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- eBay Q3: What it Means for Sellers
- Scot Wingo submits: Thursday, I put together some first impressions of the results, and Friday I was able to scan most of the analyst reports and of course listened to the conference call. I wanted to highlight some of the macro financial aspects of the call and then go...
- External links 2008-10-19
- eBay Takes a Step Backwards
- Scot Wingo submits: A retailer we work with for Comparison Shopping Engines (CSE) recently emailed as they were really confused about a promotion they were sent by eBay EBAY pictured here: The retailer had lots of questions - should they stop their plans to sell direct on eBay, how...
- External links 2009-09-20
- Amazon Expands Private Label Offerings with AmazonBasics
- Scot Wingo submits: AmazonAMZN announced, and it was covered by the AP, that it is expanding it's private label business with the introduction of AmazonBasics. It appears there are 30 products being offered so far (something we'll track) and they fall into the Consumer Electronic 'accessories'...
- External links 2009-09-20
- Is Sears Set to Launch Its Own Third-Party Marketplace?
- Scot Wingo submits: It's been less than a month since Wal-mart WMT launched their own third-party marketplace to much fan-fare. Wednesday, I was tipped off by a reader that noticed the text: "Are you a merchant? Sell your item on Sears." while shopping on sears.com. The text+link...
- External links 2009-09-16
- Has eBay Turned a Growth Corner?
- Scot Wingo submits: We were recently evaluating our August results and saw an interesting data point that I wanted to share with readers. One of the measurements we follow closely is Same Store Sales - this basically compares the current year period (August 09 in this example) to...
- External links 2009-09-10
- Amazon vs. eBay: 2 Charts Say It All
- Scot Wingo submits: James Mitchell at a little firm called Goldman Sachs, put out an interesting report Monday that seemed to address concerns around pressure that video game console declining sales put on Amazon AMZN for Q2. In there he looks at some of the 'heartbeat' metrics of...
- External links 2009-08-04
- Major Changes Announced by eBay: Part II
- Scot Wingo submits: This is part II of a III part 'eBay Strategies' series detailing and reacting to eBay's EBAY second round of 2009 changes announced today (aka the Summer release or what they call SR2 internally@eBay). Part I covers the search and seller efficiency changes and...
- External links 2009-07-27
- Major Changes Announced by eBay
- Scot Wingo submits: This is part I of a III part 'eBay Strategies' series detailing and reacting to eBay's second round of 2009 changes announced Monday (aka the Summer release or what they call SR2 internally@eBay). Part I you are here covers the search and seller efficiency changes.Part II...
- External links 2009-07-27
- eBay Search: There's a New Sheriff in Town
- Scot Wingo submits: Outgoing Sheriff - Jamie IonnoneNew Sheriff - Hugh Williams I've been pretty vocal that while the recent eBay EBAY changes are in the right direction, I don't think they nailing the top 20 priorities. Everyone always asks, what do you think the top priorities are? ...
- External links 2009-06-25
- eBay Rolls Out More of the 'Top Rated Sellers' Program in Search - Sellers Aren't Happy
- Scot Wingo submits: I've had several inbound 'flame mails' about a change eBay EBAY made this week as part of their roll out of the SR2 release. I wanted to show everyone what's going on and get a pulse from readers on where you stand. BackgroundBack in late...
- External links 2009-09-30
- September Same Store Sales: eBay Continues Growth Trend
- Scot Wingo submits: We just completed collating our September same-store-sales (SSS) data for all of the channels we support at ChannelAdvisor (search, CSE, marketplaces, etc) and there are a couple of interesting data points to discuss as we exit Q3 and head into Q4. Overall e-commerce First, here's the...
- External links 2009-10-05
- Amazon Leads the Pack in October Same Store Sales
- Scot Wingo submits: The ChannelAdvisor Same Store Sales October results are in and there were a couple of interesting trends that could indicate how the Q4 holiday season is going to shake out. This figure shows the results for 2009 so far graphically: click to enlarge by Scot Wingo
- External links 2009-11-11
- The eBay Ad Campaign Has Begun: Will It Help?
- Scot Wingo submits: Last week, eBay EBAY previewed one TV ad from its 'Come to think of it' campaign. Seller reaction was negative with an occasional positive of 'at least they are doing something this year' as you can see in the comments of that post. ...
- External links 2009-11-03
- eBay Set to Launch New Ad Campaign
- Scot Wingo submits: eBay EBAY has revealed that they are going to launch a multi-media (TV, print and certainly online). The over-arching them is: "Come to think of it, eBay." This is not only news-worthy, but a big deal for eBay sellers so let's dig in...
- External links 2009-11-01
- Amazon: What's Your PayPhrase? Feisty Mango?
- Scot Wingo submits: Thursday, Amazon AMZN announced an interesting development/feature with their payments offering (and of course it works on Amazon.com) called PayPhrase. You can read the details here. Essentially an Amazon customer creates a PayPhrase which is a combination of a PIN and a >...
- External links 2009-10-29
- Amazon Crushes Third Quarter
- Scot Wingo submits: Thursday Amazon AMZN announced Q3 results that exceeded expectations and then they put out Q4 guidance that was well above analyst consensus. Shares were up over 12% in after-hours trade. There were some really interesting tidbits in the results and the conference call that...
- External links 2009-10-23
- eBay Manages Expectations - Perhaps Too Well
- Scot Wingo submits: eBay's EBAY results are out and the stock is down 5% or so in after hours trade. Q3 looked like a good solid 'meet/beat' Q, so let's dig in and see what's up. Q3 - the turnaround in marketplaces seems to be working. by Scot Wingo
- External links 2009-10-21
- Amazon, Wal-Mart Battle Over Books
- Scot Wingo submits: Starting Thursday (10/15/09) there was some interesting back and forth between Wal-mart WMT and Amazon AMZN that I wanted to give Amazon Strategies readers a blow by blow of: First blow: (10/14 - in the am) - Wal-mart announces they will offer 10...
- External links 2009-10-18
- Amazon Launches Same Day Delivery in 7 Metro Areas
- Scot Wingo submits: Amazon AMZN Thursday announced a new delivery option called "Local Express Delivery" (ALED) in seven markets. This service gives buyers same day delivery with a cut off that varies per city. The brilliant part of the program is that Amazon Prime users get the...
- External links 2009-10-15
- Amazon and eBay in Satisfaction Survey
- Scot Wingo submits: Super busy this week but wanted to throw a couple of news items out there: Gene Munster @ PJC has an interesting piece out Wednesday on eBay EBAY (and Amazon AMZN - check amazon strategies for details on that one.). Every quarter they do a...
- External links 2009-06-24
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