eBay is discounting Promoted Listings to entice sellers to advertise. The promotion invites sellers to try Promoted Listing ads at 60% off (up to $1,000) and is valid through February 15, 2019. With Promoted Listings, sellers pay advertising fees only Read more
ScaleFactor raised $30 million to help small businesses manage their accounting and finances, the latest funding round for the company led by Bessemer Venture Partners, which helped fund companies like Shopify and Yelp. The company also made some executive hires, Read more
Alibaba debuted its Pay Later service for online sellers procuring inventory on its marketplace during the CES show last week. The service is powered by Kabbage, which kicked off the trend of offering loans and financing to online sellers nearly Read more
If you host a lot of photos on Flickr, you need to save them by February 5, 2019 if you don’t have a Pro Flickr paid subscription. As we reported in April, SmugMug acquired Flickr from Yahoo, and now it’s Read more
What happened to NexTag? We received a news tip from a reader today about the comparison shopping engine: “It looks like Nextag website is offline and has been since Dec. 28th, 2018. I think they went out of business, but Read more
Proxibid acquired cloud-based auction-management software firm Wavebid. Proxibid has been working with Wavebid since the latter’s founding in 2011 and will strengthen their partnership by bringing the Wavebid team and product suite into the Proxibid platform. In an email notifying Read more
Online marketplace Bonanza is working on a tool for sellers that replaces eBay’s discontinued Turbo Lister, but it’s also diversifying its offerings by leveraging its expertise to create tools for entrepreneurs and software developers. While obviously not on the same Read more
eBay announced a new feature for sellers on Tuesday – it is now displaying prices of competing listings to sellers as they are listing their own item. Experienced sellers tend to scoff at such features, believing eBay’s technology is unreliable Read more
Returns are an unfortunate reality of online selling, and 20% of all returns take place at Christmastime, according to B-Stock Solutions, which sees a resulting spike in returns listed on its B2B liquidation marketplaces in the first quarter of the Read more
Etsy offers sellers several tools to help them market to shoppers. In addition to allowing them to offer coupons and participate in sales such as the Cyber Week sale that ran November 20 – 26, 2018, it offers a feature Read more
