Category: services

  • AuctionWally calls out eBay CEO

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    Aaron Traffas
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    We have to admit that we’ve been following recent events at eBay with a little bit of schadenfreude. We’ve always held the position that someone who sells on eBay isn’t an auctioneer. eBay is the auctioneer that outsources the work of listing items to its sellers. Over the last few years, we’ve seen eBay shift…

  • Internet auction calendars offer inexpensive marketing power

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    Aaron Traffas
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    If the most important component of an auctioneers website is the upcoming auction calendar, the most important component of a new-media marketing campaign after his website is the Internet auction calendar. The concept of an Internet auction calendar is an aggregation of auctions from many auctioneers in one place. The benefit to consumers is that…

  • Dataopedia lists public information about websites

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    Aaron Traffas
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    Have you ever wanted a quick way to learn all you can about a website?  A new web services called dataopedia.com makes it easy to view data like web stats, registrar information and links and stories from social networks. Note that the first search for a website seems to be a little sluggish, probably because…

  • Auction Listing Specialist Certification not for auctioneers

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    Aaron Traffas
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    We’ve received some search traffic from users searching for the phrase Auction Listing Specialist. As involved as we are with the National Auctioneers Association (NAA) and not ever hearing of such a course or designation, we decided to search it out as any responsible skeptic would. It seems that Auction Listing Specialist is a course…

  • Last.fm streams music, scrobbles

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    Aaron Traffas
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    We’ve recently become fans – nay, a fanatics – of social music site Last.fm. It could be described as Internet radio, but with several twists that make it also a music recommendation engine. We started using the service several years ago, but only recently figured out how to truly integrate it into the day-to-day routine.…