The Multichannel Handbook: A Retailer’s Guide to Growing Your Business, Part 4.1: Marketplaces
Pin It(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 meaningful top-line growth for any retailer. Any marketplace brings a simple value proposition to a retailer: the marketplace has customers, you have stuff to sell. Retailers leverage the marketplace’s...
read moreeBay Ink Blogger RBH: The Man, The Myth, The Magic
Pin It Today if you take a look at the eBay Ink Blog you will see the following story that I amplified below…. Here is what’s up! Way back in the last decade, I created a video that made it pretty crystal clear that eBay was the FIRST social marketing platform (http://goo.gl/rZnpm). Having done this analysis of social media and the marriage of eBay, you can see why today eBay “should” rank #1 But alas, they languished in a paltry 43rd last year. How did a case of the un-tapped potential power of eBay and Social Media become known to the leadership at the head of...
read moreMagento eCommerce Stores Got Funded by eBay
Pin It This took place 4 years ago, but no one knew about it. eBay stuck money in the platform but never made it public. Does it matter??? As an eBay seller? Hell no, not to me! But I guess if you are an investor in eBay, then it would look good on paper Amplify’d from www.internetretailer.com EBay Inc. revealed yesterday that it owns a 49% stake in Magento Inc., an e-commerce platform provider that focuses on small to mid-sized e-retailers. The online marketplace made the $22.5 million investment in March, but Magento’s filings at the time with the U.S. Securities...
read moreeBay On TV? Sure…Why Not?!?
Pin It Amplify’d from ebayinkblog.com I was fortunate enough to have time to walk around some of the other booths at CES last week and made it a point to stop by the Panasonic area on the show floor. I knew that eBay manager of platform business solutions, Rob Harris, would be demoing a new technology (still unavailable publicly and still in its prototype phase) called eBay Flick2TV. Read more at ebayinkblog.com See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/blvh8 Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the...
read moreeBay CEO Tells USA Today That We Are “6″ on Scale of 1-10
Pin It Amplify’d from www.usatoday.com SAN JOSE — If it’s the holiday season, it’s crunch time for any self-respecting online merchant. But for some, the stakes are higher than others. A few years ago, eBay (EBAY) was getting battered by the likes of Amazon.com and was dismissed as an auctions has-been. Its technology was long in the tooth. And it was losing its iconic CEO, Meg Whitman, whose political ambitions led to a run for California governor this year. Now eBay is betting its future on whipping its technology into shape as it navigates the...
read moreeBay Buys Mobile Apps Developer Today
Pin It eBay has been on a tare of late with acquisitions. It reminds me of the days of old almost. Although one thing is missing right now…REAL DATA on eBay’s sales this holiday season. They are touting mobile figures but give us nothing to compare it too vs. online (web) sales. Is eBay up or down? cricket, cricket, cricket…..”hey, our mobile app sales are better than ever.” Ummm…yeah, that’s because last year nobody had a damn iPad or Smart Phone…DUH…LMAO Amplify’d from emoney.allthingsd.com eBay has acquired Critical Path...
read moreeBay URLs Get Short for Twitter
Pin It Chris Dawson from Tamebay.com a UK based eBay blogger reported this… Amplify’d from tamebay.com eBay.com adds auto URL shortening service for Twitter by Chris Dawson If you’re a fan of twitter the one thing that probably annoys you is that website URL addresses take far too many of the valuable characters available in a single Tweet. There are plenty of URL shortening services such as bit.ly, tiny.cc, goo.gl, is.gd and prune.it, but the twitter links on eBay don’t make use of any of these services. On eBay UK if you...
read moreBest of the Best: BigCommerce Blog Posts of 2010
Pin ItMitch Harper from BigCommerce pulled out their most popular posts for 2010 and made them into a nice list for you to read again. So without further ado here are the top 10 most viewed posts for 2010: Presentation: Bootstrapping to Seven Figures – This is a presentation I gave just once to about 3,000 business owners via webinar. In the presentation I run through the guerilla marketing and positioning strategies we’ve used to grow our e-commerce platform,BigCommerce, to just under 10,000 clients without any funding or debt in just over a year. . How to: Promote Your Business on TV...
read moreAlibab Strengthens Its US eCommerce Position, Buys Auctiva Too!
Pin ItHONG 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...
read moreeBay vs. Facebook: One Man’s Trash Was Another Man’s Treasure
Pin IteBay is in its 15 year anniversary and Facebook just announced it has over 1/2 billion members. It’s amazing to me when I think back on all the things that eBay did over its 15 year course. Pretty amazing how this site changed the face of ecommerce on the web. However, one of the things that it did in the last few years, I find really interesting. Since John Donahoe become the CEO, what’s most interesting about eBay is to compaire its growth to others. If you look to the last few years of eBay and the last few years of Facebook, you can see how one man’s trash became another...
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