The iPad, this single device gave me the most moving experience of the entire year on the train the evening I received it. It superseded the birth of my youngest that year. A post Christmas, completely unexpected Christmas gift, left me almost speechless and those who know me, know that’s almost unheard of. Flicking through the pictures of the children, growing up, […]
Until I did the maths, I didn’t realise how high eBay had actually set the bar to become a ‘Top Rated Seller’, equally I did not realise how easy it was to potentially knock off a Top Rated Seller either. According to their help file, here you must attain the following: Be a member of the PowerSeller […]
This morning, I received the email I have been looking out for, the one that was had ‘Sorry’ in it from Skype, alas, it was not the one saying ‘Sorry’ from Amazon. To set the background to this article, I recently posted on the email received from Amazon’s CEO Brian McBride, where he could not […]
Firstly, Happy New Year! I’m assuming that the hangover has worn off, apologies have been made to the Neptune statue you so rudely fondled and you’re almost ready for the fresh week ahead. The first week, carries so much optimism, so much hope. Those resolutions are freshly welded in your mind, the walkers are out, the joggers are pushing their limits […]
Following on from early article on My #1 Pet Hate of Poor WebSite Design this one gets #2 place as it drives just as bonkers as the first one. Can you see it yet? The owners of this blog know the issue, they have tried to combat it. Spotted it yet? Blog Navigation Yep, its the […]
Yep you know the type of buyer I am referring to. Since eBay took away the ability to neg these types of people, you can still block them from being able to bid and purchase future items from your eBay ID(s) using the block bidders option in eBay. Block Bidders In eBay You can block them on […]
If you’ve not read the first part, you can catch up on from this link How To: Selling on eBay with more than one eBay ID. I strongly suggest this before continuing. Response The response I received yesterday was hilarious to the previous article, here are two quotes from my email: “What the ***** are you doing Matt? […]
Quite a well thought out email from the MD of Amazon, Brian McBride. Dear Customer, Ensuring that you receive your order in time for Christmas is our number one priority. The recent weather conditions have resulted in backlogs across the entire UK for our delivery partners, but we are in constant communication with them and […]
This is another article where its contents I would have kept to myself, but inline with Project Matthew Ogborne, I am going to use one word a lot in this article, its called ‘leverage’. Lets dive in and find out why you need more than one eBay ID for your business. Underlying Principles Before we […]
Last week I was reading an interesting white paper from UKFast, a hosting provider on ‘What Customers Want’, you can read the paper for yourself here. Within the paper they quote Sir Richard Branson as saying: “Companies that fail to change won’t have a business in 5 years time” While I expect that businesses that […]
This caught my attention a few days back & I’m looking forward to attending, the details and link is below: Attend this webinar and learn how Amazon.com, as a customer of AWS, migrated their own internal IT applications to the cloud. Jon Jenkins, Director of Corporate Applications, will talk about best practices for migrating to […]
This has to be the most ingenious use of the new Facebook layout I have seen to date. So much so I might just have to borrow that for my own use! This shows with a little creativity, that even the dull blue of Facebook can be lifted. Thankfully, Facebook has a far limited set of design options when […]
