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The Adrienne Shelly Foundation to Launch All-star Ebay Auction
Phil Davies asked:
NEW YORK, November 6, 2007 — The Adrienne Shelly Foundation (ASF), a tax-exempt, non-profit organization dedicated to the memory of writer/director/actor Adrienne Shelly, has announced the November 12th launch of its inaugural EBAY auction to raise funds for its various initiatives which support women filmmakers. The auction will include approximately 25 celebrity items and experiences; TV and movie walk-on roles; VIP show tickets with meet and greets; and movie premiere tickets. Featured items include lunches with Edie Falco, Cheryl Hines, Rosanna Arquette, Keri Russell, Paul Rudd and Jeremy Sisto, as well as VIP tickets, backstage tours and meet and greets with Jon Stewart, Rachael Ray, the hosts of The View and the rock band Maroon 5. There are also signed items from celebrities that include Matt Dillon, Richard Pryor and the Halo 3 XBOX 360 game actors.
“What makes this event truly special for us is the little-known fact that Adrienne was an “EBAY POWER SELLER”, an elite status reserved for only the most active sellers of merchandise,” said Andy Ostroy, ASF’s Founder and Executive Director, as well as Ms. Shelly’s husband. “Operating under the name BUNNYSVINTAGE, Adrienne in her spare time sold over 1900 vintage clothing items. We’ve taken that same passion and dedication which she had for EBAY and created a very special auction in her honor.”
Information about the auction and a list of items can be viewed at www.Ebay.com/AS_Foundation (Ebay.com/AS_Foundation). The auction will go live the evening of November 12, the same night ASF will be holding its inaugural Fundraising Gala in NYC which will include a rare musical performance by Alanis Morissette as well as a celebrity reading of the Adrienne Shelly script THE MORGAN STORIES, featuring Matt Dillon, Edie Falco, Mary-Louise Parker, Ally Sheedy, Gina Gershon, Leelee Sobieski, Jake Hoffman, Nathan Dean, Ms. Morissette and others. Tickets for the event can be purchased at www.adrienneshellyfoundation.org.
ABOUT ADRIENNE SHELLY FOUNDATION
The Adrienne Shelly Foundation supports the artistic achievements of female actors, writers and directors through a series of scholarships and grants, providing recipients with financial support and consultative access to the Foundation’s advisory board of actors, directors, producers, composers, law, public relations, academic and trade professionals. Reflecting Adrienne’s spirit, generosity, courage and whimsy, our goal is to recognize the tremendous passion and commitment of women artists in creating their own work, and provide them with support and guidance particularly during periods of transition and struggle. For more information on the Foundation, please visit www.adrienneshellyfoundation.org
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Andy Ostroy, Elizabeth Benjamin, Michelle Byrd, Dan Katcher, Isabel Rose and Jeremy Walker.
ADVISORY BOARD
Rosanna Arquette, Adam Brightman, Emily Deschanel, Sasha Eden, Annette Insdorf, Hal Hartley, Andrew Hollander, John Logigian, Bennett Miller, Peter Newman, Michael Roiff, Reid Rosefelt, Paul Rudd, Keri Russell, Jen Small, Fisher Stevens
NEW YORK, November 6, 2007 — The Adrienne Shelly Foundation (ASF), a tax-exempt, non-profit organization dedicated to the memory of writer/director/actor Adrienne Shelly, has announced the November 12th launch of its inaugural EBAY auction to raise funds for its various initiatives which support women filmmakers. The auction will include approximately 25 celebrity items and experiences; TV and movie walk-on roles; VIP show tickets with meet and greets; and movie premiere tickets. Featured items include lunches with Edie Falco, Cheryl Hines, Rosanna Arquette, Keri Russell, Paul Rudd and Jeremy Sisto, as well as VIP tickets, backstage tours and meet and greets with Jon Stewart, Rachael Ray, the hosts of The View and the rock band Maroon 5. There are also signed items from celebrities that include Matt Dillon, Richard Pryor and the Halo 3 XBOX 360 game actors.
“What makes this event truly special for us is the little-known fact that Adrienne was an “EBAY POWER SELLER”, an elite status reserved for only the most active sellers of merchandise,” said Andy Ostroy, ASF’s Founder and Executive Director, as well as Ms. Shelly’s husband. “Operating under the name BUNNYSVINTAGE, Adrienne in her spare time sold over 1900 vintage clothing items. We’ve taken that same passion and dedication which she had for EBAY and created a very special auction in her honor.”
Information about the auction and a list of items can be viewed at www.Ebay.com/AS_Foundation (Ebay.com/AS_Foundation). The auction will go live the evening of November 12, the same night ASF will be holding its inaugural Fundraising Gala in NYC which will include a rare musical performance by Alanis Morissette as well as a celebrity reading of the Adrienne Shelly script THE MORGAN STORIES, featuring Matt Dillon, Edie Falco, Mary-Louise Parker, Ally Sheedy, Gina Gershon, Leelee Sobieski, Jake Hoffman, Nathan Dean, Ms. Morissette and others. Tickets for the event can be purchased at www.adrienneshellyfoundation.org.
ABOUT ADRIENNE SHELLY FOUNDATION
The Adrienne Shelly Foundation supports the artistic achievements of female actors, writers and directors through a series of scholarships and grants, providing recipients with financial support and consultative access to the Foundation’s advisory board of actors, directors, producers, composers, law, public relations, academic and trade professionals. Reflecting Adrienne’s spirit, generosity, courage and whimsy, our goal is to recognize the tremendous passion and commitment of women artists in creating their own work, and provide them with support and guidance particularly during periods of transition and struggle. For more information on the Foundation, please visit www.adrienneshellyfoundation.org
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Andy Ostroy, Elizabeth Benjamin, Michelle Byrd, Dan Katcher, Isabel Rose and Jeremy Walker.
ADVISORY BOARD
Rosanna Arquette, Adam Brightman, Emily Deschanel, Sasha Eden, Annette Insdorf, Hal Hartley, Andrew Hollander, John Logigian, Bennett Miller, Peter Newman, Michael Roiff, Reid Rosefelt, Paul Rudd, Keri Russell, Jen Small, Fisher Stevens
Online Shopping Market Leader - Ebay’s Business
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About eBay Today
Anyone who has invested in eBay stock over the last few years probably knows that eBay’s position in the Internet marketplace is rapidly changing. eBay’s 1998 IPO occurred during the fabled “dot com bubble” years and was influenced by many of the same forces that made other technology and Internet IPOs so (in)famous. On the first day of trading, the $18 per share target price gave way to an opening price of $53.50 and eBay’s revenue growth has stayed more or less continuous since then, staying percentage-wise in the 30s and even venturing at times into the 40s—enough to make any investor smile.
In recent quarters, however, things have slowed down a little. Quarterly year over year growth is now at just over 30 percent and shows a downward trend—still excellent, but not quite as stratospheric. Some of this is due to increasing competition from eBay competitors, including Google (worldwide but especially in North America and Europe) and a number of alternative auction houses across Asia and the Pacific Rim. In some circles, people are talking as if the slowing of growth and the maturing of eBay as a company and stock mark end times for the company. Not so.
In recent years eBay CEO Meg Whitman’s strategy has been to continue to strengthen eBay’s core auction business while at the same time to diversify eBay’s business model and holdings as a hedge against competition in the online auctions and ecommerce market. This strategic and markets growth has included a number of investments and acquisitions—big names that today are also eBay. You may have heard of some of them:
* Skype—The wildly popular Skype VOIP (voice-over-internet-protocol) service is eBay’s largest acquisition to date and one of its most recent, purchased in 2005 for approximately $2.6 billion. Whitman’s vision for Skype is as a communications hub not just for Internet customers looking for alternatives to traditional telecom packages, but for eBay buyers and sellers, who will eventually be able to interact securely and anonymously by voice. She also sees a future in which the forthcoming Skype subscription charges will be cleared primarily through PayPal.
* PayPal—By now, nearly everyone realizes that PayPal is now an eBay company, picked up for $1.5 billion in 2002 and a natural match: the vast majority of eBay transactions involving online payments at the time used PayPal, and this remains the state of affairs today. True to Whitman’s vision, PayPal has also grown to become the premier payment system for ecommerce across the Internet, second only to direct credit card transactions and safer as well. An increasing number of etailers and even brick-and-mortar stores accept PayPal payments today.
* Craigslist—In 2004 eBay paid an undisclosed sum to acquire a 25 percent interest in Craigslist, becoming its largest single shareholder. Our company selling links of london on craigslist have good effect.eBay has kept a low profile vis-a-vis it’s ties to and influence on Craigslist, but with the classified service’s growth going through the roof and the classified marketplace becoming more important online in general, investors should see this as a strong asset with big upside potential for eBay.
* Half.com—Half.com, acquired by eBay in 2000, represents eBay’s move into the online used media market. Half.com was a rising star in and in many ways the creator of this market which has now been joined by the likes of Amazon.com, among others. Half.com remains a perennial favorite amongst students, bibliophiles, game enthusiasts, film buffs, and others in seeking to buy used media products at reduced cost. Because these types of products are commodity priced and often have a long shelf life before being purchased, the alternate sales model that Half.com represents is both appropriate to its market and does not compete directly with eBay’s core auction offerings.
* Rent.com, Shopping.com, Prostores—While not as monumental in scale as the aforementioned transactions, eBay has also diversified its retail and real estate businesses with Rent.com, Shopping.com, and Prostores, which together complement eBay’s existing eBay Motors, eBay Real Estate, among others, in retail beyond the commodity and consumer goods market.
If together these acquisitions paint the picture of a company in the midst of steady and continued growth, they should—eBay remains the premier online auctions and retail space and is poised to continue along this trajectory for the forseeable future. eBay’s major threat at the moment is Google, also rapidly expanding and enjoying market-leading growth. eBay’s relationship to Google is a troubled one, as eBay relies on Google’s advertising model and market reach for its continued success even as Google continues to enter market niches in which eBay products already exist—for example, classified ads and online payments.
Despite these challenges, prospects for eBay in the future look bright, as eBay growth continues to be strong and eBay’s recent acquisitions continue to pick up financial steam and Internet traffic as well.
You could find our china wholesale center and uk wholesale shopping mall for start your ebay business.
About eBay Today
Anyone who has invested in eBay stock over the last few years probably knows that eBay’s position in the Internet marketplace is rapidly changing. eBay’s 1998 IPO occurred during the fabled “dot com bubble” years and was influenced by many of the same forces that made other technology and Internet IPOs so (in)famous. On the first day of trading, the $18 per share target price gave way to an opening price of $53.50 and eBay’s revenue growth has stayed more or less continuous since then, staying percentage-wise in the 30s and even venturing at times into the 40s—enough to make any investor smile.
In recent quarters, however, things have slowed down a little. Quarterly year over year growth is now at just over 30 percent and shows a downward trend—still excellent, but not quite as stratospheric. Some of this is due to increasing competition from eBay competitors, including Google (worldwide but especially in North America and Europe) and a number of alternative auction houses across Asia and the Pacific Rim. In some circles, people are talking as if the slowing of growth and the maturing of eBay as a company and stock mark end times for the company. Not so.
In recent years eBay CEO Meg Whitman’s strategy has been to continue to strengthen eBay’s core auction business while at the same time to diversify eBay’s business model and holdings as a hedge against competition in the online auctions and ecommerce market. This strategic and markets growth has included a number of investments and acquisitions—big names that today are also eBay. You may have heard of some of them:
* Skype—The wildly popular Skype VOIP (voice-over-internet-protocol) service is eBay’s largest acquisition to date and one of its most recent, purchased in 2005 for approximately $2.6 billion. Whitman’s vision for Skype is as a communications hub not just for Internet customers looking for alternatives to traditional telecom packages, but for eBay buyers and sellers, who will eventually be able to interact securely and anonymously by voice. She also sees a future in which the forthcoming Skype subscription charges will be cleared primarily through PayPal.
* PayPal—By now, nearly everyone realizes that PayPal is now an eBay company, picked up for $1.5 billion in 2002 and a natural match: the vast majority of eBay transactions involving online payments at the time used PayPal, and this remains the state of affairs today. True to Whitman’s vision, PayPal has also grown to become the premier payment system for ecommerce across the Internet, second only to direct credit card transactions and safer as well. An increasing number of etailers and even brick-and-mortar stores accept PayPal payments today.
* Craigslist—In 2004 eBay paid an undisclosed sum to acquire a 25 percent interest in Craigslist, becoming its largest single shareholder. Our company selling links of london on craigslist have good effect.eBay has kept a low profile vis-a-vis it’s ties to and influence on Craigslist, but with the classified service’s growth going through the roof and the classified marketplace becoming more important online in general, investors should see this as a strong asset with big upside potential for eBay.
* Half.com—Half.com, acquired by eBay in 2000, represents eBay’s move into the online used media market. Half.com was a rising star in and in many ways the creator of this market which has now been joined by the likes of Amazon.com, among others. Half.com remains a perennial favorite amongst students, bibliophiles, game enthusiasts, film buffs, and others in seeking to buy used media products at reduced cost. Because these types of products are commodity priced and often have a long shelf life before being purchased, the alternate sales model that Half.com represents is both appropriate to its market and does not compete directly with eBay’s core auction offerings.
* Rent.com, Shopping.com, Prostores—While not as monumental in scale as the aforementioned transactions, eBay has also diversified its retail and real estate businesses with Rent.com, Shopping.com, and Prostores, which together complement eBay’s existing eBay Motors, eBay Real Estate, among others, in retail beyond the commodity and consumer goods market.
If together these acquisitions paint the picture of a company in the midst of steady and continued growth, they should—eBay remains the premier online auctions and retail space and is poised to continue along this trajectory for the forseeable future. eBay’s major threat at the moment is Google, also rapidly expanding and enjoying market-leading growth. eBay’s relationship to Google is a troubled one, as eBay relies on Google’s advertising model and market reach for its continued success even as Google continues to enter market niches in which eBay products already exist—for example, classified ads and online payments.
Despite these challenges, prospects for eBay in the future look bright, as eBay growth continues to be strong and eBay’s recent acquisitions continue to pick up financial steam and Internet traffic as well.
You could find our china wholesale center and uk wholesale shopping mall for start your ebay business.
eBay: Focus Your Sales By Sharpening Your Image
Steve Dempster asked:
Have you ever wondered why that item you had for sale on eBay didn’t sell? Just remember that one picture can be worth a thousand words!
This article applies to all sellers on eBay, no matter you sell, no matter how frequently. I’m talking about perhaps the one most important thing on any eBay auction lot: the picture. Just think about it for a minute and you’ll see what I mean. Better still, log on to eBay and choose any category and just look - really look - at what you see.
I’ve had the benefit of some considerable amount of marketing experience in the past, especially when presenting products for sale on the internet. Styles change but one thing remains constant - if a prospective customer can’t see what you have to offer, they won’t buy. Period.
I have lost count long ago of the number of items I’ve seen on eBay with no gallery image and even with no image at all. Let me ask you what you yourself do when scanning the lots in your chosen category and I bet you do exactly the same as I (and who knows how many others) do: you skip the items with no picture.
Why? Well, it’s just a basic human response. We are geared to notice form and colour only second to noticing movement. It’s something that runs very deeply in everyone and goes way, way back to the time when noticing these things was a very handy way of avoiding being eaten. Whilst we don’t have that problem to face nowadays, old habits do die hard!
So what are the thing to remember when inserting an image into your eBay lot? That’s the next thing to think about: presentation. Your customer isn’t interested in a panoramic view of your living room or your dirty laundry (I kid you not, I’ve seen it). What they want to see is what you have to sell - and only that. They also want to see it plainly, clearly and in decent light. If you only load one image into your sale, you only have one chance - so make it good!
If you haven’t got a digital camera, try to borrow one. The cameras built into cellphones have improved vastly recently but they still have a big problem when it comes to taking good photos - camera shake. It’s difficult to hold them steady enough to get a good shot. So get hold of a proper camera, or ask your friend to take that photo for you.
Try to take it a step further, especially if you are going to make eBay a regular thing. Get that digital camera and some photo-editing software (very often bundled with a new camera). Learn how to use it - for basic cropping, brightness and contrast it’s pretty easy to pick up and it’s fun! Maybe invest in a cheap tabletop tripod - these can be had for very little money and they can make a big difference to the sharpness of the picture due to the fact that the camera is held more rigidly then you could ever do by hand, especially for close-up shots.
When taking your shot, try to put the item against a plain or fairly neutral background - white paper if you can’t find anything else but a pastel shade is better. Try to use natural light when shooting - flash photography can be tricky, especially for those close shots or if your item is shiny or has a reflective or gloss finish. If you can’t shoot in natural light, turn the flash off and use house lighting - your camera will have almost certainly have an ‘artificial light’ mode on it to compensate and the result will be less garish than with flash.
If you’re going to make a habit of eBay, it’s also a good idea to use the same background each time and to try to keep your shot ‘composition’ standard. It’s surprising how quickly regular eBay buyers will come to recognise your lots and put a watch on them - presuming you sell good items!
It also helps to use more than one image but this of course depends on the value of the item - it’s not economic to use twenty photos to sell a low-value product. Images can of course be hosted elsewhere - even on you own website. It’s all part of using eBay to your best advantage.
In conclusion, always remember that on eBay, as in life, image can be everything. Just try these simple suggestions and see your conversion rates soar!
Have you ever wondered why that item you had for sale on eBay didn’t sell? Just remember that one picture can be worth a thousand words!
This article applies to all sellers on eBay, no matter you sell, no matter how frequently. I’m talking about perhaps the one most important thing on any eBay auction lot: the picture. Just think about it for a minute and you’ll see what I mean. Better still, log on to eBay and choose any category and just look - really look - at what you see.
I’ve had the benefit of some considerable amount of marketing experience in the past, especially when presenting products for sale on the internet. Styles change but one thing remains constant - if a prospective customer can’t see what you have to offer, they won’t buy. Period.
I have lost count long ago of the number of items I’ve seen on eBay with no gallery image and even with no image at all. Let me ask you what you yourself do when scanning the lots in your chosen category and I bet you do exactly the same as I (and who knows how many others) do: you skip the items with no picture.
Why? Well, it’s just a basic human response. We are geared to notice form and colour only second to noticing movement. It’s something that runs very deeply in everyone and goes way, way back to the time when noticing these things was a very handy way of avoiding being eaten. Whilst we don’t have that problem to face nowadays, old habits do die hard!
So what are the thing to remember when inserting an image into your eBay lot? That’s the next thing to think about: presentation. Your customer isn’t interested in a panoramic view of your living room or your dirty laundry (I kid you not, I’ve seen it). What they want to see is what you have to sell - and only that. They also want to see it plainly, clearly and in decent light. If you only load one image into your sale, you only have one chance - so make it good!
If you haven’t got a digital camera, try to borrow one. The cameras built into cellphones have improved vastly recently but they still have a big problem when it comes to taking good photos - camera shake. It’s difficult to hold them steady enough to get a good shot. So get hold of a proper camera, or ask your friend to take that photo for you.
Try to take it a step further, especially if you are going to make eBay a regular thing. Get that digital camera and some photo-editing software (very often bundled with a new camera). Learn how to use it - for basic cropping, brightness and contrast it’s pretty easy to pick up and it’s fun! Maybe invest in a cheap tabletop tripod - these can be had for very little money and they can make a big difference to the sharpness of the picture due to the fact that the camera is held more rigidly then you could ever do by hand, especially for close-up shots.
When taking your shot, try to put the item against a plain or fairly neutral background - white paper if you can’t find anything else but a pastel shade is better. Try to use natural light when shooting - flash photography can be tricky, especially for those close shots or if your item is shiny or has a reflective or gloss finish. If you can’t shoot in natural light, turn the flash off and use house lighting - your camera will have almost certainly have an ‘artificial light’ mode on it to compensate and the result will be less garish than with flash.
If you’re going to make a habit of eBay, it’s also a good idea to use the same background each time and to try to keep your shot ‘composition’ standard. It’s surprising how quickly regular eBay buyers will come to recognise your lots and put a watch on them - presuming you sell good items!
It also helps to use more than one image but this of course depends on the value of the item - it’s not economic to use twenty photos to sell a low-value product. Images can of course be hosted elsewhere - even on you own website. It’s all part of using eBay to your best advantage.
In conclusion, always remember that on eBay, as in life, image can be everything. Just try these simple suggestions and see your conversion rates soar!