Business Commerce

#1- Keep alert! Potential buyers will come to you all the time and at all hours of the day. They’ll ask questions and request info to buy your products. If you’re on top of things you’ll convert some inquiries to sales. Try to answer mail at least 3 times a day- I answer mine at 9am, 2pm, 7pm and right before bed.

Go to eBay and look through the featured category items. Look for a little torch beside the item listing- this means that it’s hot item and it has over 30 bids. You can also check the individual categories for items that are hot.

In order to be really successful, you need to sell something really *HOT*- while this sounds difficult it’s just a matter of research. Here’s one quick way to find out…

Don’t be afraid to weave some image and graphics into your auctionson eBay, a sprinkling of clipart and animated gifs does wonders for html ads.

As you may notice above, another thing done in the title was to use capital letters. Most people enter their titles in upper and lowercase letters. Anything you can do to get your item to stand out will get more people to notice your item.

As with item titles, you want to catch the potential bidder’s attention. If you don’t end up using templates or HTML code to spice up your text (which you should), then use uppercase letters to highlight the special features of your item. This is especially beneficial when the description text for your item is lengthy. Even if they don’t read the entire description, their eyes will notice anything in uppercase or even surrounded by asterisks. The bottom line here is to get stuff to stand out and get noticed.

All featured and featured category auctions should be listed the full ten

days.

It is sometime more advantageous to use a 3 day auction if you didn’t

buy any listing enhancements. This is due to the way that people

naturally browse eBay’s site.

You could instantly send them document with sales info, ordering

details, FAQ’s and so on. Some autoresponders will actually allow you

to follow-up with your customers… see the power in that?

The autoresponders I use are the one’s at

Getresponse.

One of the great things about online auctions is that the tools of

Internet marketing apply to them. Autoresponders are programs that

send someone a document by email when they request it.

Of all the times for you to submit your ad, Saturday and Sunday

mornings between 6:00 am and 9:00 am PST is the best. More people

review eBay on weekend mornings than at any other time.