Hidden Secrets for More Sales in eBay

In fact, you don't need to read this section before you can start your eBay business. With all details in previous few articles, you have got all you need to know to start selling. But to help you further, I'd like to get you some more hints which could help you get more sales

Auctiva

It's a 3rd party eBay solution that I think really useful. And the best thing is: it's free of charge.

There are several things Auctiva can help you sell better. Just let you know some:
- Free template making your eBay listing more professional even you don't know any HTML. Also similar service in eBay, but not free.
- Multiple pictures can be posted in each listing. And hosting all your pictures in their service without any charge. But in eBay, multiple pictures require extra fee.
- You can schedule your listings to be posted at your preferred time. Again, eBay charges you extra fee to do so.

There’re also a lot more benefits you can get from Auctiva. You may check it out in their site.


Try Understanding More of your Suppliers

While you're preparing your items to sell in eBay, I'll suggest you to order a few items from your suppliers (e.g. Giftamax introduced in our few articles previously). Even you don't need to keep any stocks when you're working with this supplier. But to have a look at the final products yourself will definitely help you understand more of products.

Compare between the sample images and the real products and see if they are really good as you expect. See how the package is done and so you can know how to answer related queries from your future customers. Evaluate the transit time and see if it's within the acceptable level.

It'll help much on your future business.


Little Tricks to Speed Up Your Sales

eBay is a marketplace based on trust. As you can imagine, if you start selling with zero or just a few feedbacks, customers would tend to move away to other sellers. So how to turn it around more quickly at the beginning? Try to be a buyer first.

You can also earn feedbacks as a buyer. If you can start with 10+ or 20+ feedbacks when you start selling, people would have much more confidence to buy from you for sure. Therefore, try to find something you need. Buy it in eBay instead of anywhere else.

If you start by doing some purchases first, there are several benefits:
- Earn feedback
- Get the items you want at a good price with lots of choices in eBay
- Understand the buying process. Then you know what process your future customers will go through. That can help your communication with them much.


eBay Basic Store

If you're serious to build a profitable business in eBay, there're no reasons you don't subscribe to their Basic Store. A lot of benefits you can enjoy by paying a small fee. Just name some of them:

- You can post Store Inventory Listings, much lower listing fee and longer duration.
- Free Selling Manager (original price $4.99 per month). With selling manager, it makes your life much easier, e.g. sending bulk notice to customers, leaving feedback in bulk, monitor sales performance with simple graphs and statistics, categorized tasks for your easy follow up, etc.

A lot more benefits not mentioned here. You can take a look at eBay.com and find out more.