Archive for November, 2011

17 Nov

No Need to Pay Custom Traffic Cops for Yahoo! Store 301 Redirects Anymore

Yahoo! Stores

Good news for Yahoo! Store merchants: Following an official Yahoo! store update, there is now no need to pay a custom development agency to handle your Yahoo! Store 301 redirects. As recently as August of 2011, Yahoo! Store merchants were coming to us (FastPivot.com) to request custom Yahoo! Store 301 redirects, as there was at [...]

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15 Nov

Social Media Users More Like Flower-Pickers Than Hunters

Social Media

Online retailers have been desperately searching for ways to crack the social commerce code. Everyone knows that internet users are more likely to be online interacting through their social media accounts, instead of just logging onto the internet to find what they need. Many people are spending most of their day interacting on social media, [...]

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10 Nov

State Sales Tax Bill for Ecommerce Closer to Passing, Now With Amazon’s Blessing

Ecommerce

For years ecommerce merchants, especially larger ones like Amazon.com, have been hassled by a growing number of states in the USA about charging sales tax on purchases by customers located in states where merchants aren’t physically located. However, just because ecommerce merchants have been hassled to set up a system that will add state taxes [...]

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9 Nov

Google’s Newest Search Update Leaves Some Ecommerce Merchants Crying

Ecommerce

For merchants who enjoy putting their store websites on auto-pilot and sitting back to watch the sales come in, it is time to weep. That time is over, at least for merchants selling “fresh” product dependent on Google indexing. According to an official November 3rd, 2011 Google blog update: Given the incredibly fast pace at [...]

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8 Nov

Expect to Lose Holiday Sales, If Your Yahoo! Store Isn’t Mobile Commerce Ready

Mobile Store

The holidays are a make or break time for many Yahoo! Store merchants. For some, the entire year is planned around just a couple of months of frenzied holiday shopping. Year-in and year-out, the planning cycle has remained the same–everyone knows what they should be doing to ramp up for the big time of year. [...]

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