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Changes to eBay Bucks reward program: variable earning rate for big retailers?

by T. W. Seller | Mar 22, 2010 | eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky | 4 |

I am a member of the eBay Bucks reward program and I am a big fan of it as a member and as a...

YouHaveIWant: 140 character classified ads for selling on Twitter and Facebook? Jury is still out.

by T. W. Seller | Mar 10, 2010 | Social Networking and Blogging, Testing, Try-outs and Reviews | 10 |

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...

eBay Accounting Assistant Online Version: so busted

by T. W. Seller | Nov 12, 2009 | eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling | 5 |

We’ve discussed the trials and tribulations of eBay Account Assistant on here before. For...

Twitter Lists: If I can’t tweet about them, can I blog about them instead?

by T. W. Seller | Oct 30, 2009 | Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky, Social Networking and Blogging | 0 |

Twitter rolled out a cool new service today that allows you to organize the people you follow into lists. However, they rolled it out for only a select number of users with this prominent message:New! Lists. A great way to...

Hitting Twitter Follow Limits? Bulk manage followers with InRev Twitlin

by T. W. Seller | Jun 8, 2009 | Social Networking and Blogging | 5 |

InRevTwitlin (BETA) Terrible name for a site. But a really great service. I have complained about the new Twitter follow limits before. To recap, Twitter limits how many people you can follow based on how many people are...

I would’ve prefered my book hadn’t been selected for listing on Amazon.com’s Marketplace, Lulu

by T. W. Seller | May 26, 2009 | Beyond Amazon eBay and Etsy: Alternative Marketplaces and Ecommerce options, Publishing: Independent, Small Press, Self, POD | 10 |

In the musical The Producers, there is a very funny part when a choir of obnoxious sounding old...

eBay Bucks (or as I like to call them Anything Points 2.0) are back in Beta but only for some

by T. W. Seller | Apr 8, 2009 | eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Testing, Try-outs and Reviews | 6 |

So just about a year ago (May 2008) eBay unveiled a rewards program called eBay Bucks. It was in Beta and also by invitation only. For some reason, I was one of the people asked to join the Beta program. It was free and, since I...

New Vendio platform is free stand alone webstore that integrates with Amazon or eBay

by T. W. Seller | Mar 4, 2009 | Beyond Amazon eBay and Etsy: Alternative Marketplaces and Ecommerce options, eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling | 6 |

Third Party provider Vendio (who also owns Andale) hit one out of the park today with their announcement of their new selling platform. I haven’t had my preview of the service yet (I am scheduled to speak with them...

When ScribeFire QuickAds says “revamping” do they mean done for good?

by T. W. Seller | Feb 26, 2009 | Misc | 2 |

I have written about ScribeFire QuickAds before on this blog. I am a big fan of ScribeFire itself but their attempt to monetize the plugin with the QuickAds advertising service has thus far left me underwhelemed. While they are...

Amazon gives Authors (self-published or not) a chance to promote themselves with Author Stores

by T. W. Seller | Jan 22, 2009 | Beyond Amazon eBay and Etsy: Alternative Marketplaces and Ecommerce options, Publishing: Independent, Small Press, Self, POD, Testing, Try-outs and Reviews | 0 |

The most exciting new renouncement out of Amazon right now for authors is Author Stores (BETA)....

Quickie: Auctiva Commerce Stores launched in Beta on Jan 20th

by T. W. Seller | Jan 21, 2009 | Beyond Amazon eBay and Etsy: Alternative Marketplaces and Ecommerce options | 0 |

I was getting questions on this so I wanted to post a quick update.Auctiva Commerce, the new webstore offering from Auctiva (formerly known for their eBay third party services) is opened its doors to BETA users on January 20th....

Adjix lets you track, schedule & make money from the links you Tweet on Twitter

by T. W. Seller | Jan 21, 2009 | Social Networking and Blogging, Testing, Try-outs and Reviews | 0 |

Of all the Twitter third party services, the one I am probably most excited about is Adjix. At its most basic, Adjix is a link shortening service much like the popular TinyURL. But while you may be quick to dismiss it as nothing...