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Matthew is an eBay Expert with over 10 years of experience on eBay. Has worked for two eBay auction management companies and has helped hundreds of eBay based businesses sell on eBay, including his own for 3 years.
Having run his own business on eBay UK for 3 years, been featured on BBC News 24, BBC Radio 4 “In Business” with Peter Day and also featured in the Sunday Times.
Hosting the very first eBay PowerSellers meeting of its kind in the UK, attended by eBay, which then lead to the eBay university program. Then working for the USA auction management company MarketWorks.com (now owned by ChannelAdvisor) here in the UK and then later on eSellerPro.com another eBay listing software company, Matthew has probably seen more eBay based businesses outside the confines of eBay than anyone else in the UK.
Matthew takes a different approach to eBay and it really shows in the articles he writes. eBay is just a sales channel, admittedly a rather large one at that, but this should never be forgotten and he knows that its all to easy to become caught up in a whirl-wind of noise that is generated by selling on eBay and does his best to help keep your feet on the ground and focus at the job at hand, making more profit.
Its unlikely you’re going to ask Matthew something he does not already know about eBay, you can contact him on his dedicated Contact Matthew page.
PayPal needs your input – PayPal Bribes @ £65 An Hour!
Wow I’m in the wrong business, check out the mail below, we’re being offered £65 an hour if we pass the survey test, I need to go back to being a full time ‘consumer’. I’ve completed the form and are waiting eagerly!
Part 2 : SuperDryStore eBay Shop – The Good Points
Lets start by looking at SuperDryStore ebay shop, you can view it here: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/The-Superdry-Store. There are definitely some great points to be noted and also some silly mistakes. I’m looking forward to explaining these to you in the next few paragraphs. Here is a full screen shot of the SuperDryStore eBay shop: The Good Points Lets start with these, its very easy to be negative and point and poke’n’point at someone else’s work, but … [Full Article >> ]
E Commerce Award night acclaims eBay Fashion Outlet
eBay Fashion Outlet has won the award for the “Best e-commerce Marketing Initiative” at E-Commerce Expo Award ceremony. In midst of lushness & grandeur of e-retailing giants and innovators appearing in the ceremony, James Scot, MD of ChannelAdvisor UK did the honour of giving away the accolade to eBay. According to Scott, it was a pleasant surprise for him to see eBay Fashion Outlet as the name of the winner … [Full Article >> ]
SuperDryStore, eBay UK’s Largest Outlet Seller Exposed For YOU to Learn From
SuperDryStore is eBay UK’s largest outlet store for Fashion. As we all know ‘Fashion’ really is eBay’s baby atm and they’ll bend over & drop their pants for anyone with a brand name in this arena at the moment. Yes thats right for anyone who has they’re head in the Arctic for the past year, eBay is in a 100% all out assault on getting high street names onto eBay, literally what ever the … [Full Article >> ]
Channel Advisors ‘Christmas Crunch Crap’ Guide
Hey, I can do alliteration too! CA’s ‘Christmas Crunch’ guide is out, see here for the direct link skipping the annoying spam boxes. Absolutely nothing new or nothing any serious seller would not being doing already, but a great bit of white PR to blind people with. OoO I can do that aswell! Disclosure: I am in no way affiliated with ‘Channel Advisor’, not even one of their sellers ( as none … [Full Article >> ]
UK eBay Listing Analytics Tool starts working
eBay introduces Listing Analytics tool to UK users. This much heard tool, is now appearing as a new tab in your My eBay and will assist you with analysis on your eBay listings. UK eBayer’s may think, “How this new tool is going to help?” This tool actually interprets and describes the level of performance of all the contents on your listing, step by step. It will show analysis through … [Full Article >> ]
eBay on the way to a new mobile site for smartphones
A new mobile version of eBay site is going to be on smartphone browsers. Many much used features of full eBay site will be there to suit the smartphone experience. The new mobile eBay site will have exciting features such as expandable swiping galleries, a floating menu bar, remote gallery contents provided without additional downloading and auto-complete option with some regular handy ones like sorting of results by location, price … [Full Article >> ]
18% Wasted – Your Most Important eBay Marketing Asset
Thats right here is the best way to waste 18% of your most valuable asset on eBay, the Listing Title. You make your listing titles on eBay look pretty by including ‘=’ and ‘-’ symbols. No idea what I’m taking about? See this item: 230526814009. Here is the listing title: THOMAS TAKE ALONG === Thomas&The Jet – Die Cast === NEW So lets count this up there is: 6 x ‘=’ 1 … [Full Article >> ]
eBay Buyer Message Spam @ 99%
eBay Buyers, they really are nut cases. Following on from my previous post eBay V’s Amazon – Its a ‘Trust’ thing, Trust is undoubtedly one of the core reasons behind this non-shocker I got in my mail: Great customer communication is important for your success, especially when preparing for the Christmas period. We have worked with sellers to analyse the most effective way to reduce buyer questions. Did you know … [Full Article >> ]
The Facts: ChannelAdvisor’s Featured Retailer – LeSports
One of the huge benefits of being a consultant, is that you can enter a business with a completely fresh look at it. Not influenced by any of the day-to-day operations, any historic issues or misconceptions created in the business by itself and can work from the cold numbers. A few weeks back I was intrigued by the big Channel Advisor PR wheels moving and spotted one of their featured sellers ‘LeSports Ltd on YouTube. The video … [Full Article >> ]
eBay V’s Amazon – Its a ‘Trust’ thing
Well after another quick read of the feed reader, there is an announcement that eBay is to spend a huge wedge of cash sending out some postcards, no not to promote products or sellers found on the site, but ‘Trust’. eBay really cannot shrug that carboot sales & miss-trust thing they have got in-ground. Its major difference between them[eBay] and Amazon. Amazon is thier marketplace and ‘allow’ other sellers to sell on thier marketplace, not … [Full Article >> ]
eBay Conspiracy Theory Overview : Part 1
Here are a few things for you to chew over, I’m not saying these are true, they’re probably utter rubbish, but… they do have enough in them to at least be partly true, right? Here are my eBay conspiracy theories, don’t expect too much detail yet, I’ll beef these out in further posts over the next few days: eBay does whatever it can to keep the seller ‘entertained’ on the eBay marketplace, so … [Full Article >> ]
Oh dear, They Really Shouldn’t
Well been hovering thinking of all the cool topics I should blog about, then out of the blue from the AuctionBytes site and chestnut appears. It reads ‘eBay Selects Joomla to Launch Employee Collaboration Tool‘. Oh dear god no!!! I’ve been through most open source CMS systems and Joomla is the most hacked to pieces one of them all. I’m not posting the site I use to check the latest vulnerability list … [Full Article >> ]
