http://dijest.com/aka/2003/07/21.html How about using one of your blogs to drive off-eBay traffic to your eBayed products? Good for you, good for eBay. It takes a long time to add a new product using eBay’s normal UI, as much as 40-50 minutes. Huge value in saving users time and simplifying the experience. More products posted more frequently by more people.
A Klog Apart checks in with a couple of interesting posts tody - this first being an exploration of posting items to eBay from your blog, evidently being suggested by a interactiond designer new to eBay.
I’ve posted before about the time it took to list a vehicle on eBay - and their 40-50 minutes is on the light side. What I don’t see is how posting from a blog would be a timesaver. I’m assuming the current eBay form is as complex as it is for a reason - that the eBay Interaction Designers are smart enough to streamline it as much as they can (it’s truly one of those online processes where improvements could tied directly to the bottom line).
So if all the data currently required by the eBay form would have to be provided by my blog posting interface, it seems like the end result take about the same amount of time, but just be in a different user interface.
EBay feeding content into an RSS feed sounds pretty cool though. It’d be nice to get notification of bids on items I’m selling, and new matches for pre-defined searches.
The other blogging related article is a proposed code management tool for programmers using blog technology.
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