Last week, online auction giant, eBay, said it would appeal a $63 million ruling against it by a French court, which found the company liable for facilitating the sale of counterfeit luxury goods, including the famed Louis Vuitton signature handbags. The suit was brought by LVMH Group, which owns the...
So eBay's in trouble, and whether or not the auction format was indeed a fad, you may feel the inclination to find a new place to sell your stuff. Online sellers are increasingly finding the web to be a more competitive market, and with management and rules changes at eBay,...
View this on-demand Webcast with Jeanne Capachin, Research Vice President with Financial Insights, as she examines how Rich Internet Applications RIAs can be used to solve some of the online banking problems that financial institutions are having. Learn what to do when the pace of change outside the financial...
Who thought shopping online could be so easy, simply opening a browser, conducting a search, finding a great product online and making a purchase is nothing out of the ordinary for millions of consumers each day. The advantages of shopping online are: zero traffic or commuting time; no need to...
E-commerce, or electronic commerce, refers to the concept of conducting business communication and transactions online via the World Wide Web. Overall, e-commerce is the concept of buying and selling of goods and services, and the transfer of funds, through digital communications. E-commerce is the most important concepts of the Internet...
Have you ever paid ridiculous online auction fees for selling a used item? Have you ever wondered why it costs so much? If so, you are not alone. Millions of online sellers look for new low-cost ways to sell. This paper explains few ideas to save big and avoid fees....
Selling on eBay is not new anymore however if it is your first time trying it out, it can seem very confusing and troublesome. Keep your focus, stay on the game and remember what you started out for, these are the keys to success in an online auction business like...
Online auctioning through Ebay and other online auction sites are the craze of the new millennium. With the boom of the dot com era, we have now moved up shopping to a whole new level, where you do not have to be in any shop physically to purchase something you...
The Internet has come to dominate our lives to such an extent that we cannot even imagine a time when it was not present! Nowhere is its presence expressed more than in online trading! This paper explains the "Whys" and "Wherefores" of online trading: before the advent of the internet,...
Now that big-name magazines are explicating the workings of the economy of free, it seems a little odd to think that only two or three years ago a lot of people were dumping on Amazon.com for building up its business by paying for things like shipping. Free shipments for shopping...
Wendy Borow-Johnson is a leader in Internet marketing and advertising and President of BOOMj, a social networking and e-commerce site that caters to adults over 40. Ms. Borow-Johnson talks about BOOMj's multi-faced structure and different ways she works to broaden the site's audience base.
Google quality raters are paid about $15/hr to browse around and ensure that sites contain useful information. In a sweeping twist about a week ago, the latest guidebook for quality raters was leaked - let's call it "GoogleGate," just because I haven't heard it used before. ...
Apparently, the best way to close as sale may be to charge ten times as much as your competition. I'm not entirely certain that it would work in B2B, but there may be something here. Let's start with some examples from real life. There's a...
Scott Painter is former CEO of CarsDirect.com and founder and CEO of Zag, a technology and services platform that allows consumers to complete the entire auto-buying transaction online. Painter talks about his passion for e-commerce and why it's important to transform the way vehicles are sold on the Internet.
In 2002, William Wong co-founded Language Weaver, a leading developer of enterprise software for language translation. Wong talks about the many business to business translation services Language Weavers offers, and the benefits of breaking the business language barrier.
Sandeep Walia is the founder of Ignify, a leading provider of e-commerce solutions and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Recently, Entrepreneur Magazine named Ignify one of the fastest growing companies in the US. Here, Walia details how Ignify serves customers such as Microsoft and Black & Decker.
There's a disconnect about trust and authenticity on the Internet that gives you the opportunity to be a veritable "superhero" in your customers' eyes. Let me explain. Back in the day (i.e. pre-Web), anonymity was considered disreputable. The general opinion, in business and elsewhere, was...
Ever wonder what B2B customers really want from you? Here's a list I got from Howard Stevens, the head of the HR Chally Group, a company that's surveyed thousands of B2B buyers over the past decade. It's real food for...
I was recently talking to Terri Sjodin, author of the bestseller New Sales Speak: The 9 Biggest Sales Presentation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (Wiley 2006). Smart lady. She pointed out that a B2B sales presentation isn't persuasive (meaning it won't drive buying behavior) unless it...
B2B sales is all about providing value. But do your customer really value you and your firm? And if so, how much? The brainiacs at CSO Insights have done a lot of high quality research into why customers value certain vendors while treating others as...
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