Obviously, online shoppers can’t try-on, ride, use, measure, or test the products offered on your e-commerce storefront. For some, the convenience and savings of buying online vs. visiting a brick and mortar will diminish if they aren’t exactly sure what to buy. Sure, you probably have spec sheets, descriptions, and customer reviews for each product,
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Pastors.com and Saddleback Resources Site Launches
Christianity Today has called Rick Warren “America’s most influential pastor”. Since the creation of Saddleback Church in 1980, weekly attendance has grown to upwards of 20,000 people. The influence of “Purpose Driven Life” and the accompanying curriculum, “Purpose Driven Church” is worldwide. With a global influence of this scale, companies are naturally forced to scale
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FastPivot Design leads United Exchange Corp’s Netsuite eCommerce transition
When considering an eCommerce store or website in general, it should be no shock that the design stage is often the longest and involves the biggest budget. Not only is the designer capturing brand and styling, he or she is also tasked with working within the website’s platform to provide all areas of user-interface. Recently,
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5 Ways to Know if Shopify is for You
Shopify has done a great job developing an easy-to-use ecommerce platform. There are tens of thousands of Shopify sites, hundreds of themes, and all sorts of secondary apps, widgets and plugins to make your Shopify site rock. But is Shopify the best choice for you? FastPivot has helped ecommerce retailers succeed for more
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What Ecommerce Retailers Can Learn from New Microsoft CEO
You’ve got to be a huge company for an internal email to be publicly released and promoted by your PR agency. Microsoft qualifies as a huge company. Therefore, it wasn’t surprising that the arrival of a new CEO yesterday was seen as a PR opportunity, and dutifully spun by Microsoft’s long-time PR firm, Waggener Edstrom.
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Dedicated, Responsive, or an App?
So you’ve seen all of the statistics floating around the web about the steady increase in mobile web traffic versus desktop, and you’re sufficiently concerned about how mobile-friendly your website is. Now what? Well, there are many approaches to creating a good mobile experience for your users. Now, many web designers and developers have their
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Internet Retailer 2014 Website Design Guide
The new 2014 Website Design Guide from Internet Retailer is out today, and Fast Pivot is in it. Again and again and again. When the editorial staff of the largest ecommerce media publisher comes to you, asking what you think of websites operated by some of the most successful names in online retailing, it’s a
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Four Ecommerce Predictions for 2014
Will our Ecommerce Predictions for 2014 Come True? We think so. (We thought we’d allay any doubts you may have about spending the time to read this!) Every year brings promise and the opportunity to do things better than the previous year. We’re looking forward to 2014, and polled our FastPivot team for their ecommerce predictions
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Seasonal Marketing for Etailers Means More than Halloween and Christmas
Happy Halloween 2013 Today’s the annual celebration of pumpkins and free candy. It’s a favorite with party and costume stores, supermarkets, kids and dentists. It’s also another seasonal marketing opportunity for etailers. If you subscribe to any newsletters from your favorite etailers, or you visited a retailer’s site in the past month, you probably found
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Why Mobile Matters: New Data Show Future of Online Retailing
Why Mobile Matters Mobile matters because people who shop online are increasingly shopping using a screen that is much smaller than a year or three years ago. They’re spending less time shopping on their desktops and a lot more time shopping from tablets and smartphones. Now, this may sound like something you have heard in the press.
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