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12.09

4:27

A Holiday Gift for Terapeak Users: Our new iPhone app!

As a token of our appreciation for each and every Terapeak subscriber, we’re proud this month to not only introduce our brand new iPhone application, but to offer it FREE as part of all North American Terapeak subscriptions!

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The Terapeak iPhone app has been in the works for a long time, and it’s a tool we feel will add a whole new dimension to conducting market research. Now you’ll be able to take Terapeak with you wherever you go — to garage sales, trade shows, thrift stores, and more!

Similar to Terapeak’s web version, the application allows users to see average prices, listing totals and sell-through rates for each search. Results are viewable and sortable by end price, start price and number of bids, and can be filtered by category, minimum end price and maximum end price. All of this data comes neatly packaged and is accessible with only a few clicks, so it’s easy to always keep on top of your game.

To access the application, all you need to do is download it on your iPhone from the Apple store in iTunes*, then enter your Terapeak username and password to get started!

We hope you enjoy it! And happy holidays!

(*Please note: Currently, the Terapeak iPhone app is only available via the American and Canadian iTunes stores. We apologize for any inconvenience.)

(*Please note: Currently, this app is only free to users in North America, Australia, and The United Kingdom who have Advantage Subscriptions. We apologize for any inconvenience)

Posted by Author Name in New Tools & Tricks/ Terapeak News/ eBay/ecommerce News / 10 Comments

09.09

4:10

Beatlemania’s Back: “Rock Band”, Reissues help Fab Four sell on eBay

In case you haven’t heard, there’s this wild new video game out, where you and a few friends get to be English kids with bad haircuts, who sing cute little pop songs that eventually become more complex, and eventually you pioneer this thing called rock and roll and take over the world… It’s pretty “out there”, but a lot of fun!

Okay, obviously we’re talking about The Beatles: Rock Band, which released just over a week ago, and which features some crazy specialized instrument add-ons, like Paul’s signature Hofner bass and Ringo’s branded drum kit. Not coincidentally, the game also launched in conjuction with remastered reissues of the band’s catalogue — which, here in the office, we’re pretty stoked on. Of course, $250 retail (the cost of the 13-part box set) is a lot of dough to spend on tunes you’ve pretty much heard before — especially when paired with all the Rock Band packages — so for any fan to get in on the action, they’re looking at a hefty financial commitment.

As a result — and you know what we’re gonna say — eBay sales have gone through the roof.

Check out this 30-day All Sites total sales trend:

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… and that’s just any listing with the keyword “Beatles” in it!

If total amounts aren’t your thing (fair, considering the new release factor), consider this: in the two weeks leading up to release date, sell-through also shot from 38% to 51%, while bids per listing nearly doubled. And if holiday patterns are any indication… well, that’s only the beginning.

Terapeak’s Hot Media charts for September won’t come out for another couple weeks, but do you remember the following from a couple months back?

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… Okay, we still can’t get over how unbelievable that is. Jaw-dropping. Inconceivable.

But don’t be surprised to see some kind of Beatles “lite” version as holiday sales pick up…

Posted by Author Name in Hot Products/Trends/ eBay Selling Tips/ eBay/ecommerce News / No Comments.

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

Posted by Author Name in New Tools & Tricks/ Terapeak News/ Terapeak Tips & Tutorials / No Comments.

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

Posted by Author Name in New Tools & Tricks/ Terapeak Tips & Tutorials / 6 Comments

06.08

12:33

eBay Live! 2008 Chicago

You can find us at BOOTH 529 at this year’s eBay Live! in Chicago. The team attending is really looking forward to another great eBay event and meeting up with all of the fabulous Terapeak users out there.

Please stop in and say hello if you’re at the event next week! We’ll be updating live from the event, which for some of us starts Monday at the eBay Developer’s Conference.

See you in Chicago!

Posted by Author Name in Terapeak/eBay Events / 1 Comment

05.08

10:16

Silver Age Iron Man Comics Get a Boost from Film Release

As the big budget film Iron Man hits theatres this week, demand for Silver age Iron Man comics has soared as well.
According to results found using Terapeak’s Hot Categories research tool, Iron man comics from between 1956 and 1969 are super hot on eBay this week.

This trend chart shows the last two years of activity in category #32735:

As you can see, listings and sales are both way up. Last week over 600 listings were posted in this category, generating $27K in sales.
That’s impressive activity for 40-50 year old collectibles. Notable listings this month:
IRON MAN & SUB-MARINER # 1 (1968) sold for $4650.00, making it the highest priced listing in this category in April.
The INVINCIBLE IRON MAN Complete Collection DVD ROM was the most frequently listed title in April. Digital formats for comic books are a growing industry.
Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow, opens in theatres across North America on May 2nd, 2008.

Posted by Author Name in Hot Products/Trends/ eBay/ecommerce News / No Comments.

10.07

4:34

Terapeak Attends AfterBuy BBQ in Germany

We had a great time at the AfterBuy.com BBQ a few weeks ago. We had the chance to speak with many eBay sellers in Germany and learn from their experience how research can be applied to their online businesses. Terapeak’s full focus on research has helped us be able to listen to online merchant’s feedback on how research can truly help their businesses succeed.

You can see some pictures of the event, our booth, and of our presentation in our flicker page.

Also, congradulations AfterBuy.com for the successful acquisition by eBay.de. We wish you all the best and look forward to our continued partnership!

Andrew

Posted by Author Name in Terapeak News/ Terapeak/eBay Events/ eBay/ecommerce News / No Comments.

09.07

3:37

Terapeak at E-Commerce Paris 2007 Event

Terapeak recently presented at the E-Commerce Paris 2007 Event. Our team at www.terapeak.fr had the opportunity to share the benefits of eBay research with merchants in France. We have two 30 second video clips of our presentation (french). In general, it was an excellent event for both us and the attendees.

Posted by Author Name in Terapeak News/ Terapeak/eBay Events/ eBay/ecommerce News / No Comments.

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