I’ve watched the percentage of online sales accelerate while at the same time brick and mortar locations are dropping like flies. Business news outlets report almost daily on more store closings and it makes one question whether the retail landscape has changed forever. As they say, it’s not over until the fat lady sings, but […]
By Cliff Ennico The future of eBay is becoming a little clearer. I was privileged both to attend and speak the recent “eBay Open” seller’s conference in Las Vegas (formerly the eBay Radio Party), which attracted several hundred sellers from around the country despite the summer heat (one smart thing about hosting a conference in […]
This post is sponsored by Samsung. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Although none of the big greeting card companies have yet to market a card for Cyber Monday, it’s one of those special “named days” that virtually everyone knows about today. In fact, online shopping for holiday gifts has grown so much over […]
Is anyone shocked to discover that consumers opt to do business with the seller offering the lower net price when they are shopping for a particular item? If that was the only thing a recent Ohio State survey found, it wouldn’t be news. But this particular research was looking at the impact of sales tax […]
By Cliff Ennico “I have been selling merchandise on eBay and Amazon for some time. I would like to build a ‘brand’ for the merchandise that I sell, but I’m being told that the only way to do that (since I’m not the manufacturer of these goods, only the distributor) is to get an exclusive […]