ChannelAdvisor Announces First Annual Marathon Conference
Marathon Addresses Key Issues for eBay Businesses to Sell via Online Marketplaces
Research Triangle Park, NC - March 23, 2004 - ChannelAdvisor, the leading provider of small business and enterprise marketplace management solutions, announced today they will host the first annual ChannelAdvisor Marathon Conference on May 12-13 in Research Triangle Park, NC. The invitation-only event will bring together leading small businesses and the eBay Top 500 sellers, representatives from eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), FindWhat.com (NASDAQ: FWHT) and Shopping.com to discuss best practices during two days of intense face-to-face discussions, exciting "case study" sessions, relevant panel discussions and real-world solutions. Featured speakers and topics include:
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Josh Chodniewicz, CEO of Art.com on "Technology, Marketing and Innovation - Critical to growing your small business" |
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Susan Phillips, Senior Director, Seller Development of eBay and Chris Marrow, Manager of eBay Keywords on "An eBay Update - Initiatives to help large sellers sell more, more easily" |
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Randy Smythe, President of Glacier Bay Entertainment and Caroline Hinton, Microsoft Solutions Specialist on "Inventory Control and Database Management" |
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Craig Zimmer, Vice President of Sales of MobilePC.com and 2002 eBay Merchandising award winner and Drew Robison, CEO and President of BP Studios on "Merchandising and Branding" |
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Mark Fitzgerald, Partner, VP Technology and Operations of Grapevinehill.com and Jonathon Garriss, CEO of Gotham City Online on "E-Commerce and Storefronts" |
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Representatives from FindWhat, MSN, Overture (paid search division of Yahoo!) and Shopping.com will discuss methods for "Driving e-Commerce Traffic" in a panel moderated by Andy Beal, Vice President of Search Marketing at WebSourced, Inc. |
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"Payment Processing and Fraud" is the topic covered by representatives from CyberSource, PayPal and Optimal Payments (NASDAQ: OPMR) |
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Representatives from eBay, Amazon and Yahoo! will headline a closing panel discussion of "The World's Leading Marketplaces" |
"The first annual Marathon Conference will discuss benefits and challenges for growing businesses selling on the Web's leading marketplaces," says Scot Wingo, CEO and President of ChannelAdvisor. "There is simply no other event where attendees can learn how small businesses and top eBay sellers succeed, and they can interact one-on-one with representatives from the leading online marketplaces and shopping engines."
"ChannelAdvisor Marathon Conference is going to allow entrepreneurs like myself to talk and learn from successful small businesses on how to grow your business across multiple online channels," says Craig Zimmer, Vice President of Sales at MobilePC. "I'm really excited and looking forward to listening to real-world solutions and representatives from eBay, Amazon, Microsoft and other shopping engines."
The two-day conference will be held at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center located in Research Triangle Park, NC. For more information or to register for the conference, please visit http://www.channeladvisor.com/marathon/. The deadline for registration is Friday, April 30th and space is limited so register today.
About ChannelAdvisor Corporation
ChannelAdvisor Corporation provides technology and services that enable leading online retailers to maximize their products across multiple e-commerce marketplaces such as eBay, Amazon.com and Overstock.com, comparison shopping engines such as Shopping.com, Shopzilla, Nextag and Google Product Search and search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN. In 2006, ChannelAdvisor managed over $1.6 billion in gross merchandise value (GMV) on behalf of its customers. ChannelAdvisor solutions combine best practices, on-demand software and integration technology to help retailers sell more products, faster, by automating labor-intensive, manual functions so they spend less time optimizing campaigns and more time solving marketing and business issues. ChannelAdvisor's customers include, GSI Commerce, Sears, Brookstone, Abebooks and Motorola. ChannelAdvisor Corporation is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC with offices in Seattle, the United Kingdom and Germany. For more information, visit http://www.channeladvisor.com/.
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