How to Set up an Ebay Store

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With the economy down everyone is trying to find new ways of pulling in extra cash, and opening an ebay store is one of the best and easiest ways to do that. With their low cost of start up, and the millions of people who see your store every day there is no reason not to be selling stuff on ebay.

The benefits of having an ebay store are simple: It costs only 3 cents to list an item, and is as little as 15 dollars a month. In addition, ebay stores generated ecommerce from around the world.

Instructions

1. Create an ebay account if you dont already have one, this is a simple process and can be dont straight from the ebay homepage. Pay attention to your username, it is a big deal to change it later.

2. Log in and go to "myebay" in the top right, then click on subscriptions on the left. From here you can go through the prompts. When you set up a store, they have several options and different kinds of store, dont get confused. For beginners, the 15 dollar account is more than enough and comes with a free selling manager for one month but costs 5 dollars after that. Don't worry about everything else, it is set up automatically in the beginning and you can go back and change it later.

3. You will be prompted to chose a layout, just chose one you like. You will also set up categories and your store's motto. Make this something catchy that explains to people who you are and what you do. Pay attention to categories as people sometimes search ebay store's only by categories.

4. Instead of using ebays editor to list items, you can download turbo seller for free and use that. It lets you use templates which are nice and load and monitor all your auctions at once. If you are on a Mac, look into some of the other tools out there like GarageSale which is a great selling manager($25). Their is plenty of great eCommerce software out there and other ebay selling software.

5. Instead of having all your items in your store, send some items to auction so more people will see your store. It is only pennies to put items up when you have a store.

Tips & Warnings

• Increase visibility by linking to your store from all your other sites and blogs

• Offer discounts on shipping to entice people to buy more items

• go out and promote yourself in blogs and forums

• beware of scams and faulty buyers, you can use a feature that requires immediate payment from buyers

• only ship to the address on their account so that you are protected by the seller policy

Resources

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