What Should you Customize to Sell?

Have you done a thorough research on the items available in Giftamax and determine what you'd like to sell?

Let's say you have determined to sell Belt Buckle. Do a quick research in eBay and you have located a few Powersellers or High-Volume Sellers (sometimes some high-volume sellers don't take the Powersellers status. I don't know why).

Can you see what they're selling? This is where you can start. What a frequent seller sells is actually something popular in eBay. You can start searching for some similar images from anywhere you can think of. Google and Yahoo image search is one of the key areas you can explore. In some future articles, we'll list you a few more useful resources where you can download tons of images.

You can search of a lot of similar images in Google or Yahoo. But pay attention to the copyrights before you know you're allowed to use the image for your own use.

When selecting images to download, try to download some higher-resolution ones. If you want to know if the quality of your image is good enough for the products, try to enlarge the image in your screen to a similar size of the final product (e.g. if you're going to attach the image to a 18" x 15" x 6" Tote Bag, then the printed image will be more or less the same as an image enlarged to the full screen of your monitor. If you're doing a much smaller item like 1" button, then a lower-resolution image will still be OK).

After downloading the image, you may need to do some simple editing (resizing, removing some useless areas, adding text, etc). Here you'll need to use your graphic program to help.

To know what size of image you'll need for creating your item, check out the advice from Giftamax.

Now upload your edited image to Giftamax. Then you can follow the steps in the site to select the image and attach on the items you want. A sample item image will be created. You can use it for your eBay listing then.

The item number you can find is the reference you'll use for placing orders to Giftamax. The image file you upload will be saved in the server and used for creating the final products. Once you're familiar with the system and would like to create hundreds of products at once, you can use the Bulk Add function. You should be able to find more help in the site.