Gang, It has been a while since I did one of these so I thought it was about time for a new “5 Minutes with…” As I’ve tried to do with previous installments, I’ve tied the interview into some timely news or activity happening here. Kasey Hesse is based back in PayPal‘s Omaha, Nebraska offices…

Yesterday, two auctions that were unusual enough to capture the attention of national and international media came to a close. On the surface, it was just a normal Tuesday in the eBay Marketplace.

As promised, in response to eBay’s announcement of the SM Apps program, here is the second in a series I’m calling “eBay SM App of the day.” Today we’re looking at the good folks at My.ShipRush, an eBay Certified Provider.

I saw something interesting over on AuctionBytes.com today regarding the changes made to the eBay Voices program earlier this week with the headline “Is eBay Phasing out ‘Voices’ Focus-Group Program?” to which my immediate, well thought out response was… “Huh?” For those unaware, the Voices program was established in 1999 as a focus group designed…

Ink has never been, and will never be, a platform to further an individual’s political or personal agenda. Yes, I try to keep it as “human” as possible and like to think that I leave it all out on the table each week both here and on Twitter. Bottom line, this is a corporate blog…

I’ve been getting emails and comments from folks wondering how the gm.ebay.com pilot program is going. From what I can tell, things are going very well indeed. eBay issued the following statement earlier today that includes some pretty striking stats: “In the first week of our 4 week California market pilot, we are very pleased…

On Monday, eBay announced the launch of its SM Applications program meaning that for the first time, sellers of all sizes, can access tools embedded within my.ebay.com targeted at helping grow businesses, reduce costs and streamline operations. Due to the many different applications being made available, solving for various different business solutions, I thought it…

An updated eBay User Agreement was posted earlier today in order to help implement the policy changes announced in the Seller Release details last month. The update is an extension of the changes announced back in May of this year. From the AB post: The biggest change to the agreement supports the new on-eBay resolution…

All, The following video ran on Fox Business News this morning regarding the launch of eBay’s Selling Application Directory. It features Kristina Klausen, senior director of the Seller Platform Efficiency Team at eBay, and Terapeak CEO Fred Speckeen. Cheers, RBH

eBay turned its Selling Manager service (previously known as Project ECHO) into a beta platform open to embedded third party tools back in April of this year. Today, eBay announced that the Selling Manager Applications platform is now out of Beta and for the first time, sellers of all sizes, can access tools embedded within…