PayNow Now Available To More Sellers December 12, 2007
Posted by Trade Me Success Secrets in : auctions, new zealand, paynow, trade me, trademe , add a commentWith Pay Now firmly established as a popular payment option on Trade Me, the organisation announced yesterday that:
You can now register for Pay Now if you are address verified and have a feedback rating of 50+.
That’s a reasonable barrier to potential fraudsters, and probably as low as we’d want Trade Me to go. If sellers with less feedback want to offer credit card facilities on the site, there’s always PayMate and PayPal.
An Open Invitation To Trade Me Sellers December 10, 2007
Posted by Trade Me Success Secrets in : auctions, new zealand, trade me, trademe , 1 comment so farAs an ongoing extension to the just-published Second Edition, we intend to track the ongoing stories of Trade Me traders through this blog. If you’re willing to be interviewed (by email) and have your story told here, please comment accordingly or drop us an email at trademe@SuccessSecrets.co.nz. Thanks!
All They Want For Christmas … December 10, 2007
Posted by Trade Me Success Secrets in : auctions, new zealand, trade me, trademe , add a commentRob Stock of the Sunday Star-Times yesterday looked at tasteful and enduring ways to leave money under the tree at Christmas although some ideas come with risks. We were particularly grateful for one of his suggestions:
A money book: There are plenty of titles available. Make sure you match the book to the recipient. Someone you know is struggling to get their head around KiwiSaver might value Peter Hensley’s book on the subject, while a TradeMe junkie might get a lot out of Michael Carney’s new edition of Trade Me Success Secrets. Sometimes a book can be life and fortune changing.
Top Pre-Christmas Searches on Trade Me … December 10, 2007
Posted by Trade Me Success Secrets in : auctions, new zealand, trade me, trademe , add a commentfor the first week of December 2007 were:
- iPod
- Playboy clothing
- Billabong
- Transformers toy
- Tents
- Part-time work
- Bach
- Holden Ute
- Wedding dress
- Mazda RX8
All the classic elements of a riveting Christmas story – the drifter living in a tent near the bach, looking for part-time work. Accused of stealing the family’s Christmas presents (ipod, clothing, transformers toys), he hides out near the (NZ equivalent of a) billabong until he spots the thieves in a Mazda RX8. Gives pursuit in a borrowed Holden ute, retrieves the loot and is exonerated. The youngest daughter is relieved — he’s not just a rogue and a playboy after all. Could there be a wedding dress in her future?
New Edition, New Blog December 9, 2007
Posted by Trade Me Success Secrets in : Uncategorized, auctions, new zealand, trade me, trademe , add a commentTwo years on from the first edition of TRADE ME SUCCESS SECRETS, we’re back with a Second Edition. We also decided to mark the occasion with a new blog. So here we are.
What’s new since the First Edition?
MIND-BOGGLING NUMBERS
- Trade Me sold to Fairfax for 700 Million Dollars.
- Trade Me membership swells from 1 Million to 1.8 Million.
- Numbers of auctions double to 1,000,000 per week.
- Traffic doubles to more than 400,000 unique visits a day.
- Attracts over 65% of domestic page views on the internet in NZ.
- Trade Me now serves more than a billion pages a month.
- Trade Me hosts its 100 millionth auction.
- Trade Me Property now NZ’s #1 Real Estate Site.
- Trade Me Motors has more automotive listings than any other NZ website, and around 90% of NZ’s automotive web traffic.
- Trade Me Jobs launched.
When our first edition was published in November 2005, Trade Me attracted two million visitors per month.
A year later, that number was three million.
Now it’s 3.9 million and still growing strong.
So we decided it was time for a Second Edition. We’ve made revisions and updates throughout, added three new chapters (and another 32 pages). Check it out.
