Post Your Feedback

Make a mental note to yourself to post feedback for buyers once a week- leaving posts as payments arrive will quickly drain the life out of your day.
Buyers get antsy and hassle you about this stuff. Tell them you leave it in batches.

Leaving feedback for your buyers is an absolute must if you want to make money selling on ebay.

Write your Ebay Auction Ads for Maximum Effect

Here are some rules to improve your Ebay Auction ads...

• Use a short opening paragraph.
• Remember that short sentences make firm friends...
• Make your paragraphs less than 3 or 4 lines.
• Underline or boldface important words or phrases.
• Include attention-boosters: questions, news items, promise...
• Ask for the bid at the end of the description.
• Use positive language.

Do this, and your writing will be crisp and easy to read...

There is an easier way, however, to make sure your Ebay Auction ad will convert to sales/bids.

Auction-O-Matic is a software program that creates a knock-out, ready-to-go advert, fully ready to post at your online auction, and…….. it has all the powerfully tested sales elements that most Ebay winning ads have. It automatically creates Auction Ads that really hit potential bidders between the eyes, without ANY programming. Just click and go.

It is going to save you hours of time, a ton of money that you could have paid to an Ad copywriter and …. will save you the hassle of trying to write and produce auction ads in front of your computer hour after hour.

You don’t have to be a programmer, ad writer or any kind of techie in the slightest. If you can use a keyboard and a mouse, you WILL be able to use this program, it’s EASY.

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Price Auctions Low To Build A Crowd…

Do you have a good item that you KNOW will sell well?

Start it off at a penny, or one cent. This will get you healthy early bidding. You want a large group around the item. Some will be competitive bidders - people who will pay extra just for the thrill of winning.

You'll usually get more for your item than someone who priced theirs higher, because your auction has more bidders watching.

Offer A Guarantee

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 and make more money selling on Ebay; 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.

Perseverance Helps to Make Money Selling on Ebay

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.

Keep Good Records

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.

The Auction Resource Network has a number of excellent tools and software programs available for members, to help streamline processes.

It is a membership site with jam-packed with tools, software and information. Membership gives you immediate access to auction tools to manage your auctions, to automate them, tools for bulk listing and customer management, manage consignments, software to increase profits and sales, to add video or audio to your auctions, a tool to automate shipping, auction templates, picture and image tools.

Joining the Auction Resource Network is an absolute MUST if you want to make money selling on Ebay.

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 your results exponentially without having to spend an extra penny.

Ebay Auction Secrets has an excellent package that includes a really useful tool - Auction O Matic.

It automatically creates Auction Ads that really hit potential bidders between the eyes, without ANY programming.

In only minutes, you will be able to create a knock-out, ready-to-go advert, fully ready to post at your online auction, and…….. it has all the powerfully tested sales elements that most Ebay winning ads have!

This is a real cool, cutting edge program that will give you top-agency looking ads with a one-click-and-go program!

It is going to save you hours of time, a ton of money that you could have paid to an Ad copywriter and …. will save you the hassle of trying to write and produce auction ads in front of your computer hour after hour.

You don’t have to be a programmer, ad writer or any kind of techie in the slightest. If you can use a keyboard and a mouse, you WILL be able to use Auction O Matic, it’s EASY.

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 done 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. The better your results, the more money you will make selling on Ebay.

Become An Expert In Your Field

Become an authority in what you do, wherever you choose to go with your online ebay 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 eBay users for your niche.

It will help you to make money selling on Ebay.

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 that will help you to make money selling on Ebay.

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.

It;s easier to make money selling on Ebay if you know what you want and where you're heading.

Harness the Power of Technology

Use existing software of the Internet to handle repetitive tasks. This will free you up to grow your business to a higher 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 selling on Ebay.

I highly recommend Auction Resource Network. Not only do they provide a ton of information about how to make money selling on Ebay, they have heaps of software and tools to help with tedious and repititive tasks.

Tools include auction management, automating your auctions, inventory tools, bulk listing and customer management tools, automating shipping, calculating profits, and many many more. The Auction Resource Network is invaluable if you are seriously going to make money selling on Ebay.

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.

Ebay Auction Secrets has a fantastic tool available to write killer ads for Ebay. Go check it out.
It's a must if you want to make money selling on Ebay.

The Importance of Good Feedback on Ebay

Building up a good feedback record on eBay is your #1 priority starting out. The credibility factor will weigh on you at the beginning but this can be overcome...

Remember:

Treat your winning bidders like royalty...

Sell them a quality product...

Actively pursue positive feedback...

Winning bidders will leave feedback for you only about 35% if you don't prompt them at all. Let them know that you NEED feedback...

Make it easy for them to get to the forum by emailing them a link and consistently follow-up... You can get that up to about 90%.

Once you have a good record people will be much more likely to do business with you. Make it your goal to never get a negative comment.

This is hard to do but very impressive with the buyers. If
get 'negged', correct the mistake and move on, it's not the end of the world.

Kindly reply to the response with a rational explanation for the problem and your buyers will overlook it when they glance your profile.

If you respond with a little magnanimity, you can even turn a neg into a positive in the browser's eyes...

Proofread Your Ads and Email

Always make sure to proofread your listing before you post an ad for
the first time, or have some else do so for you. You'll be amazed at
what fresh pair of eyes will uncover...

It's very frustrating to catch a mistake after the auction has began and
people have started bidding. Make sure you check over your ad and email for errors.

Know Your Product and Become More Credible

Buyers want professional sellers.

The more information you have and use, the more credible you become in the buyers eyes.

If the curious eBayer trusts you, then you're hundreds of time closer to making the sale than the guy with no professionalism.

If you wrongly describe your item, then your credibility takes a nose-dive in their eyes.

When you're focused in what you sell, and have defined your niche, having tons of info about your product is a breeze.
This can be a problem starting out when you're selling a bunch of different types of items... Always look for clues about what to say from existing eBay ads.

This will help you make money selling on ebay.

Make Your Description Complete

When making your item description make it as complete as possible.

Many people find your auction through a search engine, so use as complete and descriptive headline with good keywords too- this will make your listing easy to find for the person looking for your item.

Leave no stone unturned - don't neglect to mention some crucial piece of info.

Bidders will steer clear if they sense something important missing. Plus someone might buy and won't have his or her expectations met...

That could be a problem. Include all necessary info.

You'll make more money selling on Ebay if your description is complete.

Revive Your Ad by Revising It

Auctions that haven't gotten any bids can be revised - did you make a spelling mistake in your Ebay auction title?

Don't worry - simply go to the auction page, click "revise", correct the mistake and make way for the bidders... Another thing, if your Ebay auction has no bids and you still have more than a day before the end, change categories. This is helpful when you're testing new categories for particular item- if an auction in a new category starts to fail just switch to your bread and butter. By doing this you'll uncover some better places to list.