FastPivot’s Director of Strategy, Grant Henry, had this (below) to say upon his return from IR 2010: This year‚Äôs 2010 Internet Retailer Conference in Chicago (#IRCE) represented many things for ecommerce as a whole. The number of paid attendees grew substantially this year, along with the size of the show floor, the number of new
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FastPivot Delivers Social-Mobile Presentation & Giveaway at Yahoo! Merchant Summit 2010
At this year’s June 11th Yahoo! Merchant Summit in Chicago, FastPivot’s President, Matthew Ledford, fixed his gaze upon an eager audience, as he has done at dozens of other ecommerce conferences, to make the case that social media & mobile shopping are the future of ecommerce. The convergence of social with the exponential growth of
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FastPivot Prepares for Yahoo! Merchant Summit Next Week
Yahoo! will be hosting a summit for its merchants on June 11th, 2010 in Chicago, immediately following the Internet Retailer Conference. Among other keynote activities, Michael Ober, Senior Manager of Account Management for Yahoo! Small Business, will demonstrate how merchants can increase order value and improve website conversions.¬† FastPivot.com’s Strategic Director, Grant Henry, along with
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FastPivot.com Yahoo Store Designers Give MyKnobs.com New Look
Great ecommerce store design is a blend of artistic creativity and masterfully programmed functionality. In the MyKnobs.com before and after screen captures below, it’s easy to see what a difference a few new brush strokes makes to a well established store. Store Design Before Store Design After The above screen captures don’t represent an entire
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FastPivot.com's Yahoo! Store Designers Give EmpireImports.com New Face
FastPivot.com’s Yahoo! Store Designers are proud to raise the curtain on EmpireImports.com’s new face lift. As you can see below the old store was burdened with a heavy, aged, pallor that can only lead to one place: the ecommerce morgue. After a few clips and tucks, we lifted the veil to see new luscious features
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Punk.com: Specialized Online Store Design Feature Showcase
Through the use of bold colors, vivid imagery and clean layouts, Punk.com is a custom work of art, in addition to a strong online store. FastPivot.com’s Yahoo! Designers installed some very cool features that are modeled off of a collaboration of leading retail websites. The custom store areas FastPivot.com’s Yahoo! Designers included were: * Section
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FastPivot.com Yahoo Store Designers Launch Punk.com
FastPivot.com has launched online stores for top national brands since 1997, but during that time has never taken for granted that every store brings something special to the ecommerce community. Take, for example, our most recent launch: Punk.com According to Punk.com’s new about page, it was “the brainchild of the fashion minded folks at Newbury
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MixedChicks.net Redesign Announcement and Feature Showcase
Since 1997, FastPivot.com has designed and launched an extensive line of custom Yahoo! Stores. Each one brings something very unique to our portfolio. Any new FastPivot custom store (*custom meaning they didn’t use a style guide) always includes special features worth noting. Take for example our recent MixedChicks.net redesign launch. Have a look at the
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FastPivot.com Likes Facebook's New "Like" Feature
Facebook is creating an entirely new layer on the web with its new “Like” feature. This feature is being deeply integrated into websites everywhere. Take for example, Pandora, World Soccer Shop (see live product page “like” example page here), and even our own FastPivot.com site (see upper left ). Fastpivot store designers can install this
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FastPivot.com Yahoo! Store Designers Create "Hybrid" Product Page for Mission Gift Shop
In an earlier blog, we announced our recent launch of Mission Health System’s Gift Shop. In this blog we’ll expand more on the gift shop’s special “hybrid” product page. The screen capture below displays Mission’s Gift Shop’s custom hybridized product page design, which cleanly organizes product content into tabbed sections. This custom feature will¬† make
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