Ecommerce Predictions for 2011 from Shipwire V.P. Nate Gilmore
What do you think, will social “harvesting” outperform search? Will people be buying products the same way today as they will in 2014? What happens in e-commerce in the next few years is going to be a reflect of some of the big trends going on in 2010. 2010 was a busy year for e-commerce. From new SaaS offerings being announced by our friends over at Magento, new mobile offerings coming fast and furious and e-commerce acquisitions like Diapers.com being announced. It was even the year that wasn’t, with Groupon getting a sky high valuation and saying “no thank you” to...
read moreBling My Bra Charity Auctions Will Begin In October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Volunteers are creating handcrafted one-of-a-kind themed art bras for Bling My Bra 2010, a series of eBay Giving Works auctions to be held throughout October in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Proceeds benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure. This year’s commitments include blinged bras by ecommerce and other celebrities. Volunteers are hard at work creating handcrafted one-of-a-kind themed art bras for Bling My Bra 2010, a series of eBay Giving Works auctions whose proceeds will benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The auctions will be held throughout October in honor of Breast...
read moreAlibab Strengthens Its US eCommerce Position, Buys Auctiva Too!
HONG KONG, August 24, 2010 – Alibaba.com (HKSE: 1688.HK) (HK.1688), the world’s leading e-commerce company for small business, has entered into an agreement to acquire Auctiva, the leading third-party developer of tools for eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) sellers. With more than 170,000 active users, Auctiva provides a variety of listing, marketing and management tools as well as image hosting and online storefronts that make it easy for small businesses to sell successfully via e-commerce on sites like eBay. The acquisition of Auctiva, as well as Alibaba.com’s purchase of Vendio in...
read moreeBay Takes On Thier Own Checkout and China Is “In Da House”
Yesterday eBay laid out their date for the ending of 3rd party checkout on its systems. No more will you have to use services to facilitate checkout, eBay will do that…. As you know, checkout is a crucial part of every eBay transaction. A consistent checkout experience helps buyers complete their purchases in confidence. For sellers, checkout touches critical business processes including payment collection, shipping, and tax reporting. That’s why I’m writing today-well in advance-to let you know that as of June 30, 2011, eBay Checkout will be the only checkout process on...
read morePress Release: Auctiva Introduces a Marketplace Platform Called AMP
Auctiva, a leader in tools for online sellers, is launching AMP – the Auctiva Marketplace Platform. AMP takes item information from thousands of individual e-commerce stores and groups them together into one platform that developers can use to build custom marketplaces and applications. This simple idea offers an opportunity never before seen in the e-commerce space: open development of e-commerce marketplaces. Developers can sign up and start using AMP today at www.poweredbyamp.com. Only a handful of online marketplaces exist today. Prior to AMP, creating online marketplaces has...
read moreColderICE Blog 06/13/2009
Listing Solutions – eBay Certified Provider Program How each of the listing solutions stack up on eBay tags: channeladvisor, inkfrog, vendio, auctiva, listing, tools Channel Dollars » How To Win the Buy Box on Amazon How to Win the Buy Box on Amazon tags: Amazon, buy, box, winning, the The Amazon Buy Box is the way Amazon compares like products. Instead of a product listing page with rows of matching results as you would see on a typical CSE, Amazon has developed a system to lead the consumer to the desired offer. Amazon has constructed a tiered offer sheet, where the most...
read moreToday on B.S. Walks Talk Radio at 1:14 (Show notes)
Today is a very special episode so here are the show notes for a can’t miss episode of B. S. Walks today at 1:14 pm. No surprise here, I guess I will be taking the calls from the audience on these stories… Please call in and JOIN the conversation today at 1:14 pm eastern Phone Number: (724) 444-7444 Call ID: 31930 http://3rdpoblogs.com/colderice/2009/06/10/it-was-all-a-bad-dream-auctiva-was-just-jerking-sellers-chains/ ...
read moreIt Was All A Bad Dream: Auctiva Was Just Jerking Sellers Chains?
I came up with the title of this post about "jerking the chain" and then before I started to write I decided to look up the origin of the phrase. Word origins can be an exciting way to uncover history and linguistics is fascinating to me. I was surprised and even shocked at what it stems from and then how APPROPRIATE the use of the term is in this context. Jerking Your Chain – Is a phrase coined in the US back in the early days of the history of this county. It comes from the slave days when overseers would jerk the chains of slaves which would cause irritation, pain and...
read moreAuctiva Wants To Set The “Record” Straight, But WHY?
Why in the world do people care what I think? I am not trying to be funny, I am being serious here. I am "just a squirrel trying to get a nut", either that or I am just a NUT, you can take your pick, LMAO So I write a story that gives an example (albeit, a very simple one) that explains what round-tripping means as it relates to eBay Partner Network (ePN). That was a follow-up comment from the Auctiva shift to paid platform story. From that, I got to speak with both InkFrog and Vendio on how they plan to respond. And now Auctiva has contacted your boy to "school me" on...
read moreColderICE Blog 06/08/2009
Vendio I was rather critical of the timeframe given for sellers to adjust. When you move from free to $9.95 or as much as $34.95 a month PLUS transaction fees, that is like and INFINATE price increase. That is like going from 0-60 mph on the Superman ride at the amusement park, it takes your breath away. tags: auctiva, inkfrog, ebay, vendio Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are...
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