Interview w/ Brandon Dupsky of Ecommerce Association ECMTA

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! (press the play button to hear the recording)   Brandon Dupsky   Managing Director, eCommerce Merchants Trade Association   You have got to listen to this call cause Brandon makes an...

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Barack Obama’s Social Media Lessons For Small Business

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...

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Is eBay Holding 25% of Your Listing Views Hostage?

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...

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