Posted August 2nd, 2010
by Greg
The way you advertise your items on Ebay will have a big factor in the way your business will succeed . Your merchandise advertising is your shop window display, and users will decide if they wat to purchase your products or not based on your items display and images. I have listed below some tips to help you make more money online using ebay.
1. Ensure that you use the correct keywords in your items description.
2. Make sure your title describing your item grabs the readers attention.
3. Make your items description as true and accurate as you can get. Ensure that your items description sells the item exactly as it is. Read the description like you are the person buying this item, and provide a detailed write up describing everything about the item. You might lose the interest of the user if you don’t achieve this. Also communicate well with the buyer and answer all of the questions that are asked of you.
4. Make sure that you had quality images of the item and make sure the photo is of good detail, out of focus pictures don’t look good and will turn the buyer away.
5. Make sure that you choose the correct category for the item that you are selling, this is very important.
6. Provide honest description of the cost of postage and how long you expect the delivery to take, do not use a false weight for postage ebay has got very strict about this recently and it could also put of buyers of your item.
7. If your item needs shipping, you must include your location because this will help the customer know that they will need to pay extra for shipping.
8. It is a good thing to include several payment options so that your valuable customers can use any payment method that they find more useful for them PayPal is now a very popular way to make payments. .
9. also list your item with a fair price to start. This will hopefully encourage more people to bid on your item.
Hopefully these tips will help you make more money easily online.
Tags: ebay, make, money, online, tips Posted in General Chat
Posted May 28th, 2010
by Greg
Presentation and how products are perceived are an important element for selling a product online, I have listed some tips below to help you display your photograph on ebay to attract the buyers eye.
The advertisement must be interesting to look at and should have a good feeling about the product, make it look clean and bright and pleasing to the eye. You will need to consider where the photo will be placed, and its relation to the headlines and ads description. maybe you are showing the item in use, or maybe the picture is just a simple image of the product.
- A vital inclusion in the layout is to use contrast. The most obviouscontrast is black print on white paper. Use that whitespace. Although it’s not apparent, the white space is as important in the visual appeal as the illustration and type.
- Do not try to be to perfect. The unusual or irregular will catch the eyemore easily. The photo works together with the headline to grab the reader’s attention.
- Be simple and direct. Don’t push too much into a smallarea, overpowering the product. If you don’t have room, cut copy or downsize the image.
- You can use any size and style font you want for the ad. ButDo not get carried away. You shouldn’t use a special font unless it helps sell the product. And never use a headline type that’s difficult to read. Choose a colour that blends well with the ad and ensure that it is easy to read against the background.
- Using various sizes of fonts help point out the benefits of the item for sale. Bold or italicized types also brings more visual appeal to the ad and underline anything of significance.
Experiment with your ad till you are please with it, ask a friend to take aLook at it before publishing it, another opinion is always welcome. Take a look At other peoples ads selling a similar product and ask yourself would you buy it, Does it describe the product exactly and is a full description available.
Remember to earn money online you have to get your marketing and advertisements correct, with practice you will learn by your mistakes and eventually have all the skills to make a success earning cash on the internet.
Tags: ads, ebay, online, pictures, selling Posted in Uncategorized
Posted May 26th, 2010
by Greg
Years ago when I first started to use Ebay I found it fun to use and very profitable, now its just a marketplace for fraudulent gangster junk selling morons who think they can con anyone into buying items that bare no resemblance to the original products. Unfortunately it’s getting worse.
You hear horror stories everyday about people been conned and ripped off on sites such as Ebay, you might as well go to a Turkish market and buy everything from there proper “genuine fakes” at least they have the decency to tell you they are fake.
Why the rant? Well recently I purchased a new PC from a “genuine guy” all the pre sale promises was there and the support answering my questions was spot on, even when the PC arrived days later I was impressed with they way it was built with all new parts and Windows 7 Ultimate, well that’s what I thought till 6 weeks later during a windows update Microsoft decided to tell me “your windows software is not a genuine copy”
I have never felt so angry ever and that anger has inspired me to have a rant here on my new blog. I am in process of contacting this seller and will let you know how I get on.
Tags: ebay, items, products, selling Posted in General Chat
