| Over the years eBay has become know as the | | | | some major savings on your listing fees. |
| worlds largest garage sale or car boot sale. While this | | | | So what are the benefits |
| may be true in some way for the auction side of the | | | | @ You can boost your brand / company name. |
| business, there is another side to the eBay business | | | | @ You can custom design your store. As well as |
| that has been growing slowly and quietly over the | | | | using the standard eBay templates you can design |
| years. Yes I am talking about the eBay Stores.eBay | | | | your own or have a template made for you. |
| Stores has been growing from the time it was | | | | @ You can list for longer, and also have cheaper listing |
| introduced into the eBay market place, and the staff at | | | | fees. |
| eBay have been fine tuning it ever since. eBay Stores | | | | @ A shorter URL. |
| has attracted the attention of loads of small part-time | | | | @ Cross Promote items |
| sellers, through to the serious eBayers who have given | | | | @ You have your own email system to send out |
| up their jobs to sell full time on the eBay, and also you | | | | newsletters. |
| will find some of the worlds largest retailers selling their | | | | The above is just a sample of some of the benefits |
| items in eBay stores. If these major retailers think it is | | | | you will get from using one of the eBay stores. If you |
| worth it, then if you are serious about your on line | | | | use them in the correct way, you will find you will see |
| business you too should give it a look. | | | | increased traffic and because you have increased the |
| Here in the UK we have three types of stores, and | | | | traffic you will see more sales. And another bonus with |
| these stores vary in what you can do in them and the | | | | having a store you have a ton of reporting tools you |
| add on's they offer. | | | | can use to see how the traffic got to your eBay store |
| @ A Basic Store costs £14.99 a month. | | | | and what keywords they used. |
| @ And top of the range store costs £349.00 a | | | | So is an eBay Store for everyone? No, if you have |
| month, these are called Anchor stores. Now you may | | | | just a few items that you sell at auction it will not work |
| be thinking £349.00 a month, yes it is a lot of money, | | | | for you, but if you want a bigger business and sell at |
| but you will be only paying from around 1p to list your | | | | Buy It Now prices give it a go, if it does not work for |
| items for a whole month. So to start with you have | | | | you, just cancel your store at anytime. |