Mission Hospital in Asheville NC can be  traced back 125 years to a small cabin, but it now boasts a service its founders could never imagine: an online gift shop. The service is an outgrowth of its multi-functional and interactive web presence, which Mission and other hospitals have long since utilized to serve functions from
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Store Design Feature Flash: Bunncoffeemakers.com's Pagination Install
We announced the birth of Bunncoffeemakers.com in an earlier blog this week. Included in that blog was a list of the standard and enhanced features which were built into this new site. Among the enhanced features mentioned was pagination (see sample pagination feature in highlighted area of screen capture below). Pagination is used to organize
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FastPivot to deliver "Facebook Marketing Strategy" workshop near Asheville
The Small Business Center of Marshall NC is hosting a hands-on “Facebook Marketing Strategy” workshop for small business owners and entrepreneurs Thursday, April 29th, from 6-7:30 pm. Jonathan Poston of FastPivot.com will be the instructor for this specialty social media marketing workshop. Though some computers will be available, attendees should bring a laptop, if they
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Feature Flash: Bunncoffeemakers.com's Rotating Banner
In our last blog, we announced the new Bunncoffeemakers.com store launch. Illustrated below is their au courant rotating banner (AKA: java script banner). This superstar headliner is one of our most popular enhanced feature installs. These rotating banners can split to present more than one image at once and store owners can easily control the
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FastPivot.com Yahoo! Store Designers Launch Bunncoffeemakers.com
It gives us great pleasure to announce the birth of Bunncoffeemakers.com. Since 1997, FastPivot.com’s Yahoo Store designers have launched only the highest quality online stores. FastPivot.com considers each new Yahoo! store design a work of art. The prominent features (standard & enhanced) that were custom-built for Bunncoffeemakers.com are outlined below. Standard Features: * Text logo
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FastPivot.com's Yahoo! Store Designers Create "Hybrid" Product Page for Babybeat.com
In our last blog, we gave a breakdown of both the standard and special features we recently developed for Babybeat.com. In this blog we’ll expand more on Babybeat’s new “hybrid” product page. The two screen captures below display Babybeat’s Before and After product page. The After version is a custom hybridized design which combines both
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FastPivot.com's Yahoo! Store Designers launch Babybeat.com redesign
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 ecommerce store design always includes special features worth noting. Take for example our recent Babybeat.com redesign launch. Have a look at the two homepage screen captures below. The
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Double Draw: Blog Skin & Blog Integration
Starting a generic blog on a third-party site is like building a vinyl “add-on” room to your brick home on a vacant lot one hundred miles away. It just doesn’t make sense. In order to really get the most from your blog, it should be custom-skinned and fully-integrated into your online store site. The first
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New floating cart manager now available for use in Yahoo! Stores
On March 30, 2010 Yahoo! Store officials announced via their blog that a Floating Cart Manager can now be installed into Yahoo! Stores. Yahoo! Store owners that take advantage of this new feature should expect higher conversion rates and a better customer shopping experience overall. Yahoo! Store Design & Development company, FastPivot.com is now offering
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Five Fundamentals For Developing Social Media Policy
Creating policy for social media is no easy task since it’s a relatively new trend among marketers. In the past, outbound communications were primarily generated and distributed¬† through the PR/marketing department. With the masses now engaging regularly on social media, every employee is a potential mouthpiece for the business; for better or worse. Below are
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