Mike Ober, Senior Director of Yahoo! Small Business

This was a very popular presentation! Lots of Tweets that I wish I could still access for you

Victor Nappe, SafetyPay

Unfortunately, this is another presentation I was unable to attend and haven’t been able to find information online. I also lost my search on twitter so I can’t post the tweets from this one. If anyone knows how to recover older tweets – I would love to know. search.twitter.com only goes back a couple of days, it seems.

Search Engine Optimization for eCommerce Web Sites
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) presents a unique set of challenges for online retailers. Where should I add content? Which of my thousands of products should I optimize for? How can I get quality backlnks? The list goes on and on. Network Solutions will take you through best practices for on-page optimization, and present a link-building strategy that works- all set against the backdrop of eCommerce. Find out how to optimize your eCommerce site and take your business to the next level. Harry Brooks, Network Solutions

Harry Brooks, Network Solutions

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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!

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The Next presentation was the ‘eBay Townhall’. This was handled pretty well. They had microphones to run around the audience and allow folks to directly ask questions. My only frustration was similar to the one ColderIce expressed when he recorded his Wednesday 114 show with Dave White on the eBay and Beyond radio show live from the summit. The recording hasn’t been cleaned up and isn’t online yet but I do remember one line that I totally agreed with! “Who cares what you (the Seller) think about FREE SHIPPING - it isn’t about what YOU want – it’s about what your BUYERS want!” John, if I got that wrong – pop in and clear it up!

In my opinion all the questions about Free shipping just took away from the time we could have all been asking about other things to do with the Ebay portion of our business. I admit, several folks made good sense;  in particular I remember the one who talked about eBay revenues going up with beingn able to collect FVFs on the shipping

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cost, and the one who sold very heavy items. However, eBay is folllowing the customers and all signs point to buyers demading this option. If you can, find a way to make it work for your business. If you can’t, sell somewhere else, or stop complaining about the benefits eBay is giving to Free shipping.  eBay offers lots of promotions – most of which dont aply to my items, but I take advantage of the ones that do and move on past the ones that don’t.

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• mommytoaaj: RT @ebayinkblog Free shipping is dominating the eBay Q&A – 3 of the 5 questions so far have focused on it #ecom09
• ebayinkblog: Question came in asking why eBay Motors doesn’t have the same algorithms, etc. as the rest of marketplace #ecom09
• ebayinkblog: #ecom09 Brings me to a quick eBay Twitter tip: @askebaymotors and @ebaymotors are both on Twitter and are willing/able to help and inform
• mattledford: RT @philleahy: New functionality 2 reduce unpaid items 2 be released soon. eBay 2 issue the UPI process not the Seller #ecom09 gd thing!
• mattledford: @singlefeed #ecom09 : standing room only, “set it and forget it doesn’t work”
• mommytoaaj: RT @katskloset: #ecom09 question re: automatic UPIs – can sellers set preferences? answer – YES