Slickdeals also happens to be a longtime publisher of the eBay Partner Network. The Partner team recently visited the Last Vegas-based company while in town for the  Affiliate Summit West.

While touring their offices, the team got a chance to sit down with Slickdeals Chief Executive Bryant Quan, and talk about their experience with eBay Partner Network. What’s worked well for them in our partnership? What opportunities are we missing? How do they integrate with our platform? What do they see as the biggest growth areas for 2013? We covered it all:

Publisher Stories: Slickdeals from eBay Partner Network TV on Vimeo.

For more about the eBay Partner Network, check out their official blog. 

You can read the full post – Chatting with eBay Partner Network: Richard Brewer-Hay Gets Social. Be sure to follow @ebaypartnernet on Twitter too.

In the meantime, here’s the video interview…

Cheers!
RBH

Chatting with ePN: Richard Brewer-Hay Gets Social from eBay Partner Network TV on Vimeo.

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Scott Parent joins the eBay Partner Network Blog

I had the good fortune to welcome Scott Parent to the eBay Partner Network blog at the beginning of May and now I have the even better fortune of getting to hang out with him tomorrow and chatting about social. It has been far too long. I’ve been asked to join him as an interviewee for eBay Partner Network TV. I wanted to check out some of the interviews ahead of time and have to confess that I can’t believe I haven’t shared this resource with you sooner. There is some really compelling content here for folks and I wanted to make sure people were aware of it.

Check out some of the past interviews they’re profiling on their site:

Catching up with eBay Motors

Chatting with ePN: Let’s Talk eBay Motors! from eBay Partner Network TV on Vimeo.

eBay Daily Deals

Chatting with ePN: The Scoop on Daily Deals at eBay from eBay Partner Network TV on Vimeo.

I’ll be sure to share our interview with folks as soon as it is available.

Cheers,
RBH

You can check out his introductory post, “Hello, My Name is Scott,” now live over on his blog. Here’s an excerpt:

About a year ago I started working with the eBay Partner Network Team as the producer of the “Chatting with ePN” video series – maybe you’ve seen an episode or two? Recently, I was brought onboard to manage this blog and make sure that we’re using it in a way that provides the greatest benefit to our publishers. That means I’ve spent the last few weeks working with the team to look at how we do things here at ePN. What do we do well? What can we do better? How can we build a stronger, more engaged community with our publishers?

Please join me in welcoming Scott to the eBay blogging team and be sure to subscribe to his blog. You can follow @ebaypartnernet Twitter feed and you can also welcome him directly @ScottParent.

Cheers!
RBH

Whenever I travel to England on business I always love the first day of arrival. When I come back for personal reasons, I usually have my family with me so I find myself annoyingly (to my wife; not to me) repeating myself; “oh, I haven’t had this in years…” or “this is where Daddy went to school”, etc. Thankfully my wife has a lot of patience – and my daughter is only two – so they both put up with it. However, when I come back on business I am usually traveling alone and, on the first day back, I always plop my headphones on and go for a long walk; listening to songs that remind me of growing up in England and catching up on old familiar sights and smells. Yesterday was no exception.

I arrived in Richmond-upon-Thames around 3:45pm yesterday and managed to stay awake by walking around the town and by the river. When my head hit the pillow at 8:30pm I was asleep immediately. I woke up refreshed and ready to tackle my first day at the UK office – unfortunately, it was only midnight and I’d been asleep for only three and a half hours. After alternating between reading my new book (excellent read by the way: “Hooked” by Matt Richtel – I was fortunate to meet the author on Saturday before heading to the airport and I have to say that the title is perfect… I found it very difficult to put down) and watching the Olympics on the BBC, I finally drifted off at 4:30am.

UK Weekly Team Brief
After getting settled in here at the Richmond offices of eBay this morning, and meeting a number of fine folks I’ve only previously interacted with via email, I attended the “Team Brief”. Occurring every Monday, the Team Brief is an all-hands meeting that everyone in the Richmond office attends. Similar to weekly “Stand-Up” meetings I’ve been a part of at start-up companies, the UK office has the luxury of getting everyone into the same room on a weekly basis to digest the latest information from different groups. In the US, given the sheer size and physical scope of the organization (7 buildings alone at the Whitman campus), weekly in-person meetings simply aren’t possible. True, we have regularly scheduled webcasts that serve the same purpose but there is something about getting up from your desk, walking to a conference room and giving 100% of your attention to a presentation.

Immediately following the Team Brief, I presented an overview of the eBay Ink blog and discussed ways in which I was hoping to better integrate the different office cultures and news from around the world into my regular posts. I think I jumped around a little more than normal given the jet lag but all-in-all the presentation seemed relatively well received and I had a number of follow-up 1:1 discussions with various folks.

eBay Partner Network Blog
I met with Julia Nisted on the Affiliate Marketing team later in the afternoon and she gave me an overview of the eBay Partner Network Blog. The blog is relatively new and Julia and the team are hoping to update it more regularly moving forward. It’s pretty straightforward in terms of content and I recommended adding a personal touch to the posts (right now there is no indication of who is authoring individual posts) so a more personal connection can be made between author and audience. We also talked about adding some additional features to the page such as related blog roll, etc. If you have any suggestions on how to improve the blog, please email ebayink@ebay.com and I’ll be sure to forward them on to the appropriate folks. For more information on the Partner Network in general, please check out the FAQ blog post from earlier in the year.

The San Jose office is now well into its Monday morning bustle so I need to sign off for now and check in with folks “back at the ranch”. More to come…

Cheers,
RBH