If you haven’t heard, Aabaco / Yahoo! Small Business will be switching all stores over to HTTPS this October. What does that mean for you? First, it means that your store will won’t get a warning after Google begins issuing warnings to users who try to access sites that aren’t HTTPS. Second, it means that
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Setup Your Aabaco Login
You may have noticed a big change when trying to log in to your store(s) this morning. Yahoo spent the weekend transitioning to Aabaco Small Business. While the technology of the stores remains the same, all users have been instructed to create new Aabaco logins to continue accessing the stores. Your store access list WILL
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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 Trusted Stores come to Yahoo Store merchants
Some of the biggest marketing news to come along in a long time for Yahoo Store merchants – Yahoo Store merchants (with sufficient order volume) can now apply for inclusion in the Google Trusted Stores program. This is a significant traffic and conversion potential for many merchants. Not only does this allow store owners to display the Trusted
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FastPivot Launches our First Responsive Web Design on Yahoo! Store – WorldRugbyShop.com
The discussion around responsive website design versus mobile platform development is an ongoing one. The gap in size between a Galaxy Note 4 and iPad Mini is a mere inch, and that size difference could all but disappear in 2015. WorldRugbyShop.com has been a FastPivot flagship for years, but after discussion around the needs of
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What is the Best Size for Ecommerce Product Images?
Good product images move merchandise on ecommerce sites. It’s a fact. Yet it takes a lot of time to produce good ecommerce product images, unless you take the easy way and simply use whatever the manufacturer or distributor can send you. (If you do, your product pages will closely resemble the other sites using the exact same
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Pillows.com accompanies name change with a new look!
We’re very proud of one of our latest projects, the newly launched Pillows.com. It’s a great example of the results our clients see when we apply our Pivot360 methodology to ecommerce retailing. It’s a methodology comprising assessment, planning and execution that we’ve honed and used with many of our clients in recent years. Here’s how
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2013 Yahoo! Merchant Summit Recap
Just back from the 2013 Yahoo! Merchant Summit in Santa Clara, CA. It was a hectic 48+ hours; talking to customers, prospects, partners, competitors, and Yahoo! company personnel. I’d rate it “better” than the last couple of years. Here are the key takeaways for me: 1. Attendee Optimism Optimism was much higher compared to the
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Iterative Design: When Small Tweaks Show Big Results
Many store owners hit a point where talks of a “redesign” come up daily. It is important to realize that while you may only have direct control over a limited number of design elements in your store, that doesn’t necessarily mean it is time to explore a complete redesign. If the store code base is
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Everlast : Pulling No Punches – The 60-day Build -Fast Yahoo Store Build
FastPivot Proud of Everlast Fast Track Yahoo Store Build Over the years, FastPivot has offered services to nearly every gamut of business and industry. Serving the budding start-up, proof-of-concept projects, as well as larger brands means we have to consistently adjust our approach. We are reminded that every business has a wildly different set of
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