http://ecommerce-marketing-radio-network.com News & Live Talk Radio for Internet Marketers Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:33:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With the changes eBay made to the Trading Assistant Program in the past year there has been a significant reduction in the number of TA's (Trading Assistants). Now Pennsylvania has signed into law the Auctioneer Licensing and Trading Assistant Registration Act (Senate Bill 908) that will require those selling items ... http://ecommerce-marketing-radio-network.com/2008/10/trading-assistants-required-to-be-licensed-in-pennsylvania/ What is eBay Thinking? Today eBay announced their newly planned eBay AdCommerce program for German and US sites. Their plan as outlined in the announcement will allow eBay sellers the opportunity to bid on the reported 4 billion keywords in their database. Based on how MUCH sellers are willing to pay ... http://ecommerce-marketing-radio-network.com/2008/09/ebay-to-offer-sellers-adcommerce-to-promote-their-own-listings/ Just The Latest Loss Eric Shoup is just the latest manager that we are aware of who has "punched out" from eBay in the past 8 months. As has been well chronicled by Scott Pooler of TradingAssistantJournal.com, Scot Wingo CEO of Channeladvisor.com and Randy Smythe of MyBlogUtopia.com among many others, it appears that there ... http://ecommerce-marketing-radio-network.com/2008/09/brain-drain-continues-is-it-time-to-punch-out-at-ebay/ In an article published last week in Barrons Weekly  based on a report from Wedge Partners, Reuters today published a very short article on the rumors. 10% of eBay's worldwide staffing would peg the number of layoffs at approximately 1500 staffers. eBay has not responded to requests for comment on ... http://ecommerce-marketing-radio-network.com/2008/09/ebay-rumored-ready-to-cut-10-of-workforce/ Paul St. James CIO of Bidtopia will be our guest this morning on ebay & Beyond: Basics To Business. Join us at 10 AM ET from our website streaming live on the internet. http://ecommerce-marketing-radio-network.com/2008/09/bidtopia-cio-paul-st-james-on-ebay-beyond-radio-today/ eBay's Best Match Favors Fixed Price Sales eBay has for some time been making concerted efforts to wean it's sellers away from auction format sales even though continual denials come from company officials. From John Donahoe to Lorrie Norrington to head cheerleader and eBay Ambassador Jim "Uncle Griff" Griffith all say that there ... http://ecommerce-marketing-radio-network.com/2008/09/best-match-is-the-small-ebay-sellers-demise/  Gamimg The System  Earlier this week it had been reported that several eBay Partner (affiliates) had been booted out of the program. There were posts on the eBay discussion boards regarding these removals as well reports from several sources such as Auctionbytes that the ousted Partners might consider retaliation against eBay in some ... http://ecommerce-marketing-radio-network.com/2008/08/ebay-takes-affiliates-to-court-over-unauthorized-cookies/ Now that eBayLive is a thing of the past, (yeah I know, 2010 if you believe in fairytales) where will eBay marketers, and for that matter all ecommerce merchants go to get the latest information and strategies? Where will you go to learn about the latest software and services available ... http://ecommerce-marketing-radio-network.com/2008/08/what-conference-will-replace-ebaylive-where-will-you-go/ Oh the weather outside is frightful,,,,, Believe it or not there are only 121 days until Christmas. You will notice I did not say shopping days till Christmas because in internet marketing every day is a shopping day. How prepared are you for the shopping season as an internet marketer? If you ... http://ecommerce-marketing-radio-network.com/2008/08/marketing-strategies-for-the-holiday-season/ The Bank of eBay? I have been talking and writing for months (OK, years) about the changes at eBay. It has been a long and winding road we have taken to get to this point in our ecommerce journey. While I thought the road was leading to a retail experience on eBay, ... http://ecommerce-marketing-radio-network.com/2008/08/bank-of-ebay-is-this-where-ebay-is-really-heading/