Many thousands of people making a living both buying & selling on
eBay. Currently ranked as the 37 biggest site on the net (according to
Alexa figures) eBay shows no signs of slowing down, even fortune 500
companies are opening eBay shops to sell surplus & unwanted stock.
The following are five resources that I use personally & encourage
you to use them to increase your eBay profits with ease.
Reports show that over 90% of searches on eBay are done using
the search facility. What users do not know about eBays search
factility is that by default it only searches the item titles - not the
descriptions of the items. Remember this fact as it will show the
significance of some of the resources listed below.
1) FatFingers
How professional a seller are you? Do you check your listings before
submitting them or even does someone else proof read them for you? With
millions of listings on eBays networks of sites at any one time, a
small proportion of these listings contain errors - & a misspelt
word is about the biggest error you can make.
Imagine your selling a Sony Television for example. What if you
misspell the item as Sony Televisoin. Anyone who searches for the term
"Sony Television" simply isn't going to be presented with your item.
Only those eBayers who search manually though the category will find
your items. Needless to say that if people can't find your item,
they're unable to bid on them.
FatFingers is a service you can use to find all misspelt variations of a term. Why would you need such a service?
Well obviously if an item has low visibility on eBay it's also
likely to have zero or few bids enabling you to snap yourself up a
bargain. I've known people use this service to make a full time living,
purely buying items cheaply and relisting them without errors.
Back to the search facility eBay pulse shows you the top 10 searched
keywords in every category. It's a real gem of a service, obviously by
looking at the most widely used search terms you can see what eBayers
are after. And if your selling in this category, by inserting some of
these keywords within your title your items will be seen by more users.
The only thing to watch out with this service is make sure the
keywords are relevant to your item, IF NOT DON'T USE THEM. How many
times have you saw listings such as "SONY PANASONIC LG WIDESCREEN
DIGITAL TELEVISION GUIDE", - listings such as these are well thought
out to earn high visibility from the way users search. Anyone searching
for the items with any of the keywords will uncover your listings.
While it may lead to a high number of views, firstly fellow users will
get annoyed if they find your item completely unrevealed to what they
searched for, Secondly keyword spamming as it is known, is against eBay
policy and will lead to your item being pulled. I use pulse daily with
all my listings but make sure it's relevant to your item first.
Keyword-Pro is a commercial subscription service which is
similar to eBay pulse. However, the main difference is Keyword-Pro
offers a much more in depth list of relevant keywords. It lists the top
50 keywords for every category for both eBay.co.uk & eBay.com. This
is a great addition, especially if any of the terms found in eBay pulse
are not relevant to your item.
Keyword-Pro is available as both a web service or as a small
program that downloads the list onto your P.C. It's data is updated
weekly to keep you informed of the latest search terms.
When you first open a selling account on eBay, options listed under the
sell tab of eBay are enough to get you by. However, you can upgrade to
a more in depth service known as Selling Manager. As eBay describes the
service "eBay Selling Manager is our online sales management tool for
medium to high volume sellers". It allows you to track every eBay sale,
customise your feedback comments, print shipping labels & much
more. It saves me about four hours a week tracking orders and watching
my sales.
Selling Manager is FREE on eBay.co.uk & has a small
monthly charge of on eBay.com (after one a month trial free). Once I
moved over to Selling Manager, there's simply no way I would go back.
Details at: Click on services once you've logged into your eBay account.
5) Hot Item Finder
Performing a market analysis is one of the most important ways
to maximize your net revenue once you have listed enough auctions to
collate plenty of raw data. "Hot Item Finder" software program is an
unbelievable product to conduct this eBay research. You can extract and
analyze licensed eBay data and statistics to virtually ensure your
auction success by seeing what has sold, for how much, how many bids it
got, etc. Visit the website here: http://www.hotitemfinder.com/auctionresourcenetwork
I hope you find these services useful & time saving in your goal
for a successful home business on eBay. Remember, your most important
resource is your time when your starting or building up an online
business & if you discover any site, person or opportunity that can
save you time give it the attention & serious consideration it
deserves. Every top Internet marketers constantly educate themselves by
purchasing & reviewing almost every new product released. The way I
look at it, if an ebook costs $197 and the information within the ebook
saves me this or allows me to make an additional $197 it's well worth
it - once you can do it once you'll be able to repeat the exercise over
and over again making repeated profits. If you discover a precious eBay
related resource let me know & I'll consider revising this list for
future editions.
Good luck with your eBay selling.
Resources Box:
Jason James is a 10 year Internet marketing veteran
and an eBay Power Seller of 4 years. His website "The Auction
Resource Network" reveals his inside secrets, tips, and sources
that help him pocket over $10,000 per month on eBay. His proven step-by-step
system shows even users with little or no business experience how they
too can make huge profits selling products at online auctions.
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