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Learn how to customize a plain text logo or how to upload your logo or enter from the template editor.
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This week, we are offering two Webinars – Getting Started with Vendio and Building your Vendio Store.

Building a Great Store Webinar

Date: Friday, June 9th
Time: 10:00 am (PST)

1. Building your Store and adding a Logo
2. Customizing your Template
3. How to Save, Preview and Publish
4. Creating Categories and Subcategories
5. Adding Items and Item Variations
6. Optimizing SEO for your Store

Getting Started with Vendio Webinar

Date: Friday, June 9th
Time: 11:30 am (PST)

1. Setting your Vendio Preferences
2. Create simple Shipping, Payment, and Tax Profiles to use across Items
3. Managing Your Items across Marketplaces
4. Inventory Management and customization
5. Creating Listings and variations for eBay, Amazon and your Vendio store
6. Importing items from eBay, Amazon and CSV File (Excel), and much more!

To attend these Webinars, please email webinar@corp.vendio.com and let us know which Webinar(s) you would like to attend, and be sure to include your Vendio ID! We’ll send you a personalized invitation as soon as we receive your request.

We look forward to seeing you at the Webinars!

Best Regards,

Vendio Support Staff

Getting Started with Vendio Webinar

Date: Friday, June 2nd
Time: 10:00 am (PST)

1. Setting your Vendio Preferences
2. Create simple Shipping, Payment, and Tax Profiles to use across Items
3. Managing Your Items across Marketplaces
4. Inventory Management and customization
5. Creating Listings and customizing Vendio for your business
6. Importing items from eBay, Amazon and CSV File (Excel), and much more!

Building a Great Store Webinar

Date: Friday, June 2nd
Time: 11:30 am (PST)

1. Building your Store and adding a Logo
2. Customizing your Template
3. How to Save, Preview and Publish
4. Creating Categories and Subcategories
5. Adding Items
6. Optimizing SEO for your Store

To attend these Webinars, please email webinar@corp.vendio.com and let us know which Webinar(s) you would like to attend, and we’ll send you a personalized invitation as soon as we receive your request.

We look forward to seeing you at the Webinars!

If you read or follow Auctionbytes, you’ll notice that the fees for eBay stores are rising significantly. Today is really a good day to examine your options and we know you can’t beat a Vendio store, here is why!

1. It’s FREE. Yes, it’s 100% – (no charge for images, no charge for final value, no charge for listing). Vendio store is 100% free.
2. It’s VERSATILE – You can add your own domain, buy your own domain or keep it all on Vendio. It’s up to you!
3. It’s SEO-FRIENDLY – Putting item in a store is one thing, getting traffic is another. Vendio shares its SEO with our sellers AND you can easily add your own store title, keywords and descriptions for the search engines. You can even add keywords on a category level!!
4. It’s CUSTOMIZABLE – Vendio stores are as customizable as you want to make them. Add your own logo to our great selection of templates and move the page elements or use your own customized template. It’s totally in up to you!
5. It’s an EASY IMPORT – Import items from eBay (even closed items!). You can literally be set up and running in minutes.

Want to get started RIGHT NOW?
Here’s how easy it really is!!

1. Register a free account (about 1 minute)
2. Fill out the Store Info page (upload your logo, tweak the default messages, name your store, add keywords) (about 2 minutes – a bit more if you want to spend more time on keywords, welcome messages, etc.)
3. Import your items from eBay or Spreadsheet (around 10 minutes to set up shipping, payment profiles)
4. Make your store Visible (10 seconds)

Then the fun begins – customize and make the store your own! Automate coupons and Google. Add Google Analytics, Add pages and info to your store. It’s all about your vision. Wouldn’t it be nice to be in control of your own website?

Go ahead. You know you want to!! Just do it!! –>CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR VERY OWN STORE<--

Its so easy and I'm here to help if you have any questions! If you have ANY questions about getting set up. Give me a call at 650-293-3557

Helpful Store Links
Do You Have What It Takes To Get Customers to Enter Your Store?
Into the 2010s with SEO and Keywords
Vendio Platform Adds Store Directory

Because Sales Manager is such a powerful application, you can make your inventory choices on an item level, which really means that you do not have to choose how your inventory is handled globally and apply it to all items, but you can choose to set how you handle your inventory on an item by item basis.

When you are using Create Item, there is a choice that allows you to choose to:

1. Do Not Allow Overselling
2. Allow Overselling if it can’t be avoided
3. Allow Overselling

So, what really happens with these choices and when should they be used?

Do Not Allow Overselling:

Generally, if you have a one-of-a-kind item, you’ll want to use Do Not Allow Overselling.
When Do Not Allow Overselling is selected items are committed to eBay and to Amazon. If you have a Vendio store any available items (not committed items) can be sold.

In the above chart, using 10 items, we’ve specified 5 for sale on eBay and 2 on Amazon, which allows the remaining 3 to be sold in your Vendio store.

Allow Overselling if it can’t be avoided:

Allow Overselling if it can’t be avoided apply mainly to Amazon and your Vendio store. eBay items are committed (If you list 5 on eBay, these cannot be sold elsewhere). This option is generally used when you have a limited quantity, are selling on Amazon and in your Vendio store.

In the above example, we are using a quantity of 10. Thus, if I have 10 items in stock, and have committed 5 to eBay, I have 5 remaining that can be purchased EITHER from Amazon or Vendio Store. While it is unlikely that someone will purchase all 5 from Amazon and all 5 from your Vendio store at the same time, it could occur leading to a situation where you have oversold your product and will need to cancel one of the orders.

This is actually a pretty safe way of having your products on multiple markets even though there may be a time where you oversell; it again, is pretty unlikely.

Vendio will adjust the quantities “available” for Amazon or your Vendio store, thus if a buyer purchases 1 on your Vendio Store,. the new available for purchase amount in this example would be 4.

Allow Overselling

Generally, this option is used if you have (or can get) an unlimited quantity of an item. Item quantities are still specified and committed to the eBay Marketplace, but with this setting a buyer can purchase an unlimited quantity from Amazon or your Vendio store.

In the above example, we have listed 5 on eBay. Amazon and your Vendio Store have unlimited quantities.

We hope that the above assists you in choosing the right inventory setting for your items and we wish you much success in the coming New Year!

Happy Selling!!

Other Vendable Inventory Posts:

Let Go of Obsolete Inventory

A Simple Method to Create New Orders

Holiday Headaches, Excess Inventory and Taxes

$300 is significantly cheaper than the $600 people had to shell out for the 60 GB when Sony first released the PS3. The Slim also comes with a hard drive that is twice as big and will be lighter on your electric bill. However, there now is a very big secondary PS3 market. In particular, the 40 GB version of the PS3 is still sold actively on eBay. It will play all the same games, DVDs, and Blu-rays as the Slim, so no core functionality is missing.

More importantly, its price has been affected dramatically by the announcement and release of the new 120 GB version. On August 18, Sony announced the new version. Since that date, a 40 GB PS3 has been selling for $132 on average, which is down from $177 pre-announcement. That’s $168 less than the new 120 GB Slim. If those extra gigs aren’t needed, which for many people they won’t be, those saving can equate to quite a few extra games or controllers and then some. So is Slim really better? Based on the eBay market research, fatter is sometimes better.

If you would like to learn more about eBay transaction data concerning PS3s or anything else, check out Vendio eBay Market Research. It was used to populate the graph above by analyzing millions of eBay transactions and can provide strategic recommendations on when and how selling on eBay can be profitable along with the saved time from Vendio’s auction listing software.

So in case you procrastinated and are still looking for a costume, it’s good news. Laziness trumps zeal! Now make haste and buy that designer Mickey Mouse costume at half off; you will not be taken the cleaners – unless you really want to be a fire fighter (more on this later).
What if you are in the business of selling costumes? There obviously has to be something to it if all those “scary” costume stores keep on opening up temporarily every year. It doesn’t appear that there is much of a premium being created by the Halloween season. In fact, it almost looks as though merchants are going to get a lot less for their merchandise compared to months prior. That’s not really where the money is to be made. More people want costumes and more people are willing to satisfy that desire to be Edward Cullen or Jack Sparrow for one night – or even a few…

Buyers get their costumes at little to no mark up, and sellers make a ton of money off of volume. It’s win-win for all parties involved, except if you bought your costume months ago or want to be a fire fighter. In the case of the premature purchase, you are out some cash. However, in the case of the fire fighter, there is a silver lining. Reliable female sources agree that fire fighters are hot, and the trending shows that there has been limited fire fighter sales volume. Presume the trending applies to the general population and do the math:

Step 1
(Perceived Hotness) X (Low Expected Rate of Competition from Other Fire Fighters)) =
(Higher Expected Perceived Hotness!!!)

Step 2
(Higher Expected Perceived Hotness!!!) => (Increased Fair Market Value)

Looks like I will be accepting that Nobel Economics Prize decked out in full fire fighter gear. If you would like to learn more about eBay transaction data concerning Halloween or anything else, check out Vendio Research. It was used to populate the graphs above by analyzing millions of eBay transactions and can provide strategic eBay research recommendations on when and how to sell items most profitably on eBay.

In a week where Michael Jackson became the number one search term on Google, held the top five album spots on iTunes and captured the top honors on Amazon’s MP3 store; it’s no surprise that there has been a flood of Michael Jackson related items hitting eBay. Find out below where there is money to be made:

Both the Thriller LP and Michael Jackson Dolls have increased in value dramatically this past week. A copy of Thriller can go for nearly $70 on eBay, or so Vendio eBay Market Research says, compared to the $13 it was getting before the King of Pop passed.

Michael Jackson dolls. Yes, they unfortunately exist. Although its cliché, call it an “action figure,” and it will pickup and extra $10, bringing home an astounding $120. Who knows if anything from the 80s can truly be “vintage;” but if it’s added to the item title, there is an 88% chance it will sell on eBay.

Whether it’s a doll or “action figure” it’s still fetching over 370% more than it would have any time in the previous few months before Michael moved-on.

It also looks like there is a MJ glove fad on the horizon. 352 of them sold last week on eBay compared to the 5 per week reported by Vendio Research in weeks prior.

If prices of Michael memorabilia are just going up, up, up, what is a fan to do? Well, a real fan would step-up and buy a Michael Jackson gold record. They are currently undervalued by about 25% when compared to sales in weeks before he died.

For some reason if a gold record doesn’t satisfy a fan’s Michael appetite, they should think about buying Michael Jackson: Moonwalker, the movie not the video game. It’s not nearly as cool as a gold record, but it’s only $20 now vs. $28 in weeks prior.

If you would like any more eBay transaction data about Michael Jackson or anything else, check out Vendio Research. You just can’t Beat It. It’s a simple yet powerful application that analyzes millions of past eBay transactions to provide data on individual items including average sales prices, sales volume, and keyword metrics. The above statistics were gathered from Vendio Research and can be used easily to determine selling strategies and opportunities on eBay for Michael Memorabilia or any product you have. So start snooping and figure out what that film of Farrah you found is really worth.

Employees Found Muttering and Twittering

Sad Mateo, California. June 17, 2009. Vendio Services, Inc. today learned of their shocking defeat at eBay’s Developer Conference, being named “Runner-Up” in the Most Innovative Application category. While acknowledging their appreciation for this prestigious honor, it didn’t take their ridiculously awesome Vendio eBay Market Research to identify the sadness behind their bold public faces.

Adorned in his “Second Place is the First Loser” t-shirt, EVP Mike Effle humbly accepted the award and vowed to drive on toward 2010. He was later caught in the hallway of eBay’s Developer’s Conference muttering something about Vendio’s previous victories in this competition, being the only ones with eBay Motors data, and having started Research years ago even before eBay knew such analytics were useful to the Marketplace.

Back at the office, Vendio employees had to stop themselves from methodically chanting, “We’re Number Two!!!” when their confusing peace signs attracted an enormous hippie following and the ensuing drum circle disrupted the workplace environment. Most sheepishly admitted it was “fun while it lasted” despite their affinity for South Park’s Cartman.

Ardent race fan and Account Manager Chris was the first to post on Twitter that Bobby Unser eloquently said, “Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second.” He later realized that it was no time for elocution and simply quoted Stroker Ace’s “Second sucks.” Unfortunately, he lost followers when trying to describe the confusion around Ricky Bobby’s “If you ain’t first, you’re last.” And “last” just sounded worse than “first loser” anyway.

Upon hearing the news, the office Top Gun fans immediately began constructing the mantle in the ladies bathroom as the rightful place for the alternate’s plaque while noting that there indeed are “no points for second place.” Tom Cruise could not be reached for comment.

Finally, office marathon runner Tim recalled Carlos Lopes saying: “Second place is not a defeat. It is a stimulation to get better. It makes you even more determined.” With that, the team huddled in the ladies bathroom, gazed upon the mantle that would hold their prize and vowed not to rest until 2010, when they fully expect to capture the First Winner prize.