I recently got an email from a staff memeber of YHIW or YouHaveIWant.com, a new classified service. I get a lot of similar emails and sometimes I just plain don’t have time to look at the site and sometimes I think the site is dumb so it becomes a case of “If you can’t say [...]
10Mar10
YouHaveIWant: 140 character classified ads for selling on Twitter and Facebook? Jury is still out.
17Feb10
From eBay frustrations to eCrater success: a marketplace review from a seller on both platforms
Of all the new platforms and marketplaces out there, the one that caught my fancy the most recently was eCrater. The biggest selling point is that they are 100% free with no fees. Think of them as a craigslist style posting board that looks and feels more like an e-commerce site like eBay.
Unlike a [...]
There is a big push for big companies to offer more customer support options like Twitter, Facebook and chat. But what about us small businesses? Is email still good enough for us or should we be reaching out to our customers in more ways?
For many years, we used the little HTML section on the header [...]
Someone you follow on Twitter sends out a tweet that says only, “This annoys me” and then a link. You like this person so and are bored at the moment so you click the link. It turns out to be a really helpful, informative blog post. Let’s say it’s about PayPal charge backs and how [...]