New Strategy for Amazon Listing!

Well I was looking around for info on Google for a listing on Auctiva one day, and I noticed there was an Amazon listing that showed up on the search results.  I thought it would be worth looking at for some specs on the product and to keep note on its standing in Amazon.  I then noticed that the Amazon listing said "Currently out of stock"- and it clicked!  There must be thousands of listings just sitting there, "out of stock", that will never show up on the "Add a Product" search.  Why Amazon doesn't bother to include these is quite strange...  Anyways, this discovery has proven to be very helpful in uncovering listings we didn't not know existed and allows us to "sell (ours) here" more often.

Morale of the story? DON'T USE THE AMAZON "ADD A PRODUCT" SEARCH FEATURE, JUST USE GOOGLE.  Amazon's search engine is hardly functional anyways.


Also: so i herd you liek dubkipz?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHZ7ogeVC4E

List It Like You Mean It!

Hello and good day dear people of the interwebs!
I'm gonna go ahead and post my goals for today, maybe some listing times later if I get the chance.

Goals:
 - As a company, to reach 1900 listings (we're currently at 1875).
 - 4 or 5 (or more) perfect listings per hour.
 - Check and finalize bid spreadsheet (add in offers).
 - Assist with/observe product purchasing (learn).
 - All around improvement in efficiency and quality.

More to come soon!

- Spencer

Satisfaction

About that time, 'eh chaps?

Goal: 15

As of 1:20 - 5

2:58 - back

7:48 - 15

Goal: achieved.

-ST

Block Recount

Hello and welcome back to our blag! Today I will be posting more goals and records of/for my listings!

Goals:
 - At least 4 listings an hour
 - Accomplish miscellaneous tasks in a timely manner
 - Update the Blag (obviously)
 - Listing perfection as usual!

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Records:
 Pre lunch (10:15 - 1:15):
 - 10 listings (mostly misc. cables and a video card)
 - Test 5 new memory card/stick readers for each workstation (only seem to work with one camera). The product was mislabeled on eBay as a SDHC card reader when it cannot even fit that type of card (seller contacted).
 - Scheduling
 - Organization
 Post Lunch (2:47 - 6:00):
 - 8 listings (gold scrap, misc. cables)
 - Restock DVI-D splitter

Recount

Goals 8/4/11:

    5 listings an hour (or better!)
    Perfect listings
    Clear space in the hallway'

1.) 10:03 - 10:24 2

- Cable listings (single and lot)

2.) 10:26 - 10:35

- Cable listing

3.) 10:37 - 10:55

- Cable listing and edit to all listings.

4.) 11:00 - 11:25

- Cable listings (10 lots of 5 and 10 lots of 10)

5.) 11:29 - 11:54

- Cable listings (4 lots of 10, 5 lots of 5, 13singles)

Log lost after this point.

Moar expectations.

THINE NOOOOOOOOODLE

I guess I should do a blog for the day, cataloging how many listings I do,
even though the accounting department now keeps a list of who does <X> Number of listings per hour.
/day.
[And Week.]

Regardless, I'll find a way to keep this interesting and talk about the FSM some.







Moar coming, throughout the day, of course.
--Austin

Record

 Today we are rolling out our new daily/hourly goal project with our blogs! I'm interested in seeing how much I speed up or slow down with each given factor and time of the day. Wish I had more time to blog about this new feature and the rest of today's excitement (checkout the YoutTube.com/austincybershop page). More tomorrow, Gnight guys!

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My Goals:

• At least 4 listings per hour (including distractions, bathroom breaks, restock, etc).
• Fix unlaunched cable listings from yesterday.
• Clear inventory out of this room (big boxes of cables).
• Update blag.

1.) 4:17 - 4:23: Dell U0842 128Mb nVidia Quadro FX500 AGP Video Card listing
 - Time: 6 Minutes 30 seconds (approximate)
 - Price: $13.99 with shipping

2.) 4:24 - 4:39: Resort cables from failed/poorly sorted approximate cable lot.

3.) 4:55 -5:40: 4 listings (about 11 minutes 15 seconds per listing counting moving around).
  - New Dell 2 Prong Big MF235 AC Laptop Power Cable (singles) $2.99 each.
  - (10) New Dell 2 Prong Big MF235 AC Power Cable Lot (lot of 10) $14.99 per lot.
  - New Dell 2 Prong Small GU952 AC Laptop Power Cable (singles) $2.99 each.
  - (10) New Dell 2 Prong Small GU952 AC Power Cable Lot (lot of 10) $14.99 per lot.

4.) 5:40 - 5:45: Move inventory to accounting office.

5.) 5:50 - 6:05: Blog

-- Spencer

Expectations. [August 2nd 2011]

Let's hope this all goes well, shall we?

We've been instructed to make individual postings tracking the speed at which we are listing items,
as a matter of personal record and for future reference.
In all fairness, we've been asked to do this every hour on the hour, so I would like to make a point that this first one is running 20 minutes late. Not sure when this will get posted, because I'm editing as I go.
The current time is 4:19 PM.
I would like to manage four listings in the next forty minutes.
Let's begin.

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• 4:30PM 

            [Helping Spencer to sort cables.]

• 4:39PM 

           [The sorting of power cables is finished, but the urge to void my bowels has come over me.
            Dear merciful flying spaghetti monster... WHAT DO I DO?!]

5 listings complete.

OUR
TIME
IS
RUNNING
OUT!

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Mario just asked for me, so I guess that's all I've got from 4 - 5 PM, today.
Pulled off 5 listings in 40 minutes, about 200-300 dollars of inventory, I think.
5PM updates incoming.
Gonna shoot for the same, this time.

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• 5:09 PM

WE BEGIN AGAIN.

2 complete. :[
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Okay, that was awful.
I guess sometimes you run into tricky items that are hard to find.
:/  Never documented that, before, but from experience - it's definitely true.

Gonna shoot for 5 listings, again.

Here comes 6-7PM...
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4 complete





--Austin