Are you getting traffic to your site but not getting sales? What’s happening when a customer gets there that makes them leave?

Conversion optimization is here to the rescue! This important site evaluation can help you understand the habits of your potential customers and learn how to increase conversions…

Nothing beats a good deal, and during these couple weeks we saw that first hand. We teamed up with Floyd’s Coffee Shop in Portland to launch the Google Offers beta, a new product that brings Portlanders daily deals from local businesses…

Starting today, list up to 12 vehicles nationally and locally for FREE. Pay only if you sell!

Now you can list up to 6 vehicles FREE in a calendar year. You’ll pay no Insertion Fees for Auction-style or Fixed Price listings that go to a national audience. When your vehicle sells, you’ll pay a low Successful Listing Fee…

Good news for sellers in Books, Music, Movies & DVDs, and Video Games categories! The special offer for Fixed Price items listed with Product Details (pre-filled item information) has been extended through December 31, 2011:

List in Fixed Price for a 5¢ Insertion Fee (Note: Video Game Systems not included)…

It’s been a while coming but I’ve managed to kill two birds with one stone:

Do my first ever video interview – woohoo!!
Snag Dino Dogan from Triberr.com for this interview.

Interview Highlights:

Details about Triberr – covering how it came about, how to become a member, making  the most of your time on the site, what are bones and they work and the naked stats…

Magento was introduced in 2008 and, almost immediately, it attained the status of an instant hit as online software. Magento ecommerce is the way to go since it is state-of-the-art ecommerce software, designed especially for customization and management of online stores. Due to its stupendous flexibility, Magento development has reached the zenith of the world of web development…

Your goal as an auction coordinator is to maximize your silent auction proceeds. In order to do this, you need to make it as easy as possible for each bidder to bid as high as she’s willing to go for each silent auction item.

With this in mind, one of the most important things you can do is stagger the closing times of your silent auction sections…

Over the weekend, we rolled out a new version of ReadySetAuction. The new release brings a much-requested feature to our Premier service: the ability to sell single items, or sets of the same item, at a fixed per-item price through your auction website. Examples of such single and multi-sale fixed-price items might include:

40 tickets to a Girls-Only Poker Party
25 t-shirts with your organization’s logo
1 gift certificate to a restaurant
100 team pendants for your school’s sports team
3 all-inclusive trips to the Bahamas

It’s flexible enough for you to sell virtually anything that your organization can think up or your donors can provide…

Google I/O is coming up just a week from today, and the Commerce track will showcase some of the newest ways to buy and sell online. In the Commerce sessions, Google product developers and their guests will explain and show examples of how to use Google tools to monetize your business.

Web application developers may be especially interested in the In-App Payments session of the Commerce track…

New features now available in My eBay help you manage your purchase history, payment and shipping activity, and watched items more easily. Now you can:

See up to 3 years worth of purchases. Whether you need to keep an eye on domestic and international purchases (which can take time to arrive), identify sellers you want to buy from again, or retrieve information for tax purposes, you can now see ALL your purchases on eBay…

When using ReadySetAuction to conduct an online auction prior to your silent/live event auction, you can choose whether each item in your online catalog is for:

view only
pre-bidding for event auction
pre-bidding with absentee bidding during event auction
online-only bidding

Our customers often ask us what types of items are best suited to each category…

Post Office Price: $1.71 + $0.80 for Delivery Confirmation™ = $2.51

eBay and PayPal Label price: $1…

Welcome to our third and final roundtable on comparison shopping engines (CSEs).
In today’s episode, Bryan and Molly teach me the importance of paid versions of CSEs, such as Nextag and PriceGrabber…

Does this sound familiar?
It’s shaped to be a normal day for your online business…

Why shopping cart?
The shopping cart software helps to keep track of numerous orders, and it allows us to see everything a buyer ordered at one time. In many cases, a custom shopping cart is connected to online inventory so that a seller knows if he has enough of the product to fulfill his orders…

Judy Chang checking in from PayPal’s non-profit team with some exciting news to share. Yesterday marked the official launch of WeFeedBack, an initiative we first showcased at Innovate 2010 in partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the world’s largest humanitarian agency tasked with eradicating global hunger…

In my last post, I addressed the issue of friends vs. strangers when it comes to delivering trusted opinions to shoppers online. Shoppers can’t always get the information they need from their friends, so brands should gather opinions from their customers – strangers to other shoppers – to help shoppers find the right products for them…

buySAFE and AspDotNetStorefront today announced a partnership to integrate the buySAFE Guaranteed seal into the ML8 and Multistore platforms, providing AspDotNetStorefront customers with simple (one-click) implementation and discounted pricing…