Selling Strategies - The PowerSeller Academy

Here are my best eBay insider strategies for selling items and maximizing profits. You’ll find all my tips from ensuring you list in the correct categories to driving visitors to your eBay shop, and even creating your own collectables.

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Why eBay Shops May Offer Even Greater Profits than Traditional Auction and ‘Buy It Now’ Listings Dec 5, 2008: The rules have been changing again at eBay and, unlike most recent changes, such as increased fees and seller unfriendly feedback, I’m fairly certain these new ones represent a major benefit to sellers. I’m already noticing the difference in my own eBay business and my profits have just about doubled as a result...

What Does Your Packaging Say About Your Business? Sep 5, 2008: Sales – that’s what eBay sellers focus on. It’s all about sales. But is it really? Surely there is more to it than that?

Of course there is, and while making that sale is always going to be the bottom line, it’s important to ensure that we also take care of all the other vital aspects of running a successful eBay business.

Other things you should know about ‘One Day Only’ sales and ‘Featured Plus’ listings Sep 5, 2008: • You must have a feedback rating of at least 10 to place a ‘Featured Plus’ Auction.

• Listing your item in two categories provides even greater exposure for your products – but only where two suitable categories actually exist for your product type. It’s a total waste of money to use a second category purely for the sake of using a second category.

• You are not allowed to list multiple ‘Buy It Now’ products in traditional ‘One Day Only’ auctions, but you can use ‘Dutch Auction’ to sell multiples of the same product. ‘Dutch Auction’ exists where several items are offered, all identical, with the bidders indicating how many items they wish to bid for and at what price. ‘Dutch Auction’ items sell at auction end and are not available on ‘Buy It Now’. Check the rules relating to ‘Dutch Auctions’, sometimes called ‘Multiple Item Auctions’...

The Magic of ‘One Day Only’ Sales on eBay! Sep 5, 2008: This is an extremely powerful selling technique, traditionally used by offline marketers and it can be just as successfully used on eBay...

Rather than selling ten or twenty products over the course of a ten day auction, by using this technique you could sell all twenty products within two or three hours of those items being listed!

You’re probably already very familiar with this technique. You’ve encountered it every time you read something like this:

eBay Listing Clinic Sep 5, 2008: This is a newly introduced section of eBay Confidential that aims to check readers’ listings, on request, to hopefully help grow your profits in the short and long term. It obviously depends on readers contacting me with their problems, which you can do by emailing to avril@clippingsfactory.com. Please note I won’t ever use readers’ real names or eBay IDs in this feature, so please feel confident to contact me any time. If space doesn’t permit me to answer all queries in the main newsletter I’ll cover as many as possible in the weekly ezine.