eBay transforming to online mall?

Online auction giant, eBay, yesterday announce measures that seem to complete its creeping transformation from a purely auction website to a shopping mall. The new changes will encourage more fixed-price sellers,This new changes is aimed at new customers who are not keen about auctions, just prefer to buy goods at fixed-prices. The move will also encourage larger organisations to have a store on ebay.
At present, ebay said 43% of its global sale revenue  are at fixed prices and growing, revenue from fixed-price item is expected to catch up with revenue from auction eventually.

While openly courting new businesses, especially larger retailer to have and outlet on eBay where goods can be sold at fixed-prices, ebay is also try to keep its army of 170,000 or so sellers happy by cutting list prices of goods but increasing commission on sale, this reverses the recent increases in listing prices which provoked a revolt among many of its sellers.

To assure buyers that eBay is not a den of dodgy Del boy style traders, ebay is increasing its seller protection for people using PayPal from £500 – £30,000.  eBay is undoubtedly the most popular shopping destination for UK Internet bargain hunters, it is claimed that 2 out of 3 online British shopper visits ebay once a month, helping to contribute significantly to ebay £30 billion a year worldwide turnover. It remains to be seen whether its new changes will answer its wall street critics claim that ebay has little room for growth.

You can discuss ebay and other ecommerce related issues at Boss Cart eCommerce forum

Making Money through E Commerce

E Commerce is the process of buying and selling goods across the internet. Since the internet has universal reach, going beyond physical boundaries and making customers and retailers interact virtually, it has become one of the most sought after sectors by companies, big and small alike.
The most important reason for the success of E Commerce is the fact that it provides an electronic storefront to send and receive payments.

Does E Commerce really work? Yes, it does. It’s beneficial to the consumers as well as the store owners. From the store owner’s point of view, the reach of the product is universal and serves the customer according to their individual needs. From the customer’s point, they save on traveling, fuel, time and get door delivery of everyday goods also.

The money made through e commerce has exceeded more than $1.8 trillion as of 2004. And so, yes, a lot of money is involved in this business. But there are certain tips you must keep in mind while trading through e commerce:

1.    Be original and be creative. Give your customers a reason to visit your site and buy your product. Kindle their curiosity.
2.    Make the customer feel they are important and make sure there are products to suit everyone’s needs.
3.    Include the product in your signature in order to increase traffic to your site when you send them weekly sales letters.
4.    Not to forget, the sales letter must be written by you. This will make you seem more approachable for queries and transactions.
5.    Optimize the search engine. Search engines are the reason for most of the site trafficking.
6.    The most effective way of optimizing is to get accurate keywords so that people are not misled.

find out more information about how to make money from ecommerce at boss cart UK

Birmingham Half Marathon for Amnesty International

My friend Nick Byng invited me to join him in running Birmingham half marathon on the 26th of October, I accepted his invitation and registered, that was the easy part. The challenging bit is to be fit enough to run 13 miles, I am doing quite well so far, I am sure I will manage it, I will try avoiding breaking the world record for the person who run 13 miles at the slowest possible time.

I am hoping to use the marathon to raise money for Amnesty international, you can sponsor me by donating to Amnesty International via this page.

While you are here, why not visit the page Nick put up for his own run and sponsor him as well if possible.

I hope to be running the Birmingham half marathon again this year. I have been training with Hereford Running club, wye valley runners

Link Bid Script 5 directories offer

Link Bid Script popularly know as LBS, a bid for position directory script which recently evolved into a full fledged web directory script released the latest version, V1.5 today and announce the release date for V1.6.
The only significant difference between version 1.5 and 1.6 is that there is a network feature in V1.6 which allow sites submitted to one directory in network to automatically add the submitted site to all the other directories in that network.

To promote the release of LBS 1.6 a competition to win 5 domain name, 5 web hosting account and five installation of LBS 1.6 details of the competition can be found below.

Why star small when you can start big? Why pay for a bidding directory script when you can have LBS free of charge?

Imagine having 5 web directories with the hosting, the script, domain name and script installation done for you, imagine that the 5 five web directories are networked so that when site is submitted to one directory, it will be automatically added to the remaining 4 directories in the networks!

That is what you can win in this competition brought to you in collaboration with Link Bid Script. More information about this competition follows:

You can be the proud owner of a network of 5 directories powered by Link Bid Script.
* This competition will be run for 4 ( four ) weeks. At the end of the competition the winner will get his prize.
* Participant should be members of UKWebmasterWorld Forums
* To win, you need to submit UNIQUE article about web directories, your article can be on any aspect of web directory.
* Minimum words in your article should be 400.
* Mihai Jepan is the judge of this competition, the article he considers to be the best wins the competition.

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The winner will get:
* 5 Domain names
* 5 Web Hosting account on 5 C-class IP address
* Installation of LBS Directory software
* Free blog post to help you start your network promo going.

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How to enter
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* Register your interest at this thread on Link Bid Script forum.