The Power of Listing Every Day (and Overcoming Distractions!)

I’d love to list everyday, but man it’s tough for me to find the time to do it!

Full-time work, exercise, kids, wifey, tv… there are just so many things that demand my time. But the benefit to my business of listing everyday is huge!

I’ve been trying desparately to get myself into prioritising my time much much more and I’ve stopped reading all those emails that really don’t add anything to my bottom line. In fact they tend to reduce my funds because a lot of it is affiliate marketing 99%, information 1%. Maybe you relate!

It’s also so good to see a growing number of listings in my auctions and in my store. There’s nothing worse than having no listings and store fees, selling manager fees and picture manager fees coming out of the bank in the meantime.

Just making a few changes in the last three days has seen me able to list over 10 more items and it hasn’t really taken much! If I can keep listing like this I should have 100 listings back in my store again. Those were the good ol’ days!

Marketing on eBay Through Cross Promoting Your Items Effectively

One of the great things about eBay is that there are a lot of powerful ways to market your items and pages through cross promotion.

Cross promotion is the art of getting people who are just ‘surfing’ through listings to stay on your pages for longer. This can take a number of forms, but in particular it means adding links to your other items on each and every item listing that you put up.

One of the best ways that I’ve found for doing this to great effect is to sacrifice one or more of your best listings at any one time.

eBay gives sellers the option of featuring their listings in various ways. There are two options in particular that work in a very powerful way to do this.

The first is to feature your item in the search listings. This costs less than $20, but it puts your listing right at the top of the search listings for the keywords that are being searched. This can give your listing a lot more exposure because normally listings only rise to the top of the search pages when they are nearly complete (as the default search display option is listed in order of least time remaining on an auction).

The second and most powerful way of getting your listing noticed by hundreds of members is to feature your listing on the eBay home page! This costs a little extra, but for under $40 your listing is going to get maximum exposure.

Selling an item that is HOT at any time on eBay and featuring your item in the search rankings or on the home page attracts a lot of interest and many of the people who view your item will go on to visit your store or your other listings or your About Me page and this can attract a lot of attention to the items that you are listing at minimum cost. In particular drawing attention to the items listed in your eBay Store gives you the leverage of being able to list store items for next to nothing and then driving traffic there from your featured pages.

Also, another little known fact about featured pages is that they rank very highly in Google! And this remains the case even after your listing ends!!

What this means is that even after your featured listing is over and your item has sold you will still be getting a lot of search engine traffic to your still active listings.

I recommend buying a few items from eBay itself that have attracted over 1000 visitors and reselling them. Even if you don’t make a profit on these items you are investing money very wisely into your eBay business for a long time to come…

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What’s Holding You Back From Online Business Success?

I’m a bit distracted at times. There are just so many things going on. Particularly on the internet. I mean I can spend hours just reading and responding to my email without even taking into consideration the number of links that I could be drawn into following.

I have found that when I get distracted my business suffers – significantly.

This has been one of the revelations that I’ve had recently considering Rich Schefren’s new report, ‘The Uncertainty Syndrome”.

I’ve realised that my roadblocks to success aren’t always finding products to sell and getting a high enough margin…

I’ve a lot more ‘personal’ things holding me back. Planning is probably the biggest.

It’s not really planning as such. I do plenty of that. It’s sticking to my plans. FIRST.

How much more successful could your online business or eBay business become if you found out what your obstacles are?