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I’ve been doing some research and reading on the subject of future tech, and I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that the future is going to look like magic to us 2011 dummies.

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,
How do you get your product noticed in our current sea of product noise? Obviously, the way to be noticed is to wrap yourself inside a giant egg and be carried somewhere by the entire cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, right?
Yep, you’ll be noticed for sure.  Lady Gaga was certainly noticed when [...]

It’s the holiday shopping season. If you run an eCommerce website, you need to do everything possible to increase and maximize your sales during this busy shopping period. To that end, here are 7 ways to juice your holiday eCommerce sales to drive your revenue and profits to new heights before the New Year.
1. Create [...]

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 [...]

If you sell products or services through your website, speed is critical. People’s attention spans online are notoriously limited.
That means you need to capture your site visitors’ attention and compel them to click through your conversion funnel. The process should be as intuitive and seamless as possible.
If you distract them, if you leave them stranded, [...]

Hi gang,
Well, Google pulled off another surprise yesterday and announced that they have been working on a web browser, named Chrome.  They made the beta available for download to the general public and within 1 day, Google has 1% of the browser market!
There are a ton of possibilites here for Chrome to integrate into all [...]

Hi gang,
Ahhhhh, back home in beautiful Charlotte. 95 degrees and raining. Welcome to the South in a prematurely hot summer.
I wanted to give my opinion as to why there was so much venom this year at eBay Live. And by venom, I’m talking about this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHY0r3Sn9rc

And this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBX4vRjPHXM

Both of these incidents occurred at the town hall meetings [...]

Hi gang,
Well, it’s that time of year again - eBay Live - Chicago.
I remember my first eBay Live very well. It was in New Orleans several years ago, back when I was but a guppy in the seller bowl. What I remember the most about N.O. Live was that it was [...]

Hi gang,
I am an Iphone freak - had it since it came out and you will have to pry it from my cold, dead hands.   It sleeps gently next to me and my wife on an 800 thread count satin pillow at night (kidding! … ? ).
So I did the happy dance when Steve Jobs announced [...]