A Workable ebay Selling System

When you first start selling on eBay or any of the online selling platforms you will be slow, that is just life, but over time you will become quicker and very soon you could be listing a dozen or more items an hour. Also it will depend if your items are one off items or are the same.

When you start out on eBay you need to work out how long you are willing to spend listing items to sell………of course the longer you spend the mre listings you can do and the more listings you make the more sales you will make and the more money you will make, that id fact.

As you start to list you will need to have a system, each person has their own system but most are based on the same  format.

Below is a system that I use – and teach others, and find most people can work around it depending on where they live and how much space they have.

1)  I work in a small room, this allows me to leave it set up for my eBay and online business most of the time. Having an area set aside for your business is important as it seems like a real business and not just a hobby.
Also another thing is, if you are able to leave things like your camera etc set up, this saves you loads of time as you do not have to set it up each day or time you use it.

If space allows have different areas or stations. 1) Pictures  2) Listing area – computer etc  3) Post and packing area.

Also try and keep everything in reach and in the same area, this again saves you time.

Try and do your pictures for the week in at one time. This again saves time and when you take each picture check it looks OK on the camera and also make a notr of the photo number and what it is for example 0001 is a childs toy, this helps when you down load the pictures on to the computer.

Now this next stage can be done on the day or done in advance – write the headings and the discriptions. It can be an idea that you write the items on a pad. And at this stage you can weigh them so you know the postage costs etc – By the way do this in the packing box etc so that you know the total cost.

By using the above simple method you know have the pictures on your computer, if they need cropping, do this in your favourite program and name them with the name of the item, this is very useful as it will save you hunting around for it on your hard drive.

Now you can get to a list, and it is almost a copy and paste system. Plus you can list where ever you and your lap top are. So if you want to you can list in your lunch-hour, or at a family party if you get board.

Yes the above is very simple but it works  Take Pictures for week in one go, and write discriptions in one go, then copy and paste.

Have Fun

Andrew Milburn and My Auction Empires.

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