AuctionWire - Interviews

The Nitty-Gritty of Selling on Amazon.com

admin@auctionwire.info (PurpleCow) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:18:02 +0200

AuctionBytes has seen a surge in interest from readers about selling on multiple marketplaces. In February, we interviewed Amazon.com's Matt Williams to learn more about selling on the Amazon marketplace. In today's issue, we bring you Amazon's answers to questions we commonly hear from online sellers who are considering - or are already - selling on "the river." Questions range from category restrictions to trust-and-safety concerns. Read Amazon's responses to seller questions, and then leave your comments on the AuctionBytes Blog.

By Ina Steiner

The Nitty-Gritty of Selling on Amazon.com

admin@auctionwire.info (PurpleCow) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:19:46 +0200

By Ina Steiner

Life After eBay: An Interview With Meg Whitman

admin@auctionwire.info (PurpleCow) — Tue, 13 May 2008 06:03:38 +0200

My Portfolio colleague Amy Wallace interviewed just-departed eBay CEO Meg Whitman for the May issue. Of course, only a fraction of the interview got in the magazine. So I asked Amy to share the rest here. Other than a few trims, here is the mostly unedited transcript

By Kevin Maney

AuctionBytes Interviews Google Checkout's Prem Ramaswami

admin@auctionwire.info (PurpleCow) — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:59:55 +0200

Google Checkout allows sellers to process payments online, and its new shopping cart feature allows users to give websites "online store" capabilities. Prem Ramaswami, Associate Product Manager for Google Checkout, joins Ina Steiner of AuctionBytes to give us an update on Google's payment service. Ramaswami says Google Checkout's mission is to create the fastest, safest and most convenient shopping method for buyers, while enabling merchants to set up stores with simple point-and-click functionality.

By Ina Steiner

TameBay's Chris Dawson on eBay UK

admin@auctionwire.info (PurpleCow) — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:24:20 +0200

Chris Dawson is the co-founder of eBay-related blog TameBay and a consultant on how to sell via online marketplaces. We asked him a few things about how eBay is developing as an e-commerce channel for businesses in the UK.

On e-consultancy.com

Why the Vista hacker turned to eBay

admin@auctionwire.info (PurpleCow) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:43:17 +0200

Hacker Shane Macaulay says he never intended to harm users by auctioning a laptop with Vista attack code on it. When Shane Macaulay tried to sell the Fujitsu U810 laptop he won in a hacking contest last week, it seemed almost like an April Fool's joke. He said that a top-quality hacker could probably examine the machine's hard drive and dig up the unpatched zero-day exploit code he had used to compromise the computer in the PWN 2 OWN contest that he'd just won. "This laptop is a good case study for any forensics group/company/individual that wants to prove how cool they are, and a live example, not canned of what a typical incident responce sitchiation [sic] would look like," he wrote in his listing.

By Robert McMillan

Can eBays new regime tackle its credibility gap?

admin@auctionwire.info (PurpleCow) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:13:06 +0200

This week saw new eBay CEO John Donahoe taking the helm and ushering in a new era at the online auctioning behemoth. So how will eBays approach change under its new management? Will it become less community focused? And can the new team remove hurdles that have prevented many big brands from investing in eBay sales programmes?

On e-consultancy.com

An Interview with Amazon.com's Matt Williams (Part 2)

admin@auctionwire.info (PurpleCow) — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:08:00 +0100

In an interview last week with Amazon.com's Director of Business Solutions Matt Williams, he talked about options for third-party sellers on Amazon. Part 1 of the interview, which discussed the Selling on Amazon program, was published in the February 17th issue of the AuctionBytes-Update newsletter. Part 2 of the interview follows and covers Webstore by Amazon, a solution that lets sellers create their own branded ecommerce sites, and Amazon's latest offering, Product Ads.

By Ina Steiner

Interview with Alibaba.com's Chairman, Jack Ma

admin@auctionwire.info (PurpleCow) — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:11:22 +0100

Jack Ma talks the past, present and future of Alibaba with the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce's Bulletin staff

On alibaba.bblog.pl

Ecommerce Industry SoundBytes: eBay Seller Conference

admin@auctionwire.info (PurpleCow) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:05:43 +0100

AuctionBytes Editor Ina Steiner interviews Debbie Levitt about next month's As Was Conference for eBay sellers. The podcast interview is available online. The transcript of the interview follows.

By Ina Steiner

Q&A: Craig Newmark, of 'Craigslist' fame, looks back -- and ahead

admin@auctionwire.info (PurpleCow) — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:09:57 +0100

He calls his online creation a 'happy accident'

Twelve years ago, Craigslist.org founder Craig Newmark was still a software programmer at Charles Schwab & Co. But that changed after he began sending out self-composed e-mails to a small group of friends to tell them of cool art exhibits and high-tech events going on in his adopted city of San Francisco. Newmark quit his job, did freelance programming and dove into what he saw as the promise of the Internet as a place to share information. From those original, e-mailed events lists arose Craigslist.org, a mostly free site for online classified ads. It's now grown into listings for some 450 cities and towns around the world, where people can buy and sell, find a date, and barter for goods and services. Newmark, 55, founded Craigslist -- it was incorporated in 1999 -- as a for-profit company, and works there today as a customer service representative. More than 30 million people globally use the site each month. He talked with Computerworld recently about how his site began and where it's going.

By Todd R. Weiss

buySAFE Founder On The Future Of Shopping Carts

admin@auctionwire.info (PurpleCow) — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:02:37 +0100

New features will increase customer conversion and buyer confidence

There are hosted shopping carts, licensed shopping carts and custom carts. Every ecommerce merchant uses a cart, and we've asked Steve Woda, chairman and founder of buySAFE, a firm that offers insurance for the safety and reliability of ecommerce transactions, for his views on the look of a future shopping cart. Since its inception buySAFE has guaranteed over 13,000,000 ecommerce transactions.

On practicalecommerce.com

EBay CMO Tracking ... Everyone

admin@auctionwire.info (PurpleCow) — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:26:36 +0100

How Linton Plans to Battle Amazon, Growing List of Other Retail Rivals. EBay has replaced one of its top sellers, shifting chief-marketing-officer duties from Gary Briggs, who brought the online auction house into the mainstream, to a veteran package-goods and retail marketer, Mike Linton. In an interview with Ad Age, Mr. Linton talked about how he is going to face up to increasing competition in online selling from competitors ranging from Amazon to virtually every other real-world and cyberspace retailer out there.

By Alice Z. Cuneo

Q and A with ebay sellers of NORFED coins and certificates

admin@auctionwire.info (PurpleCow) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:17:55 +0100

I went to ebay and did some Q and A with the sellers who had NORFED items up for auction on ebay to gage their response to the federal raid. I did a little leading questioning of sellers on ebay that had NORFED items for sale up on auction and here is some of that Q&A for my readers.

by Michael McDonnough

Online Retailing: Interview with GiveAGiftBasket.com CEO Tracy Dixon

admin@auctionwire.info (PurpleCow) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:02:50 +0100

GiveAGiftBasket.com CEO Tracy Dixon was interviewed in an AuctionBytes podcast about her Internet retail business. Tracy founded GiveAGiftBasket.com ten years ago after the birth of her first child and continues to run the business out of her home. Tracy said that 90 percent of the time, GiveAGiftBasket is a one-woman show. She talks about the importance of presenting a professional image to her corporate clients.

By Ina Steiner

AuctionWire - Interviews

The Nitty-Gritty of Selling on Amazon.com

The Nitty-Gritty of Selling on Amazon.com

Life After eBay: An Interview With Meg Whitman

By Kevin Maney

AuctionBytes Interviews Google Checkout's Prem Ramaswami

TameBay's Chris Dawson on eBay UK

Why the Vista hacker turned to eBay

Can eBays new regime tackle its credibility gap?

An Interview with Amazon.com's Matt Williams (Part 2)

Interview with Alibaba.com's Chairman, Jack Ma

Ecommerce Industry SoundBytes: eBay Seller Conference

Q&A: Craig Newmark, of 'Craigslist' fame, looks back -- and ahead

buySAFE Founder On The Future Of Shopping Carts

New features will increase customer conversion and buyer confidence

EBay CMO Tracking ... Everyone

Q and A with ebay sellers of NORFED coins and certificates

by Michael McDonnough

Online Retailing: Interview with GiveAGiftBasket.com CEO Tracy Dixon

Can eBays new regime tackle its credibility gap?