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01.09
4:12
16
12.08
2:37
Sneak ‘Peak: Beta testers needed for new Terapeak Value Track
One of several exciting additions we’ve been cooking up for the new year, Value Track is a tool that collects frequent searches and automates data trends on a week-to-week basis. The grid breaks down kind of like a stock chart, and allows you to track product movement in terms of average price, number of listings, and aggregate success rate. This will be especially useful for sellers with interest across several specific areas, as well as anyone who feels like “watching” a certain category for a few weeks to gauge its potential.
BUT, before we make this tool available to everybody, we want to make absolute certain that it’s as good as it can be — and that’s where you come in!
For a limited time, if you sign up to Beta test Value Track for us, we’ll show our appreciation by giving you two months’ free access to the tool, beginning when it is officially launched (probably next month). If you’d like to take part, all you need to do is log in to your Terapeak account and follow the “Terapeak Value Track” message that pops up. Then, sometime in the next few weeks, we’ll send along a survey for you to fill out, and voila! Free Value Track!
Thanks, we really appreciate it!
29
10.08
11:06
Terapeak iPhone Application: Test it today!
Do you love Terapeak? Do you have an iPhone?
Check this out:
That’s right, it’s our new iPhone application, which allows you to access Terapeak Marketplace Research right on your iPhone. It’s still in Beta stage, but it’s testing really well — and, if you’ve got an iPhone yourself, we’d love you to try it out!
If you’re interested, send an email to support@terapeak.com (subject “iphone”) and we’ll shoot you the URL!
Thanks!
23
10.08
12:57
Introducing TeraTips!
We’re pleased to announce a new feature to the site – upon log in you’ll notice an occasional TeraTip! TeraTips are short snippets of information on how to use the different tools in Terapeak.
We’ll release new tips all the time, and hope that these will help you to not only learn more about Terapeak, but find new cool ways to improve your business! They’re quick and easy to read, and get you on your way to researching more efficiently!
ZOIKS! Also, our sincere apology to anyone we emailed when turning on our new system. We’ve launched a lovely new mailing program that sent a few subscribers a “test retention” email. The email was just from us, and it shouldn’t happen again! Just delete and accept it as an unexpected “high five” from us to you.
15
10.08
11:05
Ice, Ice, eBay: Terapeak launches NHL index
Given the success of our NFL index, and because we’re a Canadian-based company with the moral obligation, we’ve created a new sales index that tracks the eBay sales of all 30 NHL teams. You can sort through league rankings on a division and conference basis, and as usual, see data based on total items sold, total sales, and average price. There’s also a widget (seen below) that fits easily into any blog or webpage.
Not surprisingly, the three biggest money-makers over the past 30 days are Detroit, Pittsburgh and Montreal, with small-market Buffalo in fourth followed by the remaining Original 6 teams. Consider, at the other end of the ice, that the Red Wings are outselling the least-lucrative team on eBay, the Predators, by a ratio of 14-to-1! The rest of the bottom five, in order of “best” to worst, are Carolina, Columbus, Florida, and Atlanta.
You can view the full index at http://www.terapeak.com/nhl, and a link to the widget just right of the magnifying glass. View all of our indexes at http://www.terapeak.com/indexes.
30
09.08
2:26
Tote Couture: Terapeak launches handbags index
With the steady popularity of designer fashion accessories on eBay — women’s handbags in particular — our team at Terapeak decided it would be interesting to compare the sales of a few top-selling brands. Terapeak’s new handbags index tracks the sales of Coach, Dooney & Bourke, Fendi, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and Prada products in terms of total sales, items sold, and average price.
The result, seen above, is perhaps our most functional and seller-friendly index-widget yet. Based on the past 30 days of closed listings, we can see that Louis Vuitton products go for significantly higher prices than their competitors, while Coach far outsells other manufacturers in terms of quantity. There’s also an option to select one of the bag-makers individually, and to view its stats and trends more closely.
As always, the index comes with a companion widget (shown above) that you can embed easily into any blog or webpage, as well as the ability to conduct your own Terapeak search; that means you can do a search for your own favorite purse, or anything else on eBay.
You can view the full index here, and a link to the widget (“Share”) near the bottom left of the screen.
22
09.08
2:30
Item Browse added to Search and Seller reports
As we continue to unveil improvements and additions based on your feedback, here are a few more to watch out for:
- There is now an “Item Browse” feature in both Search and Seller reports. Before, this feature was limited to just Category reports, but now you can view items listed within Search and Seller reports comprehensively, and sort the results by several different criteria.
- The character limit for searches has been expanded from 55 to 255, so you can now perform much broader searches.
- Thumbnail images of closed listings are now larger and easier to see.
Stay tuned for more!
22
09.08
8:57
Advanced Keyword Search Filters
We are always listening to customer feedback and we’ve heard some requests for more advanced keyword search options. We’ve recently added a bunch of wild card search options and OR search options. A full list of our supported search filters is as follows.
| To search for: | Do this: | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Items where two or more keywords are present | Enter the keywords with a space between them | new DVD player
searches for items with all three words in the title in any order |
| Items containing certain words in a particular order | Place quotation marks around the group of words, or join them with hyphens | “New York” or New-York
searches for items with titles containing New York in that order only, but not those containing just New or just York or the words York New |
| Items that don’t contain a certain word | Place a minus sign immediately before the word to be excluded (no space after the minus sign) | shirt blue -wool
searches for items with titles containing the words shirt and blue but not containing the word wool |
| Items that don’t contain several words | Place a minus sign before the list of words separated by commas (with no spaces after the minus sign) and put in parentheses | bowl -(black,green,purple) or bowl -black -green -purple
searches for items with titles containing the word bowl but not containing the words black, green, and purple |
| Items where one word or another is present | Enter keywords in parentheses separated by commas | (purse,handbag)
searches for items whose titles contain either the word purse or handbag |
| Items that contain words starting with a particular sequence of letters | Enter the letter sequence followed by an asterisk | book*
searches for items whose titles contain words starting with book, such as books, bookshelf, and bookmark |
| Items the contain words that follow a particular pattern | Enter the letter sequence with question marks where the letter may vary | li?e
searches for items whose titles contain words like like, line, and live |
15
09.08
9:50
Terapeak Improvements Coming Soon
I am Andrew E.R. Sukow, CTO at Terapeak.com. This is a quick note to let everyone know some of the great additions coming to Terapeak shortly. We have been listening to everyone’s feedback and comments. We will be adding some new functionality and improvements to Terapeak shortly and will continue to improve Terapeak based on your feedback. Here is a quick list of items that are launching in the next two weeks.
New Research:
- Average Shipping Price: We will be moving “Start Price” down lower and will be replacing it with “Avg. Shipping.” We have heard from our members and agree that knowing the shipping price is valuable. We worked hard to overcome some technical hurdles but will be adding this data very soon.
- Improved Keyword Data: Currently our keyword research can be sparse or missing in certain circumstances. This is a trade-off we made years ago in an effort to improve search speed. We’re proud to say though that with some of our recent hardware purchases we can now boost our keyword research to analyze every single keyword in the result. The keyword section will show rich information for any search term or any seller once this is launched.
- Faster Searches: Search speed will become 2x as fast in the coming weeks. We have put in significant work on our database software and we have purchased cutting edge hardware to boost our search speeds.
- Video Tutorials (with sound): Many people have requested sound to be added to the videos so we are updating our videos with sound video by video and hope to have them fully updated and vastly improved. A sound icon is next to the videos that have sound. These are available now online.
We appreciate everyone’s feedback and invite you to continue to provide feature requests, bug reports, and any type of comment. Please send us your comments.
Sincerely,
Andrew E.R. Sukow
CTO, Co-Founder
Terapeak.com
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