Entries Tagged as 'eBay'

Talk For Free

With Skype you can make free calls over the Internet. Skype – the whole world can talk for free

We all like to save money and we all like to talk. But I can hear you saying yes but it costs money and even more money if they live abroad, and if you use the old method of using a telephone then yes it does. But I am going to tell you about away where you can chat and even see each other through video, and the cost Free. Yes I did say FREE.

Skype has many services and the best thing you can do is pop a long to their sites and take a look what is best for you.

For My Friends In The USA You Need The USA Skype Store

For My Friends In Europe Click Here


Before And After Pictures

In this post I want to give you some tips how you can you use pictures to boast your eBay or online sales. And the simple way to do this is to use before and after pictures.

How do you do this…….. Well for example you sell on eBay a Teeth whitening product, well show a picture of someones teeth before they use your product and one of them afterwards.

Or you might be selling a special car wax polish, again do a picture of the car before and the car afterwards.

Please make these real pictures and not fakes……..because it is wrong, illegal and will harm your business.

Another posting from Andrew Milburn and My Auction Empires.

Very Sorry

Hi,

I am sorry to say that I have to stop comments at the moment on my blog as I am getting loads of spam. I am looking at ways of brings this back, but until then I have stopped this.

Sorry
Andrew

Will My Product Sell

As an eBay Education Specialist one of the question I am always asked is how do I know if My Product will Sell. Well today I am going to do a short lesson and show you a few steps you can do to see if other people have had a success.

First you need to go to eBay site for your country and log in.

Next you need to go to advanced search. And fill out the form. For my example I chose Baby Feeding Bottles (Why - pass)

When you put your words in the search you need to choose “exact phrase” And then the important button to choose is “Completed Listings” one you have done this press return or search.

After a few seconds I saw this

This tells us that there were 58 results in the last 30 days for Baby Feeding Bottles that have finished on the site.

Next we look down and can see this

We need to change this sort to highest price first.

The final window we see is this :

Wow we see lots of items have sold (these are in green) and not only sold most have mutiple bids on them. This tells me that if this was an item I would be selling then it is a big YES. This simple thing takes you only a few minutes and will show yes or no Will My product Sell

Happy online selling

Andrew Milburn and My Auction Empires

UK Trade Show 010

Well we are at UK Trade Show number 10.

This one takes us all the way into lovely wales For the Wales Spring Fair 2009.

The Show runs between 18th - 21st January 2009.

Venue Cymru Llandudno

01938 555313

Info@walescraftcouncil.co.uk
http://www.walescraftcouncil.co.uk

 

Another posting bought to you by Andrew Milburn and My Auction Empires

October eBay Class

Hi,

Just to let you know I will be doing a three week training classes on eBay and the basics of buying and selling on ebay.

The classes will be on :  Wedneday October 8th , 15th, 22nd  between 7.30pm and 9.30pm. They will be held at Emmanuel Christian Centre, in Lichfield. This will be a free class as it is aimed to reach out and help the community around the church.

Numbers will be limited to around 25.

For more information, please email me at info@myauctionempires.com 

Happy eBaying
Andrew Milburn

New eBay Search Here In UK

A few weeks back I mentioned that eBay were  thinking abd talking about introducing a new kind of search function here in the UK.

This new eBay search will automatically fill in what they thats ebay ’think’ you’re looking for.  it works a bit like those sites that as you start to type in a name it fills out the rest for you. Well I am pleased to tell you this search is now up and running and as a seller I am mega happy, well very very happy.

Why am I so happy, well think outside the box, something as regular readers know I am hot about. As I was do an ebay class I asked one the girls in the class to name a niche and she said Candles. So I typed candles in and below is a bit of what came up in the search

- Yankee Candle
- Scented Candles
- Jo Malone Candles
- Candlesticks
- Candlestick holders
- Church Canles
-Smelly Candles
Etc
Etc

Have you spotted as a seller why I am so happy?…………..

Well first off if I was already in the market of selling candles it gives me further keywords I might have missed out, or it might give you other brands you had forgotten, and it will give you further candle niche products to sell.  Thanks to eBay they have done all that research for you.

Now you might be thinking about going into another niche, well go along to the search function type in a word and see what comes up, My guess you will have your main products and plenty of sub-niches.

The time taken not very long.

The Cost. Well nothing eBay has done this research for you.

What have you got to lose? Go try it now

Another eBay tip bought to you from

Andrew Milburn and My Auction Empires

resources

Do you have a favorite resource that you use on eBay or your chosen online platform? If so please leave me a comment and tell me what it is, and why you like yo use it - Yes you are allowed to use affiliate links, but again do not spam.

Many Thanks and Happy eBaying
Andrew Milburn

A Change Is In The Air

Hi,

Over the next few weeks, having taken advice from Janelle Elms of OSI RockStars I am changing parts of this blog.

For example I have bought a new domain name and will be using this for my Education Specialist Program, and  this will be a static site with just a few articles there, but the base will be the classes I teach. this will be on LinfordDirectTraining . com (This is NOT live yet).

And I have bought another name for my Trading Assistant business.  This is on Trading-Assistant-In-Staffordshire . com again as yet this is not live.

Then I shall use this blog, to post hints and tips, product sources etc, and as the two new ones will be more static I shall not have to spend loads of time on them, just updating when I add new classes etc.

Happy eBaying

Andrew Milburn

UK Product Source 009

My choice of product supplier this week is :

GHI

Gift House International have a vast range of products and they are one of the UK’s leading gift suppliers.
One of the many products that they supply is the Sober Man Bottle Holder . This gift is a must for any party or for those who love to party. It will fly out of your stores over the Holiday season. GHI2

Gift House International can be contacted by writing to :

Gift House International Limited
Sully Moors Road
Sully
Vale of Glamorgan
South Wales
CF64 5YU

Tel: 01446 700533
www.gifthouseinternational.com

sales@gifthouseinternational.com
accounts@gifthouseinternational.com

Happy eBaying
Andrew Milburn