View Article  eBay Research Labs Offers New Tool to Optimize Your Auction Title
Make your auction title work for you!  Choosing the right keywords can make a difference in how many buyers find your listing.  That means more money for you!
 
eBay Research Labs if offering a new tool to help you optimize the 55 characters eBay allows in your title, to grab as many potential buyers as you can.  It's called Bayestimator.
 
Bayestimator helps you choose the right words for your title based on what buyers are looking for in recent searches (from the previous month).  It also suggests categories and availability of items on eBay, based on the results.   As you choose different keywords for your title, Bayestimator shows you how the changes increase or decrease the "desirability" to buyers looking for certain items.
 
Be sure to read the instructions first, which explain how to get the best result, and what the results and detailed information mean for you.   You will find the instructions here:  http://labs.ebay.com/raghavgupta/demoto/instructions.html
View Article  Free Shipping Sale Feature Added to Markdown Manager

eBay is adding a feature to Markdown Manager.  If you have an eBay Store, you will be able to create a "Free Shipping Sale" in your inventory!  Here are the details:

"Free Shipping Sale" with Markdown Manager

The ability to create a "Free Shipping" sale will be added to Markdown Manager in the next few days. Buyers love a sale, and having a limited time Free Shipping sale is a great way to create excitement and a sense of urgency. With Markdown Manager, you can add a Free Shipping sale to any of your listings individually or in bulk, making it now possible to extend a 'Sale' to auction-style listings. When an item is part of a Free Shipping sale, buyers will see a Free Shipping icon right on the item page.

If you haven't used Markdown Manager [http://pages.ebay.com/storefronts/markdownmanager.html] for eBay Stores, it lets you put your items on sale. In fact, it's the most highly-adopted Stores feature! To learn more about Markdown manager, please visit http://pages.ebay.com/storefronts/markdownmanager.html.

A New "Free Shipping" Icon for all Sellers

Also, to make Free Shipping even more noticeable to buyers across the site, this new "Free Shipping" icon will appear whenever any seller has selected "standard free shipping" in their listing – regardless of whether they used Markdown Manager.

Check out our FAQs for more info on how to create a Free Shipping sale today [http://pages.ebay.com/storefronts/faq.html#markdown_manager].

Sincerely,

Andy Feierfeil

eBay Stores

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