Ten days until our Catalyst UK event in London at Vinopolis right on the doorstep of London’s Borough Food Market. Which I have never been to, so that’s a cool bonus.

Following our Catalyst US event last week our team in the UK has put together a great agenda:

• Mark Lewis, Managing Director, eBay UK on “eBay: Evolving Opportunities on the World’s Online Marketplace”
• Scot Wingo, CEO, ChannelAdvisor Corporation on “The Latest Multi-Channel Online Trends”
• Robert Swerling, Strategic Partner Development Manager of Google on “A View into Google’s Long Tail Strategy”
  Colleen Aubrey, Senior Manager, Business Development of Amazon.co.uk on “Amazon Opportunities for Retailers in 2008”
• Carl-Olav Scheible, Managing Director of PayPal UK on “How Account Based payments Drive Incremental Merchant Sales”
• David Smith, Director of Operations of IMRG on “UK Online Retail – What’s in Store for 2008”
• Bill Alexander, Managing Director of Red Letter Days Ltd. on “Experience The Brand Imperative”
• Luke Taylor, Senior Product Manager of Play.com on “How to Succeed on the UK’s Newest Marketplace: PlayTrade”

Of course you’ll also have a chance to talk to many of us working ChannelAdvisor about online retailing strategies, our products, our new support of Amazon Seller Central in the UK (me! me! me!), our Technical Services (Support, Implementation) or where on the cruise ship you’ll have the best view and most favorable access to the bar. Get real-time updates / news / logistics during the conference by following us on Twitter (www.twitter.com/channeladvisor).

And, no, it’s not too late to join. Head on over to www.channeladvisor.com/catalyst/UK and click “Register” to sign up. I can’t promise though that we won’t highlight you as a procrastinator during the conference.

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We announced during last week’s Catalyst conference in Pinehurst, NC (Chris at TameBay of course was quick to cover it) our support for Buy.com — and needless to say attendees were crowding Buy.com CEO Neel Grover with questions on product fit, how quickly they could launch, fees and international capabilities.

Here’s a quick snapshot that highlights this opportunity:

• Buy.com’s shopping experience is similar to the Amazon marketplace with checkout occurring on the site.
• No listing fees (risk-free selling!), only category-specific commission for each sale.
• Buy.com today has over 11 Million buyers purchasing consumer electronics, jewelry, home & garden, media and health & beauty products.
• Launch of apparel and shoes category forthcoming.
• Approximately 1,000 sellers are participating in the marketplace today.
• Backfilling select product detail pages with comparison shopping links from Pricegrabber and select other CSEs. Here’s a good example of a Nikon D40 bundle that shows how these offerings live side-by-side.

We have been working with Buy.com on our end-to-end integration so that you spend as little time as possible listing your products and processing your orders within ChannelAdvisor and will be launching our solution in the summer. If you are interested (and you should be) head on over to http://www.channeladvisor.com/buycom/ to be one of the first in line to sell on Buy.com through our MarketplaceAdvisor Premium product. Or ping me with any questions that you may have at maxl at channeladvisor.com.

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I almost forgot to mention that I will be at Catalyst tomorrow—that’s Tuesday, April 1 (and this is not a joke, either). I’ll be at one of the roundtables, so drop by and say hello. I’ll only be there tomorrow, though.

See you!

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I am not one to panic easily, but if you have not yet registered for our conference in Pinehurst then it may just be your time to throw your arms in the air and in despair rush over to www.kayak.com to find a flight to Raleigh / Durham. Because you do not want to miss this event (or the great weather and golf in Pinehurst).

There will be many good speakers (yes, including Tank who you can see work hard in this latest episode of Tankworld), a set of expert roundtables to learn more about marketplaces, comparison shopping, search, website optimization and more. And of course insight into where ChannelAdvisor is heading in 2008 (meaning where our customers have told us we need to go).

I am particularly excited about 2 events: First, Sebastian Gunningham, head of Amazon’s third-party program, is going to talk about Amazon’s product portfolio for online retailers. And second, Ben Ling who spearheads Facebook’s foray into eCommerce will discuss eCommerce and advertising strategies for online retailers on this social networking wunderkind.

And if you’ve procrastinated so far, it’s time to register at www.channeladvisor.com/catalyst before it’s too late (I hear rooms at the famous Pinehurst Resort are almost gone).

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Time to follow up on my teaser post from last time. By the way, I found out that not everybody is aware that sometimes my posts are kind of long, so their complete text isn’t always on the main blog page. If you ever see a little bitty “(more…)” toward the end of the post, that means you need to click on the “(more…)” to read the full post. Today is no exception…(this is your cue to click on “(more…)”)
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