EbayFever

You know with every action we take we have something else to do. We are never finished...ever! My boss calls this life. The fact is we can put that to good use. I like the idea of taking every step into the RIGHT direction. Now WOULDN'T that be nice. I know every step won't be but if you plan, pay attention, and be smart about it...every step could COUNT. So this lens is for me to talk. Just kinda walk through my steps as I take them correcting myself as I go. somewhere to keep track of progress and have a place to go for getting on the right path. I will have all the links that are making a difference here as well as documenting my missteps. If someone else gets something out of this all the better!

Go ahead...you know you want to... CLICK THE EBAY LOGO...yes I know.. I get a little carried away!

Go to the sell tab (beside My eBay, then click eBay Seller Information Center. From there you will see selling basics. This is a good place to start. This opens up To a Video training section. I found the videos extremely helpful. Even though I have sold on eBay before I decided to take advantage of all the added training features.

Make sure before you leave that page bookmark it so you can refer back to it...trust me you WILL.. I have made bookmark folders to keep things organized. Some of my categories are Traffic, Shipping, Customer Service... you get the picture.

Auctiva started out as a tool to help make posting your listing a lot easier and with less time. Now they are much more. I have picked the Unlimited 9.95 per month option. Auctiva has a 30 day free trial and it is well worth it. You have unlimited listings, 24 pictures per listing, 1 GB of image hosting. Image super sizing at no extra cost. You also receive 1700+ listing templates, Free Scheduling You can automate listings, Automated re-listing tool. Bulk live listing revision say if you decided to change your shipping preferences...(taking a breath)... You can save time by filling out profiles for each aspect of your Auction. For example you can set up your shipping or checkout profile if it never changes. That way you are not filling out this area every listing. You can have different profiles in each category in case you need different ones for different items. Also you can opt in on auctiva's shipping insurance and more. Click the logo and check them out...I'm hooked!

eBay Auction management tools

I looked for this every day after I shipped my first Item, And it was a pretty sight (after my third sale) the day I logged in, There it was the most fabulous #1 you have ever seen. Tonight I'm at 3. I have researched Squidoo, Ebay, Auctiva, Blogs and Articles on how to list your items, Photographing, and customer service. I have changed wording in listings, Titles, photos etc. after reading good advice. I want to thank everyone who has put advice out there for those of us who can benefit from it...Thank You!.

At Day 37 from my 1st sale I need to look at the big picture...see what I can improve on and make changes. My first Goal is $50.00 per week for 4 weeks in a row. Now this next section will go over my steps as I take them and we will see how it goes. The graph pictured here is my 1st sales Graph ...I'm Grinning big now! I know not very impressive huh? I am very excited...The Sky's the limit!...LET'S DO IT! ~

I did make 2 mores sales this week but I am disappointed at the small amount of traffic I am getting. I changed some things in a few listings. Such as, Title, description and I continued to "Bump" the ones I made changes to. This did end up with a few extra clicks and 2 books sold. Two words...MORE TRAFFIC! The first thing I did was refer back to some of my bookmarked links on creating a listing (see below). I read until 3am most nights, and then got up for work at 6am! But hey I can't sleep for thinking about what the next step should be. I would say every site had one MAJOR thing in common...You guessed it MORE TRAFFIC. Some of the links I am studying are below and I will summarize my Plan of Attack before the weekend is over.

OK It's 51 Days since my 1st sale, and 13 sales so far. I had been wondering at 4 feedback and 11 sales why I had not received more feedback?. It was Friday night I logged in and there it was...Feedback number 5...I couldn't wait I clicked it and there it was...Happy with the books and the shipping. HERE IT COMES.....Disappointed about cigarette smell. I had to pick myself up. I had been reading and studying and taking notes and watching videos and reading out loud...packaged to perfection. It was a DUH moment (I HATE THOSE) So now I'm at 13 sales 5 feedback. If the others don't rate me...well I hope they are not unhappy, but no feedback is better than neutral or God forbid Negative.

I should have known better. What I did is went straight over to the Forum on Feedback on Ebay. Told them my dilemma and received lots of good advice. I have moved the books into a smoke free room and Saturday will be seven days...no smoking!