The article "How Professional Ebay Auction Templates Can Boost Your Ebay Sales" is about auctions, it has been written by Thomas Haselhorst.
Do you like to sell on eBay ?
It’s simple and fun, isn’t it ?
In fact, it’s one of the easiest online busienss you can start almost overnight, without any major investments. That’s the best thing aobut it. But do you also know that only the minority of the persons selling on eBay are really successful and that most of them quit after a little while or run it only as a hobby.
Yes, that’s true.
Hard facts, but the truth. So, what are the secrets of those successful eBay sellers ?
Well, the most important thing to become successful is a unique product. That’s the first thing. In case you don’t have a unique product, you can sell products which are in high demand, eg. chilrden clothing, designer clothing, digital cameras, etc. But you have to keep in mind that your item has to compete with 100 similar products – mabye even to a better price. So if you're selling products which are highly competitive, then your sales letetr has to be DIFFERENT. No, not only different, it has to be UNIQUE. And not only unique ! !
Your listing has to be PROFESSIONAL.Let me tell you about our experiment. We have tried varoius listings for the same item. And what do you think which listing got the most bids ? Right, litsings with a professional UNIQUE design end up with 30-40% more bids.
Can you imagine that ?
It was exactly the same item. Just the design of the sales letter can make a massvie difference in the end price you may get. It’s just amazing. We have saynig in German: “Das Auge isst mit”.
The translation is something like: “If it looks nice it has to taste better”. Well, as we know this is not always true though, but that’s the psychology of our human brain.
If the ovearll impression of the food is good, an impulse is sent to the brain: This has to taste good – I want to try that. It’s the same thing with purchasing in a shop or on eBay.
If the auction website of the item you're looking at looks nice, the product has to be good and it’s more likely that you click on the “Bid now” button. We have seen that many times and especially with our little experiment.So, if you use professional looking eBay auction templates for your listings, you will be surpirsed how this may boost your eBay business. Try to moidfy your templates and see which perform better. You will notice that a tiny chnage can make a huge difference. Keep track which templates have generated what prices and compare after a month.
You’ll see that some templates do really well and some don’t. Be creative and modify your tmeplates.
But be careful!
Don’t overdo it though with bright colours and a dozen animated gifs. No, that’s not what the byuers want to see. They want to have a clear and honest description and a good picture.
If the overall design is professional, think me – it’s more likley that they place a bid.
And at the end of the day – that’s all it counts, doesn’t it ? Thomas Haselhrost is webmaster of http://www.Auction-design-for-free.Com and http://www.Monster-ebook-sale.Com
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