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eCommerce Resolutions for the New Year!
I love when the calendar changes to a new year, because it once again gives me hope that this new year will be so much better than the last. Moving into 2010 from the recession plagued 2009, gives me...
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Marketplace Options for 2010
While I do work for one of the fastest growing marketplaces on the web, I figured I would do a post on the current landscape for all online marketplaces. Some of these sites may be options for your...
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A Great Post for Online Sellers
Everyday I take time in the morning to survey the ecommerce landscape. I have a multitude of sources for news and tips and occasionally I find something that interests me and I blog about it....
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Alibris Acquires Monsoon - Is M&A Heating Up?
Big M&A (Mergers and Acquisition) news came out yesterday with the announcement that Alibris Holdings, the parent company of Alibris.com, was acquiring Monsoon a marketplace integrator with a...
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Rakuten Acquires Buy.com - Great Things to Come
Full Disclosure: I am an employee of Buy.com and this post is strictly my opinion and not an official statement from the company. You can get the official story here.Wow! I woke up this morning to the...
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I Have a Little Hop in My Step!
Suddenly I feel invigorated; which is hard to do for a guy who is 50. The Rakuten acquisition of Buy.com has me practically giddy.Many of you know that I have been working for Buy.com since January of...
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The Future of eBay
I just thought I would post this because it was interesting. Not much new but still interesting.Just my 15%
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Note to the Unemployed - Get Off Your Ass and Do Something!
Now, before you crucify me for being insensitive, would you do me the favor of reading the entire blog post? After that, you can use the comments section to "rip me a new one". I've been watching the...
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Strange New Marketplace World
This has been an interesting year in the online marketplace space. We've had a flurry of acquisitions, increased investment, global expansion and even eBay seems to have settled into some form of...
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Another Marketplace Option for Small Online Sellers
After reading that title, who would have guessed that option would be Buy.com? Well, today I am happy to announce that Buy.com has opened its marketplace to online sellers large and small.We've relaxed...
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Online Sellers Need to Step it Up!
Gone are the good old days, when you just had to take a snapshot of your product and list it on eBay to make a sale. It was easy back in the day but those days are gone forever ... now a seller needs...
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How eCommerce Times are a Changing!
While eCommerce continues to grow its share of global retail and Brick and Mortar retailers look for ways to stem the tide causing their sales to slow. eCommerce itself is morphing into something much...
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New IPO Bubble Building.
What is it about the world of finance that keeps us building "bubbles"? We had Internet Bubble 1.0 in 1999 and that bubble burst in 2000, we had a much large bubble build in the mortgage business and...
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eBay Buys the Rest of Magento
Newsflash! eBay acquires Magento the open source shopping cart. Well they actually acquired the rest of Magento since they already owned 49% prior to this news. When it comes to eBay and their M&A...
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Overstock No More ... at Least in Name
I know, I haven't blogged much in the last two years and all of a sudden I'm blogging like its the end of the world. Sorry, just lots of interesting news.From the "What were they thinking" files comes...
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Rakuten Acquires Brazillian Ecommerce Platform
TechCrunch had the best write-up on this so I'm just going to link you to that."Japanese online retail juggernaut Rakuten is expanding its reach to South America with the acquisition of a 75% stake in...
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Pandora Now Sees IPO At $10-12, Up From $7-$9; Expands Offering - Eric Savitz...
Pandora Now Sees IPO At $10-12, Up From $7-$9; Expands Offering - Eric Savitz - The Tech Trade - ForbesPandora is my favorite music streaming service. I'll have to find a way to get in at the IPO...
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Internet Retailer 2011 - San Diego
If you are attending the Internet Retailer show this year in San Diego, please make sure to stop by the Buy.com Marketplace booth #1922. This is the first year we are sponsoring the show and I would...
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Sales Tax - Who Cares what Amazon Thinks?
Raise your hands if you think there will eventually be an Internet Sales Tax? Of course there will be and Amazon.com and Jeff Bezos can't stop it. It is time the US Government earns some of the tax...
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Margins Narrowing, Amazon Faces a Well-Financed Campaign to Force it to...
Margins Narrowing, Amazon Faces a Well-Financed Campaign to Force it to Collect Sales Taxes - YCharts - Information, Not Opinion - ForbesStates look to Internet taxes to close budget gaps - Yahoo!...
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Solitude
Solitude, a set on Flickr.A change of pace... These are pictures from some of my road trips. I call this Solitude and I hope you enjoy it.
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It looks like my last post on the blog was in July of 2011 and today it is Feb. 6, 2013 -- My how time flies when your having fun. While I've been away much has happened in the world of ecommerce and...
View ArticleCould Google save the USPS!
The USPS is asking for help. Yes, we all know they need help, but this time they are actually asking for it. A recent post on Postandpostal.info mentions that "The world’s largest mail delivery company...
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USPS to Expand Package Delivery to Sundays: In a surprise announcement, the US Postmaster General revealed during an interview on Saturday that the postal service would soon expand package delivery to...
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Retail's love-hate relationship with mobile device-equipped customers
Good post on the changing dynamic in the retail world because of mobile devices. What is interesting to me is that the brick-and-mortar retailers themselves are looking at this change as a...
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