The Top-rated seller (TRS) program, is a program implemented by eBay to recognize sellers who consistently deliver a superior level of service to their buyers. As an easy way for buyers to recognize these kinds of sellers, eBay currently places a Top-rated seller badge next to each of the seller’s listings. In September of 2012, [...]

We are always looking for insight from online sellers and we have a brief survey and drawing underway. The drawing is a $300 Drawing (for Six $50 Gift Cards) and we would love to hear from online merchants! Complete one or both brief surveys, and we will send you the aggregated results, where you can [...]

  The Early Days The late 90’s saw more than a few rises (and busts) in the Internet sector. One particular industry seemed to come out of nowhere and quickly made a name for itself: comparison-shopping. Names like NexTag, BizRate and PriceGrabber took the unorganized world of online retail shopping and listed it by price. [...]

(Image Courtesy of mnsc) Retail has been ‘moving to the cloud’ for a long time: Amazon’s market capitalization had sailed past Target, Home Depot, Best Buy, and Costco by March of 2010, and just a few weeks ago, on July 27th, their market cap passed $100B. Now non-retail businesses and governmental organizations are headed for the [...]

If you’re one of Facebook’s 650 million active users, you’ve seen some changes implemented into the site during your tenure there. Apps that integrate your Facebook with your Twitter, your iPhone and other tech gadgets were a huge hit with Facebook users.  Zynga, getting ready for an IPO, has done so thanks to its domination [...]

There has been quite a bit of excitement over the +1 button, Google’s response to the Facebook Like button.  It was made available today for public usage and may worth a try. What is the Google +1 button? The purpose of the +1 button is for Google to continue to help its users discover the [...]