Edge Out the Competition: My Top 5 Sites for eBay News and Why I Read Them Daily
Pin ItEdge Out the Competition: My Top 5 Sites for eBay News and Why I Read Them Daily You know things this year have been moving rapidly. Changes on eBay, the economy and the ecommerce marketplace have been moving in rapid fire succession and sometimes it is hard to keep up. As a business owner and entrepreneur you MUST try to keep up with the latest news and movements in the market. Many of you read my ColderICE .com blog, but I am NOT a news source. What I do at ColderICE.com is simply give you what I found elsewhere or what ever crazy topic is in my twisted mental at the time, LOL. So...
read moreYo eBay, Where is the Google Juicy Juice Baby?
Pin ItThis afternoon I see on Scot Wingo’s eBay Strategies blog that reports were flying around the rumor mill that eBay was NOT indexing in Google search. Scot has 3 theories on what is going on: Scot’s Theories on what is going on… I have a couple of quick theories on what’s going on: Given their track record in the last couple of weeks, it’s possible that eBay has done something to mess up the crawlability of the site. It could be that eBay has asked google to not crawl anything but fp30 dramatically reducing the number of eBay listings in the google index...
read moreDude, ColderICE.com Just Got “Pimp’d”
Pin ItPimp my News follow up The folks over at Pimp My News are such cool peeps! After I made that video last week on how to use their great FREE news reader service, the found himself, John Atkinson contact me to say how much he liked the demo. Wow, that was so cool! But if that was not cool enough, he then told me that they were adding ColderICE.com the the Pimp My News feeds, in the Tech>News section, so now I can actually say that I too am a pimp’d site! So begining now you can get your ColderICE.com news updates read to you via that cool Pimp My News app. Thank YOU John, I am so...
read moreColderICE Commentary eBay Town Hall – September 2008 Part 2
Pin ItNow its is time for part 2 and this is where the rubber meets the road. Topics in this segment include eBay checkout, electronic only payments on eBay and hints at a coming shopping cart for eBay buyers. Plus I turn the heat up a notch as my 2 cents are injected into the conversation! [viddler id=a681cba4&w=545&h=451] Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend
read moreColderICE Commentay Video: eBay Town Hall September 2008 Part 1
Pin ItThe word is OUT, and so are my comments on those words. Here is Part 1 of the Colder ICE commentary on this months eBay Town Hall call. I do edit these to get some of the more interesting parts, but you can hear the entire eBay Town Hall by going HERE. Also look for the remaining episodes to be dropping later this week. When viewing this, please keep in mind that I ain’t your "Unkie Griff", so I may not be as poised as you are accustom too. Watch out, cause ColderICE can get a little "ghetto" on you when necessary [viddler...
read moreNew Leadership of eBay North America: Who is Stephanie Tilenius?
Pin ItOn Friday, September 19th 2008, the folks ad eBay had the monthly Town Hall. So of course, your boy had to make a few comments and post the vid. When I did the vid, I did not know how to correctly say the last name of Stephanie Tilenius, so I took that as a opportunity to do some homework. First up on the video is Stephanie giving us some background of her hats at eBay, and let me say welcome Stephanie Tilenius! She is now the head honcho at the eBay Town Halls, as Lorrie Norrington has moved to global operations, Stephanie Tilenius is Senior Vice President & General Manager of...
read moreeBay and Beyond ColderICE Interview
Pin ItHey, I am just sitting here minding my own business and listening to a reply of the Saturday morning program eBay and Beyond: Basics to Business and they have chosen to allow your’s truly to be on the show this week! eBay and Beyond is broadcast weekly at 10:00 am on Saturday mornings. They do the broadcasts live and each week Dave White and crew engage on topics of interest to eCommerce businesses with a focus on eBay. Dave and I discuss the recent changes to the platform and how it may effect your business. Check it out! Don’t laugh, I got a slight cold this week so I...
read moreIncrease Your eBay Shipping DSR’s with Endica 1st Class Stealth
Pin ItWe have been doing mostly first class mail for many years on eBay. We have used the Endicia product to print our lables as well. But last year when the USPS made all its changes, one of the things that changed was the ability to use "stealth" postage to hide the cost of shipping. Sure you could still do it by adding 18 cents and using delivery confirmation, but that can be costly when you are doing 100′s a day! So the stelth postage was sorley missed. And then the second wammy was the implementation of DSR for shipping fees in eBay! OMG, that just sucked, because what it...
read moreeBay’s New Payment Policy is Giving Me Butt Cancer!
Pin ItNew Page 1 While the end of electronic payment may be troubling for some, for me? I am happy to see them go. I have personally not taken checks since 2005 when I got burned several times during the Christmas rush when we had the new Tickle Me Elmos. Both mothers and grandmothers alike took pleasure in writing bad checks to get in on the frenzy. So I stopped taking checks forever and have not missed a beat. Money order, well even though I still accept them, I do not like going to the bank once or twice a week. Bank tellers usually are slow, the lines are long, and freakin Canadians keep...
read moreTek Minute: The Motorola S9 Bluetooth Headset
Pin ItThis is a video that I wanted to do for you. There are some things you buy as a tool that simply make your life easy and effecent. Well, I wanted to share with you this stroke of genuise in technology that will make your music and phone go together PERFECTLY. Check out my review of the Motorola S9 Bluetooth Earphones I bought off of eBay! Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend...
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