Archive for June 21st, 2006
eBay & HostedSupport Release Upgrade
Hostedsupport.com has announced ezSupport for eBay v2.0, an upgrade to its automated customer support solution customized for the needs of eBay sellers. The solution helps sellers deal with the large volume of repetitive email questions from buyers by automatically answering 80 percent of incoming questions. This Web-based, hosted product is delivered via the Internet and [...]
eBay Seller Seeking Advice at eBay Live
AuctionBytes Stephen Wargel, CEO of Motion Dynamics LLC, discussed the challenges of selling online and on eBay in an interview with AuctionBytes.TV. Wargel, who was in Las Vegas for the eBay Live conference, was attending a reception thrown by product-sourcing site Alibaba.com when AuctionBytes caught up with him. Wargel sells construction equipment on eBay and [...]
eBay Yahoo Google & Now MSN Who’s Left
Investors.com There’s a tag team match under way in the world of online ads, and it could be about to get rough. On one side is Internet auctioneer eBay (EBAY) and the Web portal Yahoo, (YHOO) which joined forces last month to share Internet ads and promote eBay’s online payment system. On the other: search [...]
Business Wire MX Telecom, a leading provider of global SMS text messaging and multimedia solutions, and PayPal Mobile, Inc. today announced that Alex Moir, CEO MX Telecom and Kevin Dulsky, Senior Director, GM Mobile Payments, PayPal Mobile will co-present a case study on Mobile Payments at the MoMeMo event taking place on June 26th at [...]
Idea: DVDs That Teach Children to Eat
After watching Franklin, our six month old, sit on the floor captivated by Baby Einstein videos, the educational* DVDs for infants and toddlers, and Emerson, our preschooler, at the dinner table refusing to eat his mashed potatoes, my wife had an idea. Children love commercials. They immediately want anything advertised. Children readily identify with and [...]
How To Make $250,000 Selling Ebooks
Yaro Starak (two Yaro links in one day!) has a fascinating audio interview with Daryl and Andrew Grant, a married couple who in one year made $250,000 selling information products online: Daryl Grant and her husband Andrew started selling e-books online in late 2004. The next year they had revenues of over $250,000 USD selling [...]
Dan Marques: Few things are sadder for me than to see a new company that you know is going to die, they just do not get it. You may even make a few attempts to try and steer them in the right direction, but the owner gets angry and since they are the entrepreneur they [...]
For Entrepreneurs, Now Is the Time
Business Week: It’s the spring of 2006, and the sweet scent of entrepreneurship is in the air. Growing numbers of Americans are pursuing their startup dreams. According to the National Venture Capital Association, seed-level VC funding nearly doubled in 2005. This year, based on current trends, it could double again. In Delaware, the country’s incorporation [...]
New Auction Option Other Than eBay
C Net News Not having any luck with bids on eBay? Well, there’s another online auction site you might want to hit–PropertyRoom.com. The goods in question are from police property auctions. That’s right, the loot seized from thieves and convicted and alleged criminals. For example, under the heading “Hot Pursuit Specials” (which features an illustration [...]
Chrismc, a member of Yaro’s (Internet Business & Blogging) Forums, started a blog and an ecommerce site in one day. He even made a sale his first day! Read about his experiences: You might think there’s not much you can build in a day. A small adsense site or something, but not something more complex. [...]
Google & eBay Both Prefer the Partnership Approach
 ZDNet Google and Dell, eBay and Yahooâ¦Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, and Meg Whitman, eBay CEO, concur on the attractiveness of partnerships for growth and both give thumbs up to the new era of collaborative competition. Plus, Whitman speaks to Schmidt (a Princeton classmate) “several times a month.” Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, 5/31/06, investor conference call [...]
eBay Express Lauched with Great Rankings
AuctionBytes eBay officially launched its new fixed-price marketplace called eBay Express during the eBay Live conference last week. AuctionBytes.TV caught up with eBay Express Director Lara Bridges on the show floor to talk about the new site and how seller listings appear in search results. Bridges explained search results are tied to relevancy, with rankings [...]
CHannel Advisor CEO Interview On eBay Live
AuctionBytes eBay CEO Meg Whitman and North American President Bill Cobb spoke at the eBay Live conference last week in Las Vegas. ChannelAdvisor CEO Scot Wingo shares his thoughts on the significance of the announcements coming out of the keynote addresses, including the vow to enforce eBay’s excessive shipping policy. In general, attendees were positive [...]
TechSpot PayPal claims to have now fixed a vulnerability on their site that could have allowed malicious attackers to steal credit card information from PayPal users. Obviously something that PayPal wanted to stamp out immediately, the flaw involved a cross-scripting attack and saw targeted users getting an e-mail, purporting to be from PayPal, which directed [...]
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Theatrical Drape Maker Wins Dell/NFIB Small Business Excellence Award
A reader wrote: Wanted to let you know that female small business owner Megan Duckett, founder of Sew What?, Inc., a custom theatrical drapery manufacturer, was honored yesterday as the winner of the Dell/NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business) Small Business Excellence Award at the NFIB Small Business Summit in Washington, DC. Sew What? will [...]
Gladys Edmunds in USA Today: We haven’t come close to the e-commerce explosion that will spring up as we move into the future. Let’s take a closer look. Right now you can buy online college courses on the World Wide Web. Not every college is represented, but you see more and more institutions of higher [...]
