Written by John
Last Updated August 26, 2008
Brandon Dupsky is the Managing Director of ECMTA.
He, was gracious enough and BOLD enough to be the first one to sit down with
your boy! Now you know that takes some guts. But he was so cool about hanging
out with me. So this is the beginning of what will shape up to be some of the best information you can get from the big names in eCommerce and eBay. Welcome to Colder I.C.E. Interviews!
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Brandon Dupsky
Managing Director,
eCommerce Merchants Trade Association
You have got to listen to this call cause Brandon makes an offer on here just
for the folks listening at ColderICE.com special for this call! AWSOME!!!
Check out the eCommerce Merchants at
http://www.ecmta.org/
and you can check out PeSA (Professional eBay Sellers Association) at
http://www.GoPeSA.org
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Written by John
Last Updated August 20, 2008
Here is a neat concept. These guys are going to follow Barack Obama’s social network strategy and show you how it can help small business.
A few weeks back David Bullock and Brent Leary had a
conversation/webinar highlighting some of the reasons they felt small
business people would benefit from taking a closer look at the Obama
campaign’s approach to social media. They recorded it for your on-demand
viewing:
“In many ways, the challenges Barack Obama’s presidential
campaign faces are representative of the obstacles we run into every
day as small business owners and entrepreneurs. It may not appear like
this is the case, as we see him on television, on the cover of national
publications and in photographs with world leaders. But that wasn’t
always the case, as many of us had never heard of him just four years
ago. And even when he announced his candidacy, he still wasn’t taken
seriously by political insiders…or outsiders for that matter.”
And they also put together an enhanced transcript of the webinar,
complete with screenshots and links to the sites we discussed during
the conversation:
Written by John
Last Updated August 20, 2008
Here is a neat concept. These guys are going to follow Barack Obama’s social network strategy and show you how it can help small business.
A few weeks back David Bullock and Brent Leary had a
conversation/webinar highlighting some of the reasons they felt small
business people would benefit from taking a closer look at the Obama
campaign’s approach to social media. They recorded it for your on-demand
viewing:
“In many ways, the challenges Barack Obama’s presidential
campaign faces are representative of the obstacles we run into every
day as small business owners and entrepreneurs. It may not appear like
this is the case, as we see him on television, on the cover of national
publications and in photographs with world leaders. But that wasn’t
always the case, as many of us had never heard of him just four years
ago. And even when he announced his candidacy, he still wasn’t taken
seriously by political insiders…or outsiders for that matter.”
And they also put together an enhanced transcript of the webinar,
complete with screenshots and links to the sites we discussed during
the conversation:
Written by John
Last Updated August 15, 2008
I always love the guys over at www.TameBay.com, they simply reserve comment until they have something “interesting” to report. And today is no exception. What Chris Dawson has done is a little “unofficial” test of the new eBay search and he has come up with about 25% reduction in the number of listing showing in search.
eBay announced that the new Finding 2.0 would included hiding duplicates last week. Jeff King, the ‘genius mind’ behind finding stuff on eBay announced 2 changes simultaneously.
- The removal of the Choice policy gets rid of the restriction that
has required sellers to list individual listings for each size, color
or configuration of the same item.
- The removal of the Multiple Listings Limit policy ends the 15-item
rule that has governed how many identical listings a seller can have
listed at the same time.
Starting this week, the display of multiple identical items from the same seller will be limited to one in Search results. An item is considered identical if it has the same title and the same listing format, and the listing chosen for display will be determined by the sort option that the buyer chooses. We will be rolling this out to all sort options by next week. When multiple auction-style listings with the same title have a different number of bids and different prices, these are no long considered identical and will all be displayed.
Also, the number of unique listings (listings for different items) per seller will be up to ten per page. In a case where a seller has a number of items—for instance 20—that could potentially show up in the same search results, 10 will be shown on the first page, and the other 10 will be on the second page. (These improvements go hand in hand with the removal of the Multiple Listings Limit policy.)
While the jury is still out on how this will effect shoppers and sellers on eBay, the test yeilds some interesting results. See the full story here: 25% of listings hidden on eBay.com : TameBay : eBay news blog and forum
