5 HIDDEN RESOURCES FOR
EBAY USERS
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) Auction Resource Network
Watch & Learn
from an established eBayers in action. Created by
eBay powerseller Jason James, this is a
rare site that is worth it's weight in gold. Learn
the basics of online auctions, secrets of dropshippers
and wholesalers that many successful eBayers try to
keep to themselves. If your serious about making a
success of yourself using eBay, you should really consider
the Auction Resource Network.
Details at: auctionresourcenetwork.com
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.
Author Info: Jason James runs The
Auction Resource Network - Where eBay™ Power
Sellers™ Spill
Their Secrets!
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