Archive for July 18th, 2006
Ex eBay Pres. To Stay on for Consulting
Auction Bytes Jeff Jordan will act as part-time consultant to eBay News that Jeff Jordan was stepping down as President of PayPal came as a shock to industry observers last week. But eBay filings with the SEC on Thursday revealed that Jordan will provide consulting services to eBay on a part-time basis [...]
eBays Store Search Glitch Identified
Auction Bytes Sellers have identified a glitch that affects shoppers’ ability to find all relevant items when searching within eBay Stores. Sellers noticed the problem as early as July 10, though some have been complaining about eBay’s search function for months. eBay did not update its Systems Announcement board to alert buyers and [...]
PayPal Gets Rated Against Big Banks
Business Wire Vocal Laboratories Inc. (www.vocalabs.com) today announced the results of its latest SectorPulse study on the quality of telephone based customer service among five financial services companies tracked over the first six months of 2006. While not a direct competitor to traditional banks, PayPal, a subsidiary of e-Bay (NASDAQ:EBAY) processes millions of online financial [...]
Ebay Say No To Gambling While Paypal Dives In
 Gambling 911 eBay, for whatever the reason, has made itself a staunch ally of those looking to ban online gambling, this while its subsidiary, PayPal, embraced online gambling in the European nations as recently as February – though there is no sign of PayPal deposit methods featured on the BetFair site currently. In other words, [...]
Googles Online Service Changes Competition Landscape
 IT Business Items for sale on eBay range from the sublime to the ridiculous, but the manner in which you pay for them is no laughing matter for the auction giant. Among the options are: Bidpay, Propay, Interac Email Money Transfer (a Canadian service formerly known as Certapay), and, of course, its own service PayPal. [...]
Vonage Launches Skpye Competition
 Red Herring Call it the ultimate test of convergence. Skypeâbest known for cheap, PC-based callsâis now available on a slim Wi-Fi handset that goes on sale this month. The sleek new handset being hawked by NetGear will work through ordinary Wi-Fi high-speed wireless connections. Vonage, best known for bringing Internet calls to ordinary handsets, wonât [...]
USA Today: When customers sign up for a free Hotmail e-mail account from Microsoft, they’re required to submit their name, age, gender and ZIP code. But that’s not all the software giant knows about them. Microsoft takes notice of what time of day they access their inboxes. And it goes to the trouble of finding [...]
Erick Schonfeld on the Business 2.0 Blog: Is it me, or are pomegranates the new cult ingredient? Or, rather, pomegranate juice. And I am not just talking about the now-ubiquitous POM brand of juice. It’s even getting into beer. I ran into a guy named Jeremy Cowan at a party who makes HE’BREW (The Chosen [...]
Fuel Conservation No Idle Matter at UPS
MultiChannel Merchant: You wouldn’t think of something as benign as avoiding a left-hand turn could conserve fuel, but Atlanta-based United Parcel Service (UPS) swears by it. In fact, the parcel carrier has technology in its systems that help map this out routes that minimize the number of left turns the driver has to make. According [...]
The Big Hidden Tax Benefits of Sole Proprietorship (tags: soleproprietorship business workathome entrepreneurship entrepreneurs businessstructures bizopblog) The Long Haul Are you afraid your key employees are ready to walk? Here’s what you can do to keep your most valuable players around. (tags: business employees bizopblog) The Entreprexplorer’s Journal: First Mover Disadvantage (tags: bizopblog bs entrepreneurship) [...]
This is Going to Be Big: Why isn’t anyone doing free VOIP-based, ad supported wakeup callsand meeting reminders? It seems so easy… Create a little plugin in Outlook or even easier, cc an e-mail address for the wakeup service and let it call you using a VOIP backend, but with a relevent advertisement as part [...]
Selling a Business is Like Dating
Jeff Cornwall has an excellent description of what it’s really like to sell your business: If the flirtation process of the inquiry moves ahead, next will often come some sort of letter of intent. This is kind of like a promise to go steady. Both parties agree that they are seriously interested in seeing if [...]
Marketing: Question Everything
John Jantsch: Or, more to the point of the title, question every word you use to market your business and then answer every question in your marketing. People make buying decisions in ways that we may find hard to imagine. The mental, logical process and the emotional, feel good process come together at some point [...]
