Archive for July, 2007
11,000 containers on ONE ship?
Today I read about the Emma Maersk, a PS class container ship of the Maersk shipping company. It has a 5 storey high 14 cylinder engine producing over 100,000 horsepower, and can carry 11,000 x 20 foot containers.
These days, other people can do the work for you!
Never has it been as easy as it is to start a website or blog as it is now. There are multitudes of products available to create anything from a simple web page to a blog, or a full blown content management system, and many of them are excellent (and more importantly FREE!)
Years ago when [...]
Is a .com domain worth $400k USD for your .com.au business?
Recently at the Moniker’s Domain name auction (which I mentioned here), the domain carsales.com was purchased for a tidy sum of $400,000 USD. Not a bad price I thought.
Recently I performed a ‘whois’ on the domain and found out who the lucky owners are. They are none other than carsales.com.au.
Of note, carsales.com.au did try to [...]
The $300m Domain Name Mogul You Have Never Head of
I love stories like this. It is an article about a domainer who thought a little outside of the box, started small with a good idea then scaled it to become a massive, profitable online money making business.
I read it a little while ago and just recently saw a link to it. It was so [...]
eBay Listing Schedules - Can They be Intelligent?
My business partners and I often sit back and look at our business and find ways to streamline and add efficiency.
Automation using technology is very important for us and makes the best use of our skill sets. One of the reasons we switched to ChannelAdvisor was because of one of their listing schedule types, but [...]
Using Terapeak to Find The Best Time of Day to Sell on eBay
Recently I have been playing with some eBay research software called terapeak. It is essentially a data mining tool that eBay sellers (or buyers) can use to look at groups of data that might help them sell more product (or buy cheaper).
Recently I have been using it to do some analysis of auction end times [...]
Why Don’t I Buy on eBay?
Do you as an eBay seller, also buy a lot of products on eBay?
I don’t! eBay is probably the last place I would look to buy a product. I an talking about new products here, not used. I think my eBay business has sold over 70,000 products in the last few years, but I realised [...]
Marketworks Australia Offering Free Webinar
Marketworks in Australia are offering a free webinar this coming week.
The discussion will focus on growing a multi-channel business on eBay and other venues. Topics covered include :
What are the key opportunities and challenges of selling online?
What are the unique advantages of selling on eBay, a transactional website or other channels?
How should a business [...]
Have You Joined The eBay Conga Line?
eBay Australia has a conga line and wants you to be part of it! Its true, you can even upload your face, and when you appear (dancing merrily along behind and in front of other strangers) people can mouse over you and see who you are.
Sounds a little crazy, but eBay actually have some stats [...]
eBay. Loved and Loathed
Consumers are fascinated and intrigued by eBay. eBay sellers mention the website they sell on to possible suppliers, and supplirs go running in the other direction! When is it all going to change? Is it going to change at all?
