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Local Onliner

Mar 9
2012

Milo.com Positions Itself as Anchor for EBay Local

Inventory hasn’t yet emerged as a “must have” for merchants, but the strategic importance of tracking store inventory remains undiminished. Merchants will potentially use inventory levels to drive users to specific locations, build promotions to get rid of overage (or remove promotions when supplies are running low). While far from universal, many national retailers are …continue reading »

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Dec 15
2011

ZVents Sold to eBay’s StubHub

The events listings space has taken a number of twists and turns with Zvents trying to steer people to retail events as a business model, and also become a media driver in its own right; Eventful focusing more and more on Hollywood studios and TV shows to drive viral demand for their entertainment properties; GoldStar …continue reading »

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Mar 24
2011

ILM East: eBay’s Milo and PaperG on Local Retail Solutions

Retailers are gravitating in a major way to online solutions that complement their other marketing, according to panelists participating on the retail panel at ILM East in Boston. Jack Abraham, who founded Milo.com, which was acquired last year by eBay, predicted that every store will need to participate in cross channel shopping in order to …continue reading »

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Dec 20
2010

eBay Firms Up Local Strategies

In case you haven’t noticed, eBay has been ramping up a local strategy in the past few months via the integration of all its vertical properties with its home site, the $75 million purchase of Milo.com, and today, a $200 million acquisition of Brands4Friends, a fashion-oriented, German ecommerce site with 3.5 million members and 200 …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Deals, Shopping/Transactions

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Aug 3
2010

eBay Pushes More Integration With ProStores

eBay is pushing to do more to integrate the flagship auction site and its Marketplaces products with ProStores, its online storefront software company. The effort to integrate ProStores is part of a broader effort to integrate its properties (i.e. eBay Classifieds). ProStores, acquired by eBay five years ago, currently has “tens of thousands” of customers, …continue reading »

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Jun 1
2010

EBay Classifieds Seeks to Leverage the Mothership

eBay’s newly-branded “eBay Classifieds” – formerly known as Kijiji – is being repositioned to better leverage eBay’s capabilities, according to U.S. GM Martin Herbst, who spoke to us for a new report that we’ve just issued in BIA/Kelsey’s Marketplaces program. eBay potentially brings its vaunted user feedback system to the table, as well as its …continue reading »

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Apr 27
2010

AIM Group Projects Craigslist Revenues at $122 Million

Craigslist has always been murky about revenues, and remains a free site for most categories. It only charges a commercial rate for recruitment, with listings costing just $25 in 17 markets and $75 in San Francisco. Fees for apartment listings (in New York) and “adult and therapeutic services” ads fit into the nominal fee category, …continue reading »

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