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Hidden Resources For eBay Users
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>> 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.
Details at: Fatfingers.com
2) eBay Pulse
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.
Details at: pulse.ebay.com
3) Keyword-Pro
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.
Details at Trading-Web-Solutions.com/keywords
4) Selling Manager
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) eBay Popular Products
Here you can see, directly from eBay, what the most
popular products are in several categories. an
invaluable tool for an eBay seller.
Details at: http://product-index.ebay.com/best_selling_1.html
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.
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