Kabbage  has finally launched and eBay sellers are getting more Kabbage for their business right NOW!!  Be sure and sign up at Kabbage.com to be considered for YOUR ecommerce advance ~ more working capital to grow your business.  If approved, your Kabbage advance is deposited directly into your Paypal account within just minutes of application, and can be paid back in 30 days or six months, or anytime in between with no prepayment penalty.  Use Kabbage to invest in more inventory for the holidays, buy new technology to run your business more efficiently, or build a fulfillment center!  Whatever you need to grow your business, Kabbage is there to help you do just that.

Many thanks to Kabbage for sponsoring eCommerce Merchants eBay on Location events and RRB Radio!  See you in San Jose!

Enjoy the video interview w/Marc Gorlin of Kabbage from #ebayOL Dallas.  You can follow Kabbage on Twitter @KabbageInc.   You can listen to the entire RRB Radio interview by clicking here!

If you have received a Kabbage advance already, we would love to hear from you, be sure to comment below!

This is the first of many videos to come from eBay On Location in Dallas!!

5 Minutes w/Richard Brewer-Hay of eBayInkBlog @ eBay On Location Dallas

Lynn Dralle is featured guest on RRB Radio May 19, 2010 8 pm ET

I am happy to welcome Lynn Dralle, the Queen of Auctions on RRB Radio tonight, Wednesday, May 19th, 2010!! You can join the podcast live and call in with your questions! Go to RRBradio.com for more info!

Joining me as guest co-host tonight is Jennifer Foster, aka Jarsie on eBay, who is also the Assistant Organizer of the Fort Worth eBay Seller Group! This will be a fun show, as we recap eBay OL Dallas, and talk about the eBay Radio Party where Lynn and I will both be presenters! Hope you can join us!! You can call in with your questions, or join us in the live chat room! That’s half the fun of the show!! We are on Talkshoe, Call ID 34406.

Archives of all past shows are available online for you to listen to 24/7 while you list!! Go to RRBradio.com

I welcome your comments and feedback!!

I cannot tell you how honored I am to be mentioned among only four other podcasts, number one being eBay Radio, with Jim Griffith (Griff) and Lee Mirabal!  Wooohoooooo!  Also on this list is John Lawson, of ColderICE, a ecommerce podcaster/blogger, and of course, Dave White, Host of eBay and Beyond, Basics to Business, with whom I co-host w/Kat Simpson on Monday’s 12 noon Central time.

RBH has joined our podcast on more than a few occasions and is a favorite guest.  Richard also frequents our live chat room on TalkShoe of both eBay & Beyond and RRB Radio!  He adds insights, asks questions, and contributes when he can join us.

On April 2, 2010 eBayInkBlog celebrated its second birthday and I’d like to personally thank RBH for a great blog, complete with his insights, honesty, and integrity.  eBay Ink brought eBay into the 21st century with the latest news and happenings at eBay, his “5 minutes with,…” video segments, and behind the scenes interviews.  He has set the standard for corporate social media savvy, and has become quite the corporate blogger rock star! You can always find Richard blogging or tweeting about what’s going on at eBay at eBayInkBlog.com.  Thank you again for your mention of RRB Radio on eBay Ink!  I hope to see you in our chat room again real soon.  You are welcome to join us any time.

RBH blogs about his favorite ecommerce podcasts

I began this blog post but failed to publish it awhile back,… it’s never to late to post gratitude!  Thanks again, Richard, you ROCK!

If you have not visited eBay Ink, be sure to stop by and check it out, post a comment, and sign up for email alerts at eBayInkBlog.com.

You can follow RBH on Twitter @eBayInkBlog & RRB Radio on Twitter @RRBradio.

Join RRB Radio live every Wednesday night 8 pm ET at RRBradio.com or on TalkShoe call ID 34406.  You can enjoy our archives of  every episode 24/7.

You can listen to EJ’s interview by clicking here and listening to Episode 8.

You can also use the ‘podcast pickle’ widget on any page to listenn to Episode 8. EJ, we are so happy for you and hope to have you back on for an interview soon.

2009 Award winners include:

• DSR Rockstar: Seller Machine CRM by BengalOne
• Most Innovative: Dynamic pricing feature by Monsoon
• Early Adopter: Mercent Retail for eBay by Mercent
• Service to the Developer Community: Jake Becker (helios825) of WatchCount.com
• Rapid Evolution: Sales Manager by InkFrog

2009 Runners-up include:

• DSR Rockstar: Instant mobile alerts for sellers by ahTEXT
• Most Innovative: Vendio Research by Vendio
• Early Adopter: Detailed records of DSR scores by DSR Report
• Service to the Developer Community: David Kronenwetter (exdwh) of Experimenter’s Discount Warehouse
• Rapid Evolution: ShipRush by Z-Firm

I also want to give a big SHOUT OUT to our friends at Vendio – who were on the show on Episode 15 and you can check that out. For their truly witty, sarcastic and Hilarious Press Release about their runner-up status. Click here to read the entire thing! Well done, guys!

Markus Kroeger, Managing Director of Moneybookers

Moneybookers is a newly approved company for eBay sellers to use as a payment option. I have to admit that before the summit I referred to them as ‘that Australian company’ and wondered why I should bother. I already have both PayPal and Propay so I didn’t see the point in adding another! But, after meeting the two guys from MoneyBookers, talking to them and listening to Dave interview them, I’m ready to sign up and looking forward to seeing Markus again in Vegas!  Some of the things I learned from Markus were that moneybookers has been operating across Europe for several years and they actually have a program available there to guarantee against CHARGEBACKS!  Cool, eh?  And they hope to soon be offering it to merchants here in the US. I also met their security chief and he gave me a lot of  confidence in their system. I am also convinced that since Europeans are familiar with the MoneyBookers name, it is a service I should offer to make my European customers more confident and secure!

presented by Michael Levit of Vendio, VP of marketing and Business Development at Vendio

This is THE presentation I regret missing. Since I didn’t want my arm broken, LOL, I attended Peggy Duncan’s presentation and enjoyed that very much! But I really wish there had been a way to see BOTH! So, here is what I’ve been able to collect from around the internet.

Michael & Vendio very generously uploaded the entire presentation on slideshare:

Vendio: How to Cost Effectively Sell on eBay, Amazon, Your Store and more…

View more OpenOffice presentations from Vendio.

Plus, there were all these tweets – so it’s ALMOST as good as being there

• mattledford: #ecom09 : #Vendio Michael Levit EVP Sales & Marketing, Good News: ecommerce=growth market!
• Vendio_Crystal: #ecom09 M. Levit from Vendio – eBay not looking so good
• mattledford: @vendio #ecom09 : Wow neg growth rate transaction volume of #ebay looks lk falling off a cliff rlly only negative a couple percent, very …
• Vendio_Crystal: #ecom09 M. Levit from Vendio – Where should you invest your time. Many verticals popping up. Not enough? Requires work
• Vendio_Crystal: #ecom09 M. Levit from Vendio – compete.com / alexsa – How do you know where to invest your time
• Vendio_Crystal: #ecom09 M. Levit from Vendio – Invest time in a store. eBay and Amazon still the best return for time spent
• mattledford: #ecom09 : @Vendio Levit: Got investment? work on building out your store!!
• Vendio_Crystal: #ecom09 – M. Levit from Vendio – Consumers using online search – need to focus on search
• Vendio_Crystal: #ecom09 – Focus your efforts – focus on a few. Have analytics, automation, fewer things – more return
• Vendio_Crystal: #ecom09 – Start at purchase – Research – do you REALLY know how it will sell?
• Vendio_Crystal: #ecom09 – Inventory management – recipe for disaster if not managed – Overselling means you have to choose who gets your product
• mattledford: #ecom09 : @Vendio Levit: sum sellers R finding ebay unprofitable. If U arnt a low cost leader, U may need 2 expand/move… & Create yr o ..
• Vendio_Crystal: #ecom09 – M. Levit from Vendio – employ analytics and reporting to choose your channels
• mattledford: #ecom09 : @Vendio Levit: standing room only. room b very popular 2day!
• Vendio_Crystal: #ecom09 – M. Levit form Vendio – rank, prioritize and automate day-to-day tasks. Where do you spend your time
• Vendio_Crystal: #ecom09 – M. Levit – Amazon 1/3 focused on third party sellers – Amazon fighting for search and mind share
• See – ALMOST as good as being there
  

I missed this session as I was in the eBay Town hall so am posting all the reviews and information from the net – if you have llinks or information to share, please comment!

eCommerceSummit Atlanta 2009.1

Ebay got the honor of kicking off the summit, which seems fitting to me. Most of us at least got our start there, even those not actively selling there right now. Todd Luttwach, Senior Director of Seller Development, was the speaker and his presentation was titled ‘The Evolving Ebay Marketplace’.

He was introduced by Jonathan of Gotham City Online. This is the presentation where Todd got down on his knees. It was a surprising moment and really loosened everyone up. Todd was speaking and I remember that he started his speech saying the eBay wanted to apologize to the sellers for 2008. He said they realized they had tried to change too much too fast and they were truly sorry. There was absolutely no response, it was one of those ‘hushed’ moments. Then a lady sitting in the front row looked right up into Todd’s face and said ‘Get on your knees’ and he DID! The crowd roared and it truly lightened the mood.

• ebayinkblog: “eBay’s goal is to be the online marketplace of choice. We serve both buyers & sellers.” – Todd Lutwak #ecom09
• ebayinkblog: “We know that buyers, sellers and developers have choices. We’re not the only game in town. But we’ll compete for your biz.” #ecom09
• mommytoaaj: RT @katskloset: #ecom09Lutwak acknowledges eBay is NOT the only game in town and vows to COMPETE for sellers!
• gypsytrading: RT @colderICE: “We realize sellers have choice, we are here to compete and win sellers by competing and winning” Todd of eBay #ecom09 HMMM
• mommytoaaj: RT @colderICE: Cash back, coupons, free shipping, buyers expect and demand these when shopping on line –tod #ecom09
• mommytoaaj: RT @colderICE: 100 million listings on eBay, we (ebay) have the best selection – Todd #ecom09
• ebayinkblog: eBay is competing to win the seller with 1. Velocity 2. Efficiency and 3. Predictability (preferred online channel) #ecom09
• ebayinkblog: 3 years ago: “Everyone knows that there is a cliff at eBay but no one knows how close they’re standing to it.” – Jonathan Garriss #ecom09
• ebayinkblog: It was that statement that made the Seller Dashboard come into being. Todd publicly thanking Jonathan and @PESA for that. #ecom09
• philleahy: Strategy to increase seller efficiencies and limit the number of changes to the platform. #ecom09
• gypsytrading: RT @katskloset: Lutwak gets applause for getting on his knees to apologize sellers! for all the changes in 2008 #ecom09 AND??
• mommytoaaj: RT @colderICE: Predictability (account frozen)made excellent strides by us in last year thx 2 Jonathan & PeSA communicating 2 us-tod #ecom09
• @colderICEPredictably unpredictable? lol…tod #ecom09ebay slides
• ebayinkblog: #ecom09 Graph showing fixed price quantity sold (in millions)…Will see if I can get slides for blog http://yfrog.com/118i3j
• ebayinkblog: #ecom09“There is no such thing as free shipping. Someone has to pay for it.” – Todd Lutwak
• usherml: I love free shipping too #ecom09
• mommytoaaj: RT @colderICE: eBay wants you to test free shipping and they have giving powersellers incentives with double discounts to try it #ecom09
• ebayinkblog: #ecom09eBay paid out more than 3X as much in PowerSeller discounts in Jan ‘09 vs July ‘08
• ebayinkblog: #ecom0980% of eBay PowerSellers are getting discounts at some level
• usherml: Nerd Alert (and I’m 3 seats away): RT: ebayinkblog@colderICE I’m sitting next to you. Are we really tweeting this convo? #ecom09
• ebayinkblog: Eliminate scrolling from buyer experience in your listings. New view item page makes that possible. All info in one place. #ecom09
• philleahy: More detailed DSR reports for sellers including breakdown for local and international. #ecom09
• ebayinkblog: “The name of the game in DSRs is to avoid a 1 or a 2.” – Todd Lutwak, #ecom09
• mattledford: #EbayBucks seen as discount from buyer perspective #ecom09
• ebayinkblog: #ecom09 eBay planning on introducing FAQ tool for sellers to address common buyer questions publicly and upfront
• millionaire224: RT @colderICE: http://twitpic.com/6j46v – NEW First Call Resolution on eBay #ecom09

• philleahy: New functionality to reduce unpaid items to be released soon. eBay to issue the UPI process not the Seller
• #ecom09mattledford: Lutwak gets applause for “We at #ebay realize, there is no such thing as ‘free shipping’” #ecom09

• ebayinkblog: #ecom09 “But it is something that buyers are asking for all the time. ‘Free Shipping’ gives the perception of something for nothing.”
• philleahy: Buyers are now searching for Coupons. BIG TIP: Set up a coupon page on your website! #ecom09