Toolbar Add-on for eBay

Auction Gizmo is a free eBay add-on to your Internet Explorer toolbar.

With it, you can search eBay directly from your browser. In addition to doing advanced searches by zip or postal code, you can also save a list of searches. One click access to the advanced search features on eBay saves you many mouse clicks.

It has international support for Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, United Kingdom, and the United States.

You can save various search combinations so you can quickly search eBay for your favorite items when YOU want to.

Synchronize your eBay Watches, Bids, and Won items right from within Auction Gizmo.

eBay also has a toolbar, however, Auction Gizmo is actually better to make money selling on eBay.

eBay Research Tool

www.mpire.com is a free research tool that empowers the millions of people who buy and sell items from the world's most popular shopping sites. They are not a store and don't sell anything. It is a service that shows the true market value of products that buyers want to buy and helps people make more money selling on eBay.

Type in the product, and see what listings come up.

Another research tool on their site is Researcher : (http://www.mpire.com/products/researcher.html) , that lists, for each product you enter, the average sale price, top keywords, percentage of items sold, top selling time and the top selling day.

More handy eBay research tools can be found at http://www.ebay-auction-secrets.com/ebay_research.html

Finding Items To Sell on eBay

SaleHoo is a membership site that has the best directory of Wholesale Suppliers, Distributors and Sources for Products at Discounted Prices for eBay sellers. This is where you find bargain discount shopping at below wholesale prices, and wholesale distributors. And THIS is what the eBay Powersellers use to source the products making them many thousands of dollars each week.

SaleHoo has launched a database allowing shoppers and merchants worldwide to access wholesale and dropship suppliers offering consumer products at prices considerably lower than retail value, helping you make money selling on eBay.

There are country specific lists of suppliers, including USA, Canada, UK and Australia.

More information at http://www.ebay-auction-secrets.com/suppliers_directory.html

eBay Blogs – new!

eBay has added to its list of services, with eBay Blogs, a free blogging service available to registered eBay users.

An eBay Blog is a great way to supplement your eBay selling efforts.

You can create a blog containing information about you, your business, photos, etc., then link to your blog from your eBay sales pages and your About Me page.

You can also create a blog using Google’s free Blog service – Blogger. (www.blogger.com)
Link to your eBay pages from there, get your blog listed in blog directories, and funnel some of your marketing efforts to it.

More traffic means more chances to make money selling on eBay!

Homework

At least once a week (nightly is better if you really want to make money selling on eBay), check out what your opposition is selling on eBay. This helps to make sure your products are competitive, and you may get new ideas from them. Have a look at their ads – how can you do it better?

Get to Know eBay

Simple as this may sound, I know lots of people who do not bother to take the time to navigate round the eBay site. And this has cost them dear.

Follow all the paths you can, learn as much as you can. There are some real gems of information in there. Look at the buyers’ tips and tutorials as well as the sellers’. Your customers will be looking at buying tips and you need to ensure that you are giving them what they expect, so you can make money selling on eBay.

Practise, Practise and More Practice

Start small if you are a newbie to eBay auctions. Sell some unwanted goods around your house, get the feel of eBay and how it works. Do some buying as well, see what it’s like to use eBay from a buyer’s perspective. You will learn a healthy respect for potential pitfalls that, while not being that important when you start, will increase in importance as your business grows. So get your mistakes out of the way at the beginning.

Taking the time to familiarise yourself with everything will pay off, and you will make money selling on eBay.

Interlink your Products

Within your niche, make sure you provide a variety of products . On each of your eBay auction ads, supply a link and an image of a related product that customer may like to purchase in addition to the original product.

This not only increases your chance of additional sales, it also helps to establish your authority in that particular niche, especially if you have several products offered. For example, yor niche may be Dolphins. Products that can be interlinked with each other could be mugs, T-shirts, coasters, gift lines such as dolphin pendants etc etc. You get the idea.

So interlink your products if you want to make more money selling on eBay.

Shipping Arrangements

Choose and organize a proven shipping arrangement. Even though the shipping service you use is not your responsibility, as it is outside your control, you have recommended it. It will count against you if it fails for whatever reason, and you may receive a negative feedback because of it. Check out which freight companies/carriers the power sellers use.

Create Relationships

Creating relationships on the internet is much more difficult than it is face to face. You have only the written word to communicate with your customers. No facial expressions, no non-verbal communication, no voice or conversation, no eye contact. You can of course, add a photo of yourself if you like, and an audio recording, however it’s still not the same.

Your positive feedbacks plus the words and look of your ad are your main tools.

Auction-O-Matic from http://www.ebay-auction-secrets.com will help you write your ads, the positive feedbacks will come from your customer service, quality products and honesty.