You Tube Video - Branding Your Business & Marketing to Acoustic Music - BazaarVoice

How can you use You Tube for your branding and business needs?

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Free - Five Star eBay Customer Service Banner - Free for Readers

Our friends at All Business Auctions and iBusinessLogic.com have generously provided this eBay five star service logo for all of our readers free of charge.

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Tamebay - Real Story about a Real Seller Who Found Life After eBay

Stuart does not rely on eBay any longer, he has found his way out of the darkness of eBay suspension and into the light of eCommerce sales. Stuart sees a bright future ahead and he says he will never rely on eBay again completely as he had before.

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eBay Feedback Comes With Warning Label

Do you think presenting the idea of fear and retaliation has a positive impact on yours or eBay’s bottom line business.

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Updated Consignment Pal Directory - eBay Trading Assistants and Consignment Specialist - Get Found in Search Here

Linda Miller of Consignment Pal has worked long and hard to provide a directory service to the consignment industry. Her efforts have been rewarded with a very efficient and usable directory for both consignment shops and eBay Trading Assistants

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Important Business Considerations - Choosing an eBay Management software suite…

What to look for in eBay &/or Multi-Channel listing management software…
Software is an essential key to all phases of business these days.  Without good solid software and software management, costs and profit can move in opposite directions fast.
“Auction Management software brings sales administration under control by putting a framework around your eBay sales and automating repetitive tasks. Products vary in [...]

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Tough Love for eBay - Guest Post - John Lawson 3rdPO.com - PeSA Member

I LOVE eBay… with Some Tough Love …
by John Lawson
President of 3rdPO.com

Hey all my fellow eBay’ers!
WOW, what an “exciting” week we have had as sellers on the eBay platform.
I use the word exciting loosely, because for some it has been aggravating, for others it has been exhilarating and for most in between it has been [...]

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Wake Up eBay - Sharing Links, Social Marketing Good - Closed Networks Fail

Now EBay is trying to become the CIA of Social marketing - Only accepting information from outside sources yet not sharing any of its own. This will be perceived for what it truly is, a very large mistake.

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Big Business Deals - Microsoft offers cash rebates to shoppers at eBay

The Silicon Valley/ San Jose Journal reports a deal has been made between Microsoft and eBay. Shoppers using the Microsoft Live search engine to find products on eBay and elsewhere will be offered cash rebates after making qualifying purchases

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NARU’d eBay Seller Learns - Neutrals are Not Positives / Neutral = 100% Negative

eBay Trust & Safety told Dan he was removed for non-performance.
10 years and 3000+ good solid positive feedback is now a non-performing seller on eBay, at least if you have two outstanding unresolved disputes and 10 neutrals in your history.

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Ok, so I was a bit rash… Big Business - I hear Ya…

But what about the little guy?
What about the small seller who is just starting a website or the small seller with no website but has thought about starting one after gaining name recognition on eBay. eBay is the Mt. Everest of traffic for most small sellers.

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Announcement Kills eBay as a Business Venue! eBay Me Page Dead! Oh What a Wicked Web

eBay seems to think if they toss some carrots, no one will notice when they toss a poison pill in an “announcement”. Today’s announcement should cause a great deal of concern for any business oriented sellers…

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Top Markets Selling Most Merchandise On eBay - Where Do You Live?

I really do not think Geographical location has anything to do with selling capability on eBay, but apparently eBay believes in the theory of location location location…

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Microsoft Wants a Piece of Yahoo Now - Which Piece?

Microsoft will try to buy what they wanted out of Yahoo in the first place…
REDMOND, Wash. — May 18, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today issued the following statement:
“In light of developments since the withdrawal of the Microsoft proposal to acquire Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft announced that it is continuing to explore and pursue its alternatives to [...]

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eBay Master Plan & eCommerce - Speculation - Why Not Join The Two?

Real business is attracted to eBay for only one reason - traffic.
In a nutshell eBay is a traffic machine, a fire hose of consumers. All of the other stuff is considered as a barrier to entry, the feedback system, the complicated fee structure, fraud etc…

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