Ebay as a research tool rather than a service?
I visit a lot of blogs and websites that talk marketing and give tips on boosting traffic and sales convergence. Never have I come across an article like the one posted at AnalyzedMarketing.com. Yet in reading through it and even the comments on the site, it is clear that there is in fact an opportunity here to use EBay as a tool rather than just as a service, an opportunity I nor many others never even thought of.
Here is an excerpt from one their tips:
One way to use Ebay is as a market research and keyword research tool. By simply creating a free account with them, you get the ability to search through all items that are available for sale. By doing an “advanced search” you can do a search only for items in which the auction has already ended. To do this, simply check off the option “completed items only.”
To do market research and keyword research on Ebay, simply do a search for all the completed items with some of the keywords in your target market. This search will reveal to you what prospects are paying right now for items in your market as well as what keywords successful sellers are using to drive traffic to their auctions. As you can probably imagine, this type of information is incredibly valuable to those who actually use such information to their advantage … which, by the way, is highly recommended.
For the complete article visit: http://analyzedmarketing.com/blog/one-of-the-easiest-list-building-traffic-generation-tools-available
