The Aftermath:

eCommerce Merchants Atlanta

After Party

Welcome to HOTLANTA! What you heard is true, we know how to throw parties in this city. Take a break from the mundane and spend some time hanging out and having a few drinks with the "eCommerce Rock Stars".

This is the HOTTEST ecommerce party in this city for the eBay On Location event!!!

The Aftermath: eCommerce Merchants Atlanta After Party

Date: Friday March 19th, 2010

Time: 8:00 pm

Admission is FREE!

Register:  HERE

Location:

300 Marietta Street Northwest, Atlanta

(404) 885-1472

(2 blocks from the eBay On Location hotel)

Dress: Casual chic

Walking Directions:  Exit the CNN center or Omni Hotel facing Marietta Street. Turn left and walk 2.5 blocks. Stats is on the corner of Mariette and Baker.

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The Aftermath: eCommerce After Party 2010. This is the place to meet and greet after the eBay on Location events on Friday  in Atlanta. the after party is atomic and you have got to be on the VIP List! Register now and get up close and personal with the best and brightest minds in eBay, marketing, ecommerce and customer relationship management.

Featuring a private lounge VIP area for our guests, free drinks to the first 100 people in the door, prizes, giveaways at the "BEST Bar in Downtown Atlanta" a guaranteed good time.

   Join the Rock Stars of eCommerce

John Jantsch – Duct Tape Marketing

Richard Brewer-Hay – eBay Ink Blog

Brent Leary – Customer Relationship Management

Toby Bloomberg – Diva Marketing Blog

Peggy Duncan – Personal Productivity Expert

Charles Lumpkin – Ecommerce SEO Strategist

"JB" Braitwaite – Internet Technology Expert

George Trantas – CEO Designer Athletic

Marlene Gavens – The Savvy Seller

Melinda and Kat – Co-Hosts of eBay and Beyond Radio

Cindy Shelby – Web Sellers Circle

Hosted by eCommerce Merchants – Atlanta

with "Your Boy" John from ColderICE.com

plus YOU?!?

and many many more!

ProStores is Platinum Sponsors for The Aftermath: eCommerce Merchants – Atlanta Chapter After Party!

We’re pleased to announce that ProStores will be the platinum sponsor for “The Aftermath – eCommerce Party" here in Atlanta 2010.

 GOLD SPONSORS:

eCommerce Summit 2010 Agenda

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 6:00 PM –
Thursday, April 15, 2010 5:00 PM (Mountain Time)

Las Vegas – Flamingo Hotel & Casino
702-733-3111
3555 Las Vegas Blvd S
Las Vegas, NV 89109
USA
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Speakers include:

The State of eCommerce

It is always important for online merchants to see the big picture and understand the landscape. As Executive Director of the Professional eBay Seller’s Alliance, Jonathan Garriss understands the online retail landscape very clearly and will share with merchants what trends to pay attention to and opportunities not to miss.

Keynote Presentation – Creating, Adapting and thriving in eCommerce.

Paul Greenberg is co-founder and Managing Director of DealsDirect.com.au. When eBay launched in 1999 Paul became the first commercial seller on eBay trading as Auction Alliance. In 2004 Paul and Michael Rosenbaum launched Australia’s number one online department store, DealsDirect.com.au and created their own identity to meet the needs of customers who were looking for fixed price goods. In 2009, DealsDirect celebrated its 5th Birthday and continues to build from strength to strength. With a 430,000 square foot warehouse located in Ingleburn, 120 staff, 900,000 customers, over 1 million unique visitors per month, and four million items sold, DealsDirect.com.au is Australia’s leading online department store. 

Customer Service  Excellence – Focus on the Buyer

Marsha Collier is well known in the eBay seller community as one of the foremost eBay experts and top selling eBay author with over 1 million copies of her books in print. Marsha will be helping merchant
evaluate their customer service strategies to highlight the do’s and don’ts as well as the costs of not doing customer service right. Marsha Collier is Author of the For Dummies series of books on eBay and
eCommerce

Social Media for Business STINKS: Unless You Know These 7 Secrets

John Lawson from ColderICE.com speaks on these technologies. Every day, thousands of small businesses and entrepreneurs miss out on millions of dollars in revenue simply because they don’t know how to utilize the Internet for marketing and selling. This is NOT your same old ABC stuff, these are actual eCommerce practices for Social Media that will yield bottom line results and amp up your business. 

eBay Seller and Executive Town Hall

After the eBay presentation, sellers have an opportunity to ask eBay executives questions and offer suggestions during the eBay seller and executive town hall. eBay executives value the tremendous opportunity to visit face to face with the seller community at eCommerce Summits. We recommend sellers take full advantage of this rare opportunity.

Get the FULL lineup of events and presentations HERE

Tuesday April 13, 2010

Registration Desk Opens – 5:00 PM
Cocktail Reception – 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: TBD

Wednesday April 14, 2010

Registration Desk Opens – 8:00 AM
Keynote Presentation – 9:00 AM
Educational Sessions – 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Evening Entertainment – TBD

Thursday April 15, 2010

Keynote Presentation – 9:00 AM
Educational Sessions – 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

We are extremely excited to announce the launch of the eCommerce Merchants Radio Show airing for the very first time LIVE tomorrow Wednesday 11/18/2009 at 12:15 ET (9:15 AM PT).

eCommerce Merchants and PeSA members already receive tremendous value from our eCommerce summits, our community forums, special partner offers, webinars, and news feeds. It’s time to hit the airwaves with additional valuable eCommerce tips and strategies as they happen. Radio is the perfect medium to discuss and share these strategies in additional detail not easily accomplished in print.

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The eCommerce Merchants Radio show will air every Wednesday at 12:15 ET (9:15 AM PT) LIVE with the audio archives available for download online and on iTunes within 24-48 hours after the live program. Join us live when you can and be sure to download any missed episodes when you can’t.

With the eCommerce Merchants Radio Show being 15 minutes in length, we will be focused on the important stuff that impacts sellers most. The program will discuss eCommerce strategies, best practices, and tips learned within the eCommerce Merchants community of sellers week by week. We will not become another news channel as we like to help our members create the news rather than watch it happen.

Wow, you guys freakin’ ROCK! Damn, that is absolutely humbling to think that a idea can be implemented and catch an audience. I never would have guessed that a lone idiot like me would say something intelligent enough for anyone to listen, let alone come back again!

What started as a Wordpress.com blog about my thoughts as a business owner and eBay seller just one year later is really making some noise. We are having a conversation and the results are astonishing.

The funny thing is that I had slacked off June/July and wondered if I was going to continue doing the blog. Then I went to Australia the first week of August and came back rejuvenated. After seeing the excitement about ecommerce those sellers had, I got back into the swing. Those sellers down there rubbed off on me. What they had was spirit and spirit can be awful contagious.

I love what I do, I love ecommerce and I love learning. Its cool that I can put that spirit in a blog post or video and others will join the conversation. You folks ROCK! Thank you so much for hanging in there on our journey. This might seem like a small number to others (10,000) but I appreciate every single reader. I LOVE YOU MAN…..LMAO.

Special shout outs to those who encouraged me and supported the project last year (they did not laugh at me when I told them I was going to blog).

Jeff Braithwaite (he told me to do it and gave me much encouragement, a true friend)

Brandon Dupsky (eCommerce Merchants director was my FIRST interview, he is very supportive)

Scot Wingo (CEO of ChannelAdvisor – he took me to lunch and took me seriously. A W00T! moment)

Phil Leahy (PeSA Australia- Did not know him in the 1st chapter, but he is co-authoring chapter 2)

Scott Pooler (he took a chance and let me be a guest blogger for my first ever blog post)

Dave White (broadcasting mentor)

Dude!!!! It is on and poppin’ we will be hitting VEGAS BABY for this years eCommerce Summit 2010 in Vegas. I got a call this week to clear the calendar so you have GOT to come and meet me there guys.

The "retail recession" is over will you deny yourself a position to take advantage of the coming recovery? Do you want to make new success moves for your business? Do you want to lay claim over your territories and CRUSH the competition? You better register right NOW!!!

Yep, I will be in Vegas presenting with the LEADERS in eCommerce, the event is sponsored by the eCommerce Merchants and the Professional eBay Sellers Association (PeSA) which are the two premier organizations in the industry.

There is an introductory LIMITED TIME ONLY registration fee on sale right now for only $99.00 … WTF? HUH? Is that a typo? OMG you better GET IT!

eCommerce Summit 2010 in Vegas

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 6:00 pm –
Thursday, April 15, 2010 5:00 pm (Vegas Time)

Las Vegas – Flamingo Hotel & Casino
702-733-3111
3555 Las Vegas Blvd S
Las Vegas, NV 89109

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Wikipedia defines "schwag" (a.k.a. swag) as : Almost anything that can be branded with a company’s name or logo and used for promotion. Common items include t-shirts, caps, keychains, posters, bumper stickers, pens, mugs, or mouse pads. Hollywood at the Oscars take the Swag Bag concept to a whole nother level giving stars anything for iPhones to jewelry. The report value of a presenters Swag Bag is over $25,000 in free gifts and giveaways!

Well I get to go to alot of conventions every year and they all have Swag stuff to. I can often fill my bag with at least $2.50 worth of pens and fridge mags. Not the stuff of Hollywood, but I LOVE IT anyway.

I did a video when I went down to Australia for the PeSA Summit and they had killer stuff. I think I can almost begin a ranking of conferences by the quality of the Schwag…the better the schwag the more I am going to like it

Well my friend Siva Kumar is the CEO of TheFind.com and he was out Tweeting on the floor at the Internet Retailer show the other week. So I sent him a tweet just for fun and asked him to send me some…and he did! Dayam, I love schwag LOL!

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NOTE: This is a NEW segment for our blog, we are giving ecommerce sellers a change to showcase their businesses. If you would like to get your SPOTLIGHT on the blog, please contact me mailto:john@colderice.com or hit me up on Twitter

Kat Simpson is an eBay PowerSeller, she was recently named runner-up in the "I am eBay" contest. An she is one fantastic and inspired individual. I had to personal pleasure of meeting Kat here in Atlanta for the PeSA Atlanta Ecommerce Summit.

Kat is the owner of KatsKloset.net which is her main eBay store and she also has KatsKloset.com for here ecommerce retail site. Kat loves to blog and do videos over at TheRiverTheRanchandTheBay.com

She is a co-host on two eBay web broadcast eBay & Beyond: Basics To Business and The River The Ranch and The Bay. Wow, that is a whole lot going on. I wonder when does she actually get time to chill out?!? I got her to give me a quick interview about her business and what she is doing, so check out interview and see her I am eBay clip below.

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Kat on the "I Am eBay" video

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Wow, the highlight reel is completed for the PeSA event in Australia. The organizer of the event, Mr. Phil Leahy just sent over this video which highlight the event. Guess who gets a cameo in the piece? LMAO

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I had the opportunity to meet Neil way back in the early part of 2008. He came up to me at a PeSA trade show and introduced himself. Immediately I was struck but his technical knowledge of eBay development in the short time we chatted.

Over the last year or so, Neil and I have kept in touch mostly via Twitter and stuff. Neil knows his stuff and now he is sharing it with all of us. Neil is the Owner of ah!TEXT. His company was recently featured by the eBay Developers Program and his product is simply a fantastic use of cellular technology and eBay marketplace.

With ah!TEXT, eBay sellers can be stuck in traffic or at a client lunch and get listings directly on their mobile phones. The moment that a seller receives a question, offer, sale, or even customer feedback, the seller is sent a notification to their mobile phone with an SMS text message. “ahTEXT saves you time. As events take place on any of your listings, you will be notified in real-time,” says Mansilla.

"Customers are coming to you, asking you a question – and often, it’s an invisible test to see how responsive and courteous you are as a seller,” says Mansilla. “We’ve had so many responses from buyers saying, ‘Wow, that was quick!’ and that’s exactly what a seller wants – to make buyers feel comfortable and confident that the seller is on top of things."                   

                                                  – Neil Mansilla

The tool can be configured to send messages that only meet certain criteria. “I receive from between 40 to 70 text messages per day, which include purchases, best offers and questions. However, we have sellers that choose to receive notifications such as positive customer feedback, or sales that are above a certain dollar amount,” explains Mansilla.
The best part about this innovative tool is that it’s free to try and takes less than two minutes to register.

ah!TEXT is an eBay Certified Compatible Application and a member of the eBay Developers Program that builds applications using the eBay and PayPal API open platforms. It was named runner-up for the 2009 eBay Star Developer Award in the category for DSRs, which display sellers’ performance histories.

It is official, after last week, I am now "internationally known on the microphone"! Wowzers man, I am still not over my buzz and excitement from Sydney Australia. The trip down under for the keynote presentation was AMAZING to say the least. But what is REALLY the most amazing thing is the feedback I have gotten from the organizers. All of the guys from the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance (PeSA) there in Australia were extremely complementary after the presentation was done.

Now I was sitting there thinking to my self "aw shucks, thanks guys, but I bet you tell that to all the presenters" LMAO. However, a few days later the surveys from the paid attendees began to roll in, and WOW they are really very high marks. The event as a whole was really well received and the "imports from the USA" (Jonathan Garriss and myself) scored very high in the satisfaction ratings.

I am overjoyed at being invited, and then overwhelmed by the kindness, reception and over-all great treatment I enjoyed while there. Many have requested the slides from my presentation so I decided to take them public for all of my readers to see.

I share the enthusiasm of all the participants in saying that this is one of the BEST events I have attended and I hope to be invited back next year for Melbourne event in 2010. Well, actually they did hint that they wanted me back…so see ya in 2010 guys!!!