Grow and Promote Your Ebay Store Sales & Creating Multiple Streams of Ebay Income! by OnceUponaBid

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Selling on Ebay by Maximizing your Ebay Store

Learning How to Make Money on ebay (the right way!).

This lens is about selling on eBay to make money by using an eBay store and considering all eBay has to offer you in terms of opportunities to make money and promote yourself. We operate our ebay store located at http://Onceuponabid.com . As sellers involved in almost every aspect of eBay we felt we can provide valuable information to those just starting or looking to take their ebay business to the next level of success. We will be discussion selling on auctions, selling in fixed price format. Selling by using an eBay store and ebay store selling format. We will be discussing selling for others on commission which is called being a Trading Assistant. And we will be talking about my wifes Educational Classes where she teaches eBay in a school and adult ed setting.

If you really would like to open an Ebay account, Paypal account and or an eBay store you can do so right here from the LENS! Scroll down and look for the banners for opening the accounts and just click! Easy easy! :)

If you want to learn more about eBay read on....

So What are the different ways to make money on Ebay that we will be reviewing here? Here they are..

1-Selling your own Items on Ebay from around your home

2-Buying items to resell on Ebay for Profit

3-Selling items for other people on a commission basis for profit. This is called being a "trading assistant"

4-Teaching others how to sell on eBay in an educational environment or through private in person or telephone conversations.

5- Developing your own products to sell at your classes and or to others regarding how to make money on eBay.

6- Using Squidoo to make extra money selling more of your items or earn money selling other's items as well!

7. What is Ebay Local and Why is Local the next BIG thing for your business?

We have done all these things and we believe that while there are no get rich schemes here , with hard work you can make a decent living or at least make a nice additional income to help with your family budget. If you you have stopped by your visit is timely! Ebay just announced Ebay Local Trading and while it has not been implimented across the ebay site yet it is going to provide for an unprecedented increase in the possibilities you have to make some extra money on eBay.

We offer personal consultations and help to get started. Just read through this lens and some of our content sites like our blog and then email us. Once you read all we have to offer you will know we are the right people to help you get started.

You can email us at clhct1@aol.com

Marty & Cheryl

OnceUponabid.com

Lets Get Started...
Welcome to our first posting on our new Squidoo lens! We might be new to Squidoo but we already have a ton of information ready for you to help with your eBay business! If you slide down to the links section you will find links to our blog on Google which has been going on 2 years strong now with tons of info on our eBay selling experience as well as our much newer myspace page complete with a filmloops slideshow of some of our items for sale set to some music! A great place to start! You can learn more about who were are on these links and on the link to our store also in that section. Take a peek at those and get ready to make some money on eBay!! Yeah it takes work , and no you wont be a millionaire this month, but If you found this lens I am sure you know this already! Talk soon ! -Marty

HERE IS WHAT WE PLAN TO COVER

1 ) Selling your own items on eBay
2 ) Why you should have an eBay store
3 ) What is a Trading Assistant? Why be one?
4 ) How do I market my items and my Ebay Store?
5 ) What is an Educational Specialist? Why be one?
6 ) Info on Paypal, Skype, and much more!
7 ) What is EBAY LOCAL? How can it help your sales?
8 ) What is San Dimas? How Ebays new desktop application can enhance buying and selling.

There is a lot to know so a lot for us to tell you about. Keep in mind that if you need training to open a store or grow your ebay business we offer consultations. You can contact us at clhct1@aol.com . But keep reading here for some great help!

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Exciting New STUFF coming to this Ebay Stores Lens!

Get ready for some awesome tools and help!

GREAT NEWS!

We have a ton of new ideas for the lens. Now that we have the basics of this grow your eBay lens started we are going to start reviewing and showing you ways to start or grow your business using tools that others have used successfully. You have already seen some easy to use software and a hit program above but I have tons more things to show you that can aid you in starting or growing your business. And better yet I have been the guinea pig for so many "tests" that I can show you what might work best!

We will continue on the themes we started with and provide tools and products for each section.

For example.. We will go over being a Trading assistant in Depth then provide links to books, tools and software that will be useful to you, and add a blurb section for Trading Assistants.

We will show you how to maximize social networking sites to get more views to your items and provide you with products and or books of interest for further reading.

Basically each section will become a resource center for you. We feel this is the best way to guide you (and keep ourselves on track). I am really excited as I look over the list of things we are going to cover here!

Keep in mind if you trying to get things organized for taxes the tax program banner below for Auction Seller solutions is the place to take a look!

More solutions, more ideas more thoughts all coming up! Thanks for checking out this lens!

So hope aboard the SELLING TRAIN! (picture from one of the books im selling)

EBAY GIFT CARDS

Gift cards make up almost 20% of the holiday spending budget these days and represent BILLIONS of dollars in spending. Ebay has been slow to develop this market for themselves but now its time to take advantage of the huge eBay community and
work these cards into the mix for added sales, especially for the post holiday periods!

It is a great gift because one can give a gift of almost anything with this card and not be limited to one store gift card as many cards are today. Ebay has a broad range of items from many stores as well as homemade items and one of kind special items!

I am VERY excited Ebay Gift cards! They are an important part of the shopping puzzle!

(puzzle pic is of an actual 70s retro vintage item we sell)

HOT OFF THE PRESS TIPS/NEWS

Quick tips to Grow your sales..and eBay news !

5-13-08 - Ebay has new pricing scheme announced in Italy , looks like Store items will become core items and be discounted with higher store subscriptions ... more soon

3-28-08 - Ebay announces it is taking its affiliate business in house! The new program starts April 1 and will run side by side with the old program for one month for transition purposes. Check affiliate.ebay.com for more info.

3-3-08 - Ebay launches Best Match as default search on the site. While some searches have been coming back needing some work, it appears to be helping media (books, CDs, audiobooks etc.) So far.

2-25-08 New Trading Assistant platform is launched and new tools added to the TA toolkit for those that sell for others for commission.

12-31-07 Ebay has new Online Flyer creation tool for local items! Go to Google and search Ebay flyer !

11-24-07 Ebay has killer Black Friday per the news reports!

11-14-07 -Ebay set to expand Local Service options. Will be able to see items by zip code. Also on UK site, there is a new local service directory! Awesome stuff!

11-01-07 Ebay Gift Cards are out! Buy yours!!!!

10-16-07 Skype Inks deal with Myspace for Voice IMs

10-10-07 Ebay mentions New Shopping Carts might be coming!

9-16-07- Ebay announces EBAY GIFT CARDS !

9-7-07 - Ebay Beta tests San Dimas desktop software. Cool application-my review coming soon!

9-1-07 -Lower fees for Auction listings! Ebay announced a new pricing plan a few days ago reducing the cost of core listings with gallery to just the cost of the gallery picture! This opens up a lot of opportunities for sellers of smaller dollar value items!

8-24-07 Ebay Expanded credit lines recently and might be interested in Mercado Libre the Latin American Ebay type site that it already owns 9% of!

8-06-07 Ebay Ad Exchange for TV ads in business!

7-22-07 - Ebay Adds "Store Tab" to top of screen on many pages! Sales seem to be up , and there might be advantages to Featured and Anchor stores now.

7-10-07 Millions see Ebay featured in Transformers movie! See the movie its awesome!

7-6-07 - Ebay opens Kijiji.com Online classifieds site in US

6-20-07 Increase the size of your.. Widget! If you are using the stores widget increase its size by changing the numbers in the cut and paste for sizing from 355,355 to like 600,600 see my myspace for an example.. of how it will look at http://myspace.com/onceuponabid.

6-19-07 - Ebay releases store togo widget ! This is a well designed visual search box for stores! Go to togo.ebay.com for more info and choose the STORE option! Awesome. I have an example on my Myspace page in my content links area.

5-18-07 - Ebay just increased its payout from its Affiliate arrangement for eBay and there is a new paypal partner arrangement! You should look into both of these! Affiliate.ebay.com and paypal.com.

5-1-07 - Ebay announces Togo.ebay.com with new widgets you can place on websites/blogs etc to market your items! Check out my blog post on this! Note there is also a new discussion board on eBay about it!

4-30-07 Check out Stumbleupon.com . Ebay store owners are using it to drive traffic to their stores. There is a full blog post about it in my blog section on this squidoo lens!

3-6-07 Watchers notified of items marked down by Markdown Manager
eBay started a new option in your store called Markdown manager. It allows you to mark down items in in bulk. Items show regular price and then a line through it and then the sale price. It works well! One of the reasons it works is that people who are watching your items see a yellow box near thei

Ebay Announces EBAY LOCAL TRADING at EBAY LIVE BOSTON April 16th 2007

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More about us....

This is a video Ebay did of our family. It was used for an investors conference. Just a brief intro to our business and thoughts about Ebay, Paypal, Skype etc.

Selling On Ebay - A little about Us - Paypal Skype also..

Promo video eBay did about us. If you are interested in learning to sell on eBay take a look at the video and contact us, we train people in classroom settings, and also provide private help. We also have HOT LISTS and software to help you!

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THE BEST EBAY USER TOOLS

Record Keeping for Taxes and Sales and Promotional Tools for your eBay Business

***GET READY FOR THE IRS AND KEEP GOOD RECORDS WITH THIS SOFTWARE TO HELP YOU GET THINGS IN ORDER FOR YOUR EBAY BUSINESS!***

As many of you know the IRS is looking to make sure eBayers are paying their fair share of taxes on their profits. Ebay of course, does not make it easy to figure our all the info you need! But there are some great tools out there!

Check out this Ebay Software! Many Ebayers struggle with record keeping and getting ready for their tax return. This software is quick and easy to use. Click on the banner to take a peek at the software and screenshots.This is the program we use for our work here on eBay. The good news its cheap, the better news, its great! Please ask questions if you need to as we use this every day!

***SEND TRAFFIC TO YOUR EBAY STORE WITH THIS***

Get TONS of Traffic to Your eBay Store!! (If you have questions send me a message as I use it).Ebay sellers are always looking for traffic to their eBay stores. This servive provides hits to your store. They come from now dead domain names and get redirected. I am in my third month of testing this program and I am very happy with the results so far. Many people dont like hit programs but I have compensated for the cost by cutting Core auction exposure. Stores sales have never been higher for us so I think it helps and I dont want to change anything now! Take a peek by clicking the banner below

Top Ten Reasons To Open an Ebay Store

In case you were wondering why you should have one...

Top Ten Reasons To Open An Ebay Store

Provides you a fixed URL (website address that you can put on a business card and promote for repeat business
Allows you to list items at lower listing cost that might sell slower than items on auction.
Allows you a source of traffic because store items stay up long enough to get indexed in search engines whereas auction items do not.
Allow you to categorize your listings for easy shopping by your customers.
Provides you special marketing tools to bring in repeat business like email marketing,fliers etc.
Gives you access to the Stores Traffic Reports through Omniture which are loaded with useful info on how people got to your store, where they went, what they looked at bought what keywords they used..Very helpful info!
Allows you to list multiples of items at no additional listing cost. 100 of your Harry Potter book costs 10 cents to list , same as 10 Harry Potter books!
Allows you to do your own off site marketing and earn Store referral credits that reduce your final value fees to ebay. Go to HELP on ebay and type in store referral credit for more info
Allows you to get a domain name such as MycoolToys.com and forward it to the URL eBay has for the store . You then have a name and site that provides a customer with and easy way to remember you and come back. Ours is Onceuponabid. So people can remember Onceuponabid.com
Gives your auctions buyers a place to add things to their orders with you. You now have aisles of merchandise ready to pluck out. Effective strategies could be used to cross promote your items!

Books to Help You With Opening an Ebay Store

Opening an eBay store is easy. Here are a few book recommendations. Soon you will be able to open your store from right here in my lens! :)

Launching a Successful eBay Store

by Ron Mansfield

The best existing resource for you as a potential new store owner!

Amazon Price: $16.49 (as of 05/17/2008)

eBay's Secrets Revealed: The Insider's Guide to Advertising, Marketing, and Promoting Your eBay Store - With Little or No Money

by Dan W. Blacharski

Released soon, this one is supposed to be great!

Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 05/17/2008)

Starting an Online Business All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

by Shannon Belew, Joel Elad

One of the best reference guides out there for all you need to know about opening any webstore! From formation and record keeping to more advanced concepts like affiliate marketing and developing a niche, customer service issues etc. One of the best books out there. 800+ pages a real bargain for the price!

Amazon Price: $19.79 (as of 05/17/2008)

Promote your Ebay Store FREE & Get Cool Stuff from Poshpoints!

no cost , cool stuff and free promotion, what can be better?

I checked out this site called Poshpoints a while ago but it was not until a friend referred me back there that I signed up. I had figured I didnt have time to get involved in yet another site. However, when my friend mentioned that on this site you can now promote your eBay listings for FREE~~~~~!!!!! I hopped right on board!

The site is growing fast and since it is FREE you have nothing to lose by signing up.

Its a site where you load up some stuff to "sell" but get points instead of money. You then trade these points for stuff by buying stuff. Your only out of pocket cost is shipping and there are no fees! Great for those items you need to clean out that might not be right for eBay, but you do not want to throw away. Also a great way to promote you eBay items at no cost while doing so. They put a link to your eBay listings on the items you are "trading" on their site. Cool !

Check out this awesome site by clicking below and get started its free plus you get some free points while their offer lasts!! -Marty

The Basics of Starting as an eBay Affiliate

Making Extra money selling your items and those of others!

** See Below for the basics of getting started with an Affiliate plan for eBay by using your Squidoo Lens. Here is an important update however! *** Some Squidoobayers (Squidoo peeps that are Ebayers) have had really good luck keeping a narrow focus to each lense and then affiliate linking that lens. So if you have more than one product line, consider a different lens for each. SOme have done this very well and I needed to update you! - SO now read on...
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Ebay has instructions which make the process easy. In case you have not joined the ebay partner network and signed in yet and wanted to see how easy it is
here is the 4 step process as described by Ebay..

How to start earning money on the eBay Partner Network in 4 easy steps!
April 3rd, 2008

Getting started on the eBay Partner Network is quick and easy - within 30 minutes you could be driving traffic and earning commission! All it takes is 4 simple steps:

1. Register

To join the eBay Partner Network, you need to register at www.ebaypartnernetwork.com. When you sign up, we'll ask you for some basic information, including what type of website you have. Choose the description that best fits your website, for example, if you have a blog or a hobby website, choose website. But don't worry if you don't yet have a website - you can still join the eBay Partner Network. After you have signed up, you'll then receive an e-mail with your login details and you're free to enter the site!

2. Go to the Programs tab

When you first sign in, click on the Programs tab. There you will see a list of all the country's programs to which you have applied. This tab is important, because although eBay Partner Network is a global platform, different countries have slightly different rules and payment structures, so you should definitely look at the terms and conditions and the payment structure. You can also see the status of your application to each country's program.

3. Go to the Tools tab

Now you need to put links or banners on your site that point to eBay or Half.com. The easiest ways to do this are using the Link Generator or the Creative Generator and to find them you need to go to the Tools tab.

Link Generator

First of all, select the advertiser. Secondly, select a link type from a choice of Home Page, Keyword Search, Item ID or Custom URL. You will then have to enter your chosen keyword, item id or custom URL, but remember to make it as relevant to your visitors as possible. Some of the options can be geo-targeted, which means that we can detect where the visitor to your site is from and redirect them to the most appropriate site for their geographical location. However, you will still need to select a default program, just in case we can't detect where the visitor is from - we suggest selecting the US program. Choose what you want the link text to be and try to make it a call to action, for example "Find a Bargain on eBay." Finally, click on the Generate Link button and copy and paste the code into your site. Easy!

Use the dropdown boxes on the left to filter which creatives you can see. You can filter by advertiser, size, type and whether the creative is geo-targeted. If you select geo-targeted creatives, the language will change depending on your visitor's location and it will link to the most geographically appropriate site. You then need to click on the creative you want to use and select a default program, in case we can't detect which country your visitor is from. Finally, click on the Generate Code button and copy and paste it into your site.

4. Fill in your payment details

Go to the Account tab and select Payment Information. eBay Partner Network currently offers 2 payment methods depending on your location: Paypal and direct deposit. Select your payment method and fill in the required details. If you are based in the US, you also need to ensure you inputted your tax details.

Further Help

If you'd like more information on how to get started on the eBay Partner Network, you can watch the video tutorial, which takes you through the process step by step. Alternatively, you can visit our FAQ and help section, which has lots of information about how to use the site, and has links in each topic to ask questions to our dedicated customer service team.

What is an Ebay Trading Assistant and Why should you be one?

Learn how to make money selling items for others !

Through eBay you can register to become what they call a "Trading Assistant". Trading Assistants help other eBayers sell their items and earn a commission doing so. There are many advantages to working this money making angle. First, you do not have to buy "stock or inventory" to sell. The customers have items they want to sell so you earn off their items. This strategy is especially useful when you have an eBay store and are auctioning off items for others. As the customer will pay the fees on those items, you are promoting your store items! Selling for commission for others can be tricky though as you want to be able to post the better items and not be stuck trying to list a bunch of junk that will not make either of you rich! I highly recommend being a "TA" as its one of the many sources of eBay income you can develop, and the key is to diversify your income flow. I will be writing more about this soon. People ask how to keep track of what they sell for others and how much to pay out and y

Grow and Promote Your Ebay Store Sales & Creating Multiple Streams of Ebay Income! by OnceUponaBid

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Selling on Ebay by Maximizing your Ebay Store

Exciting New STUFF coming to this Ebay Stores Lens!

Get ready for some awesome tools and help!

EBAY GIFT CARDS

HOT OFF THE PRESS TIPS/NEWS

Quick tips to Grow your sales..and eBay news !

Ebay Announces EBAY LOCAL TRADING at EBAY LIVE BOSTON April 16th 2007

the news many have been waiting for...

Links to our Ebay Selling Content sites

Where you will learn everything we learned!

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