In March 2005, Metro Medical’s Debra Peterson began working closely with FastPivot Owners Matthew Ledford & Keith Enloe to design MetroMedicalOnline.com’s new custom Yahoo! Store. Back before Metro Medical’s (see corporate home site) ecommerce store launched, the company had four bricks-and-mortar retail stores. One of those retail stores wanted to do an online website to
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We Like You, Do you Like Us?
Some Yahoo! merchants might imagine our Yahoo! store developers congregating at the virtual water cooler to spout off about broken configurators, rebelling floating carts, and particularly stubborn RTML, but the truth is, we talk about YOU. Not a day goes by that we don’t discuss how awesome our Yahoo! merchant clients are! Facebook has been
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Why adding a splash page and custom fields to your company Facebook page is important
When most people think about improving their social media, they really don’t consider a social media design strategy that will be beneficial to their overall social media campaign. Embedded herein is a Youtube video discussing the benefits of installing a Facebook splash page and custom Facebook tabbed fields. As you can see in the video,
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Yahoo! Store Merchants Should Consider Placing Ads on Facebook to Grow Sales & Social Media "Fans"
Developing a sound social media strategy is just as much about using well placed graphic design as it is about using captivating and engaging copy/dialog. We’re highlighting this Facebook ad option for Yahoo! Store merchants because Facebook’s membership now exceeds more than 400 million users. As a social media platform giant, Facebook is also seen
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Fast Pivot To Present On Social Media Road-Mapping At Upcoming (September 9th) Asheville NC-Based Duke University Non-Profit Management Workshop
Jonathan Poston of FastPivot will be presenting on Social Media Road-Mapping for non-profit organizations at this (see below) upcoming (September 9th, 2010) Asheville NC-based Duke University Non-Profit Management Workshop. This social media workshop is one of many Duke University Non-Profit workshops that non-profit leaders will be attending in order to complete the distinguished Duke University
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Yahoo! Store Design Upgrade Feature: Product Image Viewer With External Zoom Added to Punk.com
One of FastPivot’s Yahoo! store developers recently added this image viewer (see Youtube video below) with external zoom. When you hover the cross-arrowed box over the main product image, which is the Spirit Hood, the right lateral zoom view appears. What makes this such a great custom Yahoo! Store Add on feature? The fact that
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How will the Yahoo! / MSN-Bing merger Affect Yahoo! Store Merchants?
FastPivot’s Director of Strategy, Grant Henry, explains how the Yahoo! and MSN-Bing merger will affect Yahoo! Store Merchants: The projected launch date of Yahoo! and MSN/BING search alliance is October of this year – not very far away! What does this merger mean for you and your business? If you are currently active with PPC
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In Case You Missed It: Kick Starting Your Social Strategy Webinar Recording Now Available
Last week’s FastPivot & SingleFeed hosted social media training webinar, Kick Starting Your Social Media (recording archived and freely available below) shared social media training insights into the ways social media is growing and how it applies to online stores and ecommerce. The social current has been strong for a while now but many times
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Surfing the Mobile Commerce Wave, Even When The Sharks Are Out
A recent CBS mobile commerce news report portrays the rising m-commerce wave as one with obviously enough push to lift mobile commerce into the main-stream, but also one fraught with sinister sharks of malfunction. One hypothetical the article posed was: what if a major retail ecommerce store wanted to test a new mobile payment application
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The Mobile Store Revolution Is Upon Us: 2010 Begins the Age of M-commerce
With a global consumer base tossing out their dumb flip phones in favor of smart phones, a noticeable shift has begun to take place within the world of ecommerce. In fact, the shift is so palpable that industry trend watchers are calling it the beginning of the age of mcommerce. It has long been believed
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