Archive for January, 2008

9 Major Changes at eBay Marketplace

Major changes are happening at eBay and rolling out fast! Many people are stunned at the scope
of the changes!
If you have a business selling at eBay, it’s important to get a full understanding of all these
changes because they will definitely require some strategy tweaks.
Here’s a summary of ALL 9 Changes:
1. Gallery is now free
2. Tiered [...]

eBay to cut listing fees but boost commissions

Tuesday Jan 29 - eBay Inc. announced that it would cut listing fees by up to 50 percent,
in an effort to boost listings and keep pace with other burgeoning e-commerce sites.
However,the company plans to increase its commission on items that do sell, as a move to
“balance” the fee cut. The greatest fee increase will [...]

eBay: Plenty of changes can be expected from now onward

On Jan 22, EBay Inc Chief Executive Meg Whitman, one of the most powerful women in
Corporate America, announced her decision to retire from the online auction giant, as reported by
The Wall Street Journal.
When Meg Whitman joined as president and CEO in early 1998, EBay had only a few dozen
employees. EBay’s initial public offering came six [...]

Derek Gehl’s Info Biz Creator is now LIVE - Are you one of the 250 Lucky Ones with a Password?

As promised, Info Biz Creator went live on Jan 24, 2008.
What exactly is Info Biz Creator?
Well, full details are Here.
You may even try and see if you’ll get a chance to get in. But I doubt it as it’s only
available for 250 people!
Info Biz Creator is a “turnkey” business building system…To be exact, it’s a [...]

Case Study: “When’s the Best Time to Send Email to Target Consumers at Work?”

MarketingSherpa has been my most reliable information source for e-mail marketing and
marketing related benchmark guides.
Go to: www.marketingsherpa.com to find
out if there’s something that may interest you.
This is a MarketingSherpa Case Study:
“When’s the Best
Time to Send Email to Target Consumers at Work? Test Results”:
SUMMARY: Don’t take every fact and figure you read as gospel. Marketers need [...]

Search Engine Success - Do-It-Yourself Guide

SEO is a tricky subject. In fact, most of the books in the market are highly technical and
hard to understand. “Search Engine Success - Do-It-Yourself Guide” is an exception - It’s
an audiobook in MP3 format, 59 minutes playing time.
Authored and narrated by Alan Twigg, who is the owner and publisher of B.C. BookWorld, Canada’s largest [...]

Nearly one-quarter of US consumers don’t have Internet access

The Web was once the playground of affluent early adopters, the demographic profile of the US
Internet user now resembles that of most Americans who generally enjoy widespread Internet
access. Yet nearly one-quarter of Americans have no Internet access, according to a report
titled “Information Searches That Solve Problems” by Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Pew’s report stated [...]

Internet Usage in the World - 2007

Statistics are now available for 2007 Global Internet Usage at
Internet World Stats.
At a glance, the total global internet population as at the end of 2007
stood at 1,262,032,697 out of an estimated world population of
6,606,970,166. This works out to a penetration rate of 19.10%.
English remains the top user language (30.10%), followed by Chinese
(14.60%), with Spanish (9.0%) [...]

How to avoid costly SEO mistakes in three crucial stages of website design

Interview by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson of Web Marketing Today:
Costly website problems can be avoided if a business consults a search engine optimization
(SEO) expert before and during website design.
In the following video Ross Dunn, CEO of StepForth Web Marketing Inc
explains how to ensure that your new site will be designed with search engine optimization (SEO)
in [...]

Derek Gehl of IMC is strategizing something Interesting?

I got an email from Derek minutes ago that he would be making an important
announcement next week…he didn’t provide any details.
I suspect this has something to do with “The Toll Gate Method”.
Well, I actually stumbled upon a video clip of Derek last night while surfing:
“Your Internet business -make this year successful” in which he mentions [...]

New Google Technology to index text in digital photos and videos

Google kicked off the new year with its technology patent “RECOGNIZING TEXT IN IMAGES”
made public on Thursday.
The Patent was first filed on 29.06.2007 by two computer scientists Luc Vincent and Adrian Ulges, who also worked on Google Street View and Google Book Search.
This new technology will expand Google’s current search engine beyond static text.
According to [...]