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12.08

11:57

The 12 Days of Terapeak: Limited-time free trial, available now!

The holidays are upon us, and Terapeak’s getting giddy!

Yep, call us suckers for the holiday season, but we can’t contain our excitement any longer. So, in honor of the giving season, we’re offering 12-day free trials to anyone who wants one. That means full access to Terapeak and all its charms: 90 days of closed listings, two years of category trends, seller reports, hot research — the whole shebang!

If you’re someone who’s recently found out about Terapeak, or if you’ve been considering signing up for a while — or, heck, if you know someone who sells on eBay and might be interested in Terapeak — now’s the time to find out what the fuss is about.

To take advantage of this offer, simply visit the Terapeak sign-up page before January 2nd, and research, research, research until you pass out face-down in the gravy bowl! (What? That’s just us? So we love our turkey dinners, so what!)

Please note: You will be required to include payment information with your free trial, but you will not be billed until your 12 days is up. If you don’t wish to continue your subscription, be sure to cancel before your trial reaches its 13th day.

Happy holidays!

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!

Posted by Author Name in New Tools & Tricks / No Comments.

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!

TeraTip

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

07.08

10:09

There’s Lots of Money in Those Old iPhones… on eBay

While reading an article linked to from Techmeme it is easy to see there are various ways to make money selling your old iPhone to get the new iPhone 3G. In theory, people are willing to give up their old iPhone for only $199.99 so that they can purchase their new iPhone 3G for free. We can see by our iPhone Index that the iPhone unlocked or locked is worth well more than that on eBay.

You could even go as far to say it might be possible to sell your old iPhone on eBay and get two iPhone 3G’s for free. Also, if you take a look at the trend on our iPhone Index, you will see the price of unlocked iPhones is skyrocketing! We hope this can help some of our visitors and members to make a quick buck or possibly get the new iPhone 3G and some free cash.

Posted by Author Name in Hot Products/Trends/ eBay/ecommerce News / 1 Comment

07.08

1:25

Upgrades to Terapeak Hardware

We want Terapeak to be the best and most efficient service that it can be, so your searches are completed faster, with the greatest accuracy and minimal load time. In order to keep up with the growth of our client base, and to maintain the corporate philosophy of providing the highest quality service to our users, Terapeak is in growth mode! Our servers are being updated, some replaced, and expanded with the latest technology available to us.

During the transition, with all the heavy lifting and changes happening in our server rooms, there is the potential that the site will experience a few growing pains – by this we mean small outages of a minute or so whilst changes are made to the existing infrastructure. If you run into a small pause in your service, or your search seems slower than normal, please wait a moment (have a nice stretch, it’s good for your back) and try again.

If you continue to experience problems, it may not be an issue with the upgrades, so please go ahead and contact our support department at support@terapeak.com and they’ll help troubleshoot.

We appreciate your patience as we work to improve the services you are subscribed to.

Thank you for your continued support of Terapeak Marketplace Research!

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

06.08

3:08

July Workshop – Keywords, Keywords, Keywords, and Listing Titles Too!

Topic: Keywords, Keywords, Keywords and Listing Titles Too!
Host: Terapeak
Date: Friday July 18
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. PST

Visit the eBay Workshop Board

Join Denise from Terapeak Marketplace Research to explore ways to use market research and find top dollar keywords. Your eBay listings have a 55 character store front, and that is your customer’s gateway to your items! Are you using the best keywords for your item, and are you maximizing your exposure? We’ll review a few simple methods to evaluate keywords using Terapeak research using some topical examples. The workshop will be open for the hour for any questions related to research and your eBay sales.

Posted by Author Name in Terapeak Tips & Tutorials/ Terapeak/eBay Events/ eBay Selling Tips / 3 Comments

06.08

2:50

eBay Live! 2008 – Great Success in Chicago!

One of our favorite events here at the Terapeak office is eBay Live! It’s a unique opportunity for us to gather feedback from our current users, introduce new users to the concept of market research, and spend a few days with a great crowd of energetic and successful sellers.

After three days of speaking with the general public, I came away with a few observations:

Any economic downturn that the US may be experiencing is not affecting the profits of sellers who sell internationally. I spoke with a lot of people who said that they are netting even more than last year after opening up to international buyers and/or arbitraging goods on the international eBay platforms.
Lots of people know who we are, (Terapeak!) and use research to build their business. Numerous people simply stopped by the booth to let us know how much they use their Terapeak subscription. We all love to hear that!
debate of Buyer support vs. Seller support rages on. Sure, eBay is focusing on the buyer experience heavily right now (as mentioned in the keynote speech), but they are building help for the sellers as well – look at project Echo – a new feature in development for launch 2009 that will allow outside applications to be included within the eBay platform. The impetus of this is to help sellers, and it’s a project we’ve been very active in from the start, since our tools are seller tools!
Feedback is still an issue. Not a lot of sellers seemed thrilled at the new format, but are looking optimistically to eBay to make more improvements.
Chris Issak? Still very cool. And Sara and I were excited to see that he still has the same drummer he had on his TV show. Jugglers? Still not cool. Funny banter though, I will give them that J.

If you were at Live! this year, it was great to see you there, and I hope you had as much fun as the Terapeak team did. If you weren’t, we’ll see you in Florida in 2010.

Were you at eBay Live! ? There’s room in the comments below for your observations.

denise

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

06.08

3:01

Terapeak Teams up with the eBay Echo Project – Details Announced at the eBay Developer’s Conference

Participants at the eBay Developers Conference in Chicago today got a sneak peek at an exciting new eBay initiative that Terapeak has been involved with, called Project Echo. Since we are always looking for new and innovative ways to bring research to the market, Terapeak has been an active participant in this project from the start. Project Echo was spearheaded by eBay so that developers can easily create on-eBay applications, using a new set of developer APIs.

This new accessibility for developers is similar to Facebook opening its platform for applications. The difference here is that eBay applications will focus on improving sales and service within the eBay community. The integration of Terapeak was straightforward, thanks to eBay’s dev friendly focus and Terapeak’s versatility. The entire project was completed within a very short timeframe.

The Terapeak project not only includes access to Terapeak research, but an integrated inventory tool, which allows sellers to evaluate their inventory and receive fresh pricing data as the market evolves. Set to launch in early 2009, eBayers will be able to access Terapeak and other services directly within the eBay platform!

Check out the TechCrunch mention!

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

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