Update on the Worlds first Social Auction…

Yesterday about this time, I launched the first Twitter-powered online auction using twitter+google spreadsheets+google forms+this blog.

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What matters most to consumers: free shipping, low prices, or coupons?

eBay Strategy readers - I'm excited to introduce a guest post from ChannelAdvisor's COO, David Spitz.

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The first social auction - auctions meet twitter, facebook and blogging

I was chatting with some entrepreneurs lately that are active in the social space and we got to brainstorming some concepts about the intersection of ecommerce and social media.

It occured to me that auctions+twitter+social are a great possible marriage.

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eBay vs. Amazon in the Twitterverse

I was doing some research into Twitter-apps and found a neat one that lets you trend mentions of various topics over time and even compare two.  It was interesting to see Amazon mentioned nearly 2x over eBay on twitter.

Has eBay lost it’s place in the heart of America?  Is Amazon being discussed because of their web services and there’s a geek-skew to Twitter?  Is this app just plain wrong?

I don’t know, but thought I’d share.  Here’s the graph that should update in real time if you want to keep checking in:

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eBay vs. Amazon in the Twitterverse

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New white paper - eBay Spring Changes Analysis and Recommendations

At ChannelAdvisor, we've been diligently studying the Spring Changes that eBay announced last week and talking to both sellers and eBay for more information.

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