Archive for January, 2008
eBay Announces Fee Changes & More for US/UK/DE
Great news, eBay has announced the rumoured site changes and fee changes for 2008. Bad news for Aussies, these changes are initially for US/UK/DE markets it seems…
Scott from ChannelAdvisor has been taking notes and blogging from the eBay conference in the USA about is (thanks Scot!)
The brief summary:
FREE gallery pics
Final Value fees increase (for [...]
Drive and Carsguide Hop Into Bed (or share driving?)!
Not an acquisition, but some big news today nonetheless. It seems that strong media rivals Fairfax and News Ltd have hopped into bed together. Or maybe that should be, ‘News Ltd has decided to ride shotgun with Fairfax’?.
Fairfax’s drive.com.au is now to provide News Ltd’s carsguide.com.au with dealer listings (Fairfax Digital chief executive Jack Matthews [...]
No eBay fee changes in 2008 for Australia?
Most eBay sellers keeping track of the new would know now that eBay is going to announce fee changes this week, in summary (most likely):
reduction in listing fees
increase in final value fees
some sort of bulk discount for volume sellers
But, I have only seen mention of US, DE and UK markets in news and blogs around [...]
And I thought running an eBay business was a challenge…
Just over 2 weeks ago, something changed my life.
My wife and I had a baby daughter. What an amazing experience. I thought it was tough to run a business, but its nothing like the life change when you have a child. All of a sudden, you are running totally on someone else’s schedule. This is [...]
Does Google love you?
Does your online store have all of it’s pages indexed in Google? How do you find out?
I have been looking for an while at Google’s indexing of one of my online stores, www.tacklemania.com.au. We have over 2,000 SKUs, and a few more pages that we have created for some simple SEO efforts, but only about [...]
What will you change in 2008?
Happy New Year everyone. I really hope you had a great 2007 for business, and that your Christmas and New Year relaxed you and gave you some preparation time for a huge 2008!
2008 will bring some big changes to eBay’s pricing model, and search, and this will affect sellers in some pretty big ways. And [...]
