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Hi Gang,
Internet bubble? What internet bubble?
Yesterday, Groupon filed the paperwork to become a publicly traded company.  Sometime this year, you will be able to buy stock in Groupon and join the other 500 million people making Groupon stock discount jokes.
Last year, Groupon turned down a $6 BILLION offer from Google.  Laughable, right? Well guess what: [...]

Hi gang,
Please do me the honor tomorrow of joining myself and John Lawson, aka ColderIce, aka one of Startupnation’s home based business winners, as we discuss what the GSI Commerce deal means for eBay and for YOU, my dear eBay seller nation. Yes, we’ll also be talking about the upcoming fee changes, format changes, the [...]

SAN JOSE (Startupnation.com) - To enhance the recent fee changes that will force sellers to offer free shipping, eBay announced this morning that all sellers must offer their items for sale for free as well.
The new program will be called “FreeBay”, and will be effective as of April 10th.
“We have really been listening to the [...]

Hi Gang,
“Ooohhh, so THAT’S why our fees are so high,” exclaimed eBay’s seller community today after eBay announced that it is acquiring GSI Commerce for $2.4 BILLION in cash and debt.  Hey, I’m an optimist - at least they didn’t buy Skype again!
This is a pretty interesting purchase if you ask me.  A lot of [...]

Hi gang,
No, I don’t know exactly what number a  Gagillion is, but does it matter?  The point is that Apple is one of those amazing companies that has defied all odds.  Let’s face it - 10 years ago, this company was going down.  Steve Jobs was out - their small but feverish fan base for [...]

Hi gang,
How does worm farming + raving + poker playing = Zappos?
What everyone knows about Tony Hsieh is that he’s the Zen Master of Culture at Zappos, a wildly successful shoe website that was just sold to Amazon for $1.2 billion - not bad for 10 years work.  I think what most people don’t know [...]

Hi gang,
I finally learned how to lose weight by remembering something that an old boss told me years ago. At the time, I was living in Chicago and working for CBS in national outdoor sales - billboards, bus advertising, train advertising, etc.  My first year there, I was given a goal of bringing in $1.5 [...]

Hi gang,
Life is funny.  I mean, it’s just a laugh out loud riot, isn’t it?
As an entrepreneur, I share the same DNA as you have.  Recite with me:  1) luck is the residue of persistence 2) make the best of any situation   3) keep both eyes on your goals.
I’ve been repeating those three things to [...]

If you are the owner of an eCommerce website,  you are continuously looking for ways to improve the conversion rate on your site and to drive more sales. To that end, here are 45 tips to turbocharge your eCommerce site:
Define Your Audience

Segment your audience by lifetime value.
Segment your audience by recency (When was the last [...]

Hi gang,
eBay’s had a tough week.
Not that it hasn’t been a tough week in general.  Lehman’s gone.  AIG is getting bailed out (I bet that makes Lehman happy - if they would have waited 3 days, maybe they could have received part of the $600 billion the gov is forking over to save the economy).   [...]