Archive for the 'Selling' Category

Start a Blog to Advertise eBay

We know that people coming to eBay are prepared to buy, they usually aren’t just window shopping. Rather than have them land on your sale page once and then forget about you, why not have another way to contact them? eBay doesn’t allow you to advertise another site on your auctions, but on your About [...]

Adding Video To Your eBay Auction

Why not try adding video to your next eBay sale? With the new camcorders, like the Flip, you can record and upload to Youtube in no time. Once your video is on Youtube, go ahead and finish creating your listing. Instead of  clicking on ‘Sell’ and creating your listing, click ‘Sell’, then ‘Advanced Sell’. Then [...]

Getting Started

Anyone can sell anything on eBay.  Open an account, list your product, and wait for the bids to start coming in.  While it is true that anyone can sell, to be successful, you need all of the little tricks of the trade.  Thousands and thousands of people are making a full or part-time living just by selling [...]

Finding Good Niche Markets

I found this excellent video about finding good niche markets to sell your eBay products. Hope you find it helpful.

10 Steps to a Real eBay Business

Here are ten steps you can take to start a real business on eBay: Step 1: Identify your market. Take a look at the completed listings and watch for what sells and what doesn’t from the items you’re interested in. Pay attention to photos, titles, descriptions, starting prices, and shipping rates. Any market research data [...]

Easy Steps to Posting Your First eBay Auction

It’s surprisingly simple to get started posting your very first auction on eBay. Here’s what you need to do. Step 1: Open an eBay seller’s account. If you’ve bought things on eBay, then you already have an account – just log in with it and click ‘Sell’ in the toolbar at the top of the [...]

What to Sell on eBay

First, you need to know what it is you’re going to sell: what’s your speciality? You’ll do far better on eBay if you become a great source for a certain kind of products, as people who are interested in those products will come back to you again and again. You won’t get any loyalty or [...]

Achieving Power Seller Status

Next time you’re on eBay, take a look at how many PowerSellers there are: you’ll find quite a few. Now consider that every single one of one of them must be making at least $1,000 per month, as that’s eBay’s requirement for becoming a PowerSeller. PowerSellers sell the same things again and again, every week [...]

Selling on eBay – Basics

To sell on eBay, you need three things: something people would want to buy (notice I didn’t just say “something to sell”), an eBay sellers account, and a Paypal account to collect money. If you sell what you know about, you can spot bargains and will have a much better idea of the value and any [...]

Update on Sale of Maternity Top

I’ve come to the conclusion that Canada Post is more expensive than the American mail system. I re-listed the maternity top we worked with at the last Momiji workshop and this time it sold. Since last Monday was a holiday, instead of ending the auction on the Sunday evening, I ended it on Monday night. The [...]