Thursday, February 22, 2007

Build a Mailing List

Give your eBay auction buyers the option of signing up for a mailing list so that you can contact them when you have new items listed.

If your service was exemplary, then they are more likely to buy from you again, because they trust you and your products.

It's much easier to sell to previous buyers than to try to find new ones.

Sunday, February 18, 2007

eBay Research

This research tool is highly recommended and used by many eBay Power Sellers, to gain an advantage over their competition and to make money selling on eBay.

It's called Terapeak.

Features :
Research your competition easily
Discover new products that make you money using eBay data
Get eBay seller research sales reports
Research when to sell, how much to sell for, and what keywords drive profits


More information at Terapeak

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Keyword Research

I’ve talked about the importance of keyword resarch before.
It is essential, because words are how people (and search engines) find you.
It is essential to know what words or phrases people are using, and to find those where the demand is high and the supply low, so you can get a higher search engine ranking. There are many keyword research programs and tools available.

The main source of keyword information for many of them is Overture, which will be deleted from the net soon. The industry now has to find another source for its information.

The keyword research and analysis programs currently available will need to be updated.
The best ones are those that do not rely on Overture solely for their information.

Rapid Keywords is the best because it uses several information sources, not just Overture. They have assured me that they will be providing more sources in the future, and that the software I purchased from them will automatically update each time I use it.

So, even though many people are concerned about their keyword research, I’m not!
And since keywords are so important if you want to make money selling on eBay, that is a huge relief!


Rapid Keywords has a full 24hour free trial, so you can check out first. If you only have 1 project to do, do it all in 24hrs and pay nothing. Many of the programs I tried gave only a limited feature trial, not enough to see how well they worked.

I’ve done a review of Rapid Keywords, and other keyword research and analysis tools, at http://www.free-web-site-marketing.com/keywords.html.

Sunday, February 11, 2007

PayPal Special Offer

The US Paypal site has a special offer on at the moment, which you can use to make money selling on eBay. That is, if you have given your buyers the option of paying you via PayPal.

They are refunding $15 for every purchase over $30 made via PayPal. Just click on the link on PayPal’s home page, bottom right hand side.

Add this to your auction description, and see your sales increase!

Note, this does not apply to PayPal Australia – unfortunately.

Thursday, February 08, 2007

Using Turbo Lister

It is much quicker to list items on eBay if you use their Turbo lister software. It is free to download from the site.

Enter all your items into Turbo Lister, then upload everything at once. You can save templates, to be repeated, and this saves time. There are limitations with this, for example, fonts may become skewed.

Cross promotions are done automatically for you, however, if you want to cross-promote something specific, this will need to be done manually.

Friday, February 02, 2007

Overdeliver

You will soon get a reputation and some very positive feedback, if you give a little unadvertised bonus to your winning buyers. It can be something as simple as an eBook on the topic, or something which doesn’t necessarily need cost anything.

It’s the thought that counts with this. Your buyer expects to receive A, and they receive A + B. Knowing this, they will be more inclined to add you to their favourites, and recommend you to their friends.Your auctions will receive more traffic, and you will make more money selling on eBay!