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The Ebay Marketing Group Headquarters

The ebay Marketing Group Are you trying to sell on ebay? Are you trying to earn money as an ebay affiliate? Do you know enough about ebay to share what you know? This Group is for you!

Lie about an item 

Say it works fine when it sometimes doesn't work. Say it's in perfect condition when it has a scratch. Your customers will hate you!

Post whenever you feel like it 

Make sure to leave your customers hanging around, wondering when their item is going to turn up. This makes sure they buy from someone else next time.

Let items end anytime 

Few people will be around to care about your auction if it ends in the middle of the night.

Why go to the trouble of working out whether auctions will end at a good time?

The 7 Essential Steps to Successful eBay Marketing 

Do you prefer to not spend all day reading information on a computer screen? Most of the information about ebay that is sold every day is in ebook format, or on websites.

But this doesn't suit everyone. So, of course, there have been real books written about earning money on ebay. And here is one of the best!

The 7 Essential Steps to Successful eBay Marketing

by Janelle Elms, Phil Dunn, Amy Balsbaugh

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Don't bother with email 

Customers are just timewasters anyway.

eBay businesses are supposed to run themselves!

Never give informed responses to questions about your item.

Sell rubbish 

Refuse to give discounts 

You know what your items cost, you know what your profit margin is going to be, and you're not going to negotiate.

Remember that giving customers special deals might make them feel good and come back to you again.

** How to Become an eBay Powerseller ** 

As taught by the powersellers!

The eBay powersellers often write how-to guides about how they got where they are right now.

And they often sell them for just a couple of dollars, which is great to just download and check out.

So here are a couple featured, if you're interested:

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Make your listings ugly 

As many colours, flashing lights and animations as possible will really give those customers a headache. Write as much in CAPITALS!!!! as you can.

Preferably big, red capitals. Be sure to use the fonts Impact and Comic Sans.

For an extra special touch, see if you can figure out a way to add some music.

eBay Marketing on the Hidden Web 

See what you can find...

Don't take photos 

It's such trouble, after all.

If buyers are picky enough to actually want to see items before they bid on them, then screw 'em, that's what I say.

Write short descriptions 

Be as brief as possible, and use lots of mysterious abbreviations.

This obviously makes you look very cool.

You can even just write the title again in the description box. Think of the effort you'll save!

Use reserve auctions 

Now, this is a fairly controversial final choice, but it really is one of the best ways to scare away your customers.

They'll see 'reserve not yet met', and click that 'back' button before you know it.

Luckily, they can always bid in a normal auction for the item somewhere else.

Now... 

Now that you know the ten ways to kill your eBay business, how about we explore what to do if you want to do the opposite, and make a success of it?

Check out this about the ten steps to successful selling on eBay :-)

The Greatest eBay MoneyMaking Tool EVER! 

Earn money from other people's auctions, even if you sell nothing!

Build A Niche Store. This is, by far, the greatest tool for making money from ebay.

With this tool you can create up to 28,926 different niche stores, selling ANYTHING that is for sale on ebay.

And if it's selling on ebay, it might as well earn you money! You don't ever have to list a single item or deal with a single customer.

Build your niche stores, people go to ebay through your store, and ebay pay YOU up to 65% of THEIR profits!

...the ebay affiliates who earn over $100,000 a month? They have their own niche stores. But this niche store creator thingy makes it so much easier for you.

I recommend: Go Get It!

Build A Niche Store

Featured eBay Selling Secrets Lenses: 

10 Steps To Successful Selling On eBay

So you want to be a successful seller with your own eBay business, do you? Here's a simple, ten-step path to eBay enlightenment.

6 Simple Steps to Posting Your First eBay Auction

It's surprisingly simple to get started posting your very first auction on eBay. Here's what you need to do.

What You Need to Know BEFORE You Get Started on eBay

So you've decided that you want to get started as a seller on eBay. There are a few things that you really need to know before you go and throw yourself in at the deep end.

The income possibilities of eBay

If you've ever read a Squidoo Lens about eBay Marketing, you will have seen the kinds of incomes people make - it isn't unusual to hear of people making thousands of dollars per month on eBay. So... why not you?!

The Hilarious eBay Song! 

Made by Weird Al Yankovic

Like this video? 

What's the weirdest thing you've bought on ebay?

hotbrain Something from someone who did many of the mistakes listed above - and it was a good deal too! Check out my lens on How to Increase Your Ebay Sales Posted July 12, 2008

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