Archive for the ‘General’ Category

OMINS increases sellers sales 75% in the first month

Friday, June 19th, 2009

I was recently helping out one of our newest clients who is a a good size seller on Trade Me with a few hundred auctions live at any time. They have been using OMINS for a couple of months, and switched their listings entirely onto OMINS last month.  By doing so, their ...

OMINS adds SMS messaging support

Friday, June 19th, 2009

As we've mentioned before, Snipesoft servers and applications are monitored 24/7 for the highest reliability.  If any of our systems aren't behaving as they should, our development staff and server administrators get notified by email and SMS message so they can resolve the problem as soon as possible. Now available in ...

Snipesoft: moving on up!

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Here at Snipesoft, we're always busy creating great software for professional e-commerce sellers, and these past couple of months are no exception!  Snipesoft has seen a couple of big changes and we'd love to share them with you. We've moved! That's right, we now have our own private office in central Wellington ...

OMINS auto-extend: the easy way to increase exposure of your auctions

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

A great way to increase exposure of your auctions on Trade Me is to utilize the OMINS auto-extend feature.  Auto-extend keeps your auctions in a perpetual state of "closing soon", which means they will show higher in the categories than your competitors.  OMINS has supported this feature (which can be ...

The fastest sites in New Zealand (yes, we’re in there!)

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

ProjectX have published an interesting post about how well optimised New Zealand's most popular websites are: The bragging rights for NZ’s fastest webpage does not belong to Trade Me but to Land Transport at #1 and Canterbury University at #2. (Although Trade Me dominate the Top 10). The key takeaway from this ...

The price is right, regardless of the postage

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Test auctions on eBay showed that most people prefer to pay a low price for an item and also pay postage than pay a higher price and get free postage, even when the former added up to more than the latter. A CD for $5+$6 postage is preferred to a CD for ...

Upgrading from Auctionitis has never been easier!

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Switching to a new system can be a daunting task - especially one with as many features as OMINS!  There are usually many new options and new ways to think about things and it can be a bit overwhelming at times. Now, however, migrating your product data just became a ...

The story of OMINS and the golden kiwi…

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

For the past two weeks, Trade Me has been running a 10th Birthday celebration - a treasure hunt of sorts.  The goal was to find the golden kiwi when you placed a bid or listed an auction. The promotion seems to have been a great success for Trade Me.  We've heard ...

We have an Alexa Graph.

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Alexa is a site that ranks the popularity of websites. They rank your site against all the other sites in the world. For instance, Trade Me was the 1,005th most popular site in the world yesterday. http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/trademe.co.nz If the site has ever been in the top 100,000, they display a graph of how ...

OMINS – 1 system, 9 marketplaces

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

OMINS now supports Trade & Exchange, Lixtor, WhatsOnSale, PriceSpy and PriceMe! When selling online, it's important to get your products out there and in front of as many potential customers as possible.  This of course means you should be listing on as many marketplaces as you can to reach the widest ...