 and welcome back. So yes today is going to be more around when's quarter four's going to start? I mean proper quarter four. I mean we haven't seen the general increase that we would normally see or become accustomed to seeing at this time of year. Before we go any further just to answer my prediction from yesterday, if you saw my control traffic content yesterday, I made a prediction just to show how I am pretty close on what I expect when I see traffic coming in and how I can calculate it very well and I predicted that for yesterday's traffic on promoted would be around the 163k ish for promoted and I would receive between one or two sales, one or two low sale price sales. So the results of that checking in today and I'll pop it up on the screen for us to see was 145.9k promoted impression so it was actually lower than I thought it was going to be out of the blue but I think even though it was out of the blue I did actually tweak my promoted impression percentage rate yesterday. I reduced it by 1% which seems to have had a bit of a bigger impact than I thought it was going to have. So yeah I think that's probably what I can assign that to otherwise I would have sat around 163k but there was no spike. I hadn't ended and re-listed a lot of my listings. I literally just let it roll but obviously I did new stock yesterday and the day before and the day before that so it should in effect of actually have increased not decreased but roundabout where I expected I'm 146k rounding it off a little lower than I was expecting even with a bit of a fluctuation I'm hoping to bring that back a bit today but we shall see because I've made a bigger drastic change on the promoted impressions today. Pretty much on the back of testing out Darth Rifter's content yesterday around the percentage marks that they run at sorry that he runs at and what he's suggesting you should really be looking at as opposed to the suggested at rate. I'll give it a try. I think it was just to see for 24 hours to see what the impression rates are affected by and see what that comes out at. It's interesting to do small tests. I don't want to do too large on my main store because obviously that will have too much of an impact on the sales that I am getting but I did predict my sales correctly. Now for going forward I'm going to predict again today that sales today will finish on between three and four today. I'm thinking more four than three. I think it will also bring in a revenue of an increase from yesterday of about a 50% increase on yesterday's revenue between 30 and 50%. So we'll see what comes up tomorrow. I don't like giving out pound of values. I don't think that's really relevant to the overall picture at this stage. This is more about statistics as opposed to financial status settings. So yeah, so that was a catch up from yesterday's content which I'll leave a link above if you want to watch that one. Again the quarter four it's not happening the way it should. I don't know if that's predominantly people are holding off still waiting for the November paychecks to get their December gifts in for the festive time. I'll say Christmas I'm not to PC that way. It just is what it is. It is Christmas time. Now with this in place, what can I say? It's not going the way it should. I mean I've been looking at my figures and this month on previous month I'm up 27.2% on sales but last month on the previous month I was up 96%. So it's not growing as fast as it should considering we should be pushing into the quarter, middle of quarter four. It's possible they could be all holding out for Black Friday sales. It's possible I guess but this quarter I'm actually down 9% on previous quarter which is just crazy. It's just crazy. We should be increasing not going down. It's just not making sense to me at all at the moment. Year on year I'm down 17.8% but my average sales price actually increased by 22.7% so at least I'm getting the ASP up but the buyers are down 33% so I'm down a third of the amount of sales but I'm up 22.7% on average sales price but overall I'm down 17.8% year on year. Now this could just be a knock-on effect from the massive amount of changes that eBay be making on the platform and we've all been readjusting, testing, trying, re-correcting and improving things but we've got to ask ourselves what do we really expect from quarter four? I think in all honesty that the massive sales from quarter four is not going to happen. I think we just need to accept this and readjust our expectations and our goals according. We need to think about the quarter one for 2024 and definitely think that's got to be high on our assumptions of what we need to be planning for but at the same time obviously quarter four of 2023 isn't over so there are still potential opportunities available to us and it's difficult to decide what direction to go in. eBay don't give us a detailed schematic of what directions are going, what we need to be precisely looking at for our individual accounts and our listings and it does give us the quality report which does give us a good indication as to where we sit amongst the competition. It gives us a good indication as to where we could improve certain aspects of listings as a group or as a whole but it doesn't specifically say that you need to get say your price tweaked in a certain direction or if you increase your promoted impressions in a certain way or in a certain pattern it will help you in a certain direction. It does in some forms with regards to dynamic ad rate and automated and you know these type of things but they're eBay governed, they're not governed by ourselves if we choose those options. I mean for example I mean the dynamic ad rate suggested ad rate you know I mean I've mentioned it before it will say suggested ad rate for a particular category would be say 18% but then when you go and look at your quality report it says the top 10% of other sellers in your category are only promoting at say 8% so there's a clear money grab by eBay there that is perpetuated to all sellers to say you should be doing this you should be doing it at that percentage when we can see that there are people that are successfully selling to whatever degree at a much lower rate I mean when you look at that quality report for example with that one you look at the bottom 10% they're also not using promoted impressions to the 18% mark they're also using it around the 8 to 9% mark so where it says suggested I think suggested is a bad move but at the same time the question then you ask yourself is but if I don't do it at the 18% will the algorithm then hold it back from me I don't know it's a simple answer and we can try it and we can see what happens but can we afford to do that in the current marketplace with the with the stranglehold on sales for whatever reasons can we really afford that loss in profit margin from potential sales it kind of falls to where's your stamina hold out to you know I will try my best to test the water with a few of these different things in different areas more probably on my second account which obviously as I'm running the tweaks that were mentioned from Jeff's video the other day that like I also covered in a different viewpoint on some of those then obviously as I've gone through those and got some data back from that then I can report that out and then I can move on to the next thing so it's going to be a time time restraints as to how fast I can get my personal findings out but again they're all individual because everybody's account is affected in a different way it's it's a road we have to keep going down on a daily basis for sure and it is frustrating and we've just got a we just got to keep plugging in there and yes something sometimes will work sometimes some things won't work and sometimes they'll work at a different time in a different way because they've been impacted by other things and I never think we'll get a hundred percent clear route we're always going to be testing and trying and flipping between different ideas as to what those ideas may be we shall see we shall see but I'm happy to share what I get how I get what you take from it is entirely up to yourself but if you have any more ideas feed them back to me please answer the community in the comments and obviously we can all try different things some things that we think will be great for us will try and it doesn't work but somebody else may see anything I'll get that ago and it works great for them and that's brilliant whatever it takes for everyone to experiment and try and always look to strive further ahead on your account and improve it they all have a positive outcome even if they don't work that's still a positive outcome because you've now figured out that that doesn't work for you so you can leave that aside and not address it again until maybe you find that you've exhausted all options again in the future and it may well be worth revisiting and trying again who knows the algorithms always changing the AI is always learning the accounts are always moving in the strength and the positioning and obviously with the searching from the buyers themselves their search histories will change so as certain categories certain products gain relevance on the platform your items may come back into favor so these are all things obviously we all learn on a day to day basis and we all juggle with on a day to day basis and our sellers so let's work together you know let's get to keep it forwards but as far as quarter four I think we have to accept that it's gonna be an uphill battle it's definitely gonna be an uphill battle there's nothing flowing forwards there's nothing increasing exponentially at the moment and it's gonna be it's gonna be a challenge and I think it can be a positive challenge we just need to make sure that we don't let it overcome us and eat us from the inside out we just need to keep striving forwards but as far as moving upwards and ending quarter four on a high note let's keep our fingers crossed and let's just keep going and in the community we can help each other and let's just keep you real because that's what it's all about isn't it you know keeping it real keeping the facts there and let people take from it what they will it's difficult time I'm struggling I know you're struggling but to to give in now would be crazy I think this is where things start improving maybe not instantaneously on a quarter four level for sales but certainly for an understanding of the platform and the changes and how we're going to need to readjust our strategies moving forwards I don't think the list it and wait for to sell approach is is is sustainable anymore but depends on the product you're selling of course but I just don't think it is personally I think there's going to be a lot more work involved and yes if we can game the system by doing things that are a little bit outside the box on a listing or to an account then I think all credit to it let's do it because if it makes more sales at the end of the day it can only be a benefit and we can always change it later if we need to so that's me for now I will get the viewers comments out possibly by tomorrow now I was hoping for today but I think it's more likely to be tomorrow at the rate things are going I need to get some stock on and obviously time restraints all around as we are all experiencing can be a bit difficult so keep you real and see you in the next video take care bye bye