Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Various Counter+Query Services

I have not found a rock solid analytics service which is generic, tracking internal (not publicly spiderable) and external metrics. Eventually I decided to develop my own tracking service. I'm presenting my efforts in a session "Tracking and Testing for Ajax and Heavy Web Client Web 2.0" at eBay DevCon 2010

Thursday, January 7, 2010

How Do I List an Item on eBay?

Some questions to ask yourself while listing:

1) Should I use the Auction with BIN option?
2) What is my Lifetime Positive Feedback Percent?
3) Time remaining and elapsed affect views. Schedule an end time?
4) Is a short listing duration (1,3,5 day) better than 7 or 10 days?
5) Should I list multi-quantity?
6) Should I list in US?

Also ask yourself:

1) What do my recent sales look like?
2) Is my title optimized and relevant?
3) Is this a fresh item or did I have to relist?