eCommerce Merchants Trade Association (ECMTA) late today announced a partial speaker list for the upcoming eCommerce Summit in Las Vegas April 13-15, 2010 to be held at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino. This event has been capped at 500 attendees and the limit is sure to be reached soon.

Keynote – Paul Greenberg with Deals Direct

Today, Dealsdirect.com.au is the leading online retailer in Australia giving online retail giants like Amazon a run for their money. With a 430,000 square foot warehouse, over 1,000,000 unique visitors per month and over 900,000 customers Deals Direct is a success story you will not want to miss. Join us as Paul shares his amazing journey and reasons for their success highlighting important decisions they made to point Deals Direct the right direction.

eBay Seller Presentation and Town Hall

As always, we are pleased to announce eBay will once again be sending an army of executives from the various departments to the eCommerce Summit to spend quality face time with sellers about their issues, suggestions and concerns. There will also be an eBay Town Hall sessions with a panel of executives to answer seller questions if you are unable to catch them in the halls for quality one on one time.

Social Media for Business STINKS: Unless You Know These 7 Secrets

Every day, thousands of small businesses and entrepreneurs miss out on millions of dollars in revenue simply because they don’t know how to utilize the Internet for marketing and selling. This is NOT your same old ABC stuff, these are actual eCommerce practices for Social Media that will yield bottom line results and amp up your business.

John Lawson – Founder, ColderICE.com

Panel Discussion – A World of Opportunities Selling Globally

We invited 3 very special guests to join us to discuss the opportunity for small to medium size online merchants to sell globally without the need to open a remote warehouse or have employees specialized in customs documentation or international shipping.

Kent Allen – Moderator – Principal, The Research Trust
Craig Reed – Vice President eCommerce Solutions, Pitney Bowes
Chris Boyle – President and CEO, Access Technology Solutions
Craig Turnbull – CEO, Bongo International

Customer Service Excellence – Focus on the Buyer Experience

Marsha Collier is well known in the eBay seller community as one of the foremost eBay experts and top selling eBay author with over 1 million copies of her books in print. Marsha will be helping merchant evaluate their customer service strategies to highlight the do’s and don’ts as well as the costs of not doing customer service right.

Marsha Collier – Author, eBay for Dummies and many other books

How to Succeed on Google Product Search, Bing Cashback, and Search

Brian Smith with SingleFeed always receives great feedback from attendees as one of the most valuable sessions at the event. We invited him back for more as he will focus primarily on Google Product Search and Bing Cashback search strategies for merchants.

Brian Smith – Founder, Single Feed

Website Makeovers – Going from Good to Great

Website makeovers are always a popular event for eCommerce Merchants Members so we are taking this one live to Vegas with us. Join us as we invite 3 website design experts to review and share advice with members on how to improve their website for SEO, user experience and increased sales.

Michael Ober – Sr Manager Merchant Development, Yahoo!
Scott Smigler – CEO, Exclusive Concepts
Greg Jameson – President, Webstores Ltd

Winning Website Coupon Strategies

At our eCommerce Summit in Atlanta there was a ton of buzz about the growing trend for buyers to include an online coupon discount into their buying decision. Merchants need to catch the coupon wave and we invited our very own coupon expert Charleen Larson to share coupon strategies that work. This workshop will provide you simple “take-home” coupon tips to get you going right away.

Charleen Larson – Owner, JCEarrings.com

The Secrets to Online News Releases & Optimization

Another session coming back due to popular demand from attendees. With the nature of a press release, search engines give them a high quality score for content and search rankings. This session will show you tips and strategies to build a press release strategy that offers a valuable ROI and increase your SEO results and buyer traffic.

Sophie Shiatis – Vice President, PRWeb

Managing Your Pay Per Click Campaigns for Success

Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising can be a very effective way to drive brand awareness as well as customizing a targeted message to a targeted audience focused on buying the items you sell. PPC can also be a very complex marketing tool to manage. We have invited PPC experts to share tips on managing your PPC campaigns so you are on target with your profit goals.

Phil Leahy – Moderator – President, PeSA Australia
Bjorn Espenes – Founder, Finch
Alexis Van de Wyer – Director of Advertising, eBay

We have many more speakers and sessions coming and will announce them as the speaker bio’s come in.

See Ya in Vegas! – www.ecommerce-summit.com

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