101 Auction Secrets Revealed!

ComicsMailOrder · Post time 15-12-2007 04:36 PM

AuctionTip #1: How to Put an Attractive Background in Your Online Auction Ad

Have you ever visited an auction and noticed a peculiar and catchy background?

Here's how to do it...

First off, go background texture hunting at this site:

http://www.grsites.com/textures/

Once you find one- upload it to a free image host like:

http://www.honesty.com

Now, for the moment you're been waiting for...

This requires HTML so don't faint on me. Make sure this is the first thing that appears in your ad html:

<BODY background="http://www.yourhost.com/yourimage.gif">

That's the code you'll need...

[ Last edited by ComicsMailOrder at 15-12-2007 04:48 PM ]

ComicsMailOrder · Post time 15-12-2007 04:46 PM

Without a doubt, there are a few types of products you'll need to sell in order to become really successful on eBay

ComicsMailOrder · Post time 15-12-2007 04:49 PM

Without a doubt, something separates good sellers from the not-so-hot ones. It has nothing to do with magic either- it has everything to do with sound practice...

Here are 11 principles to live by when you start your auction business. They will work wonders for you...

1. Pick Your Niche and Define Your Market

This is ground zero for your success strategy. Find your own niche. Define your market. Then you can know the type of person you抮e going to be selling to and the types of product you want to sell.

You're auction sales letters will be a hundred times better if you know the person who you are writing for.

Along with being in a superior position to take advantage of repeat business, the benefits from becoming specialized are endless-

We well be getting into this a little more later.

2. Your Vision

Know where you want to go with your business and why. Every business that thrives has a soul and a purpose. What is it that you want long term? Do you want to become financially independent?

What do you want short term? Do you want to make a steady income every week? If so, how much? Give yourself something to shoot for and try to surpass it.

Remember in the beginning to keep plugging away. The toughest time is at the start. Everyone has to serve as an apprentice before they can truly master what they do.

When you're starting out be willing to absorb every ounce of helpful information your brain can hold.

3. Order is the Foundation of Every Good Thing

One of your early foundations of success is order. Strive for efficiency in every aspect of what you do. If you抮e lacking in a system of organization your whole business is going to be threatened.

This not only includes keeping things in their place but things like keeping income tax and business expenditures records.

4. Serve Your Customer With a Passion

In business your customer is the only thing. You customer is far more important than any product you sell. Strive to give them quality at every level of the transaction.

With online auctions most sellers have a hard time looking past the initial sell. As far as they are concerned after the initial bid the relationship is over. That is why most of them don抰 do so swell when they try to make a business of this.

Look far beyond the first sell. It is only the beginning of a long mutually beneficial relationship.

5. Become An Expert In Your Field

Become an authority in what you do, wherever you choose to go with you online auction business. If you sell CD media supplies, you want to be thought of before anyone else.

When you become an authority in your field, a whole new universe of business and opportunity is opened up to you.

I buy certain types of things on eBay from the same sellers over and over. I wouldn't dare do business with anyone else, not when they have proven themselves and their product.

You want to earn that same type of position in the minds of eBayer抯 for your niche.

6. Credibility- the Key Factor in Selling

Become trustworthy. Remove every doubt about your credibility any chance you get. You can do this through presenting yourself positively through your feedback, being passionately devoted to your business and by being an expert.

By making great complete ads and from answering emails quickly.

The X factor is the critical ingredient for online sales success.

7. Harness the Power of Technology

Use you existing software of the Internet to handle repetitive tasks. This will free you up to grow your business to a level...

One of my big sticking points is leverage. Leveraging means getting everything you can, out of all you got. When you use existing tools and methods for freeing yourself from repetitive tasks, you will compress time.

That means you will get more work done with less effort... and as a result you will make more money.

8. Get Everything You Can Out of All You Have

A wiser person than myself once said, "There are only two qualities in the world, efficiency and inefficiency, and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient."

Maximize results while minimizing your expenditures. This is the essence of what it takes.

Test ads ruthlessly to get more for your advertising dollar. Look for better ways to do business. So much can be do to get better and better returns. Set an ideal up for yourself and call it, "efficiency"- if you do this you will never become stagnant in what you do...

Always search for better and better returns for the amount of resources you put in.

9. Probably the Most Important Thing: Your Sales Letter

Your sales letter is your salesman. On the net, how you're potential buyer perceives you and your product is everything.

Copywriting is the art of showing you and what you sell to your buyer in the best possible light.

It抯 the most important thing you have going for you. A carefully crafted sales letter can increase you results exponentially without having to spend an extra penny.

10. Shoulder The Risk in the Transaction

Risk reversal is on of the strongest free sales tools you have at your disposal.

When you offer your bidders a satisfaction guarantee, you are telling them that you are confident that your product can deliver, and if not you are willing shoulder the risk for them by giving them their money back

ComicsMailOrder · Post time 18-12-2007 01:19 AM

Do you ever notice yourself repeating the same answers to the same questions over and over? Would it be great if you could press control-q and spit out the answer?

I use a program called Shortkeys to type repetitive phrases and sentences. By wisely using email keyboard shortcuts and you'll cut your time responding to email down by 90%.

http://www.shortkeys.com

This will save you loads of time.

ComicsMailOrder · Post time 18-12-2007 01:22 AM

As a seller, you want to offer every pay type under the sun. If you cover all possible pay types you'll be able to make profits that pass others by...

Here are the pay types sellers on eBay offer:

ComicsMailOrder · Post time 18-12-2007 01:30 AM

Hands down, Paypal is THE auction pay type. It's a free service and easy for bidders to use. If you use it, you'll have almost no fees taking away from your hard earned money-

Sign up today and start taking credit card orders instantly!!

http://www.paypal.com

ComicsMailOrder · Post time 20-12-2007 03:45 PM

It's not difficult or as expensive as you may think. Do you plan on doing business online? If so, it's a good idea to have them-

Here's who I use and recommend:

http://www.marketingtips.com/creditcards/index.html

ComicsMailOrder · Post time 20-12-2007 03:46 PM

One great free way to promote your auction business is by using a signature. Signatures are six to eight line inserts at the end of your email messages.

All email programs support them. Take advantage of this cheap and effective means of advertising your listings...