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Keeping Tabs on the East Coast Blizzard
Snow storms are par for the course along the East Coast, especially here in New England. But the o ...
Friday January 23, 2015
Amazon Disrupts Textbook Market
Textbooks are a sweet-spot for some online booksellers, but Amazon continues to shake things up, par ...
Monday January 19, 2015
Another eBay Redirect Attack Leaves Sellers Vulnerable
In September, we wrote about an eBay vulnerability known as a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. T ...
Saturday January 17, 2015
Amazon Seller Outwits Competitors Repricing Strategies
Setting up automatic pricing changes on Amazon can be an effective strategy to help you win the Buy ...
Wednesday January 14, 2015
Amazon Is the New eBay
The stories used to be about the importance of eBay as a sales channel for small merchants along wit ...
Etsy to Go Public Soon Says Bloomberg
Our little Etsy is growing up - so much so, that it is working on an IPO - meaning it will go public ...
Sunday January 11, 2015
How an Alibaba Acquisition of eBay Could Impact Sellers
As soon as eBay announced it would break up the company into two separate businesses - eBay and PayP ...
Wednesday January 7, 2015
Etsy Employees Spend Time in Customer Support
Would it surprise you to learn that Etsy employees spend two hours each quarter replying to support ...
Sunday January 4, 2015
Racial Discrimination in Online Selling
An article in the New York Times called "Racial Bias, Even When We Have Good Intentions" caugh ...