by Jason
1:25 am in Announcements by Jason
Holy seven digits, Batman! Today, Sellebrity rounded the corner on 1,000,000 listings!
We’re going viral. We grew 50% from last month.
Thanks to all our users for helping us grow so fast!
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by Jason
5:36 pm in Announcements by Jason
Hello everyone,
We have just added a really neat feature to the Social Streamer application. Introducing Sellebrity Showcase! Now you can showcase your items in style.
That we are very excited to give you this new feature. We believe that it will increase the traffic we were already giving you, by an additional 20 to 30%.
This gallery makes things interesting for your buyers, by showing the items ranked by popularity. Your visitors can also choose to view the listings sorted in various ways, based on the social factors such as bid counts or visit counts.
In order to view your gallery, go to the following URL. Please note that you will have to edit the URL and substitute your eBay user ID.
http://sellebrity.com/social/gallery/EBAY_USERID
We really think we’ve got the competition beat. To see some examples, just search Twitter for “Sellebrity”. Then, compare that to searching for “Froo” or “Fflap”.
You can configure how often you want your Gallery to be posted on your Setup tab. Just login to the Social Streamer application as you would normally, and then go to the Setup tab. Then configure the interval.
The “interval” is simply the number of updates or posts that will occur before we post the Showcase link again. The reason that we configured this way is because some users only have a few listings, and it doesn’t make sense to post a Showcase link three or four times a day.
We recommend a setting of about 15 to 20 for the Interval. If you really want to go crazy, you can set it as low as 8.
Enjoy the new Showcase!
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by Jason
8:10 pm in Newsletters by Jason
Hello Sellebrities,
It’s Customer Appreciation Week at Sellebrity! This is the week where we just “stop everything,” and talk to our customers and give rewards! Get your questions answered!
To “Sellebrate” the launch of Social Streamer application (see below!), we are giving away FREE T-shirts or Sharpie Permanent Marker Sets!
It’s our way of saying thanks for your help to make our products better with your feedback – we want your ideas! If you love the service, here’s your chance to make it better… AND to get some cool free stuff for your favorite eBay Cool Tools site! 
Gift #1: A Sellebrity “Hanes Beefy T” XL 100% Cotton T-Shirt!
These shirts are the real deal, and we’re offering ‘em at no profit. Most vendors sell them for $20-$25. No polyester here – these are the highest quality t-shirts you can find. These are thick 100% cotton, Sensational quality, Hanes “Beefy T” Colorfast shirts!
Gift #2: A Sellebrity Set-of-4 “Sharpie Autograph” Shipping Box Markers!
the box markers are Sharpie Permanent markers which you can’t find easily in stores! As you know, shipping supplies are expensive, so here’s your chance to save 20 bucks!
Follow this link to learn more about these items and get instructions on how to claim your gift!
http://www.sellebrity.com/store/
We are pleased to say that the first week of Social Streamer has been very successful! Several customers have already set up twitter and Facebook accounts and they’re on their way to getting free traffic and more sales!
Make sure to sign up now while we are in the FREE testing. You will receive all upgrades and not have to pay.
Social Streamer goes beyond your listing descriptions by highlighting information that frequently changes about your listing — to engage your customers at a personal level.
Social Streamer promotes your products on Twitter and Facebook in a very smart way. We help you take advantage of free social networking traffic. You can set up automation rules, and we also build analytics right into the application, so you can see how much traffic you are getting. Once you turn on Social Streamer, just sit back and enjoy a few extra clicks. Then, as you build a user base, you will receive an increasing number of clicks over time.
Your listings have already been imported, so there is no way time! Our instructions will get you set up in just a few clicks.
We stumbled across a website a few months ago called WatchCount.com, and we think you should check it out, because you can use it to research what makes other sellers successful — as they are getting lots of watchers, obviously.
In short: WatchCount.com lets you see eBay “Watch Counts” of most auctions, data normally kept under wraps by eBay. It doesn’t cost anything and you will most likely learn something you didn’t know before.
Here’s a direct link to the website:
And here’s the link to the full article.
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by Jason
9:44 am in Announcements by Jason
Dear Sellebrity Analytics customers!
Sellebrity Analytics is making updates to the interface tomorrow, April 16, 2011.
We listen to our customers! Thank you for your suggestions.
New Sellebrity Analytics layout
Those of you that are happy with the site the way it is today, will like the slightly changed layout. All the same functionality is still there, but we have broken certain features out to make them more accessible.
The new interface uses all the latest Web 2.0 technology.
Yes, we have added a lot of new features, all of them easy to use, and far too many to list here. You will love all of the little extras that we added for you.
Kind regards,
Your Friends at Sellebrity 
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by Jason
3:06 pm in Announcements by Jason
[ April 3, 2011 ] – Today, Sellebrity announced a new utility to help eBay sellers advertise listings for free on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. The new utility is currently available entirely free at the Sellebrity website.
“eBay Sellers kept saying they did not get the Social Networking thing, so we made a simple tool for them,” a spokesperson for Sellebrity said. “This new social tool comes with lots of extras: It optimizes itself using analytics, and it also engages buyers at a very personal level before they get to eBay. Social Streamer was created to help every seller, regardless of who they are or what they sell.”
Twitter user “KidsSquared,” who earns a living on eBay, says that when she began using Social Streamer, she experienced a noticeable increase in traffic and sales. “Three months ago, social networking terrified me, but now I’m making good money from it, just by being myself, and with very little work on my part,” she says.
Social Streamer works by monitoring how listings change over their lifetime due to social factors, such as bids, watch counts, links and bookmarks to the listing, and questions asked. The utility collects and analyzes this information, and in certain key situations, will use it to attract the buyer on a special landing page.
As an example, a rare item can be promoted initially as a great deal because it has no bids. And right before the auction ends, it can be promoted as a last-chance offer.
Social Streamer also has features for advanced users, such as the ability to create search patterns to report on what people say about them and their products.
“We are very pleased with the fantastic support and cooperation of all of the eBay teams,” said Sellebrity’s CEO. After only 18 months of operation, which includes 6 months as a Featured App in eBay’s Open Application Directory, Sellebrity tracks nearly a million listings on eBay and averages 1,500 sign-ups per month.
Social Streamer is currently available free for sellers at the Sellebrity website at http://www.sellebrity.com/social-streamer/.
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by Jason
2:32 pm in Announcements by Jason
Dear customers,
Sellebrity is proud to announce the launch of our latest and greatest product to help you promote your listings: Social Streamer!
Social factors change the popularity of your listings. Social Streamer decides which items to promote on Twitter, Facebook, and Delicious – based on popularity, and things people say about you and your products!
Social Streamer was created to help every single one of you, regardless of who you are or what you sell. We will help you grow with people who truly appreciate you and your products– because they found you by natural search.
Read more, and sign up now, for FREE, at the new website:
http://www.sellebrity.com/social-streamer/
Please direct any questions or comments to us on this forum!
Best regards,
Your Friends at Sellebrity ;-D
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by Jason
You know that at Sellebrity, we try to take existing ideas and use them in new ways. We stumbled across a website a few months ago called WatchCount.com, and we think you should check it out, because you can use it to research what makes other sellers successful — as they are getting lots of watchers, obviously.
In short: WatchCount.com lets you see eBay “Watch Counts” of most auctions, data normally kept under wraps by eBay. It doesn’t cost anything and you will most likely learn something you didn’t know before.
Here are three ways we found can use WatchCount.com:
1. Perform keyword, category, or item-number-based searches for Most Watched listings via the search box on their home page. (For faster lookups, add WatchCount.com to the list of search engines in your browser’s instant search box.)
2. Use WatchCount.com/zero to reveal last-minute auctions with zero/fewest bids that are about to end — possibly unearthing hidden deals.
3. Use WatchCount.com/misspelled.php for misspelled items. We cannot emphasize the practice of researching spelling mistakes enough, as we have done in previous articles. We always recommend actually sprinkling a few misspelled words intentionally at the bottom of your listings in fine print, so that anyone typing in the misspellings will pick up on them.
Also remember, you can use Sellebrity Analytics to find out which keywords people are using, and then add those terms directly into WatchCount to find out what is making things sell.
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by Jason
11:09 am in Announcements by Jason
We are now sending “Top Ten Lists” for every week from Monday through Sunday, to show you all your popular titles.
The emails also contain links to the breakout pages, and detail pages for all of the statistics in question.
You need to be logged in to see the reports. If you subscribe through the Open Apps directory, a temporary password will be included in the email so you can see the reports. The login link in the report is good for one year, so you should only have to enter it one time.
A picture says a thousand words. Here are some sample emails below. Enjoy!
by Jason
9:22 am in Announcements by Jason
Hello everyone,
We have made some improvements to how we do customer service. Our staff is expanding (more on that soon) and so we have switched to ZenDesk for people who want to write direct e-mails.
We are not going to use the ZenDesk forum, however, as we prefer to keep that local using WordPress and buddyPress. We wrote a utility which synchronizes the forum with the same desk tickets, but only for public information.
If you have any suggestions on how we can continue to improve, please be sure to let us know.
by Jason
by Jason
3:46 pm in Newsletters by Jason
Our newsletters are a collection of our blog posts from the past months. Here is all the latest news of what’s going on with the Sellebrity. We also have more improvements coming your way.
It’s that time of year again. Remember last year how you vowed not to wait to the last minute for Gift Shopping? Well, you are in luck, as we have taken some time to put together a short list of unique and thoughtful gifts to get you started.
You may find exactly what you need for that certain someone special, or perhaps take these ideas as inspiration and find something even better.
We have changed the look of our external website. We are now fully advertising our paid listing service, the 1-Page Lister and Selling Manager. It is out of beta test and in full production. We will be offering many more new products in 2011, so make sure and stay tuned for changes.
We have also launched our Beta site at http://beta.sellebrity.com/. Please make sure to try it out and make sure it suits your needs, as it will go live in December.
Read more about Website Makeover
Same company, same people; but we will operate only under the website Sellebrity.com now, as opposed to two different websites. As our long-term customer base knows, we operated previously under the name Auction Hawk for 10 years and last summer, we moved all users to the Sellebrity website. The actual Auction Hawk website will be retired. (Pause for a brief sentimental interlude!)
Effective immediately, we have begun tagging your listings without our advertisement.
As you know, we have been putting our little 88 x 33 pixel image on the eBay listings which sends tracking information to our servers for you. And we have also been putting a 10 word tagline underneath this advertising or product.
Sellebrity Analytics has a new home: the eBay Open Applications Directory. eBay introduced this directory last year in order to help developers to help you expand your eBay horizons.
Sellebrity Analytics will still be offered through the website, naturally. We are going to be splitting off several of our services into other offerings.
Read more about Open Apps Launch
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by Jason
It’s that time of year again. Remember last year how you vowed not to wait to the last minute for Gift Shopping? Well, you are in luck, as we have taken some time to put together a short list of unique and thoughtful gifts to get you started.
You may find exactly what you need for that certain someone special, or perhaps take these ideas as inspiration and find something even better.
Check out our ideas below and get inspired to give this Holiday Season!
Let’s face it, the world is going digital. In your living room is a clutter of DVDs, CDs, and all kinds of other media. Now your worries are over. You can take all those DVDs, slap them on your computer, and the boxy box will read the entire library and present it to you on your television the beautiful on-screen display.
This tool beats the heck out of Apple TV, Google TV, or any of the competition coming out. The hardware is for $99, you can’t beat it and it’s a sure hit with the family. Heck, this thing will keep them busy for hours on end as something the entire family can enjoy.
Hard drives are the new file cabinets. For the compulsively neat or the organizationally-challenged this nifty tool is for him! Go desk-less and paper-less with the Magic Wand Scanner.
This nifty gadget lets you scan items quickly and efficiently, right out of the envelope. The scans go onto a memory card, that can be loaded into your computer and filed away.
Not-Your-Average-Chick-Flick-Man. He’s a man’s man, for sure. Let the world know. Get him a Sons of Anarchy T-shirt and check local listings to program the DVR. That way he can watch it after your tear-jerker is over…..
Sons of Anarchy is a TV show about the lives of a motorcycle club.
Perfect for The Single Ingredient Cooker. (For him it’s green beans, not green bean casserole. It’s mashed not double-baked potatoes.)
For the guy who thinks he has everything, try the Umbrella Hat. Because you can TRUST us, he doesn’t have this yet. The gift that he/you will love to hate!Click here to see the amazing Propller Hat!
Now time to get serious – shopping for Her!
For any woman, any here. Give her a beautiful freshly made Balsam Fir wreath, straight from the forests of Minnesota.
With several styles to choose from this company will hand-craft a beautiful wreath for her to enjoy for months. Can be hung inside or out – truly a gift to be appreciated over the holiday season and beyond!
Click here to see a selection of beautiful Balsam Wreaths
The un-sexy Victoria Secret that is safe for gift-giving of all ages. We are not talking lingerie here – check out Victoria Secret Pink Collegiate Line at Victoria’s Secret. They carry some great clothing to help her cheer on her favorite team during Game Day. You can get pink paper and fancy bags all women know and love, yet still give a gift safe to be opened in front of future in-laws.
Clean is as clean does. In case you are confused this is not a dance, but a handy little robot vacuum give her the clean house she wants but doesn’t want to clean.
So she’s not Julia Childs? Introduce her to recipes from the heart – the cookbooks published by local organizations, churches and schools.
These collections of treasured recipes from a community that people share with love to support a cause. Recipes that have been perfected in home-grown kitchens like only a mother can.
Search your local cities, schools and churches for some great cookbooks !
Click here to examples at Zazzle.com
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by Jason
2:10 pm in Announcements by Jason
In our last newsletter, we talked about our last website change and hinted that more new things were coming. Your usage of the site will not be interrupted in any way. But we’d like you to read this newsletter to see what’s new.
Sellebrity Analytics has a new home: the eBay Open Applications Directory. eBay introduced this directory last year in order to help developers to help you expand your eBay horizons.
Sellebrity Analytics will still be offered through the website, naturally. We are going to be splitting off several of our services into other offerings.
Current users: Please do not sign up for Sellebrity Analytics in the directory to avoid being double charged. Just keep using it by logging in to Sellebrity’s home page.
If you haven’t browsed the eBay Open Application Directory, you can do so now – you might find something useful. There is some neat stuff in there. Analytics customers may be interested in the MyStoreCredit utility. We believe if you like SPY, you will also like MyStoreMaps.
eBay has a similarly-named addition into their directory: Listing Analytics. However, eBay’s definition of analytics is really very different than ours. Their product is focused on SALES. We are focused on VISITORS and REAL-TIME TRAFFIC.
We talked with eBay about how to co-market these two products to mutual benefit since they are perfect complements to each other. Again, eBay focuses on sales, but we focus on Real Time Visitors.
Also we heard theirs is pretty buggy right now, you might want to try it while it is still free.
Sellebrity was the first company to introduce actual web-based analytics to the eBay marketplace, and within 1 year it is already an industry benchmark. Several services have attempted to copy the product (or portions of it). A lot of companies use the word “analytics” to mean “reports with graphs,” so accept no substitutions!
What is it? Well – you’ll have to stay tuned to the next Newsletter, coming out in just a couple of days!
See you on the forums
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by Jason
9:22 am in Announcements by Jason
Happy one-year anniversary, analytics users! We have a nice little present for you.
Effective immediately, we have begun tagging your listings without our advertisement.
As you know, we have been putting our little 88 x 33 pixel image on the eBay listings which sends tracking information to our servers for you. And we have also been putting a 10 word tagline underneath this advertising or product.
We feel that now that we have launched into the eBay open applications directory, we no longer need to do this.
We could add an invisible counter, but in order to keep buyers informed of all changes, eBay appends a message:
At (date and time), the seller added the following information:
Sellers didn’t want eBay’s message there with empty hanging space. So, we made the tag a modest 88×33 image.
Enjoy!
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by Jason
5:46 am in Announcements by Jason
For those of you that pay for advertisements, you know that they can be effective, even if for a few short time. What does a typical burst of traffic look like, anyway?
Here’s a snapshot on a little startup site I am helping out on. My uncle runs a restaurant and wanted to know exactly how effective his campaigns were. He had no idea, he was just paying for traffic without measuring it.
This is a very typical chart.
Average Life of a Typical E-Mail Offer.
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