Selling On Ebay - Ebay Training Kit

Stepping Into Your Customers Shoes

admin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:06:59 +0000

Gaining insite into your customers shopping habits will help you to structure your offers more effectively.

This video will give you some insites and suggestions as to what your customers exptect from your auctions and how you can make them more comfortable and make purchase more convenient.

Think Like Your Buyers And Make More Sales On eBay

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10 Steps To Successfully Selling On eBay

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:10:59 +0000

So you want to be a successful seller with your own eBay business, do you? Here’s
a simple, ten-step path to eBay enlightenment.

Step 1: Identify your market.

Take a while to sit and watch for what sells and what doesn’t out of the items
you’re interested in. Any market research data you can collect will be very useful
to you later on. You’ll probably see the ’sweet spots’ quite quickly - those one or
two items that always seem to sell for a good price.

Step 2: Watch the competition.

Before you invest any money, see what the other sellers in your category are up
to, and what their strategies are. Pay special attention to any flaws their auctions
might have, because this is where you can move in and beat them at their own
game.

Step 3: Find a product.

Get hold of a supplier for whatever it is you want to sell, and see what the best
rates you can get are - don’t be afraid to ring round quite a few to get the best
deal. If the eBay prices you’ve seen are higher than the supplier’s, then you’re set.

Step 4: Start small.

Don’t throw thousands at your idea straight away - get started slowly, see what
works and what doesn’t, and learn as you go. Remember that it’s very cheap to try
out even the craziest ideas on eBay, and who knows, they might just work!

Step 5: Test and repeat.

Keep trying different strategies until you find something that works, and then
don’t be ashamed to keep doing it, again and again. The chances are that you’ve
just found a good niche.

Step 6: Work out a business plan.

A business plan doesn’t need to be anything formal, just a few pages that outline
the market opportunity you’ve spotted, your strategy, strengths and weaknesses
of the plan and a brief budget. This is more for you than it is for anyone else.

Step 7: Invest and expand.

This is the time to throw money at the problem. Buy inventory, and start
spending more time on your business. Set a goal number of sales each week,
increasing it each time.

Step 8: Make it official.

Once you’ve made a few thousand dollars worth of sales, you should really
register yourself as a business. Don’t worry, it’s not expensive or hard to do - a
lawyer is the best person to help you through the process.

Step 9: Automate.

You’ll probably find that you’re writing the same things again and again in emails
or item descriptions. This is the time to give up on the manual method and turn
to automated software that can create listings for you, and respond to completed
auctions and payments with whatever message you provide.

Step 10: Never give up.

Even when it looks like it’s all going wrong, don’t stop trying until you succeed. If
you keep working at it then you’ll almost always find that you make a real
breakthrough just when things are starting to look desperate.
Once you get into the swing of things, you might start thinking that you should
quit your job and take up eBay selling part time. But it’s not always as easy as that
- there are all sorts of factors that you need to consider. The next email will weigh
up the case for and against taking up eBay full-time.

11 Principles For Ebay Success

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:10:59 +0000

Without a doubt, something separates good sellers from the not-so-hot ones. It has nothing to do with magic either- it has everything to do with sound practice…

Here are 11 principles to live by when you start your auction business. They will work wonders for you...

1. Pick Your Niche and Define Your Market

This is ground zero for your success strategy. Find your own niche. Define your market. Then you can know the type of person you’re going to be selling to and the types of product you want to sell.

You’re auction sales letters will be a hundred times better if you know the person who you are writing for.

Along with being in a superior position to take advantage of repeat business, the benefits from becoming specialized are endless-

We well be getting into this a little more later.

2. Your Vision

Know where you want to go with your business and why. Every business that thrives has a soul and a purpose. What is it that you want long term? Do you want to become financially independent?

What do you want short term? Do you want to make a steady income every week? If so, how much? Give yourself something to shoot for and try to surpass it.

Remember in the beginning to keep plugging away. The toughest time is at the start. Everyone has to serve as an apprentice before they can truly master what they do.

When you’re starting out be willing to absorb every ounce of helpful information your brain can hold.

3. Order is the Foundation of Every Good Thing

One of your early foundations of success is order. Strive for efficiency in every aspect of what you do. If you’re lacking in a system of organization your whole business is going to be threatened.

This not only includes keeping things in their place but things like keeping income tax and business expenditures records.

4. Serve Your Customer With a Passion

In business your customer is the only thing. You customer is far more important than any product you sell. Strive to give them quality at every level of the transaction.

With online auctions most sellers have a hard time looking past the initial sell. As far as they are concerned after the initial bid the relationship is over. That is why most of them don’t do so swell when they try to make a business of this.

Look far beyond the first sell. It is only the beginning of a long mutually beneficial relationship.

5. Become An Expert In Your Field

Become an authority in what you do, wherever you choose to go with you online auction business. If you sell CD media supplies, you want to be thought of before anyone else.

When you become an authority in your field, a whole new universe of business and opportunity is opened up to you.

I buy certain types of things on eBay from the same sellers over and over. I wouldn’t dare do business with anyone else, not when they have proven themselves and their product.

You want to earn that same type of position in the minds of eBayer’s for your niche.

6. Credibility- the Key Factor in Selling

Become trustworthy. Remove every doubt about your credibility any chance you get. You can do this through presenting yourself positively through your feedback, being passionately devoted to your business and by being an expert.

By making great complete ads and from answering emails quickly.

The X factor is the critical ingredient for online sales success.

7. Harness the Power of Technology

Use you existing software of the Internet to handle repetitive tasks. This will free you up to grow your business to a level…

One of my big sticking points is leverage. Leveraging means getting everything you can, out of all you got. When you use existing tools and methods for freeing yourself from repetitive tasks, you will compress time.

That means you will get more work done with less effort… and as a result you will make more money.

8. Get Everything You Can Out of All You Have

A wiser person than myself once said, “There are only two qualities in the world, efficiency and inefficiency, and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.”

Maximize results while minimizing your expenditures. This is the essence of what it takes.

Test ads ruthlessly to get more for your advertising dollar. Look for better ways to do business. So much can be do to get better and better returns. Set an ideal up for yourself and call it, “efficiency”- if you do this you will never become stagnant in what you do…

Always search for better and better returns for the amount of resources you put in.

9. Probably the Most Important Thing: Your Sales Letter

Your sales letter is your salesman. On the net, how you’re potential buyer perceives you and your product is everything.

Copywriting is the art of showing you and what you sell to your buyer in the best possible light.

It’s the most important thing you have going for you. A carefully crafted sales letter can increase you results exponentially without having to spend an extra penny.

10. Shoulder The Risk in the Transaction

Risk reversal is on of the strongest free sales tools you have at your disposal.

When you offer your bidders a satisfaction guarantee, you are telling them that you are confident that your product can deliver, and if not you are willing shoulder the risk for them by giving them their money back…

Very rarely do they ask for one unless your product is poor.

This is one of the easiest ways to increase sales; if you have a good product to begin with, don’t neglect this technique. I see many sellers who don’t offer one when they could.

It’s a must to offer one with your Dutch auctions. A strong risk-reversing offer will clinch sales that pass others by.

11. Perseverance Will See You Through Anything

Perseverance is your greatest asset of all, especially when things get rough. To me, nothing is more fulfilling than meeting challenge head on and winning out.

Anytime you run into trouble or resistance in your business, accept it as a growth opportunity that you need in order to get to higher levels or success.

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Learning To Sell On Ebay - Setting Up An Ebay Store

admin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:56:59 +0000

Learning to sell products on ebay does not have to be hard. In fact with the Ebay Startup Kit it is down right easy, fun and free. Just click below right now to get yourself started on the road to freedom and fire your boss!

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How can I sell my used copy of Battlefield Bad Company 2 for pc on Ebay?

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:55:19 +0000

I don’t get it. I saw some listings of used pc games that had been played. I didn’t think they could be sold, because gamestop won’t allow pc game trade-ins. So how does this work? I want to sell Battlefield Bad Company 2 for pc, but it has already been installed. Can I uninstall it and sell it? How does this work?

Most likely reason for game stop not accepting trade ins, is because if you have to link an online account with your key… then it’s useless to someone who gets your game.. cuz it’s already been linked.. but if you give them your account password then it’s possible.. but it’s a matter of trust.. That and, you could just make a copy of the game and trade it in..

That’s why there’s no pc game rentals.. cuz we’d just burn that shit.. xD

Why when i sell on Ebay can i only list my item as a auction and not fixed price?

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:55:19 +0000

I am on Ebay selling an item and selected advanced selling and am not on the main selling page but instead of there being a tab to switch between a auction and fixed price sale there is only the auction option and no fixed price tab. What has happened how can I sell a fixed price item?

In the UK

To sell with Fixed Price format, you must:

have either a minimum feedback rating of 10, or
*

have confirmed Direct Debit on file for payment of eBay fees (this may take up to 19 days and is not available to eBay.ie sellers), or
*

if you have a PayPal account, you need to have a minimum feedback score of 5 and accept PayPal as a payment method.

There must be similar restrictions on other ebay sites.

I am interested of opening a Power seller Ebay store with Polish imported goods?

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:55:10 +0000

I live in the east coast, and have access to some distributors that import Polish foods to USA.
How hard is it to open a power seller store on ebay, is it worth it? I will start small and expand this business.

The one thing I can tell new sellers is that you have to sell what you know. If you know a bit about depression glass, then I’d say that’s your area to start. If, however, you don’t know the difference between Mayfair and Cabbage Rose, then you’re going to have trouble with those items. Everyone knows a bit about something. You need to assess your own abilities and your own knowledge areas to find those items with which you will do best.

Check out this site to learn more:
http://free-making-money-online.com/2010/02/tips-on-making-money-on-ebay/

How do i become an ebay power seller?

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:55:10 +0000

I want to sell things in my area… I dont want to sell your things or take from you your sells. But Where, How,what do i sell. What can i read.. I see people with some great things to sell and i have no clue how they get them

The one thing I can tell new sellers is that you have to sell what you know. If you know a bit about depression glass, then I’d say that’s your area to start. If, however, you don’t know the difference between Mayfair and Cabbage Rose, then you’re going to have trouble with those items. Everyone knows a bit about something. You need to assess your own abilities and your own knowledge areas to find those items with which you will do best.

Check out this site to learn more:
http://free-making-money-online.com/2010/02/tips-on-making-money-on-ebay/

Is this a valid way to ship clothes you sell on Ebay?

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:55:00 +0000

I was trying to think of the easiest/cheapest way to ship clothes on Ebay. If you can fit them in a large ziplock bag or make a sort of plastic bag from bubble wrap or something, and then wrap that in that brown postal paper, can that be shipped? This is under the assumption that the package is wrapped well enough to be sturdy, easy to move around, etc, but will still be soft because it’s filled with clothes.

Yes, that’s valid. You might want to look at the priority mail flat rate envelope instead of brown paper. You can save a significant amount of money if your item will fit.

selling drawings on ebay?

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:55:00 +0000

i’m a pretty average ‘artist’ and was wanting to earn a couple of extra dollars. if i was to start selling my drawings on ebay or some other online site what kind of materials should i be using. at the moment i use the Derwent graphite pencils http://www.pencils.co.uk/products/derwent.aspx?sid=3 and acid free sketch paper. would i have to put them on some kind of board or fame them?
also what are some websites that i can sell my work.
all answers appreciated. Thank you. that is meant to say FRAME them… not FAME them… sorry.

No offense, but if you’re an average artist, why would someone want to buy your work?

You should check out the art section of Etsy.com and possibly set up a shop. It doesn’t matter what medium you use, people create art with all sorts of materials. If you use charcoal or graphite just be sure to seal them with a spray fixative so they don’t smudge. Plastic sleeves are also a good thing to use.

http://www.etsy.com/category/art