With the FastPivot developed “Quick View” feature for Yahoo! Stores, customers can view quick facts about a particular product while still on the home (optional) or section page with the “Quick View” feature. Product information displays in a “lightbox” with a choice of view options, including: a mini image, product name, product description, options and
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Is "Lean" Ecommerce Store Design an Oxymoron?
With the economy still on food stamps, it’s all about saving pennies, recycling cans, and cutting coupons for everything from toilet paper to web design. Efficiency gurus are salivating at opportunities to clean waste off the rungs of the corporate ladder and from around the seals of gunky production cogs. “Lean” traces back to Toyota,
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Avoiding Social Media Management Burnout
Social media managers are becoming easier prey to burnout, as the barrage of rapacious social signals spur the pupils into R.E.M.ing across an assortment of social platform commands dozens of times a minute. Fighting becomes futile when there are too many requests to dodge: How many times can you be asked to join social circles,
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Facebook Marketing Strategy, the Disney Way
Just humming “M-I-C-K-E-Y-M-O-U-S-E” stirs magic into the air–who wouldn’t want the Disney sparkle bestowed on their brand. But have you ever wondered how the world’s greatest merchandisers of creativity do it?! To break the news gently: Peter Pan, Tinkerbell, Mama Odie, Jack Sparrow, Donald Duck, Pluto, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, The Incredibles, and all the
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Hello From Yahoo! Merchant Summit 2011!
FastPivot President, Matthew Ledford, jetted out yesterday from FastPivot corporate headquarters in Asheville to the Yahoo! Merchant Summit, taking place in Silicon Valley USA. At the 2011 Yahoo! Merchant Summit customers can learn about the latest product trends and features and gather actionable tips to help optimize and grow their Yahoo! store. Since 1997 FastPivot.com
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Stock Market Burns While Ecommerce Plays Fiddle?
August 4th, 2011 is a day many won’t forget–the NYTimes made sure of it with this headline: Stocks Plunge on Fears of Global Turmoil. The DOW dove over 500 points, and “with a steep decline of around 5 percent in the United States on Thursday, stocks have now fallen nearly 11 percent in two weeks.”
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Zen Facebook Marketing, Mello Yello Style?
Dictionary.com states that “Deliberately irrational statements are sometimes used in Zen to jar persons into realizing the limits of the common uses of the intellect. One well-known example is, “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” From Mello Yello’s Facebook posts (last five posted below), one cannot help but wonder whether they’ve created some
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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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How to Avoid Creating a Yahoo! Store Frankenstein
Custom Yahoo! Stores aren’t like Frankensteins, muscled together by mad amateurs blowing around RTML smokescreens to blind clients from the true ease of setting up shop. Custom developed Yahoo! Stores live up to their names, sometimes to the merchant’s dismay. For example, let’s say a merchant just had a Yahoo! Store agency design the baddest
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Google Plus [Code] Boarding Yahoo! Store Express
All aboard! Yahoo! Store merchants will be glad to learn that Google Plus code is lining up for a Yahoo! Store integration (more on how to add Google Plus to you Yahoo! Store in a moment). When Google Plus was introduced, we asked the question: Has Google’s Plus Project Already Failed?, however it’s apparent from
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