| Have you ever been delighted after a huge sale on | | | | The second fee-saving method I suggest is creatingor |
| Ebay. . .only to find out that your massive profitmargin | | | | purchasing a template for your auctions. I |
| was whittled away by fee after fee afterfee after | | | | personallysuggest learning HTML, which doesn't take |
| fee? | | | | very long,and using it to create your own template. |
| Ebay charged you to list your item; they chargedyou | | | | In the long run, this will save you a lot of timeand |
| to add pictures; they charged you to add | | | | frustration, as you will be able to createthe exact look |
| upgrades;they charged you to use a template; they | | | | and feel you want for your auctions. |
| charged youto put your auction up at a certain time; | | | | However, if you don't have the time to learn HTML,you |
| and then,on top of everything else. . .they charged you | | | | can either purchase a template online for adollar or |
| AGAIN forclosing the sale. | | | | less or you could have one professionally-created to fit |
| At this point, you would have been happy to walk | | | | your specifications at |
| awayfrom your huge sale with the shirt on your back. | | | | Not only will this save you additional auction feeson |
| But no. Paypal arrived on the scene to process | | | | Ebay, but it will boost your credibility as aseller, |
| yourtransaction for a small fee - your shirt. | | | | potentially raising the amount of bids youreceive--and |
| . . .and there you sat at your computer, frustratedand | | | | subsequently increasing your profit-margin |
| shirtless. You were probably ready to just throwyour | | | | The third and last method I will go over |
| hands up in dispair and quit selling on Ebay. | | | | involvesimproving the mechanics of your auction, so |
| But you didn't. You stuck with it. Maybe you haven'thad | | | | you canpull just as many customers as a featured |
| any success on Ebay since then, but what mattersis | | | | listingwould, but without using one. |
| that you stuck with it. And that is easily the | | | | This is actually quite simple. All you have to dois |
| mostimportant part about selling on Ebay: sticking withit | | | | carefully construct your title to accomplish thefollowing |
| until you get that breakthrough. | | | | two goals: 1) include as many targeted,high-traffic |
| And for that, I am going to reward you by showing | | | | keywords as possible; and 2) form acoherent and |
| yousome simple tricks I have used to prevent the | | | | compelling message that will enticethese new streams |
| fee-mongersfrom extracting all of my profits. Hopefully | | | | of traffic to click through toyour auction. |
| this willhelp you to do the same and find your | | | | If you can achieve a better balance than what |
| breakthrough. | | | | youhave right now, you will notice an enormous boost |
| The first method is using free hosting services for allof | | | | intraffic. In fact, it can easily be the differencebetween |
| your auction pictures. If you sell a lot of smallitems on | | | | 25 auction visitors and 250! |
| Ebay, this will save you a considerable amountof | | | | Some people make a full-time income buying from |
| money in fees. If you only sell large items, thiswill allow | | | | theauctions that get 25 visitors and then reselling |
| you to cut back on unncessary fees on eachauction. | | | | withthis tactic, which gets them 250. |
| I personally suggest using for this. | | | | By now, you know what you need to do to cut a |
| All you have to do is upload the pictures you wantin | | | | seriouschunk out of your Ebay seller's fees. Put this to |
| your auctions and then then reference them inthe | | | | workin your auctions - and you could be seeing |
| actual auctions. | | | | thatbreakthrough I talked about in a matter of weeks. |