Marketplace – Archives
Consumer Electronics Go Big on Black Friday
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Even though I waited until “Cyber Monday” to make my first online purchase of the holiday shopping season (and plan to have all done over this coming weekend), Black Friday consumers, particularly those interested in consumer electronics, were online in full force. The most searched for product on eBay across all categories was the Nintendo [...]
eBay Advertising & PR
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
I wrote a post last month about a number of promotions eBay was running for the marketplace heading into the holiday buying season. A lot of the deals are outlined at http://pages.ebay.com/deals/. The post was met with mixed responses. Some folks questioned why it seemed that eBay was simply focusing on coupons this year.
Radio Advertising
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UPDATED: Q&A with Dinesh Lathi, eBay VP of Seller Experience
Monday, November 24th, 2008
As most of you know, in addition to regular blogging on news and events coming out of eBay Inc., I’ve been doing my best to set up more 1:1 conversations, either in email or face-to-face, with key people within the eBay organization. The goal is to continue to provide access to folks that you normally [...]
eBay “Lays Down the Law” at 4th Annual Training Event
Monday, November 24th, 2008
Hello Everyone,
I wanted to give you a quick look into a very interesting event that I attended this past Tuesday, November 18: eBay’s fourth annual, one-day training event for law enforcement officials. Over 100 federal, state and local U.S. law enforcement officers from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, U.S Postal Service, the [...]
Yahoo! Adds eBay Application to New Homepage Test
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Yahoo! has introduced an eBay application to the “My Applications” dashboard area of the new yahoo.com homepage they’ve been testing since September. Yahoo! began user testing with a random fraction of their user-base in four different countries: U.S.A., United Kingdom, France and India to see what folks would want most out of a next generation [...]
‘Tis The Season…
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Times are tough for everyone at the moment. As a result, my mother has instituted a one-gift per person rule at Christmas this year for everyone in the family (both Brewer and Hay) with a price limit. So please don’t think me presumptuous for writing a post about charity heading into the season of giving [...]
PayPal Thinks Global, Gets Local…
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Philipp Justus, senior vice president of global markets for PayPal announced the launch of fully localized sites in Mexico, Hong Kong and Singapore, on the PayPal blog earlier today. This extends PayPal’s online payments service to the more than 120 million residents of these three countries.
We now display content on our sites in nine new [...]
eBay Top Seller Webinar: Focusing On Success
Monday, November 17th, 2008
As most of you know, I was busy between both San Jose campuses last Thursday attending Professor Yunus’ speech and meeting million feedback achiever, Jack Sheng. As a result, I was unable to participate in the eBay Top Seller Webinar that also took place on Thursday. I managed to get the archived version of the [...]
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Nobel Laureate Celebrates MicroPlace One Year Anniversary
Monday, November 17th, 2008
I was lucky enough to attend an invitation-only event for the investors of MicroPlace last week as they celebrated their first year anniversary. MicroPlace was created to help alleviate global poverty by enabling everyday people to make investments in the world’s working poor. Learn more about microfinance and MicroPlace here.
To help celebrate the occasion, Nobel [...]
Congratulations to Jack Sheng!
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
As of today, the green shooting star above will only look familiar to a few individuals around the world… it represents a Feedback score of 500,000. The “Sweating Star” (as I like to call it) on the right is familiar to only one person, Jack Sheng, as it represents a Feedback score of 1,000,000 (something [...]
