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October 20, 2005

eBay Germany offers new weekly audio magazin as podcast

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Posted by Nicole Simon

Germany is not so much a land of the bloggers, but they sure like Wikipedia and eBay. It is said, that 50% of Germans going online use eBay for about 3 hours each month.

Those nearly 17 million visitors a month need help and support. While ebay does have a market place with help files, forums and more, eBay Germany started another service for their users: a weekly audio magazin which they also promote as a podcast. It is in German, but you get an idea of the way they do the show through listening a bit.

The first episode contains information like news, legal, tips, short interviews with management and a powerseller, as well as a competition to win a ebay package. A feedback mail address and online help on how to receive this magazin as a podcast will get a lot of people interested into "this podcast thing".

This clearly is a "customer relation ship" podcast with value for eBay's customers, but also for other business oriented podcasters as a showcase.

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