Secretarial Services - Selling on eBay

What can you sell on eBay?

Just about any item will sell on eBay. The best items to sell on eBay are items people want to buy.

Here's some excellent advice from marketing experts:

- Find a hot market.
- Find out what they want.
- Sell them what they want.

Find hot markets.

A hot market is passionate, motivated, irrational, has cash to spend, and is predisposed to buy. They also have to be easy to target. Examples of markets people are passionate about are motorcycles and golf. To target your market, find out what keywords they are using and include relevant keywords in your eBay title and description.

How to find out what people want.

Do your research. Find out what people are buying first before you buy or create anything to sell. Go to eBay and search for items you're considering. When the results come up, go to Search Options on the left, check the checkbox Show Completed List, then click Show Items. The search result will show you what items sold.

Find out what people are searching for.

Go to http://buy.ebay.com/. This page shows the popular keywords people type into the search box on eBay. You can click on any word and see how many times people searched for it. I typed in Motorcycles. Within the Motorcycle category, I found 16206 results in Parts & Accessories, 7522 for Apparel & Merchandise, 7274 for Motorcycle Parts, and 484 for Women's Clothing. This should tell you that motorycle parts & Accessories are popular items on eBay.

What do people buy on eBay?

Here's some of the items people buy on eBay:

- Any items they can find cheaper than elsewhere.
- Rare items.
- Unique items.
- Items created by the seller such as arts & crafts.
- Ebooks.

How to attract people to your item.

Your auction title attracts people to your auction. If your title includes words mentioned in the list you searched above then people will find you.

How to write a description that gets bids.

The best way to learn how to write an auction description that sells is through practice. Also study the description of other auctions that sell well.

If you want to sell successfully on eBay, sell what people want to buy, use keywords people will find, and write a compelling and descriptions that includes your most relevant keywords.

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