How To Sell On Ebay & Keep Your Shirt

Have you ever been delighted after a huge sale on Ebay. . .only to find out that your massive profit margin was whittled away by fee after fee after fee after fee?

Ebay charged you to list your item; they charged you to add pictures; they charged you to add upgrades; they charged you to use a template; they charged you to put your auction up at a certain time; and then, on top of everything else. . .they charged you AGAIN for closing the sale.

At this point, you would have been happy to walk away from your huge sale with the shirt on your back. But no. Paypal arrived on the scene to process your transaction for a small fee - your shirt.

. . .and there you sat at your computer, frustrated and shirtless. You were probably ready to just throw your hands up in dispair and quit selling on Ebay.

But you didn’t. You stuck with it. Maybe you haven’t had any success on Ebay since then, but what matters is that you stuck with it. And that is easily the most important part about selling on Ebay: sticking with it until you get that breakthrough.

And for that, I am going to reward you by showing you some simple tricks I have used to prevent the fee-mongers from extracting all of my profits. Hopefully this will help you to do the same and find your breakthrough.

The first method is using free hosting services for all of your auction pictures. If you sell a lot of small items on Ebay, this will save you a considerable amount of money in fees. If you only sell large items, this will allow you to cut back on unncessary fees on each auction.

I personally suggest using Geocities.com for this. All you have to do is upload the pictures you want in your auctions and then then reference them in the actual auctions.

The second fee-saving method I suggest is creating or purchasing a template for your auctions. I personally suggest learning HTML, which doesn’t take very long, and using it to create your own template.

In the long run, this will save you a lot of time and frustration, as you will be able to create the exact look and feel you want for your auctions.

However, if you don’t have the time to learn HTML, you can either purchase a template online for a dollar or less or you could have one professionally- created to fit your specifications at elance.com.

Not only will this save you additional auction fees on Ebay, but it will boost your credibility as a seller, potentially raising the amount of bids you receive--and subsequently increasing your profit-margin

The third and last method I will go over involves improving the mechanics of your auction, so you can pull just as many customers as a featured listing would, but without using one.

This is actually quite simple. All you have to do is carefully construct your title to accomplish the following two goals: 1) include as many targeted, high-traffic keywords as possible; and 2) form a coherent and compelling message that will entice these new streams of traffic to click through to your auction.

If you can achieve a better balance than what you have right now, you will notice an enormous boost in traffic. In fact, it can easily be the difference between 25 auction visitors and 250!

Some people make a full-time income buying from the auctions that get 25 visitors and then reselling with this tactic, which gets them 250.

By now, you know what you need to do to cut a serious chunk out of your Ebay seller’s fees. Put this to work in your auctions - and you could be seeing that breakthrough I talked about in a matter of weeks.

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 My Website Needed More Targeted Traffic - Guess Where I Found It?

There’s nothing new about using joint ventures to get traffic to websites. And good information is freely available from many internet marketing sites on how to set up JVs.

This article is for the 97% of webmasters who aren’t aware of a particularly powerful JV partner who already exists, and is willing to work with you.

Before I reveal all, let me just check…..

Like me, I would image you’d be happy if:

• Your JV partner’s site gets huge traffic.

• The vast majority of page views are by targeted traffic.

• You can create links wherever YOU like from their site.

• You can start now. There’s no delay in setting up the JV.

• The JV continues as long as you want.

• It costs you. . . .
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   How To Find REAL Wholesale Dropshippers For Almost Any Product
  

  With more and more people getting online, many of them are searching for information on specific products that they are interested in purchasing.

  Thus one of the best possible ways to turn a profit online is to find wholesale sources that will drop-ship thes products directly to your customers who come to your website for more informatation. Also you could set up ebay auctions to sell these products.

  BUT....

  Most of the wholesale sources ebooks, list of 10,000 drop shippers etc. that you see being offered online just don't cut it. Either they are full of links that lead to websites that are no longer active, lead you to wholesalers who carry junk products (dollar store items, as seen on TV stuff), or the price are too high for you to make any profits.

  Actually mo. . . .
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   Avoiding eBay Scams
  Read through this checklist and save yourself time and aggravation. A bit of due diligence will help you avoid eBay scams.

  Only buy items with photos. The photograph is a good way to insure the seller actually has the item. No photo is a good indicator of a scam.

  Check the photo against catalog photos. Many scammers use photos taken from other auctions or from online catalogs. Look for the background and lighting. Professionally taken photos have better lighting, and clearer backgrounds.

  Check the seller's user history. This is on the feedback page and will say something like this: "Member since: Saturday, Aug 13, 2001 Location: United States" New sellers or sellers who have been members for a long time, but not as active sellers are more likely to be committing auction scams.

  . . . .
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   eBay and Dropshipping - A Perfect Fit!
  eBay and Dropshipping go together like a hand in a glove. As you read this article, right now, thousands of eBayers are running there own auction business. Some of them make little money, and some of them make real huge profits. Why? It is mostly due to the products they choose to sell, the Dropshippers they use and how they promote their eBay Business.

  If you are new to Internet Marketing, promotion of your new eBay Business is key. Also, staying up to date with all the new and better ways to advertise and promote your business is cruical. Things on the Internet can change almost over night and to keep your eBay Business making money you must keep up with those changes. But don't be discouraged, the ease of using Dropshippers will allow you more time to concentrate on improving your sa. . . .
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   Free Instant Auction Traffic
  Here's an easy way to get extra traffic to your eBay auctions...

  ...and we all know, the more traffic, the more bids and ultimately, the more sales you'll get!

  First...answer this question:

  "Do you look at other people's feedback ratings?"

  You probably answered yes...

  So here's my idea -

  "Whenever you leave feedback, put your website URL in the feedback Comment"

  If you don't have a website, no problem, see below for details.

  I have only seen this done once! - me.

  It's so easy and EVERYONE looks at feedback ratings before they bid.

  So, the idea would be to try and leave feedback for users that get a lot of traffic...

  How? - check out ebay pulse and look at some of the highest watched items and try bidding on one of them.

  After, you bid and win, leave your. . . .
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