How To Use eBay As A Tool For Marketing Research To Sell Something On eBay

Virtual assistants at OBVA have been posting blogs related to market research for online business. Our previous post was about How to use Amazon as a tool for marketing research. If you are an eBay store owner, don’t worry.  eBay Assistants at would like to share about how to use eBay as a tool for marketing research.

Though the holiday season is over, each and every eBay store owner will be doing their best to stand top in the eBay business. How you as an eBay store owner, going to rank high in the competition? It’s simple. When you come to know what your target customers are looking for, you can easily sell those items and boost up your sales by knowing eBay statistics. But, how are you going to dig out to find out the best selling products, most watched items and so how to sell something on eBay?

eBay has its own best selling list

Like Amazon, eBay also has its own list, where you can find the popular searching items, best selling items and the stores based on each and every category. Here is the link to check. When you click on the category related to your business you can find a list of sub-categories. For e.g: I am clicking here on health and beauty which will act like eBay search tool.

It takes  to a sub-category list of makeup. If you are a beauty store owner and want to find the hot selling face makeup products, you can click on face under the sub category of makeup. There you can find the complete details of hot selling popular products, the most watched items, and bestsellers of these items and also the keyword people are searching for makeup.
For eg: In the below picture, you can search by the keyword makeup or brand names. You can also see the competitors for this keyword and best selling products of this category.

Check out Ebay’s hottest selling products

For every year, eBay itself releases the list of  Hottest selling products of 2011 Holiday season. We would also recommend you to do a comparative research by checking top 10 selling items in eBay. Read this blog on 5 ways to find items to sell on eBay which will give you good tips.

Thus, by completely digging out the hot selling items with various researches you can find out the niche hot selling products so that you can get huge profit out of it . Though it seems to be simple and easy, it consumes lot of your time to find out the niche products. So, if you find difficulty in doing the research delegate it to the professionals.

How to enhance your research more?

After finding out the product, you need to find out the sale through prices, best item titles, item categories etc.. You can use Terapeak for this. If you are new to Terapeak research, our post will help you know how effectively you can use Terepeak to increase your sales.   Your next job is to write simple and attracting listing.  Our post on “How top sellers write Listing Descriptions that Sell “can help you write an effective listing description for your product. And also you can advertise on eBay which can attract more customers and increase your traffic to your webstore. You can also use Social media for promoting your store. Websites like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin can be effectively used.

To get huge profit all over would certainly consume lot of time and energy. If you are new to eBay, you can count your money by smarty delegating your work to eBay professionals.  If you are an experienced seller, no worry. You too delegate your tasks to us and spend time on more development of your eBay business.  We do complete store management services for eBay/Amazon clients. Contact us today let us take care of your store!!. You can follow us on Twitter and like our Fan page. You can grab our RSS feed for our recent posts on eBay business.

5 Hottest eBay Selling Tips To Increase Your Selling This Festive Season

What buyers may look for this holiday season and which store do they expect to buy? As many stores target their customers by introducing more offers and discounts, how you as an eBay seller, are going to stand out of the crowd and increase your turnover? Here are the 5 hottest tips that we follow for our clients stores  to increase the selling.

Follow these tips to increase you selling this holiday season.

Tip 1# Find and Sell Hottest Items That People Are Looking For:

Few items will always have a huge demand in the holiday season.  Find those items and try to sell them in your store with great deals. For e.g., If you are toy shop owner, try to search for the most wished items that people are looking for. A recent research states that Video Barbie dolls are the best selling this year. So do a research and find out the items that people are crazily looking for this holiday season.

Tip 2# Promise To Ship On Time:

Though many sellers sell items with  great deals, it is known to anyone that packages could mess up due to this holiday season. Hence they would always look for a store that ship items within 24-48 hours. This is the second factor that customers would see after choosing which item to buy. So promise your buyers that you would ship items within the specific time. If you can’t manage shipping, you can delegate your routine shipping label printing to experienced Virtual Assistants to take care of your shipping so that you can ship items in 24/7 hours. Include this in your listing as it would entice your customers to choose your store.

Tip 3# Include Free Shipping Option:

Free shipping option is another hot tactic followed by many retailers. Some are also offering discounts in shipping or include coupons for expedited shipping. The NRF’s data says, that some 5% of merchants will offer such a deal for orders placed as late as the last day of season. Hence push your sales by offering free shipping for orders and discounts in shipping for multiple orders.

Tip 4# Have Your Customers Spread The Word For You:

As we know, word of mouth is the best form of marketing, why not encourage your customers to talk about your offers and deals on their Social Media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, blogs, etc? For example, you can offer free coupons or gift vouchers to your customers who can tweet your offers. By this way you can promote your store and you can have more customers. This technique have been used by very big companies like Microsoft and Facebook.

Tip 5# Avoid Selling Poor Quality Goods:

Since manufacturers are selling goods directly to their customers there may be shortage of inventory due to peak season. You must be prepared with inventory. Do not sell poor quality fake items. Because, any customer who loves your product will never go to other sellers. In this peak season, any new customer may come to store and purchase items. If they love your items, then there’s a chance that they may turn into long term returning customers. So make use of this by selling the goods directly from manufacturer. For this, you can take an inventory report daily and find out the best selling items and have them in extra stock so that you may not suffer.

With the above said tips I hope that you would be able to increase you sales this holiday season. For every sales do a market research and find out the hot trend and hottest items that sell in market. You can use effective eBay marketing tools to find the best selling items. If you find any difficult in doing it delegate it to professionals. We at OBVA do research for our clients and get them more sales and profit during holiday seasons. You can join our community by liking our Fanpage or following us in Twitter.

Last-Minute Tips To Generate More Leads To Sell More In Amazon/eBay This Holiday Season!

It’s exactly just few days left for Holiday season.  Still many of the eBay and Amazon sellers or other small business owners are striving hard to drive more sales.  According to the Ponemon Institute, a full third of holiday shoppers plan to spend more money online than in-store in 2011. Therefore you need to spend more time in promoting your business online to attract your local and global audience.

We at OBVA would like to share Last-Minute Tips how to sell something on eBay/Amazon  this holiday season:

Spread Your Offers In Social Media:

Promote your ads/offers using paid advertising campaigns in Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ to entice more visitors. Attractive offers like Buy two get one free, bonus gifts for every purchase etc..can boost more sales. Also, Flash news about one time offers like “Barbie dolls with gift wrapped for free shipping only today”, Foundation creams with Free shipping for first 20 international customers”  will turn you customers to click the buy buttons. You may not have time to involve in such creative and attractive offers to your customers. Delegate such tasks to Virtual Assistants quickly to end your deals.

Word Of Mouth Spreading Through Referral Marketing:

Once you come with attractive offers, encourage your customers to be your walking advertisements. This with no doubt can increase your sales.  Implementing this will not only increase your sales but would maintain a high volume selling in the coming year 2011.  “Refer your friends and get 20% discount on your next purchase can increase your sales” or ” Share it to your friends and get a free gift coupon today!” can get you high ending sales volume. Here are  Top 3 Tips To Convert Your New Customers To Repeat Customers  that might help you.

Mobile And Email Marketing:

According to a recent research it has  been estimated that more than 420 million smart phones will be selling in this year 2011. Hence make use of this effectively, by sending message alerts with special offers and discounts to your customers may change their buying mood to your store. Email marketing is another best way to promote your business with great offers. More than one-third of online shoppers say they would not make a purchase without a free shipping offer. Hence make this is a subject to increase your selling. Here are few Tips To Encourage Your Customers Share Your Amazon/Ebay Business .

Though many store owners may be enticing their customer with more offers, stand out of the crowd by making your offers clear, focused and easy to understand.  Your offers should be clean, brief, to the point and should turn any customer to click on buy buttons. If you do have time to write such exclusive offers, you can hire experts to quickly generate more leads. Here are few “ Holiday Selling Tips That No Seller Will Share With You” which you can use to increase your sales. No matter if it is too late to choose your Virtual Assistant, delegating to experts always help. Happy Selling!

2 Great Offers Rolled Out By eBay For Powersellers– Sell More On eBay This Holiday Season!

If you are looking for information on How To Sell Something On eBay, then you are at the right blog!

Discount offer #1 announced by eBay:

On Dec 1^st eBay announced  that “All PowerSellers: Save up to 32% on USPS shipping this holiday season” This program offers Commercial Plus™ Pricing—savings of up to 32% off of retail pricing—when you pay for postage and print labels from eBay Labels. If you haven’t signed up yet, enrollment is easy—you can do so the next time you use eBay Labels.  eBay Top-rated sellers and Platinum or Titanium PowerSellers qualify for this discount year-round.

Who are Powersellers? eBay’s “Powersellers” are a group of sellers who are distinguished by the amount of volume they produce in online sales. These Powersellers are the very small group of eBay sellers that do at least $2,000 per month in sales on eBay and maintain a 99% positive feedback rating. If you want to know more about how to become one, here is a post on “Top 10 Secrets That You Should Know To Become A Powerseller.”

Discount offer #2 announced by eBay:

Another discount that eBay announced for the holidays is the 20% Final Value Fee discount, which is just one more way to save!

During holidays everyone is willing to do more business and get more profit.  Apart from making the most of each offer, a seller should also concentrate on how to write effective listing, take good care of customers, maintain positive feedback and claims, etc. You may need to do huge volume of listing, packing and shipping each month, you may consider delegating the tasks to eBay virtual assistants who can help you do the tasks for in time. You can then concentrate more on important aspects of your business and monitor the whole show.

During holiday season, one aspect that needs utmost attention from eBay sellers is feedback. Try to avoid these “7 customer service mistakes that can result in a negative feedback.” Always try to resolve the issue by contacting the buyer on time. Here is “eBay Feedback Revision Tip” that can help you get your feedback revised.

Once the shipping labels are printed, eBay sends automated emails to your customers. You can add wishes like “Merry Christmas” or “Happy New Year” to add to the customer experience.

We will certainly keep you posted with more news and offers from eBay and Amazon. You can subscribe to our blog RSS here, like us on Facebook,+1 on Google and friend us on Twitter, and we would love to interact with you more often. If you are thinking of delegating your store, check out our performance reports from eBay/Amazon clients here. We offer completely customized eBay store and Amazon store services.

Part 2: Little Known Smart Ways To Revise Negative/Neutral Feedback – eBay Feedback Revision Tip Series By EBay Virtual Assistants

If you notice common selling tactics of  top eBay sellers or power sellers, you will  notice that they have a flawless feedback score.  How do they manage to get 100% feedback or 99% feedback? Their customers never face issues? Packages don’t get delayed? They never come across customer emails who are unhappy with their product/service?  Well, as you know, it is impossible to answer all questions as YES.

The truth is  even the best sellers have to face unhappy customers once in a while, like other newbies. But what they do differently is, they work on the feedback left by their dissatisfied customers immediately and work to offer them a feasible solution. So, if you want to become a successful seller on eBay with a 100% feedback, you will have to simply follow the eBay feedback revision tips shared by eBay expert Virtual Assistants at OBVA Inc. We have experience in helping many eBay client stores maintain a successful track record all the way to 100% feedback ratings and high sales month after month. In our last post, we wrote about the most common reasons “Why Customers Leave Negative Feedback Or Neutral Feedback on eBay.” Now we are going to write how to get them removed to get back to your 100% feedback score.

eBay Feedback Revision Tip 1 – Work On A Solution Immediately – Preferably Within 24 hours

Whenever your customer leaves negative or neutral feedback, respond to them immediately saying that you are working on their feedback to solve their issue. This would make them feel confident about your store that you are there to take care of their issues. Try to offer them immediate solution. Let us take an example of item not received in time. In this situation request your customer to wait for stipulated time frame to receive the item.  After the time frame is over, do email them asking if they have received their item. They will surely respond you to let you know the fact. If they didn’t receive it, confirm their mailing address once again which may be reason for lost and promptly send the replacement.

Now if you request them to remove the feedback, they will surely revise the feedback. Work out on a solution that is feasible for both the parties. Customers are nice to you if you are nice to them. After all, they are very much like you and me, humans!

 eBay Feedback Revision Tip 2 -Send Regular Reminders

In this busy world, your customers are busy with their day to day life, just like you and me. Therefore, they may not have the time to bother about the ebay feedback revision. So, it is important that you send regular reminders.

Send friendly reminder emails to your customers for the feedback to be revised. Do not harass them by sending too many emails. Good customer service will half way solve the problem of unwanted feedbacks. So make sure you avoid 7 customer service mistakes that can result in a negative feedback. You can also follow the 4 Rules That OBVA eBay Virtual Assistants Follow To Maintain Positive Feedback.

eBay Revision Tip 3 – Deliver What You Promised

Once your customer has revised the feedback, do deliver what you promised them. If they left a feedback commenting that they did not receive the product and then you promised a replacement, send that replacement immediately. However, in cases where feedback was revised by a simple humble request, do not forget to sincerely thank the customer for being nice to you. In simple words, acknowledge their help!

We all know the saying “Prevention is better than Cure”. Hence it is wise to avoid unwanted feedback that may arise due to poor customer service, over exaggerating the item quality when it is not actually met, delay in product delivery, unclear return policy, unclear item description etc.. Make sure you do your best to be transparent while writing your listings, title, description and also have clearly arranged return policy, refund/replacement policy, shipping policy to ensure that customers have access to information that matters. If you do not have time to do all that is required, then hire eBay virtual assistants who can work with dedication for your eBay store and help you make it a success!

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Part 1: Who Else Wants To Know The Reasons Why Customers Leave Negative Feedback On eBay – eBay Feedback Revision Series By eBay Virtual Assistants

We are approaching holiday season, and now it is time for lot of eBay business. Do you want to be prepared with 100% feedback score for better sales? If yes, please read on while we discuss the most common reasons why customers leave a feedback on you. Are you thinking how we know the reasons? Well, because we are a team of eBay virtual assistants working on client stores for years now. We work regularly on feedback management and we therefore know, what can lead your store to a unwanted feedback. Once you know the reasons, you can work on how to avoid these at the first place. If you have already got lot of negative feedbacks, our next post will discuss ways how you can get the feedback removed.

Now let us see the Top 4 reasons that may lead to negative/neutral feedback for your eBay store. If you check any eBay store, mostly negative feedback would be left due to unclear return policy procedures, shipping issues, unclear item descriptions, and poor communication with customers. Here are the reasons in details -

Reason #1: Unclear Return Policy

Customers prefer to buy from an online store that accept return if the product is not satisfying. Therefore, you must have a return policy in place. If you do not have a return policy in place, here is our article on “5 tips on how to write return policy.” If you need help, contact us.

Reason #2: Issues in Shipping

When there is a delay in shipping, it would be good if your customers are pre informed about the reasons and issues in delays. This would certainly build a healthy business relationship with your customers. You can also send emails to customers with the shipping information as soon as the item is shipped with a clear expected delivery date.

Also do not forget to mention where you ship from. When customers do not get necessary information, they may get irritated or upset when items dont arrive by their expected date. So, let them know what will be the expected date approximately.

Make sure that you have a clearly defined “DO NOT SHIP COUNTRY LIST” in case you do not ship to certain countries for shipping difficulties. If you do not have clear information on this, you might get orders from these countries and then end up getting a feedback for unexpected order cancellation. Shipping information NEEDS to be clearly defined as maximum feedback are due to ‘Still not received”, “received very late”, etc. If you are busy with other things and do not have to ship the same day, hire experts who can print the labels for you on time and then you can just put the products in packages and ship out.

Shipping on time is very important.

Reason #3: Unclear Item Description

We can say from our experience, 25% of feedback result due to product not clearly or honestly described in Item Description. Here is a useful post by us on “ How eBay Topsellers write listing descriptions that sell” So make sure you describe everything about the item clearly, shortly and honestly. If something is not mentioned due to reasons like color or size or warranty and if customers come back due to that particular issue admit the mistake and offer her an immediate solution for her problem. Simple efforts can make a big difference. By following “3 Tips To Convert Your New Customers To Repeat Customers” you can ensure that your customers stick to your store for long.

Reason #4: Poor Communication With Your Customers

Friendly and polite emails can make your customers feel better immediately. Whenever you respond, write pleasing and polite emails to comfort your customers. Respond to your customers promptly. Maintain a TAT or time frame to respond every query. Also, avoid 7 customer service mistakes that can result in a negative feedback. This way, your buyers won’t get disappointed as their queries and issues are promptly solved. Remember there is no big advertisement than your customer’s satisfaction. So do your best to solve customer’s queries.

Our next post will be on “Little Known Smart Ways To Remove Negative/Neutral Feedback”. Make sure you grab our RSS feed for updates. We would love to be connected with you on Facebook and Twitter and share more news and updates with you regularly. If you are too busy managing your store, it is wise to delegate to eBay Virtual Assistants for better business.If you need assistance in managing your store, please contact us. We never work for your competitors.

Part 4 – Selling Manager-Top eBay Marketing Tool Series Post By eBay Virtual Assistants At OBVA

If you are committed to take your eBay business selling to the next success level, it’s time that you learn about the tools and softwares that you can use to make the most of this powerful online selling platform. There are so many tools which make managing eBay business easy and effective. In our last 3 posts of this series, we have shared three tools, Turbo Lister for bulk listing, Terapeak for market research,  and eBay listing analytics for analyzing your listings. Today, we write about Selling Manager for online sales management.

What is Selling Manager:

Selling Manager is an online sales management tool for managing your eBay listings. It is an effective tool especially for new, small and medium sized eBay sellers. After your listings are created manually or using a bulk listing tool like Turbo Lister you can manage and track your listings using Selling Manager.

Features of Selling Manager

• It’s a free tool.
• You can leave bulk feedback . You can also send feedback to multiple buyers.
• You can print invoices in bulk.
• You can see the post sales activity.
• You can customize your email templates.
• You can relist multiple sold and unsold listings at once.
• You can easily download and keep track of the sales history.

How to subscribe Selling Manager :

Click on this link to subscribe to eBay Selling Manager.

You will be taken to a page as shown below. Click on selling manager to complete your subscription. Thus using this tool is very easy and it will help you manage your time effectively by performing many actions in bulk.

It is free, and it is will help you save loads of time. You can then give more time to your marketing activities, like Internet Market Research, Social Media on Facebook, Twitter, etc., Blogging, etc. If you think it is too much doing everything on your own, delegate to us – eBay expert VAs. We at OBVA help our clients in managing consistent positive feedback rating, resolving disputes and claims, sending invoice, remote shipping label printing, managing customer service by avoiding mistakes, handling feedback, invoice and inventory reports, etc. We also help in finding hot selling products to increase the sales by doing effective internet research. Please subscribe to our blog updates so that you may not miss out any of our posts on eBay marketing tools. We never work for your competitors. Contact us today for a free consultation.

Part 3 – eBay Listing Analytics – Top eBay Marketing Tool Series Post By eBay Virtual Assistants At OBVA

eBay Expert Virtual Assistants at OBVA have been sharing posts on series of eBay marketing tools for effective selling on eBay. Today, we are going to share a powerful tool, eBay Listing Analytics.

For every business, it is important to review performance regularly so that the business manager is aware of where the business is heading too! Is the sales trend going upwards Or downwards? Which areas need improvement? Which products are selling more and which aren’t? eBay listing analytics answers most of the questions relating to your business performance review…

What is eBay Listing Analytics?

eBay listing analytics helps you review the performance of each and every item of your store.  This can be done either by entering the keyword or the item number. You can also review the performance of your listings in a particular category. Thus by reviewing each of your items, you can keep the guesswork out of your work, when you have got access to accurate statistics.  Using this tool, you can also check the performance of both your auction listings and buy it now listings.

By reviewing the performance of each and every item, you can take better decisions on listing your new products and re-listing your existing products on the basis of their performance. Using  eBay research tool – Terapeak, you get data on the hot selling items on eBay for different categories. If you are selling an item which is a best seller, but then your store is selling very less number of the same product, you will know that there is something wrong with your listing. Then you can research for effective keywords, and change your listing accordingly. So, eBay listing analytics will tell you where you need to improve and Terapeak will tell you HOW?

You can also take other effective steps to increase sales of  items (that need attention) by -

-> Reducing the cost of the item

-> Offering discounts/freebies

-> Reducing shipping cost or offer free shipping

-> Extending the offer period for discounts

Advantages of using Listing Analytics in eBay selling

1. It is a free tool and easy to use.
2. If you are medium enterprise eBay store owner selling in huge volume, you can download the listing metrics in a spread sheet and analyze the data for better business planning.

How to Use eBay Listing Analytics? Easy 3 Steps

Step 1- Go to the Application tab of My eBay
Step 2- Hit the activate button of Listing Analytics and check the subscription box
Step 3 -Listing Analytics for your store will be activated then

It is free, it is powerful. So, it is smart to follow these 3 steps to activate eBay Listing Analytics today for your store. Reviewing the performance metrics of your store can certainly help you increase the sales volume, if you can take apt steps based on what you learn about your listing. Knowledge is powerful, and it is very much needed if you think progressive for your store… If you are too busy doing everything on your own, delegate to eBay expert VA. We at OBVA help eBay stores sell better. Here is the performance reports from our eBay/Amazon clients. We take care of lot of routine tasks including remote shipping  label printing, managing disputes and claims, feedback, customer service, taking inventory reports, sending invoice, refunds and replacement, internet research for product, price and competitor, etc…

If you need  assistance in successful eBay selling, please contact us. We never work for your competitors! Connect with us through RSS feeds, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and we will keep in touch for better learning for better eBay business.

Part 2 – Terapeak – Top eBay Marketing Tool Series Post By eBay Virtual Assistants At OBVA

eBay is an auction world where millions of items are auctioned and sold online every minute. eBay certified Virtual Assistants have been working on eBay stores to helping clients manage stores more efficiently by offering complete package of eBay specialized services that include Ebay & Amazon Store Outsourcing Services, Virtual Assistant Blog Content Services, CardScan Expert .

During the course of managing eBay businesses, we use numerous tools that help us make eBay business better. We are currently writing a series of posts of “Effective marketing tools that help sell successfully in eBay.” Our last post was Part 1-  Turbo Lister -Marketing tool for eBay. In today’s post, we would like to introduce the second effective tool that you can use for better marketing of your store. Its …. Terapeak -Marketing tool for eBay.. Terapeak is a well known tool, however, to our surprise, many eBay sellers seem to be unaware of it. Therefore, we have included this powerful eBay Market Research tool in our blog post…

What is Terapeak?

Terapeak is a market research and management software, and is very popular and used by Top eBay sellers who want to dominate in sales and become a power seller. To be a successful seller you need to have information more than a normal seller. Here is where Terapeak comes in. Its information goes upto one year and includes the following: item sales prices, item sell through rate, item titles, item categories. If you are new to eBay selling and don’t  know which products to sell, or the prices to sell items at, then Terapeak is the right one for you. Terapeak is widely used by established sellers alike who want be on top of all eBay Market data. This tool is a must for any eBay seller looking to collect valuable insights into what’s selling, who’s selling it, and for for how much? There are four main categories of data provided by Terapeak that include- – What’s Hot, Category Research, Seller Research & Product Research. These features can be used for effective marketing research.

Features of Terapeak:

• You can find out the average starting price for your product. You can determine the end price of an item and find out the kind of profit the item can give you. Obviously, to know the profit margin, you have to conduct Internet Market Research to find out suppliers and the cost price. We conduct regular selling price-cost price research for our eBay clients.
• Its information goes back Only 365 days…in increments of 90 days and includes the following: item sales prices, item sell through rate, item titles, item categories
• You can determine the sale-ability of any item i.e. if the product can sell well or not.
• Research can be done at various time limits like 7, 30 and 90 day range to get a better history of the item.
• The tool will let you know what day, time of the day, and the exact keyword phrases that produced the best results for the product listing.
• Terapeak will let you know what is best type of listing for your product- a bid, buy it now, or store items? With this tool you can find out all the listings during a specific period and the sell through rate. What else can you ask for?

Few limitations:

It is a paid tool. Yes, there is a free version, but its only for 14 days and you cannot dig as deep in the data as you would want to. Paid version is worth the money if you have access to expertise who has experience using Terapeak or if you yourself have the time to research regularly and understand the reports.With paid version you get a product heat map which help you the hottest categories to sell by bids, total sales, bids per list and much more.

With Terapeak you have the advantage over the average seller because you have information they don’t, information that could prove very valuable and get more traffic to your store and convert eBay traffic to your customer.. We at OBVA are committed in providing whole range of customized services for eBay store owners. The services offered by us are Internet Marketing Research, eBay admin support, Amazon admin support, Social Media Marketing, Blogging, and Internet marketing support. You can grab our RSS feeds to learn more and more about  selling successfully on eBay. You can connect with us on Facebook and Twitter today!

Part 1 – Turbo Lister – Top eBay Marketing Tool Series Post By eBay VirtualAssistants At OBVA

eBay Specialized Virtual Assistants at OBVA understand very well how difficult can eBay marketing be, when you don’t know the exact process to follow, tools to use, and what works what doesn’t. Therefore, we are always keen to share some useful posts which can help you better market your store while you start using useful eBay selling tips to become a top-rated eBay seller .

In today’s post, we would like to introduce the top effective tools that you can use for better marketing of your store.

Here the list goes….

Part 1-  Turbo Lister -Marketing tool for eBay

What is Turbo Lister:

According to eBay Turbo Lister “Turbo Lister is a FREE listing tool to help you create professional-looking listings and upload thousands of items in bulk. Try the new eBay Turbo Lister, the next generation listing tool.” It does speed up the auction listing process and can store auction templates with all the category details. This is a tool that can be used offline to prepare as many items for sale as you want. You can add items into it whenever you are free and can upload them all in one batch. When you know which time the listing gets more bid, you can plan your listings accordingly. So, this tool can be a real powersaver if you are managing your eBay store yourself. And, if you are good at delegating your routine tasks, like listing your item, this tool can help your VA save lot of time they spent on listing. If your VA is an experienced eBay store manager, then you may not need to worry at all.

Features of Turbo Lister:

• Free and very easy to use
• Turbo lister can be used online or offline, in both the ways.
• You can upload about 1000 items within 15 to 20 minutes with one click.
• You can preview the ads before you go live on eBay.
• During special promo sale, you can save hundreds or thousands of dollars in listing fees!
• A copy of the auction remains with TL and contains all of the listing information such as categories, postage etc.
• You can add a free photo using the eBay photo service

Few limitations for Turbo Lister:

• Your ID and password in TL and eBay must be the same as this information is used when then listings are uploaded to eBay.
• While using TL, sometimes catching errors occurs while uploading due to shipping issues or other reasons and listing as to be started from scratch, which is frustrating.

Turbo Lister is an efficient program that lets you create and track all your eBay listings. You can  list items individually or you can bulk upload into Turbo Lister for selling on eBay.It is a great tool, but then it’s a tool, which needs human monitoring to make sure that the tool is doing its job without errors. We use Turbo Lister for our client store listings and monitor each listing once its live to ensure the tool has not made in errors. If you are doing all your eBay tasks alone, without delegating, chances are you are not getting enough time to think on ways to increase your product portfolio, do cross selling, and to get your customers come back to you again. We recommend delegating for better business. In the upcoming posts, we will share more tools which can make your eBay selling easy. You can grab our RSS feed for the latest updates. You can like our Facebook Fanpage and follow us on Twitter  and Google+ to make sure you don’t miss out on the posts.