Selling on eBay with Free video listings
January 14, 2008
Here is a sweet way to include video listings when selling on ebay. Really worth a watch:
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Why You Should Always Include Images In Your eBay Auction Listings
January 2, 2008
When you put a item up on sale on eBay don’t forget to include some product images in your listing. By not doing so you will lose a lot of bids.
Even if you write a detailed description of your item, product images are still essential.
Despite your past history as eBay seller and even if you have a very positive feedback score, people are always somewhat reluctant to buy online due to the lack of a personal contact with the seller.
And I couldn’t honestly say that this attitude is injustified because unfortunately eBay frauds do exist!
Images will help you demonstrate that you aren’t hiding anything with regards to the quality of the product you sell.
Depending by the nature of the item you sell, several pictures from different angles can be the optimal choice.
eBay sellers often offer slightly defective items at a greatly discounted price. If this happens to you and even if you have well documented the item conditions in your listing, try to include a detailed picture of the flaw. You will show to a potential buyer that you are completely honest about the nature of the item you sell.
Selling tutorials available on eBay site will give you some tips on the best way to take picture of your eBay items with a digital camera or a scanner. They are very basic advices, but still useful if you are completely inexperienced with digital photography.
- Optimize your images
Images have also some drawbacks. You should always try to find a good compromise between details and image size as biggest images can considerably slow down your eBay listing page and make you lose some bids. Buyers are impatient and not everyone has a fast Internet connection.
Usually digital cameras or scanners are sold with a photo retouching software that allows you to convert images in a file format suitable for the Web (JPEG) and reduce the file size by reducing image dimensions or the number of colors.
- No broken images please
Nothing will drive potential buyers away from your eBay listing page more quickly than a broken image.
When you create your listing you are allowed to load images from your hard disk and store it on eBay server. This is the safest choice because your images will be surely available when people visit your listing.
But you can also include externally hosted images by using the HTML img tag in your listing.
If you choose to do so, be sure to host your image files with a reliable service. If the host where your images reside becomes inaccessible for any reason, eBay users visiting your listing will see a broken image.
If you run your own website you can save the images in a directory on your hosting account. Be aware that some web hosting services don’t allow remote linking of images, i.e. using your host web space as a storage area for images you use on other sites, in this case eBay. This is usually true for free hosting services, so if you have a paid hosting account you should not have problems.
Alternatively you can utilize one of the many image hosting services. You can find many of these services with a simple search on Google. Usually every site offers clear instructions that will make the entire procedure really simple even for the most inexperienced users.
Whatever is the service you use to store images for your eBay auctions always preview the listing page to be sure that images are displayed correctly.
An image is worth a thousand words. This is true also when you sell on eBay. Make good use of images in your auction listings and you will always receive more bids.
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How To Get More Money for you eBay Items
December 15, 2007
Here is a nice video detailing how to get more money in your ebay auctions and listings
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10 Mistakes of eBay Sellers
November 27, 2007
Here is a video that tells about 10 mistakes eBay sellers make and how you can avoid it. Take a look:
10 Mistakes EBay Sellers Make - Watch more amazing videos here
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Ebay Auction Secrets - 4 Proven Methods For Ebay Success
November 17, 2007
If you’re interested in learning the ebay auction secrets that most successful sellers never share, you have landed on the right article. In this article, you will be provided with four proven tactics that will cause you ebay auctions to explode with profits.
The first of many ebay auction secrets that you have to try to understand is the concept of joint ventures. Today, more than ever, there are an increasing number of business enterprises partnering up with other businesses for the purpose of ebay marketing and promotion. Companies are now discovering that ebay auctions are a powerful advertising tool and they can maximize on its services by establishing joint ventures with other companies. This one method alone, in comparison to all the other ebay auction secrets , can help sellers enjoy greater profits in their auctions.
The second powerful ebay auction method involves sellers researching their market and finding other compatible businesses to network with for the sake of expanding their promotional efforts. In other words, sellers should connect with other stores or businesses to leverage their resources in order to save advertising money and earn additional profit. As a result, you will have the resources to promote your ebay auctions to a larger audience. These ebay auction secrets can cause a substantial increase in your overall ebay auction earnings.
These ebay auction secrets contain a third powerful principle and that is to always make the effort to build an attractive ebay store. Research, along with much data and statistics, have proven that the sellers with the most attractive ebay stores are the ones that pull in the majority of the profits in their specific category.
The final rule to creating an effective ebay advertising campaign is to start thinking about developing your own personal website for selling and also giving more precise material about the product or service. This will help to establish validity and authority in your marketing efforts. In addition to this, it will greatly enhance the possibility of successfully earning ebay auction revenues.
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Tips For Making Money On Ebay
November 15, 2007
If you’re new to eBay, first it is helpful to take a look around eBay and see what is selling. Finding what is popular will help you when choosing products to sell. Take a look at several sellers with a good reputation and a long history. You can learn a substantial about how eBay works from these sellers.
Next, choose your products. It is helpful to choose products that are already selling or to choose a niche to make your items stand out more. You can begin to choose products by just finding items in your home that you don’t use anymore.
When listing products, be sure to include lots of pictures and interesting descriptions. Remember to be truthful, but also be detailed and lively in your descriptions to get buyers excited about your products. Be sure that you include clear pictures, particularly from several angles. Remember that buyers can’t hold the product so pictures and descriptions are the only way they have to decide about whether to buy or not.
When listing products, try to list more than a few items. Buyers will often look through all your items and may buy an alternate item or buy several of your items. If you are selling a niche item, such as antiques, it can be particularly helpful to list several items.
Remember to list products at a reasonable price. People go to eBay to find deals. You may not make a profit on every item, but as you learn what is selling, you can make more money. Remember that bidding wars may make you a profit in the end, but buyers will start bidding if they see a reasonable price.
Finally, it is crucial to keep your customers satisfied. The best eBay sellers have a long feedback list with positive comments from happy customers. If you can keep your customers satisfied, they will keep coming back. I can personally attest to this. The way to do this is to ship the items fast and make sure they arrive safely. It is helpful to double-bag an item or use a box with stuffing so that the product arrives in one piece. Immediately after payment ship the item, and then ask for feedback from the customer so that your rankings continue to improve. Buyers are more likely to buy from proven sellers so keep selling and you’ll get there.
As you get more experienced, it may be a good idea to use a dropshipping company for product sourcing. You can set your own retail price and buy wholesale from dropship manufacturers. Try to use an eBay certified dropshipper like the Doba dropship company.
Now that you know some tricks and basics about eBay, get selling!
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Top Selling Items On eBay - Great Tips To Help You Sell More On eBay
November 13, 2007
One of the keys to being successful on eBay is know what items are the top sellers and which ones have too much competition. There are several ways to search eBay to find out what is on fire and what you should be selling.
Go to eBay and look for eBay Pulse. This page allows you to see what products are most searched for on eBay. You will also see the top eBay stores for this product. If you want you can select a category such as home and garden and see what terms are being used most frequently. This is a great way to see what is in demand on eBay and what product is being supplied. Once you know the high demand products then it is a matter of finding a wholesale supplier of that product.
Most successful eBay sellers are ones who have found reliable wholesale suppliers and drop shippers. I started selling on eBay back in 1997 and it took several months before I found someone I could trust to supply me with wholesale items. There are several ways to look for wholesale suppliers. The obvious way is to search the internet for suppliers. If you are selling bedding then go to Google and type in “wholesale bedding suppliers”. Now the hard part starts. You will have to weed out the bad guys and hopefully find the one or two good wholesale companies. Another problem you might run into is that you will need a wholesale license or business license before the wholesaler will send you product.
This is one of the reasons I like to use drop shippers. The other reason I like drop shippers is because they don’t require a large sales volume. I don’t want to have to buy $500 dollars worth of product and have it shipped to my house before I know if the product is any good and if I can sell it on eBay. I would rather list the product for sale on eBay and then order one of the items from a drop shipper. The drop shipper will then send the item to my customer under my label. Having a good drop shipper is extremely valuable in the eBay game. Bottom line is that it comes down to supply and demand. Find out what people what using eBay Pulse and then find a reliable drop shipper or wholesaler for that product that is in high demand.
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How to Sell on eBay
November 11, 2007
Here is a great video explaining how you can get started with eBay auctions and listings:
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What’s Your eBay Reputation Really Worth?
November 7, 2007
Your eBay reputation is everything you are on eBay - without it, you’re nothing. Your reputation is worth as much as every sale you will ever make.
If you’ve ever bought anything on eBay (and the chances are you have), then think about your own behaviour. Buying from a seller with a low feedback rating makes you feel a little nervous and insecure, while buying from a PowerSeller with their reputation in the thousands doesn’t require any thought or fear - it feels just like buying from a shop.
A Bad Reputation Will Lose You Sales.
In fact, a bad reputation will lose you almost all your sales. If someone leaves you negative feedback, you will feel the pain straight away, as that rating will go right at the top of your user page for everyone to see. Who’s going to want to do business with you when they’ve just read that you “took a month to deliver the item”, or that you had “bad communication and sent a damaged item”? The answer is no-one.
Your next few items will need to be very cheap things, just to push that negative down the page. You might have to spend days or even weeks selling cheap stuff to get enough positive feedback to make anyone deal with you again.
It’s even worse if you consistently let buyers leave negative feedback - once you get below 90% positive ratings, you might as well be invisible.
You Can’t Just Open a New Account.
Besides eBay’s rules about only having one account, there are far more downsides than that to getting a new account. You literally have to start all over again from scratch.
You won’t be able to use all the different eBay features. Your existing customers won’t be able to find you any more. Your auctions will finish at a lower price because of your low feedback rating. Opening a new account is like moving to a new town to get away from a few people who are spreading rumours about you: it’s throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
A Good Reputation Will Get You Sales.
When a PowerSeller tells me something, I tend to believe them. They can be selling a pretty unlikely item, but if they guarantee it is what they say it is, then I trust them - they’re not going to risk their reputation, after all. This is the power of a reputation: people know you want to keep it, and they know you’ll go to almost any lengths to do so.
This is true even to the point that I would sooner buy something for $20 from a seller I know I can trust than for $15 from someone with average feedback. It’s worth the extra money to feel like the seller knows what they’re doing, has all their systems in place and will get me the item quickly and efficiently.
You really will find selling on eBay so much easier, and there’s only way to get a good reputation: make sure you please your customers every time.
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How to Think Like an eBay PowerSeller
November 5, 2007
So what’s a PowerSeller? PowerSellers are the people on eBay who’ve made it, recognisable by the little ‘PowerSeller’ badge next to their name. You’ve probably seen these people around - and to succeed on eBay, you want to think the way they do.
How to People Get the Right to Call Themselves PowerSellers?
eBay gets to decide who can be a PowerSeller and who can’t, and they have strict requirements. To get in at the minimum PowerSeller level, you must have a feedback rating of at least 100 (minimum 98% positive) and sell at least $1,000 worth of items every month for three months in a row. There are different levels of PowerSeller membership as you sell items of greater value: $1,000 total is bronze, $3,000 is silver, $10,000 is gold, $25,000 is platinum and $125,000 is titanium.
If PowerSellers ever fail to meet the required amount of sales, or their feedback falls below 98% positive, then they lose their PowerSeller status. In short, the only people who get to be PowerSellers on eBay are the people who have been successful for a good while, and are on track to stay that way.
The Shop and the Marketplace.
This is the most important part of understanding how PowerSellers think. They don’t see what they’re doing as being some random bazaar, or a hobby - instead, they see themselves as a business.
Put it like this. If you run a stall in a marketplace, the chances are that you have a general area of business, but you mostly just sell whatever you can get your hands on that week. If your dodgy buddy got his hands of a job lot of something at a discount, then that’s what you’ll be selling. This might be fun - and when you have a good week, you’ll have a really good week - but it’s no way to run a real business in the long-term.
PowerSellers think far more like shops. They sell the same things again and again, every week - regular stock for regular customers. They do ‘boring’ business things like keep inventories and budgets. They know what they’re going to be selling, how much they buy it for and how much they expect to sell for. Just like a real shop, there can be hard times sometimes, but their income is stable and their business can grow slowly.
The best advice I can give you on thinking like a PowerSeller is this: don’t take long-term risks for short-term gain. Look after your reputation, manage your selling properly, provide good customer service and the rewards will come to you in due course. And you’ll get a little badge next to your name that makes people trust you more!
One possibility that you might have realized so far is what eBay can do for any other businesses you might have. Remember, millions of people visit eBay every day - why keep everything separate when you’re starting to tap into that kind of power?
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