Researching eBay before you begin your eBay career is essential to building a successful eBay business. It's only through researching what sells on eBay that you can pick profitable lines and avoid much of the 'learning curve' costs one hears about.
But it's not enough to source a great line of products to sell on eBay. You need to also research what selling techniques work best. Understanding the niche you've chosen is vital to knowing what motivates buyers to buy.
There are several expensive solutions available. If you've been reading material about doing business on eBay you no doubt have come across the names, 'Hammertap', 'Terapeak', 'Andale' and even the market tools offered by eBay itself. While all of these tools can be helpful, they can also add significantly to your costs, particularly if you are just starting out on eBay. The last thing you want to do is get hooked into a monthly fee when initially exploring the opportunities offered through eBay.
I have a better solution then the above named eBay research services. One that won't break your bank account. It's so affordable you're going to wonder why you haven't heard about it sooner. In fact, you can use the basic program, which is designed to scan 'eBay Pulse' for hot new product trends, absolutely free. And free is good! Plus, there's a blog that does most of the heavy lifting of product scanning eBay for you. Even the bought version is set at one low price, not a monthly fee and comes with a slew of free bonuses. Updates are free as well and automatic, sometimes daily, all done in the background.
One of the features of this valuable free tool is how it actually employs Terapeak's eBay research into it's own result pages. It utilizes that which Terapeak gives away freely to extend your eBay research further.
GOOGLE's seemingly simplistic input field has inspired the basic program. There's just a drop down menu to get you started (instructions are included below that). You click on an eBay category you'd like to explore and a page is built for you on the fly. Follow the simple instructions to further uncover the hottest products on eBay in REALTIME.
The key to using this tool is first to determine which products on eBay are getting the most bids. This, the tool does for you. The second step is to look at those auctions that interest you to study the way they are presented. See how the seller presents their information. How many photos do they use? What exact wording are they using? What's your first impression of the title they've used? Make notes of any emotionally charged keywords they are using. For while you won't want to copy their presentation word-for-word you will want to use the ‘emotional content' they've tapped into with the words they've chosen.
Successful auctions do not happen by chance. They are the results of careful planning and marketing tactics. Study as many eBay auctions as you can before you dive into the eBay experience yourself. You will be glad you've followed this advice. And now, my free eBay research tool makes this extremely easy for you to do.
While the expensive tools will layout a lot of research for you much of this can be uncovered by simply LOOKING AT REAL AUCTIONS IN PROGRESS. I developed my simple approach to studying eBay by having been inspired in my work as an independent stock investor.
All the fancy software in the world can not pick winning companies for the investor. Likewise, adding more buttons and thrills to expensive eBay research tools will never take the place of looking at auctions in progress.
The idea isn't necessarily to pick products with the highest bids either. It's to pick products with a good demand that YOU can find to sell. So don't get caught up in the mindset that you must have only items with high bid counts.
Many of the expensive tool promoters point out that these tools can tell you the best time of day to start and end your auctions. But they do this at a price. And although such information can be valuable to have at your fingertips it's not absolutely necessary and probably not worth the total expense of the package when you're just getting started.
To determine the best time of day to begin and end your auctions you have two free options I can think of right off the top of my head:
Study successful auctions as they are taking place, again, my free tool will clue you into which auctions are hot. Many of the people with the most successful auctions have already done your research for you. They use the expensive tools and services. Just spend some time (instead of money) looking at what they are doing.
And secondly, visit the forums dedicated to eBay sellers and ask questions. It's really that simple, and that free! GOOGLE: 'ebay sellers forums' for a list of forums you can checkout. Forums are the great untapped free research tools of the Internet.
And while on the subject of GOOGLE, it's worth your time to learn how to use all the features of this great search engine. It can be one of the best research "partners" a future eBay Power Seller has!
But it's not enough to source a great line of products to sell on eBay. You need to also research what selling techniques work best. Understanding the niche you've chosen is vital to knowing what motivates buyers to buy.
There are several expensive solutions available. If you've been reading material about doing business on eBay you no doubt have come across the names, 'Hammertap', 'Terapeak', 'Andale' and even the market tools offered by eBay itself. While all of these tools can be helpful, they can also add significantly to your costs, particularly if you are just starting out on eBay. The last thing you want to do is get hooked into a monthly fee when initially exploring the opportunities offered through eBay.
I have a better solution then the above named eBay research services. One that won't break your bank account. It's so affordable you're going to wonder why you haven't heard about it sooner. In fact, you can use the basic program, which is designed to scan 'eBay Pulse' for hot new product trends, absolutely free. And free is good! Plus, there's a blog that does most of the heavy lifting of product scanning eBay for you. Even the bought version is set at one low price, not a monthly fee and comes with a slew of free bonuses. Updates are free as well and automatic, sometimes daily, all done in the background.
One of the features of this valuable free tool is how it actually employs Terapeak's eBay research into it's own result pages. It utilizes that which Terapeak gives away freely to extend your eBay research further.
GOOGLE's seemingly simplistic input field has inspired the basic program. There's just a drop down menu to get you started (instructions are included below that). You click on an eBay category you'd like to explore and a page is built for you on the fly. Follow the simple instructions to further uncover the hottest products on eBay in REALTIME.
The key to using this tool is first to determine which products on eBay are getting the most bids. This, the tool does for you. The second step is to look at those auctions that interest you to study the way they are presented. See how the seller presents their information. How many photos do they use? What exact wording are they using? What's your first impression of the title they've used? Make notes of any emotionally charged keywords they are using. For while you won't want to copy their presentation word-for-word you will want to use the ‘emotional content' they've tapped into with the words they've chosen.
Successful auctions do not happen by chance. They are the results of careful planning and marketing tactics. Study as many eBay auctions as you can before you dive into the eBay experience yourself. You will be glad you've followed this advice. And now, my free eBay research tool makes this extremely easy for you to do.
While the expensive tools will layout a lot of research for you much of this can be uncovered by simply LOOKING AT REAL AUCTIONS IN PROGRESS. I developed my simple approach to studying eBay by having been inspired in my work as an independent stock investor.
All the fancy software in the world can not pick winning companies for the investor. Likewise, adding more buttons and thrills to expensive eBay research tools will never take the place of looking at auctions in progress.
The idea isn't necessarily to pick products with the highest bids either. It's to pick products with a good demand that YOU can find to sell. So don't get caught up in the mindset that you must have only items with high bid counts.
Many of the expensive tool promoters point out that these tools can tell you the best time of day to start and end your auctions. But they do this at a price. And although such information can be valuable to have at your fingertips it's not absolutely necessary and probably not worth the total expense of the package when you're just getting started.
To determine the best time of day to begin and end your auctions you have two free options I can think of right off the top of my head:
Study successful auctions as they are taking place, again, my free tool will clue you into which auctions are hot. Many of the people with the most successful auctions have already done your research for you. They use the expensive tools and services. Just spend some time (instead of money) looking at what they are doing.
And secondly, visit the forums dedicated to eBay sellers and ask questions. It's really that simple, and that free! GOOGLE: 'ebay sellers forums' for a list of forums you can checkout. Forums are the great untapped free research tools of the Internet.
And while on the subject of GOOGLE, it's worth your time to learn how to use all the features of this great search engine. It can be one of the best research "partners" a future eBay Power Seller has!