eBay tools
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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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!
eBay Pulse – See What Products Are Hot on eBay
eBay Pulse, identify the best products to sell on eBay, product sourcing from china, eBay seller analysis
More Great eBay Seller & Analysis Tools
Looking for a great list of eBay tools? Some of these links will help you analyze eBay competitors, others will help you work out the best listing times and strategies. So, on to my new list of eBay tools : Auction Intelligence eBay Statistics (from 2003, getting a little old) Terapeak (I have used this [...]
Taking Great Product Photos
Taking great product photos is often the key to great sales and conversion in ecommerce and online retail. It simply AMAZES me how many (seemingly) professional/full time eBay sellers there are that have a good range of products, good turnover and good sales potential but TERRIBLE photos. Improving our product photos made the single biggest [...]
Growing a Customer Base Using eBay
Building a customer base using eBay is not that easy to do if you are only using eBay’s tools. In the North American market there has been a push from the top eBay sellers to broaden their businesses by selling in other marketplaces (like Amazon, Overstock etc) and to build their own ecommerce storefronts. eBay [...]
