Once items have been sold, you should have some email templates ready to go for “thank you” messages, up-sell messages, etc. Create several “thank you” emails for the types of goods you offer, each being customized for those customers. Also, create several “special offer” emails to send buyers throughout the year. Some one stop online auction shops provide automated email systems for you. It’s free and easy to set up a system like this, and the rewards are tremendous!

Keep shipping supplies on-hand at all times. Prepare envelopes, boxes or bags ahead of time with labels, packaging materials, etc. Develop a system that you will use every time you receive an order so you won’t get disorganized. Take advantage of shipping “tools” supplied by your one stop online auction shop or sum processing company. Some auction sites or payment processors will provide packing slips for every order with the customer’s buy details already printed for you.

Schedule your items to end around the same time so you can easily deal with them once the auctions end. If you schedule auctions to end on weekends, you can concentrate on shipping the items at the beginning of the week. Those who run auctions weekly usually go through a cycle of listing, ending and shipping about the same times every week.

Automation will help you save time and money. You can list and deal with more items through automation. Also, you’ll have a better chance at getting repeat business by sending regular mailings or e-mails to buyers. The more money you can save the superior bargains your customers will receive

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Now it’s time to take a look at your hosting service. This is one of the main things that can kill sales on your web site. If you have a slow hosting site, that means that your, web page is going to run slow, even for the world’s fastest computer. Thus, you may find out that people get sick of your website speed. They prefer to go to a different site that can get them in and out a lot faster. For online businesses time is money. Always remember that. Does your web site have a shopping cart, and if so, is it a fast shopping cart? This is another question you have to ask yourself, because if you do not have a shopping cart on your web site then you are killing the sales yourself. People love shopping carts, because they can add all their stuff together, and just make one purchase. Last but not least, you need to see if you have a FAQ. This is a place where you can write the most asked questions about your products or services and post the answers. Even if people can ask you the questions, sometimes they would like to just look at a FAQ. That way they can get their answer right away.

As mentioned above, eBay believes that one can achieve success if they are in the right place, at the right time, with the right product. Therefore, it becomes very important for would be and current sellers to do their homework and perform research into the nuances of the categories eBay offers. Sellers, if they master the act of choosing the correct category, can build “insider strategies” and insights that will give them a real, and potential profitable, advantage over other auctions sellers. Speaking of other sellers – if a “competitor” is selling the same type of item be sure to investigate which categories they are utilizing. Some sellers specialize in selling a particular product in a particular category. Other sellers place auctions in multiple categories. In the end, a seller must choose which item he/she prefers to sell. According to eBay, based on Q4-07 GMV, the following categories delivered $1 billion or more in worldwide annualized GMV: eBay Motors at $17.2 billion; Consumer Electronics at $6.8 billion; Computers at $4.1 billion; Clothing & Accessories at $5.6 billion; Home & Garden at $4.1 billion; Collectibles at $2.9 billion; Books/Music/Movies at $3.3 billion; Sports at $2.9 billion; Business & Industrial at $2.3 billion: Toys at $2.7 billion; Jewelry & Watches at $2.5 billion; Cameras & Photo at $1.8 billion; Antiques & Art at $1.2 billion; Coins & Stamps at 1.2 billion and Tickets & Travel at $2 billion.