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Will Google Shopping Changes Hurt Sales of Collectibles?
Google Shopping, aka Google Product search, is killing free listings and is moving to an ad-base ...
Wednesday May 30, 2012
What's Your Worst Selling Mistake and How Did You Fix It?
As an online seller, I've found it cathartic, if not necessary, to vent to my seller friends about a ...
Tuesday May 29, 2012
eBay Pondering New Tiered Pricing Model?
eBay is apparently sending questionnaires to some sellers asking about a new tiered pricing model th ...
Thursday May 24, 2012
Should Craigslist Get a Rumored Facelift?
Should Craigslist remodel its famously old-school, text-intense, classic web site design? An arti ...
Tuesday May 22, 2012
Science Fiction Meet Ecommerce - Print-at-Home Clothing
CafePress , which recently did an Initial Public Offering, allows anyone to create a virtual invent ...
Monday May 21, 2012
New UI and MultiChannel Selling Challenges the Buzz at MonCon
An upcoming streamlined user interface makeover, challenges of managing inventory with growing busi ...
Saturday May 19, 2012
What Happened to the eBay Titanium Sellers of 2004?
Of a sample of 50 of the top 500 eBay sellers from the 2004 Nortica List , only 13 sellers were sti ...
Catalog CEO Shares Marketing Successes at Monsoon Keynote
Norm Thompson Outfitters CEO Martin McClanan shared some hard-won online retailing lessons over a ...
Randy Smythe Discusses Buy.com's New Fulfillment Service
Buy.com Merchant Evangelist Randy Smythe discussed the company's new upcoming fulfillment serv ...
Thursday May 17, 2012
Do Sites Like Facebook Impact Your Purchasing Decisions?
We're still knee-deep in Facebook IPO hype, and one of the promises of Facebook is that it will be ...
Wednesday May 16, 2012
What Could the Facebook IPO Mean for Online Sellers?
There's been a lot of hype over the Facebook IPO set for this coming Friday, May 18, with Facebook s ...
Tuesday May 15, 2012
Should eBay Sellers Require a Phone Number at Checkout?
Did you know as an eBay seller you can require a buyer to give their phone number at checkout? Ecom ...
Monday May 14, 2012
How Do You Control Your Packaging Costs?
Some sellers were talking about controlling costs and a lot of folks started talking about packaging ...
Saturday May 12, 2012
Should eBay Require Immediate Payment for Auctions?
eBay is considering requiring buyers to sign a one-time billing agreement that would make them pay i ...
Wednesday May 9, 2012
eBay Job Searching 2.0
With "Former PayPal President Scott Thompson Caught in Resume-Gate" in the news (see EcommerceBytes ...
Tuesday May 8, 2012
New eBay iPad App: What's in It for You?
The new eBay iPad app is out, as of May 3, 2012. The major changes in this, version 2.0, according t ...
Monday May 7, 2012
Should Etsy Sellers Close Shops in 'Protesty' over Non-Handmade?
The latest uproar in the online selling world is not on eBay this time, but on that haven of all t ...
Sunday May 6, 2012
Getting 'Sentimental' with eBay - for the Investor
As I approach my 14th anniversary on eBay this May 28th, I can't help but get a little sentimental. ...
Friday May 4, 2012
YouTube Videos that Drive Sales
YouTube has been nothing short of a revolution for many people..not just for entertainment, but al ...
Tuesday May 1, 2012
What Lessons Can Be Learned from RubyPlaza's Closing?
With its announcement of the impending Dec. 2012 closing of its recent offshoot marketplace RubyPla ...
Your Thoughts on eBay's New May 2 Business Policies?
Does anyone remember that quietly embedded in eBay's big Spring Seller Update was this paragrap ...