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		<title>Effectively Promoting your eBay Store</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<p>There are many methods for promoting your ebay store. In this article i will explain 4 that you can do. Most of these methods are free or of little cost. The benefits could easily be an increase in traffic and sales.</p>
<p>1) Ebay Auction Listings &#8211; eBay Auction and Buy It Now listings get the main exposure on eBay. When someone does an eBay search for an item all the eBay Auction and Buy It Now listings are displayed first. Then after these the eBay Store listings are displayed. Since these Auction and Buy It Now listings are getting the most exposure it makes sense to run a few of these and insert a link to your eBay store inside the actual description. This works especially well with Auction listings as people often click the link so they can buy the item instantly from your eBay store rather than wait for the auction to end.</p>
<p>2) Ebay Reviews and Guides &#8211; These are a relatively new addition to eBay but they are still a great way to promote your eBay store for free. The reviews section allows you to write product reviews. The guides section is more relevant to sellers as it allows you to write guides on just about anything. There has got to be some topic that you can write a guide on so get righting now. When people read your guide they are presented with a link to your eBay store which is again more free exposure.</p>
<p>3) Ebay Seller Cross Promotion- with an eBay store you can cross-promote your items. There is also the ability to cross-promote with other sellers. This is very easy to set up and eBay manages the whole process for you. All you have to do is go to the \&#8221;Cross-Promotion Connections\&#8221; area of My eBay and then use the request cross-promotions link in order to set them up. If the other seller agrees then a box promoting their products will appear on your listings and vice versa. This is a valuable way to increase your eBay sales and also generate more traffic to your eBay store.</p>
<p>4) Article Submission &#8211; There are 100s of article directories out there that will you can submit your articles to, and if accepted you are allowed to have a live link back to your website or eBay store in the author resource box. This is a great way to generate traffic to your website in the long-term as not only do the search engines index your article, but people also reprint these articles on their websites complete with your author resource box (and live link back to your eBay store). The longer your article is online the more it will be reprinted and so the more traffic it will generate.</p>
<p>Hopefully this article has opened your eyes to some of the free and effective promotion methods for your eBay store. At first the fact that eBay Stores do not get as much exposure seems like a major problem but by putting a little effort into promoting it yourself, it can be much more successful than any eBay Auction listing.</p>
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		<title>Jewelry Wholesale And eBay Auctions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacques Lemierre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ebay auctions and jewelry wholesale are a winning combination. Ebay is a great place to find almost any item that you can imagine. Jewelry wholesale auctions are quite common on eBay, and in many cases, you cannot beat the prices that are offered here. Prepare yourself beforehand to avoid being scammed.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ebay auctions and jewelry wholesale are a winning combination. Ebay is a great place to find almost any item that you can imagine. Jewelry wholesale auctions are quite common on eBay, and in many cases, you cannot beat the prices that are offered here. Prepare yourself beforehand to avoid being scammed.</p>
<p>Start by reading all of the details about the jewelry wholesale auctions that you are interested in purchasing. If you still have questions, send those questions to the seller through eBay\&#8217;s website. Make sure that you keep all of your contact with the seller through the website so that there is proof.</p>
<p>Check out the person or company that is offering the jewelry wholesale. Look at their ratings and their feedback. Has there been any negative feedback? If so, you may want to reconsider your options and look into other auctions. If the feedback is all positive, and the seller\&#8217;s rating is high, doing business with them should not be a problem.</p>
<p>Make sure that you are clear about shipment fees and the shipment times, as well as the payment options offered. Usually, the buyer is responsible for the shipment costs, and this is added to the total and paid before the item ships. In the case of expensive ticket items, insurance may be required on the item as well. The seller seldom pays for the shipping costs. I recommend insurance.</p>
<p>If the jewelry wholesale is a very high ticket item, such as jewelry that is bought in bulk or rare pieces of expensive jewelry, you should strongly consider using the escrow service that is recommended by eBay.</p>
<p>Beware of sniper\&#8217;s on eBay! Sniping is against the rules at eBay, but unfortunately people do it anyway. Sniping is basically automatic bidding, which is not against the rules, but the software or service is instructed to place the highest bid in the last possible minute of the auction. This leaves no time for anyone else to place a higher bid.</p>
<p>Instead of sniping, place your first bid at the maximum amount that you are willing to pay for the jewelry wholesale lot. Each time the bid is raised, your bid will automatically be raised &#8211; until your limit is reached. This is not sniping, and it is a perfectly legal way to bid on auctions at eBay.</p>
<p>Want to find out more about <a>buying wholesale jewelry</a>, then visit Jacques Lemierre\&#8217;s site on how to choose the best <a>wholesale jewelry products</a> for your needs.</p>
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		<title>Selling On Ebay- Top 10 Steps To Ebay Seller Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Schuyler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you want to be a successful eBay seller? Do you want to learn how to start a eBay online business. Here's a simple, 10 step path to eBay selling success.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you want to be a successful eBay seller? Do you want to learn how to start a eBay online business. Here\&#8217;s a simple, 10 step path to eBay selling success.</p>
<p>Step 1: Identify your particular market. Take a while to sit and watch for what sells and what doesn\&#8217;t out of the items you\&#8217;re interested in selling. Any market research data you can collect will be very useful to you later on. You\&#8217;ll probably see those one or two items that always seem to sell for a good price.</p>
<p>Step 2: Watch your competition. Before you invest any money, see what the other sellers in your category are up to, and what their eBay marketing strategies are. Pay special attention to any flaws their auctions might have, because this is where you can move in and beat them at their own selling game.</p>
<p>Step 3: Pick a product to sell: Get hold of a wholesale supplier for whatever it is you want to sell, and see what the best rates you can get the product for. Don\&#8217;t be afraid to ring round quite a few to get the best deal. If the eBay prices you\&#8217;ve seen are higher than the supplier\&#8217;s, then you\&#8217;re really set.</p>
<p>Step 4: Start small: Don\&#8217;t throw thousands at your idea straight away. Start slowly, see what works and what doesn\&#8217;t, and learn as you go along. Remember that it\&#8217;s very cheap to try out even the craziest ideas on eBay, and who knows, they might just work out after all.</p>
<p>Step 5: Test and keep repeaing. Keep trying different eBay marketing strategies until you find something that works good, and then don\&#8217;t be ashamed to keep doing it, again and again. The chances are that you\&#8217;ve just found a good niche product.</p>
<p>Step 6: Work out a eBay business plan: A eBay business plan doesn\&#8217;t need to be anything formal, just a few pages that outline the market opportunity you\&#8217;ve spotted, your strategy, strengths and weaknesses of the plan and a brief budget. This is more for you than it is for anyone else.</p>
<p>Step 7: Invest and expand the plan: This is the time to start spending more money. Buy product inventory, and start spending more time on your eBay business. Set a goal number of sales each week, increasing it each time.</p>
<p>Step 8: Make it official: Once you\&#8217;ve made a few thousand dollars worth of sales, you should register yourself as a business. Don\&#8217;t worry, it\&#8217;s not expensive or hard to do. A lawyer is the best person to help you through this process.</p>
<p>Step 9: Automate the eBay selling process: You\&#8217;ll probably find that you\&#8217;re writing the same things again and again in emails or item descriptions. This is the time to give up on the manual method and turn to automated software that can create listings for you, and respond to completed auctions and payments with whatever message you provide.</p>
<p>Step 10: Never give up: Even when it looks like it\&#8217;s all going wrong, don\&#8217;t stop trying to sell on ebay until you succeed. If you keep working at it then you\&#8217;ll almost always find that you make a real breakthrough just when things are starting to look desperate.</p>
<p>Once you get into the swing of things, you might start thinking that you should quit your job and take up eBay selling full time. There are all sorts of factors that you need to consider. I recommend selling on eBay part time. It is a great way to make extra money. If your eBay business grows to the level that want to go full time. That would be great. It is possible and many people are living the eBay dream working at home.</p>
<p>Want to find products to sell on eBay? <a target='_blank' href="http://salehhoo.instantdownload4u.com/">SaleHoo</a> is the best place to find legitimate, pre-screened wholesalers, dropshippers, liquidators and manufacturers for every type of product imaginable.</p>
<p>Looking to find the best deal on <a>Wholesale Products To Sell On eBay </a>, visit <a>toddschuyler.com </a> to learn how to make money selling on eBay.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Manter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a many eBay buyers who will not buy an item on eBay if they haven't seen a picture. In fact, many eBay buyers like to see more than one picture. The only problem with this is that posting a number of pictures on eBay can get expensive, especially overtime. However, there is a way that you can give your potential customers what they want, more pictures, without having to go broke while doing so. For more eBay selling advice go to this <a href="http://www.toddschuyler.com/">Ebay Selling Tips Website</a>.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are a many eBay buyers who will not buy an item on eBay if they haven\&#8217;t seen a picture. In fact, many eBay buyers like to see more than one picture. The only problem with this is that posting a number of pictures on eBay can get expensive, especially overtime. However, there is a way that you can give your potential customers what they want, more pictures, without having to go broke while doing so. For more eBay selling advice go to this <a target='_blank' href="http://www.toddschuyler.com/">Ebay Selling Tips Website</a>.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a way to have multiple pictures appear in your eBay auction listings, but you are urged to examine websites that are known as photo sharing sites, if you haven\&#8217;t already done so. There are a large number of internet users who use photo sharing sites to upload and share pictures with friends and family members over the internet, but many internet users are also starting to use photo sharing websites to help combat their eBay seller fees, particularly the fees associated with having multiple pictures in an eBay auction.</p>
<p>If you are interested in giving photo sharing websites a try, to help you save money when selling on eBay, you will need to find a photo sharing website to use. To find a number of photo sharing websites, you may want to perform a standard internet search. Your standard internet search results will likely include PhotoBucket, which is a free, well-known photo sharing website. Of course, you can use just about any photo sharing website you want, but you are advised to look into PhotoBucket, as it is free and easy to use.</p>
<p>Speaking of using PhotoBucket and many other online photo sharing websites, you will need to create an account. You should be required to fill out a small form, which may request a little bit of information about yourself, like your full name or your email address. You will also need to create login information for yourself, including a screen name and a safe password. Once you have that finished, you should be able to use the photo sharing website in question, whether it be PhotoBucket or not, to help you start saving money.</p>
<p>When using a photo sharing site, you will see that different sites have different instructions that need to be followed, but the first step will be taking pictures of your eBay items. Then you will need to upload them to your computer and then follow the photo sharing website\&#8217;s instructions on how to upload your photos to their site. In most cases, this is a relatively simple process, which tends to involve selecting a few pictures from your computer\&#8217;s hard drive and then hitting an upload button.</p>
<p>Once your pictures have been uploaded, you should see thumbnails or smaller versions of them. With PhotoBucket there are little boxes underneath each thumbnail that can be used to select the picture or pictures of you choice. You will want to select all of the pictures that you want listed in a particular eBay listing. Then, you should be able to find a link that allows you to generate an HTML code. This will lead you to another page with a lot of information on it, particularly HTML links. Many photo sharing websites outright tell you which HTML code links you should use for eBay. Copy the code and paste it in the description of your eBay auction listings and you are good to go; your pictures should appear.</p>
<p>Using a photo sharing site is optional, but it is definitely something to look into. As an eBay seller, you want to profit as much as you can and this also involves eliminating unnecessary expenses.</p>
<p>Learn more about <a>keyword #1</a>. Stop by Todd Manter\&#8217;s site where you can find out all about <a>how to sell on eBay</a>.</p>
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