eBay tools

My Best Tips For Improving Your eBay DSRs

If you are an eBay seller, Detailed Seller Ratings are going to become pretty important very soon.
eBay are introducing a raft of changes under new leadership including Finding changes (search), fee changes and more.
Detailed Seller Ratings are going to matter to you. If you haven’t been concerned about your ratings, and you take your business [...]


DSRWatch : View Detailed Seller Ratings, In Detail!

Detailed Seller Ratings were brought in by eBay some time ago now to allow buyers to rate sellers in more detail.
These ratings are a vote out of 5 on the following topics:

Item as described
Communication
Shipping time
Shipping/Handling Charges

Now, ChannelAdvisor Labs have released a free tool called DSRWatch for you to look at Detailed Seller Ratings for any [...]


Do your product photos need ‘Bling!’?

Tamebay.com in conjunction with Bling! It are running a great little competition together.
Bling! It is a neat little image editor to help you get much more professional product photos for your online ads or eBay listings.
If you are eBay seller you know how important good product shots are. Taking a great product photo not only [...]


How do I stop all these customer emails!?

How to reduce customer service emails for eBay and eCommerce business, and how to improve email customer service.


Where to spend your marketing, eBay or Adwords?

Would you be better off shifting your eBay spend towards Adwords? This is a question that many eBay sellers may never ask of themselves, but those with online stores should do the numbers!
There are a growing number of eBay sellers who do have their own online stores either of their own software and design, or [...]


eBay Listing Schedules - Can They be Intelligent?

My business partners and I often sit back and look at our business and find ways to streamline and add efficiency.
Automation using technology is very important for us and makes the best use of our skill sets. One of the reasons we switched to ChannelAdvisor was because of one of their listing schedule types, but [...]


Using Terapeak to Find The Best Time of Day to Sell on eBay

Recently I have been playing with some eBay research software called terapeak. It is essentially a data mining tool that eBay sellers (or buyers) can use to look at groups of data that might help them sell more product (or buy cheaper).
Recently I have been using it to do some analysis of auction end times [...]


ChannelAdvisor Launching an Australian Office

News is out that ChannelAdvisor is launching a dedicated Australian office later this year. This is great news for large Australian ebay sellers looking for a more scaleable selling solution.


Using Audio To Improve Your Product Sales

Use audio to improve your product sales and conversion rates! So, do you have products that make a sound? Want to show your customers in a neat way what they sound like to boost product sales?


What Is The Best Product To Sell On eBay?

Often I think the hardest thing about selling on eBay is selling on eBay! What do you sell? What is the best product to sell on eBay?

f you want to make a real business or income from your eBay sales, then it makes it that much easier to sell something that you have product knowledge about.

* What hobbies do you like?
* Do you have good knowledge about particular products?
* Do you WANT to learn about a particular product?

Start by narrowing down what product groups you would be happiest selling. It can be a broad range, don’t worry about details yet.

Then you need to start narrowing the range down. Write a list of the popular products and accessories in your ‘target’ areas and use the points below to make some decisions.

Below are my top 5 considerations when choosing the best product to sell on eBay, but I saved my top 3 for last. Read on!