Ebay Selling Info
30
Aug
Following on from my post on local search the other day, Matt Aird from Bizwiki has kindly agreed to be interviewed for this blog.
EEL: here do you see the local search marketplace going?
MA: Give it another decade, and I think you will find the vast majority of local search done online, by any and [...]
28
Aug
So you write a blog, have a facebook profile and a myspace page, but find it a bit of a drag to keep everything up to date. Here are some ways of integrating various profile to cross promote and create content.
Facebook
Using the twitter app, facebook and twitter statuses can be synced. Use twitter to [...]
25
Aug
I have just been doing a spot of submission to some local search sites and thought I would share what I found. Local search is clearly going to be big, but I really don’t think that anyone really has the killer offering yet. I think that listing in local search is important for businesses for [...]
24
Aug
I have just been taking a look at Pixplace – the third party marketplace from Pixmania. The site works on a very similar basis to amazon marketplace and playtrade with third party sellers selling their products alongside the website’s own products.
In essence a marketplace = way of displaying products + visitors + payment mechanism. High [...]
23
Aug
I have got the old spreadsheet out and worked out the number of listing which justify upgrading the shop level. If you recall under the new fee system, sellers will get discounts on insertion fees based on their shop level. There are:
Basic shop (cost: £14.99), IF = £0.2
Featured shop (cost: £49.99) IF = £0.05
Anchored shop [...]
23
Aug
Orange are running a campaign at the moment called ‘I am who I am because of everyone‘ where they invite people to search for the phrase ‘I am’ online. I imagined that they had done a lot of SEO on the phrase ‘I am’ to ensure the they had the top spot for this phrase
I [...]
21
Aug
I have just been playing around with BT tradespace, something which I know Dan Wilson has been involved quite heavily with. Why not visit the Vendlab Tradespace page.
BT are onto a good idea with this offering, which has been around for a while now. However they have missed, or at best are missing, the boat [...]
20
Aug
Gosh it has been exciting day for eBay watchers. eBay has made fundamental changes to the way in which fixed price are sold on the site. The site is going to largely loose its time sensitive nature and the listing options simplified, with a single listing format replacing BIN and SIF.
The End of Shop inventory [...]
20
Aug
I have just been playing around with Bidboogie as the nice PR people were kind enough to give me some free bids.
BidBoogie is a penny auction site which is like a traditional auction except bids go up to 1p each time and it costs each time you place a bid. In this way it is [...]
6
Aug
Traaa-tra-traaaaaa. I would like to announce the launch of my ecommerce consulting company Vendlab. We will be providing services in the following areas:
Search engine optimisation
Paid search
Social Media
Website Analytics
Online marketplaces (eBay and amazon)
We are looking for online marketing specialists to help us deliver projects, so if you are willing and able, please get in touch.
If you [...]
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