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	<title>Official Yahoo! Store Blog tips and tricks for ecommerce success &#187; Holidays</title>
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		<title>Creating a Better Holiday Rush</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holiday shopping season is now well upon us, and if your store has deals, online shoppers want to know about them. So what kinds of deals are shoppers looking for?  According to survey results released by Shopzilla, this coming Monday:

More than 80% of shoppers will be seeking discounts
69% of shoppers will be searching for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Optimal Cross-selling for the Holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the ups and downs of the market, it&#8217;s no wonder that online merchants are expecting a challenging holiday sales season this year.  This makes it more important than ever to optimize every sales opportunity. If you haven&#8217;t done so yet, now is the time to focus on increasing order size by effectively cross-selling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving the Gift of Increased Order Size to Yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently reading another great FutureNow post by Bryan Eisenberg on their 2007 Retail Customer Experience Study. The study surveyed leading online retail sites on factors of customer experience such as quality of product copy, quality of product images, presence of return policy, and so on. Towards the bottom of the post you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing Cupid, 50 Times a Minute</title>
		<link>http://www.ystoreblog.com/blog/2007/02/playing-cupid-50-times-a-minute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vermont Teddy Bear’s Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Hosted Website Braces for Record Valentine’s Day
With about 30% of its year’s business riding on the brief Valentine’s Day holiday, Vermont Teddy Bear predicts its most intense “peak” season in the company’s 26-year history.
“We market mostly to male last-minute shoppers, and because Valentine’s Day falls on a Wednesday, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 Posts of Christmas: Tip 12—New Year’s Resolutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had an opportunity to visit with two local long-time Yahoo! Store merchants—Lawrence Ames of Golden West Specialty Foods (check out his wide assortment of BBQ sauces, hot sauces, chocolate poker chips, and other delectable gourmet products) and Shirley Tan of American Bridal (your one-stop shop for wedding favors and bridal gifts). Both offered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 Posts of Christmas: Tip 11&#8211;Don’t Pass on Service in the Holiday Rush</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Y!Store blog is a guest column by retailer/developer Rob Snell of Snell Brothers. Rob posts somewhat regularly in his blog about Yahoo! Store stuff, is the author of Starting a Yahoo! Business For Dummies, and is conducting some more free Yahoo! Store marketing and SEO webinars beginning in early 2007 (or as soon as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 Posts of Christmas: Tip 10—Give the Gift of Convenience</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 07:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With fewer shipping days left in the season, it’s time, if you haven’t already done so, to start pushing gift certificates*. Offering gift certificates to buyers is very appealing for obvious reasons: no shipping deadlines to beat, no fear of buying the wrong gift, etc…. A few places you can consider promoting gift certificates:

Home page: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 Posts of Christmas: Tip # 9&#8211;How Many Online Shopping Days till Christmas?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t let buyers view your store as the Grinch that store Christmas. Just as WISMO (Where is My Order?) questions are the most frequently asked questions from buyers after an order, WIGMO (When Will I Get My Order?) questions are the most frequent in the weeks leading up till the holidays. Make it explicitly clear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 Posts of Christmas: Tips 7 &amp; 8&#8211;Create Gift Categories and Speed Buyers to Them</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor’s Note: When I started this topic I had a general sense of what I wanted to cover but not exact details of all posts. In retrospect, I should have started with these two posts as they do take some time and may be coming too late to affect holiday sales this season. Maybe that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 Posts of Christmas: Tip 6 Don’t forget the Batteries</title>
		<link>http://www.ystoreblog.com/blog/2006/12/12-posts-of-christmas-tip-6-don%e2%80%99t-forget-the-batteries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2006 17:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the parent of a boy that often gets electronic gizmos for gifts, my favorite gift-givers are those that are extra thoughtful and include whatever batteries the gift may require. There is a reason that batteries are often stocked in the checkout lanes—they are a nice way to provide a reminder to the buyer they [...]]]></description>
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