How to Stay Up in a Down Economy
What you can do today about Christmas 2008
…and why you should care

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It's not just you. It's not a pretty economy out there.

And stories like this just don't help.

But tough as it is to face, now is NOT the time to stop investing in your Yahoo! Store. In fact, a successful December requires a proactive April. Want to be top in page ranks come Christmas? Start working on SEO (search engine optimization) today. Want to own the terms that drive shoppers to you? You needed a PPC (pay-per-click) plan yesterday. Need a current and accurate email list with shoppers ready to respond to great holiday sales emails? You need to start communicating with them now.

FastPivot knows that every day your site gives you a lot to think about. But your site is a store - a 3-dimensional business whose activities are often far removed from your homepage. So we want to offer you four things you can do TODAY that not only help you hold your own in uncertain times, but also help you prepare you, your site, and your business for the 2008 holidays.

A Merry Christmas…starts in April!!!!

Make the most of your merchandising.
Promoting products at every point in the shopping process sells more. Is your site making the most of social shopping features, cross-sells, and testimonials?

Choose 4 of FastPivot’s 5 best conversion-driving features for $995.

Viral Marketing Bundle, Cross Sell Column (or Footer), Rotating Text (or Testimonials), Hyperlinked Sitemap, and Auto SEO Tag Generator

Start SEO and PPC work six months before you need it.
In October, we’ll be getting calls from everyone asking how to improve their SEO rankings and maximize their PPC plans in time for the holidays. And while there are some things you can do quickly, the truth is the secret to great SEO and PPC results is TIME. Want to do well in the fall? Get going in the spring!

Choose a six month SEO or PPC improvement plan for $5400 (Tell me more)

Retain our Strategic Services team to put a custom SEO or PPC plan in place for your store.

Learn what's working…and what's not…for your store.
Guessing about your store’s performance only leads to wasted time and resources. Make the time now to look at your store, its performance, and your competition to create a plan to do more of what’s working, change what’s not, and measure improvement.

Get a Baseline Marketing and Analytics Audit of your site for $1200. (Tell me more)

Retain our Strategic Services team to review your site and your business plan for 2008.

Hear how other merchants are getting it done.
We all learn by doing…and seeing how it’s done. You don’t need to wait for the next big online retailing conference to get tips and tactics to build a better store. Join FastPivot to hear design drives conversion and real customers are making sales happen even in a down economy.

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Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 1 PM ET/10 AM ET.


Why SEO and PPC NOW? Five things to think about…TODAY.

If only improving SEO was something you could just make happen. If only successful PPC was just about spending more. Truth is, SEO and PPC activity are disciplines that need your constant attention.

Three things to consider when taking on SEO

Keywords. Is your list current? When was the last time you checked your analytics and reviewed real customer site search entries? Do you know how customers are searching for you on Google, Yahoo!, and MSN? Building and monitoring this list is a real-time, ongoing job.

Copy. Where is it? Do you make space for crawlable text on every page? Are your graphics hiding important terms that spiders can’t see?

Content. Change is a good thing. Every time you change things up on your site, spiders have a new reason to crawl. Blogs, reviews, new products, new copy…all of these things add up over time.

Two things to consider when taking on PPC

Invest smart, not more. If money was no object, you still won’t see the best results by buying every term in sight. The trick is to understand which terms are used by people ready to buy, not people just out to browse. And yes, there are ways to get this info without paying first…

It’s not just for Christmas. EVERY merchant is playing the PPC game in October, November, and December. The trick is getting traction NOW…before the playing field gets cluttered. If you want to own a term or adword…the time is NOW, not mid-October to build around it.



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