Lately I've been trying to get back into selling on eBay and I am not too confident with adding an item without asking the question: What's the best way to market an auction? I sold four items before and wasted insertion fees cause none of them sold. Any tips and general advice would be helpful.
There are lots of Books on ebay for that kind of help. pls buy one and read very carefully. then you will do well in ebay...
I rather not, 90% of those books are filled with B.S. to be straight with you. Think about it, there are millions of these books and all of them probably teach the same thing, useless info.
There is no real need to market an auction. Ebay does an excellent job of marketing. If the items aren't selling you need to look at your description, your price point and whether the items you are selling are in demand. Research the completed items to see how the other items like yours are getting sold.
First of all, a good gallery pic can do wonders. Of all the add-ons that eBay offers, a gallery pic is the essential one. Second, study successful sellers that are selling similar items and try to use the same key words in the title. Third, use a counter to figure out whether it's the item/title that's not working or if it's your description. Fourth, use lots of pics in your description.
Amazingly all of the tips you have been provided thus far can be found in these so called BS ebooks. Download them for free, they are easy to find and you will get a ton of info.
It depends on the item you are selling on eBay.... info/product? Describe what it is your are trying to sell, maybe I can give you a better tip. I use to run some stuff on eBay buying and selling websites. I also blogged about how I made some money on eBay selling Godaddy promo codes list then cross promoting with web hosting services. Like I said, it all depends on what you are selling and how you want to approach it on eBay. Millions of newbies to sell stuff too. Example: "Make $100,000/hour eBook. Look I'm only 18 and own a house and car" Then you might want to have a hot girl pic as your thumbnail. or... if you are selling a car... then it better be a nice ass picture of the car you are selling "washed and waxed up" so it looks nice enough to sell. Anyways... give us some hint what you are trying to sell... then maybe you get better help.
^^ I am selling a LinkSys VoIP Phone Adapter... BTW... webwork, I will pass on the book, rather not waste my time
Do a search in eBay's advanced search page using the completed auction function to determine if that item has a good sell-through-rate. Then go to terapeak and do a search for the item there. Before you try to sell it, find out if it will sell. I just did and search and this thing will definitely sell. So just go to terapeak, find some successful ads and copy their style of ad, but change it enough to avoid copyright problems. Then make a pic and put it in. It should definitely sell. You could even start the bid at .99
you really do not need to market an auction - ebay has tons of visits everyday - tons of unique views etc just have a good layout good price FAST shipping - I was really successful on ebay back in the day - now I just do it per season basis
GREAT NEWS!!!! The item sold... not for what I want but the bottom line is that it sold I am so confident that I am ready to start selling left and right now BTW... thank you Phoenix for the reference, TeraPeak is pretty good. Thank you.
Make sure your template looks proffesional and inviting. Create an about me page and make sure you have plenty of positive feedback. Also use every space in the title, for instance: ebook AMAZING eBay sales ebooks
^^ I would, but I look down on them types of "titles" since its making it look a bit in the form of SPAM.
Just listed my second auction, maybe some people can give me some advice if I am doing anything wrong... check it out: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120174081802
Yeh you defiantly need to at least borrow a friends camera. My phone takes better pictures than that. maybe if you increased the light it might come out better? Most people are visual they read a little but a pictures worth a thousand words and right now your thousand words are a little unclear so people might automatically think what your selling is junk and wont even consider buying it.