“The holidays are coming! The holidays are coming!” You know it, we hear you, and November’s getting shorter by the day. But even as we join the retail universe in the annual lemming-like plunge into the holiday season, a recent comment from a FastPivot retailer made us stop short at the edge of the cliff.
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In the beginning, Al Gore created the Internet. On the third day Jerry Yang and David Filo saw that it was good and started Yahoo!  And while everyone else was resting on the seventh day, Matt Ledford and Keith Enloe founded the company now known as FastPivot. Nothing’s been the same since. Since 1997, we’ve
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We know that the Yahoo! Store Blog is everyone’s top reading priority. But in case you’re a few posts behind, Yahoo! got merchants everywhere to take a breather from their pre-holiday panic attacks by announcing two key enhancements to the Yahoo! Stores platform in the areas of merchandising and SEO. In his September 25 post,
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Cool mornings and early sunsets say it loud and clear: fall is here. For the internet retailer, October is the time to plan how to “drive” the thoughts of consumers from traffic jams, packed malls and out-of-stock merchandise to the quiet, stress-free comforts of their personal computers, at home and surrounded by the sounds of
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Admit it. You want to connect with your customers—before Christmas. You want to create marketing buzz for your holiday shoppers. You want to blog. The positive influence and increased use of blogs is undeniable. They’re EVERYWHERE. Perhaps blog marketing and business blogging was once considered a passing online fad, but no longer Рthe era
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We’ve been asked a lot of questions about our company, its practices, and its people. Some have been due diligence; some have been a shade invasive. But we know that we get asked these questions not because people are necessarily nosy…but because we’re going to work together on one of the most important things in
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Google has recently offered a new metric available in their Adwords reporting system. Impression Share reflects the percentage of impressions that your ads see in relation to the entire market. In addition to this information, Google also makes suggestions on the percentage of impressions lost due to a low Ad Rank and the percentage lost
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NAPA, CA–(Marketwire – June 21, 2007) – FastPivot.com (formerly Ydesigns.com) has finalized a partnership agreement to promote ScanAlert’s HACKER SAFE certification and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) validation services to its thousands of clients, most of which are hosted on the Yahoo! Merchant Solutions platform. The agreement between one of the most
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Look for us! Members of the FastPivot team will be attending Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition June 4-7, 2007. If you’re planning to attend the conference, we are available to friends, clients and prospects at the Yahoo booth as well as in sessions and just perusing the show floor. For details on our schedules and
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Have you wondered why, or if, you need Optimization and Analytics for your ecommerce site? What is testing and why do it? And, who needs it? You are invited to participate in a free webinar on – Optimization Value and Basics. In one interactive hour, these questions and more will be discussed by the experts.
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