Kevin's Recommended Listing Tools

 Kevin’s Recommended Listing Tools!

Tool #1)  Turbo Lister

If you are still doing all your listings on-line to eBay with Sell Your Item Form (SYIF), I suggest you upgrade to Turbo Lister. This is especially important if you are on a dial-up connection.

Turbo Lister is a FREE listing tool developed and supported by eBay. You simply download Turbo Lister to your hard drive from the eBay site. Then you can do all your listings offline and at normal speed to your hard drive.

Once your listings are complete, you can choose when to send them to eBay. If you are on dial-up, hit the “Upload to eBay” button just before you turn in for the night and let your listings upload. If you are on high-speed, you simply select the items you want to upload and then send them to eBay at the time you want your listings to begin. This will save you some eBay fees over SYIF because you can send all your listings at once, exactly when you want them to begin, and not have to pay eBay the additional fees required for pre-scheduled listings.

Best of all, Turbo Lister makes it easy to create, copy and duplicate existing listings. So if you are selling items that come in different sizes or colors you create the first listing, duplicate it, then edit the minor changes to quickly create the new listing.

Learn more about Turbo Lister and download your FREE version from eBay at:

q       http://pages.ebay.com/turbo_lister

 

Tool #2)  Add Interactive Video with Deal4it!

Interactive video is a relatively new tool that progressive eBay sellers are now using. For the most part, I have not been a big fan of the technology. That is, until I recently discovered a company called Deal4it. I am very impressed with their product and the impact it has had on increasing the number of hits, bids and sales for the sellers who are using it.

Deal4it has developed one of the most inventive ideas I have seen in a long time to improve the eBay buying experience. I also think they have brought the fun back to eBay buying. Using professional actors, they have created numerous interactive video clips that communicate with the buyer and help encourage them to bid.

Here is how it works. Let’s say you have a Best Offer listing. As a buyer is viewing your listing an actor walks into the screen and begins talking. They encourage the buyer to make a bid. If they do, the actors will talk to them again, “No, sorry that bid is a bit too low” or eventually, “Congratulations we have accepted your bid!” You can choose from many actors as different characters, in order to portray the mood you want to convey - from serious to very funny.

The results have been excellent. I think buyers enjoy coming back to these listings and also sending their friends their too, “Hey, check out this funny eBay listing.”

It is very simple to add their videos to your listings. Deal4it also offers a very reasonable payment plan whereby you deposit a small amount to start and they will deduct a small fee each time you use their technology in one of your listings. Note the fee is based on one listing, not each time it is used during the listing.

To experience these fun interactive videos, and for a free trial, go to www.deal4it.com/studentrate then click “View a Demo”.