This is the second article of the series of using Auctiva. In the last post, I talked about account setup and the first part of creating a new listing. In this article, I will finish the rest of the sections of creating a new listing. Marketing Tools: This is an optional tool to increase exposure to the market. I will not get into details. Please spend some time to look into it yourself. Shipping Tools: – Location: You want to tell the buyers where your warehouse is located (where your product is going to be shipped from), so...
read moreMany years ago, when I first use eBay to sell my personal stuffs, I created each listing individually and the repeating process bugs me all the time. As soon as I treat my eBay selling as a business, I was actively looking for tools to help with efficiency. Eventually I found a good tool called Auctiva. From the definition from Wikipedia, “Auctiva is an eBay auction management system, founded in 1998 by Jeff Schlicht” Auctiva provides a user friendly interface to help build listing profiles and save them as template to make future listings...
read moreIn my previous post, I went through most of the basic functions an eBay seller should be familiar with. In this post, I am going to show some essential tools you can subscribe to your eBay account to improve the efficiency of selling products. Even though most of them are paid tools with monthly charges, I highly recommend you to at least give them a try (you can always cancel them at any time. You might have to pay for one month though), because the time and energy they end up saving you is invaluable. eBay Store Why open an eBay store and...
read moreI hope you had some fun with my demonstration in the last post. Please continue bearing with me for this post and the coming post as I am going to show you how to use Ebay account to operate your business. In this post, I am going to talk about all the basic functions every ebay account comes with and in the next blog post, I will focus on talking about the add-on tools. (There will be monthly charge involved for most of the add-ons) I will leave the decision to you to choose from the tools that suits your situation. As Ebay has very detailed...
read moreIn my last post, I went through the process of opening Ebay and PayPal accounts. Once the accounts are opened, you can link them together to build the backend of your business and put in the hard work consistently. Before I dive into the details of the PayPal account, let’s look at how to link your Ebay and PayPal accounts together. Link Ebay and PayPal accounts To link Ebay and PayPal accounts, you will first need to log into your Ebay account. Once logged in, most likely you will be directed to “My Ebay Summary”, of not, simply click...
read moreEven though most of you have had some experiences with ebay, I still want to spend some time to go over the process of setting accounts with Ebay and Paypal very quickly here. I know newbies will definitely appreciate it, so please bear with me. If you have already gone through all the account setting of Ebay and Paypal, you can definitely skip this article and check my next few blog posts for other information. Ebay Account No matter where you are located in the world, I will suggest you to try to register your account at ebay.com. Even...
read moreI have not written any blog post recently, so people might wonder what Sibo is up to these days. Well today I want to give a little update for the last one month or so. My dad came over around to Canada around 20th of October. As he has not been here in Canada since I moved from here from China 13 years ago, I feel like an obligation to show him around. He is only here in Vancouver for 2 days because it was a business trip, so I was busy driving for 2 days. I went to China and joined Canton Fair late October and early November. The fair...
read more“I am standing at the top of the mountain, with a snow ball in my right hand. I want to drop it. I know it is going to be big and it will keep growing bigger before it stops, however I have fear, too much fear, to let it go…” If that sounds like you, I am here to help you. I dropped my snow ball 3 months ago and now I see it’s growing bigger and bigger… Once you have done your product research on ebay and found your idea product (if you haven’t done so, please look at my previous post, 4 steps, 2 alternative ways to find...
read moreToday I am going to share some great value I personally created by using last 18 months of my time focusing on selling products on Ebay. Maybe you have read my last few posts and maybe this is the first time you are reading my blog. It’s all good. I will refer to some contents in previous posts, but I will make the navigation as easy as possible. In today’s post, I am going to show you step by step how I begin with an idea, followed by a process of conducting a product research on ebay, studying the demand and supply from the market and...
read moreWhy is this important? It helps you focus on and improve your effectiveness and efficiency. You see I mention these words lots of times in my blog posts. That’s because I truly believe that’s where you can differentiate yourself from the rest. As human beings, we often find hard time to step out from our comfort zone. We ignore the probability to improve our lives, or as an idiom says,” if it’s not broke don’t fix it.” To run a successful business is not about to make everything working, it’s to be...
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I am yet to really understand the gists. Please can you make it in a simple language for understanding.
Thank you for your comment. Please let me know your questions and I can help with more explanations. Thank you!
Hi Sibo,
I appreciate your challenge to come in front to create your network and build your community of trust and the result will show hisself in the VALUE that you had give the poeple for they to follow you. Great!
That is NETWORKING. KEEP ON.
I wish you Blessing and Success. Eithel
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