Top eBay selling tools to build your profits
Selling tips to catapult you past ordinary eBay sellers
Want to get beyond the ranks of the ordinary eBay sellers? These tips and tools help you:
- Make sales in ways you never knew you could
- Turn people who didn't even bid on your auctions into buyers
- Hook up with top, brand-name companies that otherwise wouldn't even bother returning your calls
...and much much more.
These are grade-A, powerful eBay selling tools that you shouldn't miss!
Here's what you'll find below:
The "Super Six" eBay resources you need to know about
The best ways to find products people will buy
- Free guides for finding products to sell on eBay
- Identify products that sell well on eBay
- Find manufacturers who will sell you products wholesale
- Identify secondhand treasures to sell
- Create profitable products from your own knowledge and experience
The nuts and bolts of pricing, getting payments, and multiplying your sales
- Pricing your products and processing payments online
- Encourage repeat customers by building relationships with buyers, bidders, and watchers
eBay's own selling tools for you to use
Jeff's "Super Six" choices for learning how to make money on eBay
Silent Sales Machine Hiding on eBay
Silent Sales Machine is, hands-down, the all-time most popular ebook about selling on eBay. It stands head-and-shoulders above most other training guides that basically tell you to how eBay would like to see you run your eBay business. The problem with so many of those other guides is that doing things the eBay way makes most of the money for eBay and leaves you with the crumbs.
Silent Sales Machine takes a different approach, showing you how to work within eBay's rules, but still work smarter than the average eBay seller—not to mention making lots more profits. (See full review)
Turn Auction Traffic into Cash
If you ever wished you could tap into all those people who view your auctions but don't end up as the high bidder on them, this is the book for you. It focuses on ways to nurture even those who view but don't bid on your auctions into loyal, repeat customers. (See full review)
MySilentTeam Marketing Strategies Site
My Silent Team comes from the same guy who brought you Silent Sales Machine, Turn Auction Traffic into Cash, and Part-Time Plan. My Silent Team takes all that great info — and much, much more — off the pages of ebooks and puts them all into what I consider the best training site for eBay entrepreneurs I've ever seen.
Not only do you get tons of insights from Jim Cockrum's vast reservoir of eBay marketing strategies, but you also get the insights of dozens of other top eBay sellers. In other words, you get training from from a veritable team of eBay All-Stars. (see full review)
A Part Time Plan for Massive Success Using eBay and the Internet
One thing I like about Jim Cockrum's ebooks is that he always approaches selling on eBay from a different angle than most other eBay gurus do. And this one is no exception. In it, Cockrum warns against getting dangers of getting trapped in positions where your eBay selling traps you into:
- Being little more than just a low-paid "employee" generating money for eBay
- Positions where your business is vulnerable to being crushed by a deep-pocketed competitor coming in and taking over your market
Cockrum does far more than issue a warning, though. He shows you how to insulate yourself from both of these dangers with simple strategies that have worked for dozens of other smart eBay sellers. (see full review)
Insider Secrets of an eBay Millionaire
Insider Secrets of an eBay Millionaire is a companion volume to Derek Gehl's Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet. I started my online education with the original Insider Secrets, and this volume, focused specifically on eBay certainly did not disappoint.
It provides a very thorough training on eBay selling, complete with quick-start directions on how to get up and selling on eBay in less than 24 hours. (See full review)
Make Your Net Auction Sell! The Master's Course
This FREE ebook gives you simple steps to starting a successful Internet auction business
229 pages (See full review)
More tips about transforming Yourself for eBay Success
The best sellers put a little of themselves into each auction. It makes buyers more comfortable buying from a complete stranger.
Find what you yourself love and you'll find an area where you can put a little of yourself into your auctions and be more successful as a result.
Six habits of highly successful eBay sellers
How to Fail on eBay - What NOT to Do
eBay Selling Success - Making Money that Multiplies
Free guides to help you find products to sell on eBay
Check out these FREE tools on how to find and approach manufacturers and distributors to resell their products online.
Start your Internet Business Right
Leads you the world of drop ship products. It describes how drop shipping lets you pay wholesale for only what your customers buy, sell at full retail prices to your customers, and never have to deal with any of the hassles of storing or shipping the products. It leads you through how to avoid the scammers that offer phony drop shipping deals and how to find legitimate suppliers to provide you with quality products – (See review)
How to Find Wholesale Products to Sell Online
Free video tutorial shows you the ins and outs of finding and working with all types of wholesale suppliers (See review)
How to Find Real Products You Can Sell Online
This serves as an excellent introduction to finding physical products to sell online.
It shows you the pros and cons of different product sources and introduces you to finding manufacturers, distributors, and liquidators who will sell you products at wholesale for you to resell them online.
It gives a good introducting to what you need to know and do in order to set up reseller arrangements with companies. And it shows you how to find legitimate sellers and how to avoid the middlemen scammers who pose as distributors, but do nothing more than merely take a cut out of your profits.
36 pages
Identify products that sell well on eBay
Want to get the inside scoop on what's actually selling well on eBay? These two tools are designed to give you exactly that.
Hot Item Finder
Lets you identify hot-selling items in on eBay. You can find out specific items that are getting heavy bidding or keywords that are getting a heavy amount of searches. You can also use this tool as a research tools to determine the best keywords to put in your auction titles to ensure maximum visibility for your auctions.
Auction Yen
Lets you identify products that people want to buy on eBay, but that no one is selling. Sounds perfect, doesn't it? It downloads and analyzes postings from eBay's Want It Now section. Potential buyers post on Want It Now when they don't find what they're looking for. Auction Yen looks for search terms that appear repeatedly in the Want It Now categories or keywords that you specify and then shows you which products have the most searches and least competition. And you can check this video about Auction Yen that shows you exactly how you can use it to find products that people want to buy.
More tips to learn what the buyers who share your interests are looking for
What's makes the biggest difference between eBay sellers who sell and those who don't?
- Those who don't succeed look for products that they want to sell.
- Those who do look for products that people want to buy.
Research is crucial to success on eBay. Don't jump in without doing it.
Do you use these four essential steps to find the best products to sell on eBay?
A Scientific Method to Ensure Your Products Will Sell On eBay
Are you finding the auction buyers who are looking for you?
Find manufacturers who will sell you products wholesale
The next two sites maintain extensive databases of drop ship companies that you can count on to be legitimate and to have quality products. With dropshipping, you pay a little more for the products, but free yourself from storing and shipping the products you sell. Offer the products for sale, take the orders, and pass them on to your supplier. They store 'em, they ship 'em, you never touch 'em.
Worldwide Brands OneSource Wholesale Product Directory
largest directory of reputable wholesale suppliers of all types helps you find products to sell.
Unlike many scammers who sell junk lists of wholesale businesses that no longer exist, Worldwide Brands is obsessed with offering the most up-to-date and complete directory of drop-shippers available.
And having helped clients through the process of getting listed in the directory, I know how careful Worldwide Brands is to make sure that they list only the best. (See review)
Hienote Drop Ship Directory
another wholesale directory that specializes in drop ship distributors.
As with Worldwide Brands, I've worked at getting clients into Hienote and know that they, too, list only top-quality manufacturers and distributors. (See review)
(See comparison of Hienote and Worldwide Brands Drop Ship Directories)
More tips on selling wholesale products
Once you know what people need, you have to find a way to provide those needs. The following articles give you tips on some of the many ways to find—or develop—products you can sell on eBay.
Drop Shipping - What It Is and How to Do It
Understanding Wholesaling—The Wholesale Misconception
Identify secondhand treasures to sell
And for those of you looking for second-hand products to resell, you'll find these ebooks invaluable.
Garage Sale Strategies—An eBay Seller's Guide to Finding Hidden Bargains at Garage Sales
This ebook lists lots of surprising items that many people sell for under $5 - usually under $1 - that you can easily resell on eBay for $20 or more. You'll find specific brand names to look for and how to tell the real finds from the stuff you'd just end up sending off yourself. Bottom line, this book makes you able to KNOW and not just guess whether what you find is treasure or trash. If you're someone who already enjoys the thrill of the hunt for garage sale treasures, this book is a must have. (See review)
Storage Auction Secrets — How to Buy Products for Pennies on the Dollar and Resell Them at Massive Profits
One of the most profitable ways of finding items to sell on eBay right now is by buying the contents of abandoned storage lockers and reselling individual items that have value. Think about it a moment. Why would someone rent a storage locker unless what they were storing in it was worth money?
Unfortunately for those who rent storage lockers, some of those people end up falling behind in the storage locker rent. The stored belongs then are sold at auction. The only problem is that you rarely get much of a clue as to what is in those lockers before you bid. Storage Auction Secrets uncovers valuable tips that help you bid on only the most profitable storage lockers and avoid unnecessary expenses.
It fills you in on all you need to know to get the most out of this profitable way of finding products to sell online. (See review)
More tips on selling secondhand products
Once you know what people need, you have to find a way to provide those needs. The following articles give you tips on some of the many ways to find—or develop—products you can sell on eBay.
Merchandise to sell on eBay—Secrets of "Self-Storage Unit" Success
Products to Sell on eBay That Cost You Nothing
Create profitable products from your own knowledge and experience
Although eBay no longer lets you sell downloadable infoproducts, selling infoproducts that you sell and ship on CDs or DVDs are still fair game. These resources help you identify subjects on which you can create profitable infoproducts and ways that anyone can create these products and sell them on CDs or DVDs—even if you don't have deep pockets or a lot of technical expertise.
Make Your Knowledge Sell!
This FREE ebook helps you identify profitable subjects on which you are uniquely positioned to create profitable infoproducts.
Jim Edwards' The Net Reporter Marketing Strategies Site
Jim Edwards, one of the most admired Internet marketers, takes you through all the steps of setting up a business online. Although his focus is not entirely on building your business on eBay, his strategies on quickly and easily creating eBay-friendly infoproducts on CDs and DVDs are second to none.
Seriously, some of the strategies he teaches for using eBay to build your business are things that even other top marketers haven't thought of! I've sold on eBay for years. I thought I knew all the ins and outs of it. But some of the strategies he showed me in his The Net Reporter training simply blew me away.
I don't care how experienced you are on eBay. You'll find nuggets you never knew here. (See full review)
Pricing your products and processing payments online
Make Your Price Sell!
Wondering how to price your products right the first time? This proven tool helps you determine the optimum price for your products.
PayPal
If you've spent any time on eBay at all, you're familiar with PayPal. It's the main tool for making payments for eBay sales. If you don't already have an account with PayPal, you'll need to set one up.
More tips about the nuts and bolts of your eBay business
Now that you know what your business is about, what buyers' needs you will fill, and how you'll obtain your products, it's time to get down and dirty and learn what you need to do in order to run it.
How to Make Sure You'll Make Money on eBay: Understanding Price Points
Four Ways to Turn 1% Improvements in Your eBay Business Into Massive Profits
How to Increase Your eBay Success by Learning from Your Competitors
Preparing Your Business for the Christmas Rush
Encourage repeat customers by building relationships with buyers, bidders, and watchers
Opt-in list? What? Yeah, I know it doesn't immediately make sense, unless you've read Silent Sales Machine and Turn Auction Traffic into Cash. Let's just say that having a tool with which you can build an opt-in list of eBay customers, bidders, and viewers gives you a powerful eBay selling tool that not many eBay sellers have. Anybody want an advantage over your competition?
aWeber Autoresponder System
This industry-standard autoresponder system enables you to develop an opt-in list of customers and communicate with them regularly and automatically.
Developing an opt-in list of customers is not an optional part of promoting your site.
It is four times easier to persuade a visitor who has bought from you before to buy again than one who hasn't. Furthermore, attracting new customers costs far more than nurturing your existing customers.
Because of these facts, I know of NO successful marketing expert who DOESN'T consider it essential to build and nurture an opt-in list of existing customers and prospective customers.
And aWeber is the best stand-alone autoresponder service I know of.
Ezine Announcer
Ezine Announcer is a powerful tool for promoting your newsletter or ezine to ezine directories, announcement lists, and free classified ads to boost your subscription base in a fraction of the time it would take to do the same amount of promotion on your own.
I used it to get an initial boost in subscribers when I started my ezine and got exactly that. It was easy to use and brought immediate results. (See review)
More tips about building an ongoing relationship with your eBay buyers
Buyers are more likely to buy what you sell on eBay when they feel comfortable with you as a seller. Learn to build a relationship with your viewers and you'll sell more.
Turning eBay browsers into buyers-A Call to Action
Do you use these four essential steps to find the best products to sell on eBay?
Working smarter, not harder, on eBay—BIG PAYOFF
Maximizing Your eBay Profits by Selling to Your Past Customers
Six Ways to Build Your eBay Mailing List
Links to eBay's own selling tools
eBay Want It Now
This is where eBay buyers go to tell you what they're looking for. Check out the categories you sell in. You might just find someone looking for exactly what you sell.
Turbo Lister
eBay's free listing tool lets you list auctions more quickly and easily than by going through their regular listing pages.
eBay Selling Manager
Selling Manager is a more powerful version of Turbo Lister available at a monthly fee.
eBay Selling Manager Pro
Selling Manager Pro is a more powerful version yet at a higher monthly fee.
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