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This post is a continuation of the “How to sell on Ebay” series.

Some might say that my title is very obvious. DUHH Taris obviously if you have good customer service you will avoid bad feedback. For those people, I completely agree.

The big question is, how, on Ebay, which is an online establishment, where YOU are the sales, marketing AND customer support guy, how exactly do you improve customer support with such limited means of doing so. Again, we have a fairly simple answer.

Communication.

Although simple in form, the real trick is how to effectively communicate with the buyer. Some might think that this simply involves answering peoples questions in a timely manner, but that is just scratching the surface of communicating on Ebay.

As I mentioned in a previous post, buyers are getting more and more difficult to please as the years go by. Some buyers will even give you a negative if you don’t thank them for paying quickly! Although those problem bidders are few and far between, you might find yourself trying to jump through hoops if you’re not careful.

So how exactly do you EFFECTIVELY communicate with a buyer.

Let’s break this down into three categories: pre-sale, during sale, and post sale. Assuming that responding quickly is a given, I will define responding quickly as within 12-24 hours. If you can answer your emails twice a day, you’re usually good.
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So after just a month of beta testing, everything is going well!! We’ve got 140 members signed up, which is great considering we’re not 100% finished everything we need to add yet.

Full launch will likely be at the end of March now, as we want to be sure that we’ve included everything we wanted to from the get go.

While we fine tune, this leads to other creative ideas that we come up with, all of which add to the functionality of OnePoke.com. One of these ideas is what we are calling the OnePoke ToolBox.

I came up with this idea one day when I was fooling around with my Twitter account, and getting particularly frustrated with the fact that I wasn’t easily able to do certain things. Then I went searching for something to allow me to do this, and when I found it, I thought, why not present the user with these tools automatically when they add these accounts!
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No words can describe how I feel about this GIF image LOL!!!!!!

Heres another one for good measure!

I don’t know if its just me, but my blog has been getting spammed like CRAZY lately!!

Each time I log in theres like 10 spams - wow.  Am I the only one or what?? On a side note, sorry I wasn’t able to put a more meaningful post today - I was swamped with work and studying for my realestate exam!!

Cheers guys

This is a scene from step brothers the movie - so stupid but so funny  - enjoy!!

I was browsing one of my favourite forums, and I came across this article! Pretty crazy to think of how big the universe is - enjoy! Original Link

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US space agency’s Fermi telescope has detected a massive explosion in space which scientists say is the biggest gamma-ray burst ever detected, a report published Thursday in Science Express said.

The spectacular blast, which occurred in September in the Carina constellation, produced energies ranging from 3,000 to more than five billion times that of visible light, astrophysicists said.

“Visible light has an energy range of between two and three electron volts and these were in the millions to billions of electron volts,” astrophysicist Frank Reddy of US space agency NASA told AFP.

“If you think about it in terms of energy, X-rays are more energetic because they penetrate matter. These things don’t stop for anything — they just bore through and that’s why we can see them from enormous distances,” Reddy said.

A team led by Jochen Greiner of Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics determined that the huge gamma-ray burst occurred 12.2 billion light years away.

The sun is eight light minutes from Earth, and Pluto is 12 light hours away.

Taking into account the huge distance from earth of the burst, scientists worked out that the blast was stronger than 9,000 supernovae — powerful explosions that occur at the end of a star’s lifetime — and that the gas jets emitting the initial gamma rays moved at nearly the speed of light.

“This burst’s tremendous power and speed make it the most extreme recorded to date,” a statement issued by the US Department of Energy said.

Gamma-ray bursts are the universe’s most luminous explosions, which astronomers believe occur when massive stars run out of nuclear fuel and collapse.

Long bursts, which last more than two seconds, occur in massive stars that are undergoing collapse, while short bursts lasting less than two seconds occur in smaller stars.

In short gamma-ray bursts, stars simply explode and form supernovae, but in long bursts, the enormous bulk of the star leads its core to collapse and form a blackhole, into which the rest of the star falls.

As the star’s core collapses into the black hole, jets of material blast outward, boring through the collapsing star and continuing into space where they interact with gas previously shed by the star, generating bright afterglows that fade with time.
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Here are a couple funny prank videos I found - enjoy!!!

Alright - so I’ll admit, summer isn’t QUITE upon us yet - heck even spring isn’t here, but the recent warm spells we’ve been having here in Toronto really got me thinking about summer.

I absolutely cannot wait to put the summer tires and wheels back on, cruise with the windows down, wind in the car. Then of course theres time at the beach, enjoying the sun, hitting up some trails on my mountain bike, pulling out the driver on the 1st tee at the golf course…

I always said that I love winter - and really, I still do. Who doesn’t love a fresh snowfall, when the whole world is white and sparkling! I love a good night storm, where the snow causes the light from streetlamps to reflect off of the snowflakes, making the night brighter than would ever be possible.

But who am I kidding - you can only sit INSIDE and look OUT for so long, before you start going stir crazy lol!!

I know that lately since I’ve been sitting infront of the computer working on OnePoke.com, I’ve definitely been feeling the winter blues.

The other day, I decided to poll my twitter followers and find out what THEY were most looking forward to for the summer. Most of the responses were very enthusiastic about summer coming, aside from a handful from Australia, who experience summer all year round! Anyways, here’s what you guys had to say!
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As we get closer and closer to full public launch, the time is approaching for OnePoke.com to start taking on advertisers. I am giving you, my loyal blog readers, first dibs on the advertising spots for the first three months the site is up and running.

Here is the way the advertising will work. The cost for three months will be $30, or $10 per month. Our goal is to have enough traffic at the end of that three month period, that we would raise the monthly fee up to $20 per month.

Here’s where it gets interesting. What happens if we don’t reach our traffic goal, or what happens if traffic explodes?? You might ask yourself, will I get ripped off, or will I get charged more for the extra traffic?

The answer to that question is: ABSOLUTELY NOT!
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The time has come for another update on the progress of OnePoke.com. So far, beta is going very well - we have a total of 120 members signed up, and very few problems have been reported thus far.

We are in the process of implementing the central status updates system, so that you can update your status across all, or just a selection of your social networks with just the click of a button.

This will become increasingly useful as we add support for more and more sites.

We are still working on adding MySpace, and Linked In - those will be done within the next two weeks.

The site re-design is also progressing well, and will also be done within the next two weeks.

If you haven’t already signed up, be sure to do so!  We will be holding a signup contest after it is officially launched, and I’m going to give you, my loyal readers, a heads up as to what it will be about.

Basically, the first 100 people to refer 100 friends will win $100 each!  It will be a fairly simple process, although there will be a few rules, including the fact that both you and your friends must be active users, as well as adding at least 1 of the supported social networks to their accounts.

There will also be consolation prizes once the first 100 are awarded their winnings, so all is not lost if you’re not one of the first 100 to refer 100.

The first step is that you have to be a member yourself, so what are you waiting for! SIGN UP!!!

We are very excited about the response the site has received so far - and we love to hear your comments and critiques to help make OnePoke.com the best it can be!