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eBay pop-up shop and some videos
eBay took over some real estate in the heart of Manhattan on 57th for a pop-up store.  When I f irst heard about it, it sounded kind of weird (eBay in a store?)  I haven't had an opportunity to visit the store yet, but I've talked to some that have and they said it's actually ...
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More details on eBay's search outage - buyer and seller compensation announced.
Sellers had three concerns coming out of this weekend's outage: Is eBay going to be stable for Q4? What about the buyers that were impacted? What about the seller impact? Is eBay going to be stable for Q4 According to AB posts and comments in the press, it looks like the outage was ...
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eBay global outage - search system down globally most of 11/21/09
Around noon ET we started to get some inbound requests from sellers asking about the status of our systems because of unusually slow order flow.  Everything was fine on our end.  We realized that eBay's search system was having instability and ultimately a hard outage.  You ...
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Interesting article on the risks eBay faces leaving its roots...
I've often argued that if eBay leaves its roots and becomes essentially a fixed-price mall that competed squarely with Amazon, that they may lose that battle. The key is if they can do both - keep the unique and quirky stuff while adding in the fixed-price stuff. Anthony Mussucci has an ...
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October Same Store Sales
The ChannelAdvisor Same Store Sales October results are in and there were a couple of interesting trends that could indicate how the Q4 holiday season is going to shake out. This figure shows the results for 2009 so far graphically: (click to enlarge) Amazon led the pack (as usual) with ...
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Free Webinar tomorrow, 11/10/09 - e-commerce gut check
I'm hosting a webinar tomorrow where we'll go over the Q3 results for various companies (eBay, Amazon, Google, etc.) as well as look at the various Q4 forecasts and reveal ChannelAdvisor's October data. We'll wrap with 10 last-minute strategies that you can implement BEFORE BLACK FRIDAY / ...
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Free Webinar tomorrow - e-commerce gut check
I'm hosting a webinar tomorrow where we'll go over the Q3 results for various companies (eBay, Amazon, Google, etc.) as well as look at the various Q4 forecasts and reveal ChannelAdvisor's October data. We'll wrap with 10 last-minute strategies that you can implement BEFORE BLACK FRIDAY / ...
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Come to think of it - the eBay ads are out!
Last week, eBay previewed one TV ad from its 'Come to think of it' campaign.  Seller reaction was negative with an occasional positive of 'at least they are doing something this year' as you can see in the comments of that post. Today, eBay has a m icrosite up here , that shows ...
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Interesting Donahoe Video...
This came out this weekend and I thought it was interesting on a couple of levels: eBay still has some perceptions to fight - Maria introduces eBay as an 'auction site' They spend a lot of the interview talking about m-commerce.  FYI - I just finished a two part series on ...
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Come to think of it...eBay - eBay set to launch new ad campaign
eBay has revealed that they are going to launch a multi-media (TV, print and certainly online).  The over-arching them is: "Come to think of it, eBay."  This is not only news-worthy, but a big deal for eBay sellers so let's dig in by first reviewing the last 5+ years of ...
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What's your m-commerce strategy?
Over on sister-blog, Comparison Shopping Engine Strategies ( csestrategies.com ), we have the first in a two part series around mobile e-commerce (m-commerce)  This is a hot topic and even if you are eBay-only, I think as a retailer you need to keep an eye on it so recommend ...
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