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	<title>Official Yahoo! Store Blog tips and tricks for ecommerce success &#187; Best Practices</title>
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		<title>Rob Snell Gives the Scoop on SMX Advanced</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Y!Store blog is yet another guest column by long-time Yahoo! Store owner and marketer Rob Snell of Snell Brothers, located in sleepy Starkville, Mississippi. Rob is a retailer who has sold dog training collars on his Yahoo! Store since 1997. Rob also blogs about Yahoo! Store, speaks at search conferences about Yahoo! Store, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Twitter Train of Social Ecommerce</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All aboard! If you aren&#8217;t twittering yet, you&#8217;d better start thinking about how to integrate Twitter into your business soon. I think this one is here to stay. Dell has already proven that Twitter works for them, after producing over $1M on sale alerts and now offering exclusive deals to their 11,000+ followers.
Sure, Dell is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rob Snell Went to Vegas and Gave Us His PubCon Slides</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Y! Store blog is another guest column by long-time Yahoo! Store owner and marketer Rob Snell of Snell Brothers, located in Starkville, Mississippi. Rob is a retailer who blogs about Yahoo! Store, speaks at search conferences about Yahoo! Store, and is the author of the almost three year-old book on Yahoo! Store: Starting a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feature Highlight: Customer Ratings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Yahoo! merchant Bob Shirilla &#8212; owner of Keepsakes, Etc. and Simply Bags &#8212; took the time to write us about the Customer Ratings feature, and how useful he&#8217;s found it for understanding his customers and their experiences with his store. He noted, &#34;Many people will only call us when their expectations were not met. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Dare to Be Different in Ecommerce Basics</title>
		<link>http://www.ystoreblog.com/blog/2008/10/dont-dare-to-be-different-in-ecommerce-basics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I noticed you have right-hand navigation on your site instead of the traditional left-hand navigation. How did you make this decision?&#8221;
Merchant: &#8220;I just want to be different, stand out more.&#8221;
&#8220;I can&#8217;t find your View Cart link&#8230; where is it?&#8221;
Merchant: &#8220;Oh, it&#8217;s right there in the upper left. &#8216;View Buggy.&#8217;&#8221;
Ever wonder why almost all successful Internet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for Optimizing Product Page Cross-Sell</title>
		<link>http://www.ystoreblog.com/blog/2008/07/tips-for-optimizing-product-page-cross-sell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re pleased to see so many merchants taking advantage of the product page cross-sell feature we released last fall. Cross-sell is a great way to give exposure to more products, but merchants should take note that its success depends not only on what is being cross-sold, but how it is presented.
Product page cross-sell gives you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delivering the Complete Package</title>
		<link>http://www.ystoreblog.com/blog/2008/04/delivering-the-complete-package/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Mother&#8217;s Day coming up, I was recently browsing the Vermont Teddy Bear and PajamaGram stores for some gift ideas. While looking at the items in each store&#8217;s Mother&#8217;s Day section, as a potential customer, something caught my eye &#8211; messaging about the free gift packaging, gift card, and other special items included with every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNET blog features Yahoo! merchants</title>
		<link>http://www.ystoreblog.com/blog/2008/03/cnet-blog-features-yahoo-merchants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo! merchants Sarah Headrick and Sarah Rivera of Custom Made for Kids, who sell personalized children&#8217;s books, were recently featured in a CNET.com blog article that looked at women and online entrepreneurship. The authors and internet retailers shared their thoughts about the benefits of an online store and the ordering process, and how these are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do your photos need more zing? Give them a little &#8220;Bling&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.ystoreblog.com/blog/2007/12/do-your-photos-need-more-zing-give-them-a-little-bling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ystoreblog.com/blog/2007/12/do-your-photos-need-more-zing-give-them-a-little-bling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret that the quality of a store&#8217;s product images can have a significant impact on its sales. If you&#8217;ve invested time and effort to refine your product images, then you&#8217;ve likely found image editing can be a labor-intensive process, especially when removing and replacing backgrounds or improving the overall quality. So when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How&#8217;s Your Availability?</title>
		<link>http://www.ystoreblog.com/blog/2007/11/hows-your-availability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A merchant recently asked about how to insert a custom message between the item price and the add to cart button that would show the availability of the item. With this merchant, he was putting up items in his store for collectible die-cast cars that were not released yet. It makes sense for this merchant [...]]]></description>
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