For years ecommerce merchants, especially larger ones like Amazon.com, have been hassled by a growing number of states in the USA about charging sales tax on purchases by customers located in states where merchants aren’t physically located. However, just because ecommerce merchants have been hassled to set up a system that will add state taxes
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For merchants who enjoy putting their store websites on auto-pilot and sitting back to watch the sales come in, it is time to weep. That time is over, at least for merchants selling “fresh” product dependent on Google indexing. According to an official November 3rd, 2011 Google blog update: Given the incredibly fast pace at
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While Facebook clearly does not work well for some businesses, we have found that it’s a godsend for others, especially those in the sports business. This doesn’t take much  brain blood to figure out–everyone likes to keep up with sports; whether it is regarding new products, sports team updates, contests, etc. Having recently surpassed one
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AmericanMuscle.com is one of our most complex and feature-rich custom Yahoo Stores to date. The overall design is comfortable and easy to navigate, but some of the most interesting features are controlled behind the scenes, in order to offer a fully optimized user experience. Yahoo! Store Cookie-based Navigation FastPivot developed a cookie system that tracks
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FastPivot’s Yahoo! Store developers were proud to be a part of the official AmericanMuscle.com store launch, which debuted a few weeks ago. It wasn’t until this week that our analytics crew noted a 13% increase in conversion since launch. While this metric might not sound like more than a backfire, it is a significant needle
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With consumers spending more time on social networks like Facebook, ecommerce merchants have been forced to move their marketing to these platforms as well. It would be nice if merchants never had to leave their own storefronts to reach customers, but the reality is ecommerce merchants must meet customers wherever they are. For social media
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According this recent article in Foreign Affairs, the Pentagon has an updated and evolving cyber defense strategy: To meet this growing threat, the Department of Defense developed a strategy for operating in cyberspace that has five pillars: treating cyberspace as an operational domain, like land, air, sea, and outer space; employing active defenses to stop
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Choosing the right Yahoo! Store development agency isn’t a simple matter of  pushing a shopping cart through the Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Developer Network aisles, leaning into the refrigerated racks of choice-picked goods and squeeze testing five or six for freshness. The Yahoo! Store developer shopping process needs to start with an understanding of what’s beneath
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The Wall Street Journal Reported on September 7, 2011 that Chinese Regulators Renew Key License for Google. What this means for Google is another year of doing business legally, albeit via a Chinese partner, since China doesn’t grant business licenses directly to foreign companies in China–according to this ZDNet article. But after all the jousting
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Remember that old adage, “why buy the cow, if you can get the milk for free?” Well, as the country lurches further into an economic quagmire, the government in many states is suggesting that ecommerce  and state sales tax would make a nice match.  It’s been a free ride for too long, and now state
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