Ebay Explained Want It Now

Writen by Mark Kenny

We're all familiar with eBays auctions and Buy-It-Now options but eBay have recently introduced a new feature which takes them a step further away from being purely an auction site.

Called Want It Now, this feature allows you to create a listing for an item your searching for. Whether it's a hard to find record or a limited edition vehicle, want it now is currently free to use & will offer you exposure to the whole of the eBay audience.

In common with a normal eBay listing, your required to pick an eBay category, choose a title for your post and enter a description.

For sellers, this gives you an opportunity to offer exactly what buyers are searching for. Sellers are encouraged only to respond to posts, when they already have an active ebay listing or shop inventory matching the exact item posted. When, as a seller you respond to a want it now post you'll quickly and easily be targeting the precise audience for your item.

Once a seller responds, eBay sends an email to the poster with a link to the active listing on eBay. From this point on, it's up to the buyer to either bid on the item or use the buy it now option if this is available.

Overall, Want It Now seems like an ideal feature for buyers to locate items while eBay sellers can increase their performance by using Want It Now to find more custom. As increased usage of this feature occurs, this could become a very powerful feature of eBay.

Mark Kenny is an eBay expert who specialises in launching eBay related online businesses. You can see his selection of Turnkey websites at: http://www.Trading-Web-Solutions.com or visit Marks eBay & auction forum at AuctionCUT.com

10 Tips To Starting A Financially Successful Ebay Business Startting Right Now

Writen by Mike Makler

Ebay is Perhaps the easiest and fastest way to start a home based online business. Here are 10 Tips to starting a Successful Ebay Business

1 - Become an Ebay Shopper

Buy a Few things on Ebay. Learn your way around. Pay for your winning Bids Promptly and get positive Feedback

2 - Register as a Reseller

Go to the EBay Web Page and Register as a Reseller

3 - Take a Class

Ebay Offers online Classes starting at $19.95 and up http://pages.ebay.com/education/ebayuniversityonline/

Ebay also Offers Classes in a Live Seminar Format http://pages.ebay.com/university/

4 - Practice

Find something around the house you no longer want. Some Old Jewelery, a Game your child outgrew, that Gown you bought on sale and never wore, the Special addition Rubik's Cube. One man's junk is another man's Treasure.

5 - What to Sell

Sell something you enjoy. If you enjoy what you are doing you more then likely will be more successful. Sell what you know. If you couldn't spot a Rolex from a Timex you don't want to be selling watches.

6 - Create Your Ad

Use Keyword rich text in your ads so they will be picked up by search engines. Make sure your text is people Friendly and People Readable

7 - Picture

You need a Picture with your ad. If you are serious about selling on Ebay you will need a good Digital Camera, Don't skimp. A 4 Mega Pixal camera is Good a 5 Mega Pixal Camera is Better. All things being Equal between 2 Ads the one with the best pictures will get the Best Bids.

8 - Payment Options

It is always best to have lot's of Payment Options, Paypal, Credit Cards, Money Orders. If 2 Auctions are the same the one with the most flexible payment options will get the best bids

9 - Shipping

Make sure you pack your items well. Research shipping options and pricing and list them in your Auction, Offer insurance as an Option and charge the actual cost.

10 - Feedback

Always give your Buyers Feedback especially if it is positive. After you give positive feedback request positive feedback in return.

Good Luck and Happy Ebaying

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Ebay So You Want To Make A Mint Selling Online

Writen by Charles Hammer

As with most phenomena of the Internet heyday it's no longer possible to make a fortune just by selling any old thing on eBay. However, there are still opportunities aplenty for the hard working, savvy eBay seller. In order to have a happy ending though you need to have a good beginning and that's what we're here to do: Start at the very beginning. Explore eBay and decide if being an e-commerce tycoon is really the ticket for you.

Never even visited eBay? There then is your first step. Go to eBay.com and have a look around. eBay realizes that buyers and sellers are its lifeblood so the eBay website is very user friendly. You don't have to register to browse and at this point you probably shouldn't. Registering requires choosing a user I.D. which will follow you forever. You will want to choose it and use it carefully.

For now just get the feel of the site. eBay is enormous and it's entirely true almost anything a person could want can be found there. It may be that you already have a store and want to use eBay to increase your sales or even to become your sole outlet. Or, you may be new to the whole process and have only the vaguest idea of what you want to sell. Either way, now is the time to scope out the competition.

eBay sellers are a very sophisticated lot. Many of them make use of cutting edge software to list literally hundreds of products a day. They may also have separate eBay stores and even traditional brick-and-mortar locations. Anyone who becomes part of eBay today will need to have skills in lots of areas not just have something to sell. A successful eBay merchant needs to be computer literate, able to write copy that sells and give excellent customer service. All of this must be done while also taking care of the primary business: Selling product.

After spending time perusing the website and doing a quick study of its diverse content, stop by the eBay Learning Center. Be sure and pay strict attention to the feedback system which rates all eBay sellers and buyers. Maintaining a sterling reputation is imperative for being a winner on eBay.

Now you have probably spend an afternoon on eBay and you haven't even registered yet; that's exactly as it should be, too. eBay is not a sign up and get rich quick scheme. Before making a commitment of your time or an investment of your money you have some hard thinking to do.

· Do you have a product for which there appears to be a market?

· If so, is that market saturated?

· Are you comfortable with the technological skills which significant sales on eBay will require?

· Are you willing to spend the hours and capital needed to get your eBay venture off the ground?

If the answers to all these questions are yes, then congratulations: You are now ready to register on eBay and make a purchase.

If you want to learn more about buying and selling on eBay you need to come over to http://www.AuctionBullet.com. We provide many tips, tactics, articles and more to help with eBay. Learn how to make money using eBay.

Selling Information On Ebay What The Experts Dont Want You To Know

Writen by Douglas Hanna

Hardly a day goes by that I don't get an email promising me a fast track to riches if I only buy someone's handy-dandy ebook about selling information on eBay.

Can you really make money this way?

Sure you can. All you have to do is have information that's of such value that people are willing to pay you $10, $20 or even $25 for it.

How do you get such information?

If you're an expert in something, you can write what's known as an ebook (electronic book that can be downloaded). The experts will tell you this is easy, especially if it's an "how to" book. Oh, wait. You have to be sure that there's a market for that subject. For example, you might be the world's number one authority on training rabbits to race, but how many people care enough to shell out $15 or $18 to learn how to race rabbits?

You don't have to be a great writer to do one of these ebooks if you truly are an expert on the subject. But you do have to be a pretty good copywriter. This is because no matter how valuable your book is, you must first write ad copy so powerful, buyers will be frothing at the mouth to buy it.

After you write your book, you will probably need a software program that can create a good-looking book cover. You will also need Adobe Acrobat to "distill" your pride and joy into a ebook that buyers can easily download. And, oh yes, you will need to create a Pay Pal account so that all those anxious buyers can give you their money.

What if you're not an expert in something?

If you are not an expert on some subject, you can buy information for resale. That's right, there is a whole bunch of folks out there who would be just tickled pink to sell you resale rights to their ebooks. The trick is knowing if the information can be sold a a profit to a specific market niche.

For example, you might find you can purchase resale rights to a book on family finances at a reasonable price. This sounds good because, gosh, there are a lot of families out there and they all have finances. But ... how many books are already available on this subject and what do they sell for? With a little research, you might find there are dozens and dozens of books on this subject. However, with a little more research, you might find a better niche, say, finances for single Moms. Of course, you then have to find an ebook on the subject you can buy and resell.

You also have to determine whether or not the market has already been saturated. In other words, has the author already sold so many copies of that book on finances for single Moms that there just aren't a lot of people left who would buy it. The best way to check this out is to do a search on eBay to see how many such books are being offered for sale and what they're selling for.

You can make money selling information on eBay but I submit that it's not as easy as some of those experts would have you believe.

Here's something that's both easy and free. It's called HD radio, a new technology that enables AM and FM radio stations to broadcast their programs digitally, a tremendous technological leap from today's familiar analog broadcasts. These digital broadcasts provide listeners with radically improved audio quality, more radio channels through multicasting, and new data services. To learn more about this amazing new technology, just go my Web site, http://www.hd-radio-home.com, to get all the buzz.

Douglas Hanna is a retired marketing executive and the author of numerous articles on HD radio, old time radio and family finances.

Drop Shipping Secrets And Sources Revealed

Writen by Jennifer Gibbs

Unfortunately for those just breaking into the wholesaling business, drop-shipping source information is jealously guarded. With a firm understanding of the service they offer, it isn't hard to see why. As opposed to the typical wholesale resource, drop-shippers offer a myriad of benefits to their buyers:

• You have no excess merchandise to house between orders.

• You're saved the hassle of calculating shipping, packaging orders, and standing in line at whichever postal service you may use.

• Drop-shipping is a great resource for people who own and run web-sites out of their spare time.

• Drop-shipping doesn't require you to make any out of pocket expenses.

As you can see, drop-shipping is pretty attractive. One of the biggest arenas for wholesalers who use drop-shipping sources is eBay, but it can work with any type of online presence. In an ideal situation, a drop-shipping transaction works as follows (assuming that you already have a customer relationship with a drop-ship source):

First, you'll select which product(s) you'll offer for sale on your website, email ad, auction listing, etc. For each item, you'll need a good quality color photo in .gif or .jpeg format. You'll also need a product description, retail price (giving yourself a margin of at least 25% profit), and check out/shopping cart features.

Then, once the information has been uploaded and is ready for public viewing, a buyer will place an order and make full payment for the item.

After this, you'll place an order with your drop-shipping company and they will locate, package and ship the item to your customer, while (usually) at the same time keeping your cash saving secret safe using unlabeled boxes and invoices, or shipping it using your business contact information. You'll send whatever the wholesale price payment is to them, keeping the extra as profit for your company!!

With the smoothness and ease of this, it's no wonder that people out there are charging outlandish prices for directories, lists and memberships to drop-ship sources "clubs". These packages can run from the low $10's well into the hundreds of dollars.

But not anymore.

Today, I'll reveal to you ten great drop-shipping companies free of charge! While these companies may charge fees for their service, the information is completely free! So don't miss out, get your wholesale business up and running the smart way!!!

1. http://www.qualitybooks.com/dropshippers.htm All of the information that you'll need to open your own online bookstore!! They also offer a Webpage CD that provides you with products, sales page templates and more. They have a one time, lifetime membership fee of only $49.95, which is covered by a 30 day money back guarantee.

2. http://vistawholesale.zoovy.com/ The source for wholesale products such as novelties, general merchandise, novelty lighters and more. They supply eBay sellers, flea market dealers, retail outlets and the general public with the hottest products on the market today, at below wholesale pricing. In addition, there is no minimum order, volume discounts, world wide shipping, no fee drop-shipping, and no membership fees!!

3. http://www.usdropshippers.com/ Now you do! With USDropshippers.com, just find the manufacturers you would like to work with on their categorized pages. The manufacturers will look at your store and decide whether or not they would like you representing their products. After the manufacturer accepts your store, you will receive a password to download the manufacturer's product database and digital artwork. And best of all, you set your own prices, It's your store. As orders come in to your web based store, you fax the orders to the manufacturers and they drop-ship to your customers using a generic invoice with your store's information. With USDropshippers.com, your customers are always your customers!

4. http://www.crystalquest.com/dropshippingprogram.htm Make money drop-shipping water filters and related products. Quoted from the website, "It is very easy to resell our products. We work on a "Per Order" basis. Basically, you make a sale, collect payment from your customer then place the order with us. We will ship the order directly to your customers."

5.http://www.optimumdiscounts.com/catalog/wholesaledropshippingcatalog.php This website offers a lot of great categories and prices for products that they'll drop-ship. However, they don't guarantee that all products will be in stock. Their shipping costs are based as a percentage of your order price. Categories include: As Seen on TV, Cameras, Electronics, Radar Detectors and more!

6. http://www.information-entertainment.com/Business/dropship.html This website is AWESOME!! They offer an extensive list of companies and their contact information of sources where you can find great drop-shipped products. It'll take a little effort, most of the listings don't include website or email addresses, but the list is amazing and well worth the time and postage.

7. http://stealthwholesale.com/ Stealth Wholesale Inc. is a wholesale/drop-shipping company that specializes in products such as tools, electronics, furniture, models, lighting and more. You'll need to open an account, and as best as I could tell from their website, there isn't any charge to open one!!

8. http://www.securitywholesaler.com/ A great site that offers security based products (home security, personal security, safety weapons, pepper spray, child safety) for sale and offers drop-shipping at a cost per address of $2.00 or $2.50 if you'd like to include a catalog. Definitely worth checking out!!

9. http://www.ewis.ca/onlinestore/scripts/dropship.asp This link takes you to an electronic product wholesaler and drop-shipping company. Benefits include no minimum order and no drop-shipping fees. Check out their wide selection of electronic products in the toolbar to the left.

10. http://smartvitamins.com/ Cash in on the growing trend in the health and wellness industry! This website offers you the chance to open your own online or auction vitamin/supplement business. Click the link provided to view the many benefits they offer.

Armed with this information, you should have more than enough resources to help you get your online presence up and running. Without the risks of high inventory and overhead, you're giving yourself an even better chance of success. No longer will you have to suffer sitting in the dark while others are reaping the profits of drop-shipping!!

Jennifer Gibbs is a successful freelance writer who lives in South Georgia with her husband and her son. If you're looking for high-quality writing at very reasonable rates, check out her website at http://www.jennifergibbs.com, or send an inquiry to info@jennifergibbs.com.