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Selling on eBay Steps > Step 5 > Automate Your eBay Business
Automate Your eBay Business
There are many tools we can use to make administrative tasks easier, including listing on eBay. Did you also know that once you have your eBay business established, you can AUTOMATE most of it? That means lots of leisure time! OR it gives you the time to find another niche product so you can make even more money selling on eBay.
Selling on eBay involves many mundane, but necessary routine maintenance tasks.
Now if you only have one or 2 auctions active at any one time, these tasks are easily manageable.
But what happens when your eBay selling becomes a business - when you have 50 or more listings at the same time? Managing all these can eat up your time - time that could be better spent on leisure, research, or listing more items to make more money!
The maintenance tasks necessary to sell on eBay can involve :
- Leaving feedback
- Invoicing
- Winning bid emails
- Scheduling listings
- Sales records
- Customer records
- Launch listings on a repeating basis
- Delivery tracking
- Order combining
- Inventory control
- After sales follow up emails
- Emailing receipts
- Profit/loss reports
- Shipping
- Checking for unpaid items
- Monthly sales reports
- Determine the most profitable products
- Double checking everything! The last thing you want is negative feedback - everything has to be right.
To make life easier (and give you more free time), you can use auction management systems, to handle and automate a lot of these tasks.
The ones I recommend are :
Auction Hawk
Automates listing tasks, winning bidder notifications, delivery tracking, combining of orders, leaves feedback, tracks fees, lifetime archive of sales and customer histories, prints postage labels, listing templates, schedule listings, image hosting and more.
EzLister
EZLister is an exciting new web-based system that manages your auction business, not just your auctions. The designers of the product are active power sellers on eBay faced with the challenge of expanding their online auction business, while using this demanding selling channel. They responded by automating routine tasks associated with listing and managing auctions on eBay using EZLister.
Complete management of your auction business, as well as your auctions.
Auction Genie (for Mac OS X users only)
Spoonfeeder.com
Both beginners and powersellers love this dynamic item listing and auction management software. SpoonFeeder is PC based, eBay API certified, includes FREE picture hosting, FREE scheduled listings, FREE professional ad templates, hit counters, repeat scheduling, direct eBay listing, item tracking, email, invoicing and more. Get the essential tool to jump start or accelerate your eBay business now!
Spoonfeeder has different levels of subscription, and you can compare the plans on the Feature Comparison page of the website.
Have a look at their sites, see which features you’d prefer. Having these resources available to help run your business is just fantastic. One of the many reasons to have an eBay business!
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