Archive for June, 2007
How to get more traffic to your online store
Whether you have an eBay store, an eBay ProStores store or any other kind of online store, one of your biggest tasks will be to get the traffic to your store. More traffic means more prospective buyers. And more prospective buyers means more profit for you. So how do you get more traffic to your [...]
uBid gets Yahoo! Auctions users
Ina Steiner is reporting that uBid and Yahoo! Auctions has inked a deal to transfer the sellers to the uBid auction platform. I wasn’t able to find any confirmation of the deal that was supposed to be announced sometime last week, but Ina usually doesn’t get this stuff wrong. If it can be confirmed, it [...]
eBay owns all content on its site
When eBay revised it’s user agreement late last month, very few of us probably read it through. What we would have noticed if we had read it is that eBay claims ownership of everything on it’s blog. Sure, all of the eBay created content is owned by eBay but what about your content? Your auction [...]
No more cross border ivory sales on eBay
eBay decided to ban all cross-border ivory sales earlier this month in an effort to create a more legitimate venue for legal ivory sales. The online auction house eBay Inc. said Tuesday it will ban cross-border trade of ivory products, following a study by a wildlife group that found nine out of 10 of the [...]
Transformers video contest on eBay
eBay has been doing some pretty heavy publicity for the transformers movie that opens on the 4th. Like Spiderman 3, the movie has it’s own “hub” on eBay where they will be running contests and such from. Enter the “Transform it with eBay” Video Contest We’re also looking for all you aspiring moviemakers to enter [...]
Expanded list of eBay approved video hosts
eBay has expanded their approved list of video hosts to host the videos that are allowed in eBay listings. The new list is: AOL, AuctionMercial, AuctionPlayer, AuctionVideo, CarTHINK, CreativeVideosOnline, Google, i2iAuction, Microsoft, MySpace, and YouTube. I haven’t heard of half of those, but the obvious one, YouTube is there as well as the Google and [...]
How HOT is your item? How to tell a good item from a great item
One of the most important things you can do right away before trying to sell anything online is to determine just how hot of an item it really is. I don’t mean hot as in stolen, I mean Hot as in popular. It goes without saying that the more popular an item is, the better [...]
