How to Live The eBay Lifestyle

There are many tools we can use to make administrative tasks easier, to make sure we choose the HOT (and profitable) products, to make listing on eBay easier. Did you also know that once you have your eBay business established, you can AUTOMATE most of it? That means lots of leisure time!

Follow this step by step process and live the eBay lifestyle.

Steps to an eBay Lifestyle

Make Money Selling on eBay vs Online eCommerce Store

it's all about traffic! Instead of driving traffic to your store, eBay already gets the traffic! Why reinvent the wheel? Use eBay and piggyback on their success.

2,000,000 shoppers visit eBay each and every day to find products that will give them solutions to their problems, with their credit cards in hand. They spend $121,000,000,000 EVERY DAY on eBay.

It makes sense to use a market that’s already looking for products and ready to buy.
It makes sense to utilise Ebay’s excellent reputation and extensive advertising – you get that for free when you sell items on eBay. No need to find a new market and new customers.

Visitors to eBay are usually ready to buy.

Your eCommerce store needs to establish itself, its market, get people's trust, and will cost a lot more to be built than selling on eBay.

MAKE MONEY SELLING ON eBAY - it makes sense!!

Use Auctiva to List on eBay

Auctiva is an eBay approved site that you can use to list your items on eBay. It’s free, and they automatically create a store for you, using your user name in the URL. The selling title, category, shipping, description and payment etc are all on one page, making it quicker to list than on eBay itself. And unlike eBay’s TurboLister, Auctiva gives you a variety of templates to use in your listings, to make them more professional.

A scrolling bar is automatically created in your listings to show other items in your store, and links back to it.

And best of all, it’s 100% free.

Go to Auctiva to create your account.

How To Find Hot Products

Use eBay's Completed Listings facility to see whether a product is hot or not. In Advanced Search, type in your keyword, then click on Completed Listings underneath. It will show you which auctions in the last 2 weeks completed successfully (in green) and which did not (in red). If there are a lot of reds, then the product is probably not popular, although there may be other reasons those products didn’t sell.

This gives you a general idea of what sort of products are worthwhile spending time on in further research.

You can also examine the auctions for title, description, and starting price to work out why one auction was successful, and another wasn’t.

Once you’ve found a popular niche/keyword, then go to Terapeak to research it further, and get exact information on competitors, sales reports, when to sell, how much to sell for, and more. This information is a must for serious sellers, if you want to make money selling on eBay