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!

 We’ve just released an exciting new promotion at Terapeak and wanted to be sure our blog readers heard about it first! Here’s the update:

This year Terapeak wants to make it that much easier for your online retail business to profit. For a limited time only, yearly subscriptions to Terapeak Research have been cut in half – to enable online sellers to make a serious dent in their cost of running business!

 If you’ve yet to implement market research into your business plan, the New Year is the ideal time to evaluate how market research can make a positive impact on your sales. Do you have items in your inventory that are under-performing? Or are you looking for the next-big-thing to hit the internet? Using Terapeak research can provide you with insight into these questions and more.

 Terapeak generates reports based on your keyword search, using closed eBay listings. Use the reports to determine the average value of goods, sell-through rate, seller competition, niche markets, HOT items, the best time to end your auction listings, top-dollar keywords, and much more. The reporting pages on Terapeak are fast, easy to understand, and accurate – all of the data is licensed from eBay and sent directly to Terapeak on a daily basis.

 If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to improve your online business, take advantage of this limited time offer and subscribe to a year of Terapeak Research for half off the regular price! We are so sure that Terapeak research will improve your sales and make you life-long users of the service that we are cutting the yearly subscription fee to get you started. Get started by visiting http://www.terapeak.com/special/