RocketPlace Announces September 2008 Speakers
August 26, 2008
RocketPlace, the premier conference for new eBay sellers and
PowerSellers, is proud to announce their speakers for their September
10-12, 2008 event at The Rio All-Suites Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The
full schedule of sessions can be found at www.rocketplace.com
Confirmed speakers include:
* Todd Lutwak, Senior Director of Seller Development at eBay, who will
be giving the Advanced track keynote as well as a session for the
Beginner track.
* Marsha Collier, best-selling author of eBay
For Dummies and many other For Dummies books, will be giving the
Beginner track Keynote.
* Jane Judd, Senior Manager of the
Customer Service Loyalty Team at Zappos.com will deliver the closing
keynote for the Advanced Track.
* Jay Berkowitz, CEO of Ten
Golden Rules, is a seasoned marketing professional with over twenty
years of business experience. He has managed marketing departments for
Fortune 500 brands: McDonald’s and Coca-Cola, and has developed
traditional and direct marketing programs for AT&T, Sprint and
eDiets.com. Jay was the highest-rated speaker at our Spring 2008
RocketPlace conference, and we welcome him back!
* John Lawson
of 3rd Power Outlet, David Yaskulka from Blueberry Consulting, Tim Woda
from buySAFE, Cindy Litchfield from Cloud Dome, Bodin Suttles from
Endicia, Amy Kendall from HammerTap, Jason Guzman from JunctionQuest,
Michael Lambert from Merchant Advantage, Brian Gibbs from Refund
Retriever, Edward Sayers of RPM Business Group, Phyllis Wischer of
SageFire, Adam Morris from Sell Center, Michael Levit from Vendio, Lisa
Suttora from WhatDoISell.com, and a variety of the experts at As Was
including CEO Debbie Levitt.
RocketPlace has one track for
beginners looking for the road map for eBay business success. A second
track is for PowerSellers looking for tips on how to grow with all of
eBay’s recent changes as well as how to use the latest techniques,
strategies, and tools to improve their eBay businesses. More
information is available on www.rocketplace.com
Video interview with PayPal President!
August 10, 2008
The title said it all, in fact I am just catching up with all the video interviews I have saved to share with all of you, here is the video:
Skype Prime announced major improvements
August 2, 2008
2 Days ago, Skype announced some major improvements to their Skype Prime service. To explain what the service is, I will simply say that it’s a service that will enable you to charge for voice consulting calls. The way it works, someone will call you, for a service that you have experiance in, they will pay you on a minute based (you set the price) and you get paid through PayPal, and that’s all.
The changes are made to the directory where your services will be listed. Now they have an all new advice and services directory, it’s now fully searchable so it’s easy for customers to find you.
A new rating system, the higher your customers rate you, the higher you will appear in any search results.
They also advertise for it more now so you will start getting more calls.
To start listing your services go here, download Skype and install it (Skip this step if you already have Skype), when you’re online, go to the account menu, click on Skype Prime and follow the easy steps to setup your services. Good luck 
ALL NEW: Paypal button factory
August 1, 2008
My good friend Damon Williams (one of the top developers at PayPal) have just announced the new PayPal button factory.
For those of you who don’t know what PayPal is, (I have a couple of videos and a couple of posts coming up soon) PayPal simply is a safe fast way to accept money online.
Before I go any further, I have to say that as I am writing this, this new improvement is only available to developers and will be available soon at PayPal.com, however, since I am a certified PayPal developer, I took a look at the new very useful enhancements on the new button factory, and I like it a lot (specially the first 2), here are the new option from Damon’s blog post:
- Multiple drop-down options per button (e.g., Size,
Color, etc), and we’ve removed the limit of having just two optional fields
- The ability to set price by options (e.g., $8 for
medium t-shirts and $10 for large)- Inventory tracking and management capability
- Simple button customization (e.g., add credit card
logos, make a smaller size, etc.)- The ability to track profits and margins by products
- Save commonly created buttons
- Easy-to-use encryption
- And much more…
I hope all of my fellow nerds like it.
eBay DevCon 08 coverage video 4
July 4, 2008
Here is the last video from the eBay DevCon. Walking to the registration area a day before Live 08.
Note: This is the biggest convention center in the entire country, Although eBay had only half of it, but the walking was way too much. I must have lost about 15 lbs. just walking at the McCormick Place convention center.
Enjoy the video:
