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Terapeak Trends: Connecting Interest in Solar Energy to Path Lighting, Consumer Products
2013 06 13
Worldwide demand for electricity continues to rise as electrically-powered goods are more and more a part of everyday life. From tiny devices like mobile phones to large investments like electric cars, consumers today are reliant on an increasingly energy-intensive lifestyle.
You don't have to be in the energy sector to find opportunities related to global energy trends.
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At the same time, of course, the global discussion on renewable energy ..continue reading
Terapeak How-To: Crucial Factors in eBay Search for the New Cassini Platform
2013 06 11
Readers appreciated last year's article by Alice Delore on getting eBay item listings well-positioned in eBay search. Alice's article discussed eBay's Best Match search platform in general terms, but with eBay's Cassini search algorithm rolling out this year, sellers need details—not generalities—on how eBay's default search experience is poised to work in the future.
Happily, Todd Alexander, Director of Onsite Search at eBay.com.au, recently gave a presentation at the ..continue reading
Terapeak Trends: Ebooks Trending Upward, But What About Nook and Kindle?
2013 06 07
Rumors of Microsoft's interest in purchasing the Nook ebook business from Barnes and Noble have generated a great deal of buzz recently, particularly with PwC's prediction that ebook sales will overtake paper book sales in the U.S. consumer market by 2017.
PwC predicts that ebooks will overtake paper books by 2017, but it's not yet clear who'll be the market's dominant ebook provider.
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Nook is one of the three major dedicated ..continue reading
Terapeak Stories: U.K. Sellers Borrow with Help from EZBOB, Terapeak
2013 05 30
Small business loans have been difficult to secure in the U.K. market since the global financial crisis. They have been so difficult to secure, in fact, that in 2012 a small team of financiers and technologists gathered to found a company called EZBOB—created specifically to lend to this high-demand, low-supply financial market.
EZBOB saw the need for a new lending model for U.K. sellers; Terapeak has helped EZBOB to meet this need.
The premise behind EZBOB is a ..continue reading
Terapeak How-To: Understanding Common Selling Terms in Search Results
2013 05 29
Terapeak's products serve a wide variety of businesses and sellers from very large corporations to small mom-and-pop operations.
Terapeak search results can include terms that aren't familiar to everyone.
For some sellers, the often technical e-commerce terms that appear in Terapeak search results can seem obscure and ambiguous, making it less easy to understand what search results actually say about the products and markets being studied.
Questions like these are the ..continue reading
Terapeak Trends: Will My Video Game Collection Appreciate in Value?
2013 05 24
Our post late last year about a complete collection of retail Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) games—listed on eBay for just under $25,000—generated a good amount of reader interest. In fact, though these kinds of eBay listings are unusual, they're not unheard of.
Video game lots this big and unique excite hardcore gamers and game collectors—but how valuable are they as investments?
But what if you're the collector or store owner sitting on a large ..continue reading