Listing tools automate the process of adding listings to eBay, to stop you having to go through the ‘Sell Your Item' process every time. There is a surprising amount of choice out there when it comes to eBay listing tools, to the point where you might not know what to choose. Here's an overview of what's useful and what's not.
Turbo Lister.
Turbo Lister is a free download from eBay, and allows you to sell on eBay without ever having to actually visit the site. You can write descriptions, save them and list them over and over again – if you want to, you can even do most of your eBay work offline, and just go online for a few seconds to upload it.
You can list in bulk and schedule your listings to start any time. Since this is eBay's officially supported program, you're guaranteed that upgrades to eBay's site will never break it and leave you out in the cold. Personally, though, I find the design quite bad – it's not really that much easier than just going through eBay directly.
Blackthorne.
Also from eBay, this is what used to be called the ‘Seller's Assistant'. It's a downloadable program, but it's more powerful than Turbo Lister is. It lets you do everything in bulk: listing, re-listing, and even feedback. You can export your sales data to an accounting program, and track your auctions while they're still going on. You only have to enter things like payment choices and shipping details once, and they're saved forever.
So where's the disadvantage? It costs $9.99 per month, or $24.99 for the pro version, which also lets you print shipping labels in bulk and manage an inventory.
Andale Lister.
If you want to try something that's not been made by eBay, Andale's lister is still web-based, but aims to streamline the process.
You can create ‘profiles' with different selections for your auctions. For example, you could create a ‘Normal' profile that doesn't include any of the listing upgrades, a ‘Promote' profile that includes Bold and Highlight, and a ‘Super Promote' profile that buys Bold, Highlight and Featured Plus. This makes it easier to choose the set of options you want for each item.
It's all about saving things you've done. Each time you upload a picture, it gets added to a ‘Picture Library' for you to use again, and you can store an inventory and choose from it to create a listing. You also get nicer-looking templates than eBay provide.
Of course, if eBay had their act together then this is what their own process would be like – but they're happy for third-parties to make money doing the work instead of upgrading their own site. Andale Lister can cost anywhere between 20c and 4c per listing, as you get discounts for volume.
Now that you're listing in bulk, you can spend more time trying to attract people to come and bid on your auctions. But how should you be doing your marketing? In the next email, we'll go through some of the options available to you.
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Those who want to make money selling on eBay know that using the right keywords can absolutely increase traffic to their eBay listings. While there are many ways to find keywords, going right on to the eBay site and finding the most popular keywords that are being used on eBay itself makes a lot of sense. That is where eBay's Popular Keywords tool comes into play.
EBay Popular Keywords can be found at Home > Buy > Popular Keywords on the eBay website. This is a wealth of information for sellers who want to make money selling on eBay. In fact for new sellers this is one of those tools that can help quickly lead toward the right niche and the right products within that niche.
EBay Popular Keywords is a weekly rollup of the most actively used keywords on eBay. It let's sellers who want to make money on eBay know what is popular in a variety of categories including:
• Top Listing Keywords
• Top Product Keywords
• Top Category Keywords
• Top Store Keywords
The top twenty keywords are listed for each category. Following the top twenty keyword listings in the four categories is …'more', which is even more keywords within that category.
By clicking on the keyword the searcher is led to even more information. For those who desire to make money on eBay this information can be a critical piece of the research puzzle. One of the keys to make money on eBay knows the competition that you face. It knows which competitors sell in your market niche. It knows which competitors sell like products. It is continually monitoring those competitors and the actions that they take.
To make money on eBay requires that you be aware of which competitors make changes to their marketing strategies. It knows when competitors change their fixed prices, and their minimums. It knows when competitors have changed any other portions of their selling strategies.
To make money on eBay requires that you be aware of what the competition is doing and then be willing to adjust your business operation accordingly. For example, if fixed prices on identical items are set at $25.00 it does little good for you to have a fixed price of $50 on that same item?
Likewise, if a competitor makes a change to their sales strategy that weakens their listing, you have the opportunity to jump in and capture sales. All of that because you stayed in-tune and aware of changes within the competitor group to make money on eBay requires that you see and then respond to those sales opportunities
To make money on eBay examine the competition before you list new items for the first time. By understanding what the competitors who sell that item are doing you are positioned to make adjustments that could let you lead the pack with your new listing.
Always examine the competition you face when selling on eBay. Know their pricing. Know their sales strategies. Use that knowledge to help make money on eBay.
Including popular keywords in listings can greatly increase traffic to those listings. Knowing popular product keywords is a vital first step in market research. Increase you chances of quicker and more successful startup by using eBay Popular Keywords as a part of your research. Give it try.
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