(This is a continuation of the Multichannel Handbook series) Part 4: Marketplaces Most Internet retailers are familiar with the concept of marketplaces online: web destinations which bring buyers and sellers together to foster more sales for merchants and more great places to buy products for customers.  Taken together, marketplaces represent an enormous opportunity to add [...]

Who’s that guy with the reflective shades? Is he a cop? Nope, but he will give you a ticket if you move too slow with your delivery times, LOL. This guy is Randy Smythe and I need to introduce him to some in our audience and reacquaint him to others. Since I got started in [...]

Pop Quiz for the holidays! Put on your thinking caps all you smart entrepreneurs. Riddle me this, here is the layout, answer this puzzle…. The NEW Carrie Underwood album is selling right now for $7.99 with FREE shipping on eBay from Buy.com One the Buy.com website, that same CD is selling for $11.19 with FREE [...]

What I had to say could simply NOT be put into words. So I figure some moving pictures work better. LinkedTube Please Rate My Video with 5-Stars DSR’s

It is that time again…yeah time to get back in the game of the interviews. You know it was put on the back burner as the summer season just made you want to run free. But now its over and our noses are too the grind for a successful Christmas shopping season. So to kick [...]

Well, eBay has made its changes and boy it is a lot of work AGAIN for eBay seller to deal with. I guess if you constantly change directions you will ultimately end up somewhere right? LMAO. I am not sure what direction eBay wants to go in right now, but they seem to have a [...]

I got friends in HIGH places now. Yep, if Randy Smythe was not big enough before, he just upped the ante. Randy joined Buy.com just a few short weeks ago, among some “hoopla” for lack of a better term. So today, I got the opportunity to get him on a call. The dude has been [...]

Wow, we got a new “intelligent” President, a Clinton back in power, an Indian movie sweeps the Oscars and Randy Smythe working for Buy.com?!? Now that is change! LMAO So it has been a little over 4 weeks since Randy went venturing to the “other” side of things. I check in with my friend to [...]

Look folks, I am doing this whole week of interviews, before my birthday on the 13th for many reasons. But a big reason is to highlight some of the mentors, movers and shakers in eCommerce and reflecting on how they made a difference for me and my business personally.  So I am so glad to [...]

You know him and you love him. He is the happy ol’ dude at the end of the block who you visit on your way to the store. But then you end up chatting with him till the store closes and you have to go home with nothing purchased. You look up and the day [...]

Because you loved this movie so much there is now a sequel….NOT. But there is a sequel to what I have dubbed the Buy.com Scarlet Letter saga, that now PeSA (Professional eBay Sellers Alliance) has step into the ring. Today they have released a response to this first letter from “unknown” that was sent to [...]

Ok yeah, that movie version sucked, but the story of a young woman ran out of town with a scarlet letter “A” on her bosom for the act of adultery is one hell of a good analogy for what I read today! This morning our friend and eBay “watch dog” Randy Smythe (one of my [...]