShopEx.com . They offer merchants currency conversion, risk free shipping, and knowledgeable
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Just when we thought Google and China had become mutually exclusive terms, the news comes out in this April 3, 2012 Reuters article, Google to Grow Display, Mobile Ad Businesses in China, that: Google Inc will continue to invest in China, where it has a testy relationship with the government, with a focus on growing
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Creativity is a buzzword that has been used in corporate work spaces for decades, but speaking the lingo and actually conjuring palpable results from creative training sessions is another story. It’s fantasy in fact, and even worse many of us have gone decades believing the myths. It’s sort of fitting, and ironic that there are
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A Linkedin Poll, asking the question: “What’s your biggest concern with moving your applications to the cloud,” just closed, and populated the following results: More than half of the survey respondents reported that security was the main concern they have with cloud computing, while reliability came up as a far second, and performance and cost
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Single product websites are a rare find. In fact, they might be likened to a one shot pistol, when used in their purest form–aim and fire like 2010worldcupplate.com, a unique single product ecommerce website selling commemorative 2010 World Cup plates, did in order to hit a well-defined seminal sales season target.  However, that’s not usually
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Targeted public polls are nothing new, but conducting them as part of a social media marketing strategy is gaining traction among retailers. There are a number of nifty apps. (with free and premium service offerings) that allow retailers to conduct polls on Facebook including: Poll , Poll Daddy , Poll for Facebook ; along with
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Like a boomerang cast low over the sands of no-man’s land, online sales spun into a dismal state of abeyance, with the rest of the U.S. economy…and just as the boomerang doesn’t disappoint on the return flight,  online sales marked a turning point this past Black Friday with the best gains since 2007. According to
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