Mobile accounts for around 30% of all ecommerce sales in the US, and that number is only going to increase, so it’s worth optimising your Shopify store to take advantage of these mobile consumers. Here are some of the best apps available for enriching your customers’ mobile experience. Social Login This handy add-on allows your
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12 Days of Prepping for Christmas: An e-commerce holiday shopping checklist
At FastPivot, we’re making a list and hoping you’ll check it twice as the peak of e-commerce shopping is right around the corner! Ask yourself these twelve questions over the next twelve days to tune up your online store. Taking just a few simple steps can help you get the most out of the holiday shopping
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“Google Mobilegeddon Update” – Mobile Preferences Rolled out April 21: What now?
The Google Mobilegeddon Update rolled out by Google on April 21st! For most of our clients, it was not as bad as we thought it might be. Thanks to the hard work with the folks at Yahoo helping to make the standard templates more mobile friendly, every Yahoo Store owner has access to a mobile
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Free Offer: How to Make the Most of Shopify eBook
We’ve always been passionate at FastPivot about leveraging the power of ecommerce platforms. We made our name and reputation in the Yahoo! Stores community more than a decade ago. We still work with a lot of Yahoo! Merchant Solutions retailers. We also work with retailers on other platforms like Shopify. In the past two years,
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FastPivot Speaking at Internet Retailer Web Design and Mobile Commerce 2014
FastPivot Provides Mobile Website Design Expertise at Internet Retailer Web Design and Mobile Commerce 2014 in Orlando We get mobile website design here at FastPivot. So much so that the organizers of the Internet Retailer Web Design and Mobile Commerce Event in Orlando reached out to us to speak on Mobile Design tomorrow. If you’re at
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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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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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Mobile Commerce Growth Accelerates and Splinters
As Internet retailing expands, mobile commerce growth continues. Across a wide variety of industries and interests, it represents an ever-growing share of the total online retailing pie. But one mobile customer is not like another; some use tablets while others use smartphones. This apparently insignificant difference actually translates into some really important distinctions, as Internet
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Business Website Design Lessons by Carnival Cruise Line: Business Website more outdated than the Carnival Triumph
Scene One: Keith Enloe and I went on a site visit this week to one of our favorite clients and were talking business website design and how web user experience (UX) standards change. We also discussed that and also how continuing to build upon old code is not always the best way to do things. They
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Top Five Mobile Shopping Statistics Infographics
Mobile Shopping Is Here to Stay If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is an infographic worth? Maybe a million? These mobile shopping infographics hosting in our Fastpivot Pinterest Page tell the story of dramatic growth and the increasing importance of mobile optimization andmobile strategy for internet retailers. Droid them or dread them, love
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