Things are busy here with preparations for eBay Live 2007 being held in Boston next week. I'll be scouting the show (and the Developer's Conference) looking for news, tools that can help you sell better, and bringing you the inside scoop on everything going on! Today's first article talks about what's happening at eBay Live this year - including a special pre-screening of a documentary about eBay called Traders' Dreams. We have some free tickets to the event we are giving away.
You can keep up with everything by going to the AuctionBytes special eBay Live coverage section at http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/ebaylive2007 - the section will officially kick off on June 12th - so bookmark it and visit often! And if you're really planning ahead, David got the scoop on the location of next year's eBay Live: http://blog.auctionbytes.com.
Everyone wants to know what big news might come out of this year's conference. I've got a theory about one announcement I expect, and I'll be writing it up in a blog post this week.
In today's issue, we have an article from tax-guru Barbara Weltman (who will be presenting at eBay Live) on an accounting tool with some interesting eBay integration features. We also have all of our regular features including Critique My Site, Collector's Corner, First Item Sold Online, This & That, and the ever-popular Letters from Readers.
Our new podcast is catching on, thanks in part to marketing guru and best-selling author Seth Godin - listen to our latest episode, "Seth Godin To eBay Sellers: Quit or Be Exceptional" at http://podcast.auctionbytes.com.
Finally, if you want to voice your opinion, but aren't into writing emails, I'm excited to announce the launch of the AuctionBytes Hotline! Call us by phone and leave a voice message telling us what you think about industry issues. We'll compile selected messages and publish them as podcasts for everyone to hear. We will tackle a different topic each month, but as we launch, we want you to pick whatever topic you choose.
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About the author:
Ina Steiner is Editor of AuctionBytes.com and author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). She has a background in marketing and research in the high-tech and publishing fields. If you have story ideas, comments or questions, send them to ina@auctionbytes.com.