PESA / ECMTA RoundTable – The eBay Giving Works Business Model

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When Better Sales = A Better World

Marketing with a Cause to Create Buzz, Traffic, Conversion and Lifetime Customers

You want buyers to find you, love you passionately, and tell all their friends about you.

Your products, prices and service are all top notch.

How can you get shoppers to go from browsers to buyers to advocates?

Promote a great cause.

We’ll discuss low-risk ways to use the eBay Giving Works as a “cause marketing program in a box,” review best practices, explore ways to acquire, convert and retain customers, and the new “eBay Giving Works 2.0.”

Led by David Yaskulka, president of Blueberry Consulting. David is a consultant to the eBay Giving Works program. As an ecommerce retailer, he was featured in a dozen books, including Internet Riches and Secrets of the eBay Millionaires. Joining David will be Jennifer Ibarra, Marketing Manager, eBay Giving Works.

Title: PESA / ECMTA RoundTable – The eBay Giving Works Business Model
Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PDT

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista
Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.3.9 (Panther®) or newer

The community gives, and eBay takes the bow. Typical. Good publicity is hard to come by these days.

If you want to help any of those organizations, do it directly. Go to their websites and volunteer.

As for expanding it globally, it would have helped if the Post Office had not eliminated the surface M-bag, which dozens of charities used to ship books inexpensively to people around the world in need.

Ebay is doing this for publicity and tax benefits. Don’t kid yourself that it has anything to do with altruistic motives.

How about providing something really charitable–fair protections to both large and small sellers from NPB listing fee losses and 7 day negative feedback buffers? That would cost next to nothing… What? Their generousity is not up to that?

I’ve been meaning to give something back to the community for some time and this fits the bill perfectly.

You can donate to your local charities, schools and etc…. you don’t need eBay to do that.

Nice work Ebay.

Right on!

How many of us sellers who are suffering not only the economy like everyone else and are also suffering the eBay slump and now their stupid policy that is choking us off have the money to give to anyone?

We aren’t making enough profit to save ourselves at this time thanks to eBay fee hikes and the high cost of using PayPal.

I understand why the delivery services we use went up in price (USPS, UPS and etc…) but for eBay to cost us more when we are getting kicked in the face by them and less and less service is provided to us, is crazy!

Even if we would like to, we just don’t have the extra cash to make eBay look like they care about those charities.

Funny thing is, eBay is a multi-billion dollar company. Why don’t they simply make the donations themselves. They shouldn’t need out money since their pockets are so fat. Just the cost of one meal a day from each of the execs would make a very nice donation.

eBay – do your own donating. All of the sellers have been donating to eBay long enough!

If Ebay wants to be seen as charitable, they should start at home, so to speak, with the sellers that they are putting out of business with the new policies and initiatives.