eCommerce Blog

6 Jan

Great “Meeting” Try Chips in Asheville!

Conferences

Above is the photo Try Chips’s Tim (Founder) and Jackie (CEO) Schlitzer posted on Facebook after their tour stopped through Asheville to visit the FastPivot.com team in person (in 2011 FastPivot brought Try Chips’s store live on the Yahoo! platform). In the above photo, we have Tim and Jackie from Try Chips with a few [...]

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4 Jan

Will Scott Thompson’s New Leadership Affect Yahoo! Store Merchants?

Yahoo! Stores

By Jonathan Poston Today’s Bloomberg article,”Yahoo! Names PayPal’s Scott Thompson New CEO : Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), the Internet company exploring strategic options,” is a nice warm welcome to Mr. Thompson as chief executive officer of the company. But, Mr. Thompson, who is coming to Yahoo! as an exiting president of EBay Inc.,  has a tough [...]

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2 Jan

I’m a Social Media Expert, Why Isn’t Anyone Paying Attention to What I Say on Twitter?

Social Media

Ever feel like you’re just not being heard out there; like it’s just you and your smart phone Twittering in deep space? You can see the stream coming in, but the ones you’re following could just as easily be asteroids passing by than real people. It’s an interesting exercise in observation to behold the beginning [...]

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30 Dec

With China’s Dangdang.com Hacked, How Safe Is Yahoo! ?

Yahoo! Stores

In the increasingly active world of internet hackers, no website or platform is off-limits.  The hacker profile doesn’t seem to be well-defined enough for international authorities to put an end to mischief, and to make matters worse some groups are compelled to hack sites for a wide array of reasons; political protest, profit, and curiously [...]

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29 Dec

Hybrid Advanced Search Feature Developed for Pink Bra’s Yahoo! Store

Yahoo! Stores

Ladies can attest: the right bra is hard to find, and that’s under optimal circumstances. Leaving customers to sort through a room full of inventory is worse than giving them a desk sized box full of red buttons, dropping a similarly sized pink one in, stirring it around and saying you have only minutes to [...]

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