TameBay Morsels 17/03/09

Meg Whitman. California governor hopeful. Funny picture of her with a horse. Why the long face?

The Economist reports on the increasing use of bartering.

LaunchLab reports the latest e-retailing numbers for February. Still growing.

Some neat tips and tweaks from Etsy Hacks.

SmallBizPod reports that loads of small businesses are flocking to Twitter.

11 Responses on "TameBay Morsels 17/03/09"

1. 1
   board_surfer says:

   March 17, 2009 at 11:48 pm

   The Horse gets my vote!!
2. 2
   Sue Bailey says:

   March 18, 2009 at 10:19 am

   I think David Steiner’s figured this one: the horse is meant to make us think of Reagan.

   Eek.
3. 3
   Dan Wilson says:

   March 18, 2009 at 10:30 am

   LOL.

   Meg had better catch-up and make some Westerns:

   The Good, the Bid and the Ugly?

   The Magnificent Seven (day multiple fixed price listing)?

   “Go on punk, make by eBay.”
4. 4
   Sue Bailey says:

   March 18, 2009 at 11:10 am

   …

   A Fistful of Dollars (is against our accepted payments policy; remember PayPal is the only safe way to pay)

   The BIN Country

   Broke and NARU

   Rawhide (I’ve had too many pinkslaps) starring Tyrone Powerseller

   and that Reagan classic, Bedtime for Bonanzle
5. 5
   FenLex says:

   March 18, 2009 at 2:27 pm

   Not a Western but the advent of Best Offer meant that recording of the old Archer classic “Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less” had to be stopped.
6. 6
   Sue Bailey says:

   March 18, 2009 at 3:02 pm

   Well, Fenlex, if we’re moving onto Jeffrey Archer, I do hope you’re not going to tell us that Best Match makes you First Among Equals?
7. 7
   allotment says:

   March 18, 2009 at 3:08 pm

   For a future morsel….
   The new DSR reports are now up and running on the com site. Log on there with your uk id
   here’s the link

   http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SDDSRReport
8. 8
   Andy says:

   March 18, 2009 at 5:48 pm

   Re loads of small businesses are flocking to Twitter.

   Can someone explain to me how it is 1 in 10 firms think they have saved £5K by using Twitter? Am I missing something?
9. 9
   Whirly says:

   March 18, 2009 at 7:38 pm

   #8 The way I read it Eddie is this, firms are using Twitter as a recruitment tool, the saving is made by not paying a commission to a recruitment firm, it all sounds a bit barmy to me but I have learnt over the years never to under estimate the power of the web.
10. 10
    Pete says:

    March 18, 2009 at 9:33 pm

    Finally got around to signing up for my twitter account today. Still finding out how it can benefit us as a business. Need to get the tech guy onto creating an API I think.
11. 11
    FenLex says:

    March 19, 2009 at 5:12 pm

    #6 – Touché, Sue. How is the sabbatical going anyway?