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How To Guides
An Introduction to Google Calendar & How To Guide
Since its launch in April 2006, Google Calendar has become a very simple, yet effective tool and also sports some exceptionally powerful features included. If you’re reading this article in February 2011, this articles inclusion may not make any sense (yet), however if you’re reading this in March or later then I’ve put this video guide together for you so that you’re able to schedule those 10 minute windows in Google Calendar which … [Full Article >> ]
What is Order Aggregation & How Can it Help Your Business?
Aggregating orders from multiples sales channels is one of the main features in 3rd party software, but what are the benefits of doing this and how can it help your business? I delve deeply into order aggregation in this article and explain how this can help your business tackle multiple sales channels and still leave you with (some) hair. I’ve also included a video accompany this article and I would value any feedback you have … [Full Article >> ]
How eSellerPro’s Channel Profile Can Help Your Business
One of eSellerPro’s core features is a function called a ‘Channel Profile’, in this article I’ll be covering the basics to what a ‘Channel Profile’ does and how it can help your business. Multi-Channel selling is now an assumed practice for eCommerce businesses, unlocking the power to reach a much wider audience than you could ever have imagined, but sensibly. The Channel Profile feature in eSellerPro can enable you to achieve … [Full Article >> ]
What is eSellerPro & How it Can Help Your Business?
So what is eSellerPro and how can it help your business? To answer these questions effectively, I’ve put together a 3 minute video overview where I discuss the following: The 3 core parts of eSellerPro, these being: Inventory data & stock management Order aggregation The “Channel Profile” to keep the sales channels up to date Suitable business types Answered in a 3 Minute Video Before you watch this video its important to note … [Full Article >> ]
Reverse Engineering an eBay Template from an eBay Listing Part 1
Following on from the article series around eBay listing templates I recently covered in Part 1 and Part 2.In this article I reverse engineer an eBay listing template from an eBay listing and show you the parts that make up an eBay listing template. This is again going to be part of a two-part series and in the second part, I’ll be showing you the template that makes up the eBay listing, … [Full Article >> ]
How to Save eBay Searches and Have the Results Emailed to You
A heavily under-used feature for both buyers and merchants on eBay is the ability to make a search, save it and then to me notified of the results on a daily basis via email. This is very handy if you’re a buyer and are looking for a rare item, a seller who is conducting Market Research or an intellectual property rights owner (someone who owns a brand name for example) who has … [Full Article >> ]
Barcodes, GTIN’s,UPC’s, EAN’s, ISBN’s, JAN’s & ASIN’s Explained
Barcodes, these can cause confusion, especially if we account for all the different names they can be referenced as and even the term barcode isn’t technically correct, GTIN is. As such this article aims to dis-spell the myths & confusion around them and give you the 101 on the different variations, what they are and how they’re used. For the purpose of this article, I’m going to broadly call all GTIN … [Full Article >> ]
How to Customise Your eBay Search Results (For Buyers & Power Users)
Basic eBay search results are fine for normal users to a point, however even for normal users customising the search & browse results on eBay pages will allow you to make a more informed decisions on the item before clicking through. If you are using the search & browse results to conduct Market Research, then you’re definitely going to need some extra information so that you have a truer picture of what the results mean and … [Full Article >> ]
How To: Add a Youtube Video to your eBay Listings in 5 Steps
Video is an exceptionally powerful tool that can be used to allow a buyer to interact with the product before they’ve purchased it. Also making video can be great fun as you’ll see in the example video I used for this guide. Using video also allows the seller to show that they are an expert in the product area and reassure customers that they know a lot about the product, … [Full Article >> ]
Creating Your Very First iMacro – Web Browser Automation
Following on from my earlier article on How to Install Firefox & The iMacros Addon which also included some performance tips, this video shows you how to create your very first iMacro and also a more complicated macro, that performs a useful action. In the video I add an extra command called “WAIT”. The wait command allows iMacro’s to pause for a period of time for an action to be performed and as … [Full Article >> ]
Dealing With “Odd” Data Delimiters In Microsoft Excel
In this video I cover the following topics: What are CSV files What data inside a CSV files look like Why the standard comma separator can sometimes not work An example of a different separator How to open such files in Microsoft Excel (at 4:00 minutes in)
Updated Amazon Seller Pages & How To Update Yours
Amazon have updated the Seller Details pages, from the old tabbed style to a new universal page. To show this more graphically to you, I’ve made a quick video that shows the updated page and how you can edit yours. Updated Amazon Seller Page Video All the links used in this video are in the resources section below and its also worth noting that you may find this page more … [Full Article >> ]
How To: Using eBay Shop Keywords to Leverage the Extra eBay Shop Pages
In reviewing several eBay accounts for a client, I noticed that they were not using any of the eBay shop pages to promote niches of their products. Taking note that they were are paying for the anchor stores as well, that comes in at a cool £350 per month, none of the 15 customer pages are currently being used. What’s an eBay Shop? Covering off the ground work first before we progress, … [Full Article >> ]





