Today's post is provided by Paul Cohen from Seller Sourcebook.
Stand Out in the eBay Crowd
More Images in eBay Listings = Sales
Sales = $$$
Paul Cohen -- SSBYou have to stand out in the eBay crowd.
Turn on CNN.
Pick up a newspaper.
Talk to my father-in-law (who’s quite vocal about the subject).
You don’t have to go far to hear the news that this country is going through the worst economic crisis it has likely ever seen.
Everyone has less and the goal at the end of the day is to fatten your wallet. That means doing one of three things:
1. Spend less
2. Make more
3. Both!
Now, more than ever is the time to get serious about your eBay selling because with a soft economy – every penny you make is more valuable than it was yesterday. You have to make the right decisions about how to present your auctions in order to maximize your sales.
Look to
The Seller Source Book (SSB) – The solution to the problem and the best way to both spend less and make more with your auctions.
Consider the single biggest tip experts hand out most often for creating a successful listing: Add pictures.
A simple solution to the one biggest problem with online shopping – the buyer just doesn’t have the option to pick the item up, shake it, smell it, etc. before making their purchase. So in order to sell what you’ve got – you need to show it off as much as possible.
The standard eBay services allow you to add one picture for free but one normally just isn’t enough. And at $0.15 for each additional picture you want to add – you’ll quickly be reaching for your wallet.
That’s not going to save you money.
Using SSB gives you access to an online Image Manager that allows you to very simply drag and drop your images into their service. Don’t worry too much about storage space – SSB offers plenty. If your images are an average of 50k in size you’ll have room for about 6,000 images.
Also, if you’re worried about bandwidth limits or auto-deletions – don’t. There are no bandwidth limits or auto-deletions with SSB.
Yes, there is a small subscription fee to access the toolsets SSB offers.
But consider this: You can get a subscription to SSB for as low as $5.83 a month. If you list 20 items on eBay a month each with 5 images, that is $0.60 per listing in additional image fees which adds up to $12.00 total.
Your subscription to SSB would save you $6.17 a month!
Also consider SSB offers a whole suite of tools to make your listings sell more effectively on top of the robust Image Manager solution. These tools include more than 2,000 professionally designed auction templates, deep knowledge available through SSB’s Seller Resources about successful eBay selling and U.S.-based personalized support.
It’s true, you have to spend money to list your items for sale on eBay. It’s also true that you should be spending your time listing more items, not hovering over a calculator trying to figure out how much profit you will lose by adding a few pictures using eBay’s tools.
Solve these problems with SSB. Keep your profits in your pocket and create listings that sell the first time.
List right the first time. List right
with SSB.
