5 Hidden Resources for EBay Sellers...

Gwerzal · 07-06-2008, 12:11 AM

5 Hidden Resources for eBay Sellers...

Thousands of people are making a living both buying and 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 personally use & 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: eBay: Planet Earth - The Complete Collection 2007 DVD, Indestructible PA - Disturbed CD, and more.

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 marketer constantly educates 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 resource let me know and I'll consider revising this list for future editions.

Good luck with your eBay selling!

Tripleeagle · 07-06-2008, 10:57 AM

Good tools there. GoofBay.com is a good place for tools too...but for buyers...

DustyElephant · 07-13-2008, 09:50 PM

I'm surprise that there isn't a photo template out there for ebay auctions yet considering the layout of the ad is one of the biggest things.

kevkev227 · 07-29-2008, 08:00 PM

Looks like some good tips. Optimization for ebay listings is sort of a niche that would be worth learning.

Paper_Chaser · 08-01-2008, 12:52 PM

Thanks for the post. Peace

Jaime Loopgirl · 10-03-2008, 06:53 PM

some great tips here for me. im an Ebay seller and always wanna find best ways to make monye.

does anyone recommend doing extra marketing on beay for my store? or just make sure the items are decribed very well and correctly.thanks Jaime

sumit2nice · 10-11-2008, 02:56 AM

excellent tips may be help for us

Tripleeagle · 10-11-2008, 01:25 PM

Welcome to the forum, Sumit2Nice

sumit2nice · 10-12-2008, 02:49 PM

thanks TRIPLEEAGLE for welcoming me to a forum

tom2oo8 · 10-22-2008, 06:10 PM

You know the mispelt word thing, Firefox 3 has a spell checker any way so why would you need that, But great post anyway, cirtainly going to help my ebays selling

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