Do you have your own off eBay website?

As an eBay seller you know you should have your own website but for some unknown reason our research indicates that most eBay sellers do not. Why?

If it is because you do not have the time to set up another high maintenance difficult to control Internet presence... You may not be aware of all of the new and interesting ways to get online with your own name and brand while not having to maintain that online portal each and every day.

A website can be thought of as a more difficult animal to manage than an eBay store or auction listing business. In reality the maintenance is much lower while sometimes the cost to get started can be a bit higher. Continuing costs of a website versus an eBay business are completely different however and by an almost universal consensus the stand alone website will win the cost to maintain battle every time.

So, why eBay? Because with the massive traffic generation provided by the huge amount of inbound links and the pure enormity of eBay a seller can have a higher percentage chance of making a sale on eBay than on a stand alone website.

What if you want a website and the traffic of eBay but you do not have enough source of supply to populate your own eCommerce site to compete with the massive lists of products found on eBay or Amazon? We think you could be quite happy with the following solution.

One particularly interesting method of populating an off eBay website which will not simply promote your brand and your eBay items but also will pay you back and run on autopilot. Is to install phpBay Pro on an existing or new php based website or Wordpress CMS site.

phpBay Pro (See Link in the Sidebar) is an Ebay software script available as a plugin for Wordpress or as an API (application programming interface) for php driven web sites. It’s built for simplicity, meaning that you can have it up and running in just a matter of minutes. Both versions come with documentation.
Ebay Affiliate Software

phpBay Pro enables web publishers to quickly and easily add keyword rich eBay auction listings to your Wordpress or php driven site to generate serious affiliate revenue in a matter of minutes!

What this means to those who may not be aware of the terminology used in the phpBay Pro company literature is...

With phpBay Pro any website can import any eBay listing category, store, or keyword group directly into a stand alone website or Wordpress based self hosted blog. When the owner of such a website signs up as an eBay affiliate at Commission Junction, the resulting traffic directed to eBay from these listings inserted into any own website or blog will generate 24 hour a day revenue for that site. Those same listing imported into your off eBay website add constantly updating and new content to that site. For SEO this is a great advantage. Your site can be relatively static, yet always have new listings imported providing recent and relevant content for search engine spiders to chew upon.

These imported listings can be from your own store, your favorite category, or of the best items from eBay's hot list. The best part is that the imported listings will look as though they are designed as part of your original website. It won't look like some eBay generated widget or html builder import. Well, actually... the best thing is that as the website owner you can make money on any item sold via your listings imported from eBay and you will not have to ship or stock or inventory any of them.

Check Out phpBay Pro - Follow that link below.... Tell em the All Business Auctions sent you! Or give us a call, we use phpBay Pro ourselves and would be happy to help you set up a website which can take advantage of this technology. We will insert eBay live listings with phpBay to a new site which could also contain not only your eBay listings from an existing eBay store but also have a page of eBay listings from other sellers stores (a great way to test niche's) and also have a web 2.0 style blog attached to build a sense of community with your buyers. The options are endless!

Can anyone clean up on eBay?

• If you sell collectibles like this Hummel - You could
• If you find a niche you enjoy - You might
• But if you're a brick and mortar business already - you will!

Brick and mortar retailers, wholesalers, distributors and manufacturers need to be aware that they already have 90% of the required ingredients to become very successful eBay and eCommerce retailers. In house these businesses already have the manpower, the sources of supply, the shipping capabilities and the product knowledge required to become a successful Internet marketing organization.

If you own or work for any kind of brick and mortar business mentioned above... You should look at adding eBay and then eCommerce to your business! Another stream of income could not be a bad thing and the brand exposure worldwide is always a good thing.

Give it a try or ask us for help!

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Why do so many journalists and "experts" feel they must report the demise of eBay on a seemingly daily basis?

I can assure you it will be a long long time before eBay goes the way of the Wooley Mammoth!  With more focused searches per day than even google or yahoo (Heck, maybe more than Google and Yahoo Combined), eBay is a long way from extinct.  Sure they are top heavy in management and they have some really poor ideas from time to time, but so do Microsoft and Apple... and those top heavy behemouths do not seem to be as endangered or near extinction as some journalists and technology pundits once thought...

• Stick with eBay and use it to your business advantage!
• eBay is a tool, it is advertising, it is a way to market to the world from your small or large storefront or from no store at all!
• Use eBay in good health, just as 5.4 million unique visitors did on a single day last week!

EBay: Nielsen/NetRatings reports 5.4M unique visitors to eBay on Black Friday

Last Updated: 27-November-2007 16:11:00

NEW YORK (Thomson Financial) - EBay Inc. said it was the most visited e-commerce site on Black Friday with 5.4 million unique visitors, citing information from Nielsen/NetRatings. EBay also said data from PayPal showed a 33% increase in online payment volume on Black Friday from a year earlier.

EBay said its sites, which include Shopping.com and PayPal, saw an increase in Cyber Monday traffic from a year earlier, with Shopping.com reporting a 28% increase. Traffic to merchants over the entire holiday weekend rose 30% year-over-year.

The company said, however, that the busiest shopping day of the season it still to come. EBay expects to see higher activity on Green Monday, the second Monday in December, as revenue and shopper traffic on Green Monday have outpaced Cyber Monday for the past few years.

Shares of eBay were up 3.5% to $32.08. Christie Rizk cr/jw

eBay demands details, well, maybe not eBay itself, but the buyers on eBay do!

US Auctions Australian Auctions Austrian Auctions Belgian Auctions Canadian Auctions French Auctions German Auctions Hong Kong Auctions Indian Auctions Irish Auctions Italian Auctions Dutch Auctions Polish Auctions Singapore Auctions Spanish Auctions Swiss Auctions UK Auctions

Time: ending soonest Time: newly listed Price: lowest first Price: highest first

black hills gold diamond wedding-engagement set ring    US $76.00

124 E Marquise Loose Engagement Diamond    US $450.00

71 G Pear Shape Loose Engagement Diamond    US $189.25

58 VS NATURAL Round Loose Engagement Diamond    US $289.00

Custom Made Platinum Diamond Engagement Ring    US $710.00

52 H-VVS Princess Loose Engagement Diamond    US $202.50

102 VS Round Loose Engagement Diamond    US $405.00

123 VS1 F Radiant Loose Engagement Diamond    US $1,031.00

DIAMOND WEDDING AND ENGAGEMENT RING SET    US $1,025.00

Pave Diamond 14K White Gold Semi-Mount Engagement Ring    US $72.99

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If you are disappointed in your auction sales results, maybe you should look at the details you include in your listings (or lack in your listings). Providing your customers with every possible answer to every possible question before they even ask... increases your likelihood of getting a bid.

Remember to include information about the size, weight, overall dimensions etc. People can not always visualize the size of a thing from a flat photograph.

Your photos should be clear and well detailed and your item should appear in those photos against a single color background. I recommend either white (high key), black or dark blue background colors.

Try to get some separation between your item and the background. This will make the item stand out and give it more detail. Our photos are shot in a dedicated studio with professional lighting and a large "light table". But you can use simple materials and lighting to accomplish nearly the same effect.

The point is to give the buyer all of the information they need to make a buying decision. Photographs are the best tools in your auction bag of tricks to accomplish that goal. Great descriptions are almost as important!

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...is an amazing and wonderful modern invention and there is no reason why boaters, sailors and yachtsmen should not take advantage of the buying opportunities available within the "Worlds largest marketplace". But what should you know before considering buying a boat on eBay?

First, you should know that it is no longer an odd occurrence to complete a major purchase on eBay. This online auction venue has turned the corner from being a novelty. eBay outsells General Motors and Walmart combined and people are not just buying beanie babies on eBay. An automobile is sold every 60 seconds on eBay Motors and over 100,000 new buyers are seeking their dream items on eBay every day.

With 200 million registered users, eBay has become mainstream throughout the world. eBay Motors is the site where boaters will find anything marine related, including their dream boat.

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