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Whoops from woot.com

Posted in Cool Ecomm sites, tagged on October 22, 2008 | No Comments »

How can woot.com be so dang funny?
WOOT, INC. INTERNAL EMAIL
STAFF EYES ONLY
Attention Woot employees -
We are now entering the final phase of preparations for the Woot-Off planned for midnight tonight. This is when we depart from our usual deal-a-day model and sell one product after another, offering a new deal as soon as [...]

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Statcounter.com’s SEO Guidance

Posted in Cool Ecomm sites, tagged on October 3, 2008 | No Comments »

The guy running Statcounter.com runs a great service. He wasn’t successful overnight so I respect him ever more.
Here’s his take on SEO: http://blog.statcounter.com/
It will take me at least an hour to study this post because there is a lot of supporting info.

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Seo Book Blog is good reading

Posted in Cool Ecomm sites, tagged on October 2, 2008 | No Comments »

http://www.seobook.com/blog publishes an overwhelming amount of information each day. However, it’s organized in sections so that you can grab a thought or snippet to digest.
One thing I picked up is the use of the rel=”nofollow” link attribute. I had thousands of clicks on ePN from MSN’s bot crawling my site the other day. [...]

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WatchedItem.com is alive!

Posted in Cool Ecomm sites, eBay, tagged on August 28, 2008 | No Comments »

WatchedItem.com

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My BigCrumbs referrer

Posted in Cool Ecomm sites, tagged on August 14, 2008 | No Comments »

I clicked on a link on the BigCrumbs.com home page and found one of my referrers. I think I first clicked through to BigCrumbs from Auction Bytes.

This person has 17,800 people in their network and earned about $2,700. That’s around $130 per month. Very interesting. I love hard numbers.

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You Looking at Me…Looking at You…Looking at Me

Posted in Cool Ecomm sites, tagged , on August 12, 2008 | No Comments »

Someone posted one of my husband’s photos on Digg. It got 990 diggs so far and was on the front page for a few hours. The comments are wickedly hilarious!!!

http://digg.com/pets_animals/You_Looking_at_Me_Looking_at_You_Looking_at_Me

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My blog’s domain is now WatchedItemEndingSoon.com

Posted in Cool Ecomm sites, tagged on July 22, 2008 | No Comments »

I just changed the domain for this blog to WatchedItemEndingSoon.com (from WatchedItem.com). We’re getting ready to use WatchedItem.com for a new dynamic banner maker site.
WatchedItem has been a long time in the making. Have you heard the rule for developing a product? “Quality, low cost or fast. Pick two.” I [...]

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BigCrumbs account shows detailed purchase activity

Posted in Cool Ecomm sites, tagged on June 26, 2008 | No Comments »

Someone is buying a lot of stuff online this week. In my BigCrumbs.com account, I can see that my referrals purchased 11 items for $1,095 in the past 7 days. That’s about the most I’ve seen in a week on my account. 10 items for $1,049 were purchased on eBay.com.
My cut of [...]

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eBay Dev Conf day 1

Posted in Cool Ecomm sites, eBay, tagged , on June 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The big eBay announcement today was project Echo. It gives solutions providers valuable real estate within eBay’s Selling Manager. It should be in beta released in January. eBay wasn’t clear if they will charge the 3rd party solutions providers for this service.

http://developer.ebay.com/echo/
http://developer.ebay.com/echo/project-echo-brief.pdf
There was a good session from Adam Trachtenberg, the Senior [...]

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Amazon Web Services reduces cost for startups

Posted in Cool Ecomm sites, tagged , on April 16, 2008 | No Comments »

I got a visitor from Amazon AWS yesterday.

In the past week, I’ve decided to use AWS for my banner maker processing and storage instead of dedicated servers. My driver is efficiency - both in terms of money and computing resources.
Here’s a summary of Amazon Web Services:
Amazon now allows businesses to “rent” computing [...]

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BigCrumbs now saves you more than FatWallet

Posted in Cool Ecomm sites, tagged , , on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »

Vince at BigCrumbs.com brought this to my attention. In my previous post comparing the two savings sites, the numbers I used for BigCrumbs must have been CrumbEarner rates, not CrumbSaver rates.
BigCrumbs.com CrumbSavers save more than FatWallet.com users on 5 out of 6 randomly chosen online sites.
Here’s the apples to apples comparison - revised today 1/22:

SharperImage.com

BigCrumbs [...]

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FatWallet members rank on Big-Boards.com

Posted in Cool Ecomm sites, tagged , , , on January 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »

A recent comment inspired another one of my researching jaunts when I should be working.
Mermaid said,
I joined fatwallet to see what it was all about… there’s absolutely no incentive to refer others and they aren’t very good at developing a community (no personal pictures). They simply don’t believe in the power of viral marketing. I [...]

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