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Most eBay auction sellers will list various items and listings at the same time, make the sale, pack the item, ship it and then do it all over again without a thought of how to create revenue from selling on the backend.
Every good business will create additional revenue by selling to their already existing customer base through either an up-sell process or a backend sales process.
If you want to have a more profitable eBay business, implementing a backend process to your eBay auction sales will greatly increase your revenue as well.
The reason this is true and why the backend is so important is because that's your gold mine! You already gained the customer or visitor and now you're offering them something that they're already interested in and you aren't doing any extra work to do it! If you've read "The Mother of ALL Ebay Selling Secrets", you'll learn that the money is in the list. If the list is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, the backend is the gold in the pot!
It's always easier to sell to an existing customer than it is to get a new customer! If you want to make more money with your eBay auctions selling on the backend is the key to making more money with auction business. This is why you MUST take advantage of this very important seller tip.
In order to effectively use a backend selling process with your online auction listings, you'll want to have one or more products to offer to your customers or visitors. Your backend product can be a physical good or it can be an information product. It can be a membership to your newsletter subscription or your website. Whatever you want it to be as long as it goes along with your niche. It can also be a digital download such as an ebook, software or audio or video packages.
You'll implement this by incorporating a website to go along with your eBay auctions. You want to keep this hands free and automated as much as possible so it won't take much extra effort, if any, on your part. This is why having a website to compliment your eBay auction selling is a key element to promoting merchandise on the backend. It gives you the ability and creates the opportunity to increase your revenue outside of your eBay auction business. There's no limit to promoting backend products to your customers if you do it right.
How do you incorporate a website to sell backend products with your auction sales?
Using the information you find on this site along with "The Silent Sales Machine Hiding on eBay", you will learn how to implement this key strategy with your online auctions! If you haven't checked it out yet, you MUSt pick up a copy. The rewards you gain from it will be well worth the extremely small investment!
Now, I'm going to give you some ideas you may have never thought of when promoting your products to increase your profits from the traffic you get from your auction business. Remember, these aren't sold in your auction listing, they're sold through your website, through links on your website, through your newsletter, or however you decide to set it up! Depending on what you want to do with this strategy, you can set this up to operate hands free! Learn how to do this to grow your eBay selling business by reading "How To Sell On Ebay Using Automation Strategies"!
Now, here are some methods, strategies and ideas to promote backend products. You can even offer some of these in your auction listings if you want!
1. Create your own information product such as an e-book, how to videos, software program. You can create a tips book within your niche market or a frequently asked questions book within your niche market. Do a resource guide for your niche and offer it as a backend! Think outside the box and what you can create to do this. My good friend Skip McGrath has put together some great resources to selling information on eBay you can use to make more money! 2. John Thornhill is an eBay expert and powerseller who sells information products using online auctions. He has an excellent product called Resale Master Rights to teach you how to use other peoples products to make a lot of money with online auctions. Simply resale other peoples products to explode your auction sales.
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Here are some valuable resources you can
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A) Make your own videos to resell on eBay. Terrence is an expert at this. Simply video tape certain events in your area and resell them! Costs are low and all you have to do is shoot and edit a video! You can learn how to do this and make quick profits. B) If you want to write your own profitable ebook in as little as 7 days, even if you can't write, can't type and failed high school English class, check out: 7dayebook and Ebook Secrets Exposed! These are a couple of sources to teach you how to write and set up your own ebook delivery system to profit from! Ebook Secrets Exposed is an excellent book and is the exact ebook where I learned how to set up the perfect ebook delivery system as well as how to sell my book "The Ultimate Insiders Surplus, Liquidation and Wholesale Buying to Resell for Mega Profits Guide!" C) You can also use works in the Public Domain that are already written and modify them to add pictures, audio or video clips or however you wish and then sell it! People are making a living doing this online. D) Interview an "expert" on a subject related to your niche and then transcribe it into an ebook, audio or video etc. E) Do you know that people sell websites and downloadable products on eBay? Think of how you can utilize your areas of expertise to do the same and then offer a backend product to that. |
3. Offer a service where you'll consult with someone on your area of expertise or offer a service in your specialized niche. (For example, if you sell auto parts, offer to do automotive work for a fee.) You get the picture. Just tailor it to fit your situation. |
Here's an excellent way to increase your backend for your eBay auction selling strategy if you don't want to create a product or offer a service.
4. Use affiliate programs. You can easily create or develop your business using affiliate programs. "The Affiliate Business Blueprint" will teach you everything you need to know to create your own unique business without having your own product. Best of all, this is all hands free after you get it set up! This is an awesome resource with MP3 audio that I have greatly benefited from! |
I could go on and on but I hope you get the idea. Online auction sales are more than just having a hard good physical product to sell. You're also selling information. You just need to add it to your own eBay selling strategy and then do it.
Increasing your eBay auction sales is not hard, you just simply need to put in the work to do it. With the resources that have been freely made available to you on this site, the only excuse you'll have for failure is that you never did anything with the information you've been given!
Success is not magic, it is finding out the info you need to succeed and then doing it one step at a time. As Nike says: "Just Do It"!
As a final note, here are some more ideas on finding either front end and even backend products for your auctions:
Storage Locker Auctions: Just call your local storage locker companies and ask when they'll be auctioning off a storage locker. They do this when someone hasn't paid their bill and their space is delinquent.
Flea markets, garage sales and yard sales.
Estate sales: If a professional is already handling the estate sale, you're not as likely to get really great bargains. You can advertise that you can buy entire estates.
Ebay consignment selling is popular. Consignment stores exist specifically to sell items on eBay. Retail stores need a way to get rid of items that aren't moving as well as individuals also look to find other people to sell their items for them. You may be able to approach either stores or find individuals and offer to help them solve their overstock problems by selling those items on a consignment basis for a percentage of the profits. Eventually, you may try to purchase that inventory outright and then you keep all of the profit. Check out "The Ebay Consignment Business Manual"!
Discount stores: Look for clearance items at discount department and drug stores.
Seasonal: When you put an item up for sale, consider the time of year. Heavy coats and sweaters don't sell well in the spring and summer. Lawn and garden equipment is not going to sell as well in the winter as it will in the summer. If you have room to store items, you can make a nice profit buying off-season items and selling them in the appropriate season!
Friends and family: Tell people you know not to throw anything away. You'll take care of it for them!
I hope you are now armed with new ideas to implement in your eBay auction selling strategy! Now just develop and implement according to your own situation!
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