Hey fellow digital marketing people, wouldn’t it be easier to go back to the days portrayed in the TV series Mad Men where you basically had three outlets for advertising? The good ol’ days of radio, television, and newsprint dominated brand advertising (in addition to a couple roadside billboards here and there). In today’s digital and
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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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Fastpivot loves (Hearts) NY! (and NJ!) How about you?
“You guys rock! Thanks for saving our sanity!” -Tim Schlitzer www.TryChips.com The request comes in: “Hi Matt, Daphne and Tim We are still with limited power and internet since the storm as we now live and produce our Try Chips in New Jersey. The storm has hit our community pretty hard.
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Site Engagement, Emotional Connection, Reducing Bounce Rates: How is your EC? How do you connect? Seven things…
Engagement, Emotional Connection and Reducing Bounce Rates: How is your EC? This is the beginning of a series surrounding the FastPivot concept of Pivot 360 (P360). P360 is about: Connect, Convert and Commit. Being busy, we all lose touch. Sorry about that. Our team has been busy serving well and doing great things! Forgive us
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Summer Vacation and Christmas in July-Yahoo! Merchant Summit…what the…
You may have noticed, we’ve taken a short blogging break. More about that at the end… Did everyone get a Summer vacation? You look like you might need a break. As we look at the calendar, this is the final push for many families before back to school and it is the beginning push
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FastPivot Team Given Paid Day Off to Serve Community for MLK Day
FastPivot’s team members had a chance to take a paid day off this past Monday to volunteer in honor of Martin Luther King Day, and check out the good many of them did in their communities: Jennifer Boos, Project Manager: Volunteered with the Bent Creek Community Trail Improvement Project (Trash Cleanup) Her story: Living in
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Google Goes Black to Protest Sopa and Pipa; What Are You Doing?
Go to Google.com today and instead of seeing the familiar “Google” type in the middle of the page, you’ll see Google has a large obstructing black rectangle over it’s name. For Google, going “black” is to protest the #Pipa and #Sopa bills going through congress right now. They both could inflict serious blows to internet
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How Would Coach K Energize Ecommerce?
The other week, The Wall Street Journal, published an article titled, “Coach K on How to Connect.” Duke’s basketball coach, Mike Krzyzewski, became the eminent motivational leadership force he is today not because he just knows basketball, but because he understands people–and what’s more, what motivates them. In the aforementioned article it’s just as easy
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Asheville Woman of Steel Leaves Half Ironman Competition in the Rust
On Sunday, May 15, 2011, Daphne Kirkwood, one of Asheville’s most promising triathletes (and FastPivot’s Star HR Director), left her Rev3 Knoxville Half Ironman competition in the rust with her first place age group victory (9th female overall). Hearn’s Triathlon Racing Teammate – Ryan Madamba – got 3rd in his Age Group in the Rev3
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What Global Leaders Gained at Chick-fil-A's Leadercast
FastPivot is all about improving company performance through solid leadership development opportunities, so when it came time to attend the internationally syndicated Chick-fil-A Leadercast conference again this year, we MOOved our busy schedules aside and planned to go. This year a good number of the FastPivot team attended the conference (in-person) from the Biltmore Baptist
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