ebay Trading Assistant

Do you want to sell your items on eBay, but just do not have time? Then you need an eBay Trading Assistant. An eBay Trading Assistant is someone who will take your items and list them for sale on eBay. eBay Trading Assistants will list your items, take the pictures, deal with all the emails, and when the item sells, send it out to the buyer, leave feedback and send you a PayPal or Cheque payment (less the agreed commissions).

eBay Trading Assistants are experienced eBay sellers who will sell your items on eBay for a commission, most do not charge upfront fees - But sometimes we have to if the item needs special listings etc. When you work with an eBay Trading Assistant and enjoy all of these great benefits

Your eBay Trading Assistant handles every aspect of selling your item on eBay, from listing the item to shipping it to the buyer.

All eBay Trading Assistants have experience selling on eBay and have to be in good standing in the eBay community.

When your item or items sells, the eBay Trading Assistant passes the profit on to you (after taking out the agreed fees).

How to make money using an eBay Trading Assistant

First of all you need to look around your home or office for items you’d like to sell. eBay has millions of buyers and people are always on the lookout for that item on eBay. Remember most things can be sold on eBay, but like anything else there are items that cannot be sold, and your eBay Trading Assistant will guide you through this process.
Also sometime some eBay Trading Assistants may not be able to help you, but in most cases they can and when they are not able will help you find another eBay Trading Assistant who is able and willing to help.

Most items listed on eBay have a good chance of selling either first of the eBay Sites they will tell you this at the first meeting, and yes sometimes it may take a few weeks or months for an item to sell and in rare times an item will not sell, but that is life.

To help you get the best price for your items, please only give your eBay Trading Assistant items valued over £30. If you do have items that fall below this amount your friendly eBay Trading Assistant will talk you through how to get the best price for your item.

Once you have agreed, on the above, your eBay Trading Assistant will get you to sign a simple contract this will cover the both you.

Once this has happened then your eBay Trading Assistant will get to work and all being well very soon your eBay Trading Assistant will be sending you some money.

Another idea bought to you by Andrew Milburn and My Auction Empires

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Hi,

Over the next few weeks, having taken advice from Janelle Elms of OSI RockStars I am changing parts of this blog.

For example I have bought a new domain name and will be using this for my Education Specialist Program, and  this will be a static site with just a few articles there, but the base will be the classes I teach. this will be on LinfordDirectTraining . com (This is NOT live yet).

And I have bought another name for my Trading Assistant business.  This is on Trading-Assistant-In-Staffordshire . com again as yet this is not live.

Then I shall use this blog, to post hints and tips, product sources etc, and as the two new ones will be more static I shall not have to spend loads of time on them, just updating when I add new classes etc.

Happy eBaying

Andrew Milburn

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How To Become A Successful Trading Assistant

A Trading Assistant is someone who sells on behalf of other people who do not widh to or do not know how to sell on eBay. You can grow your Trading Assistant or as it is better known in Bay Circles as a TA Business. Now as your business grows you maybe selling for 10’s or even 100’s of clients, now this can be a major headache for people working out of their own home.

Now if this is a problem try doing this - find a client who has room to spare, i.e. space upstairs in a shop, an empty warehouse. Once you have found them and you have told them about your TA business and they say yeah we would like you to sell for us try this…………

Instead of asking your normal commission say I normally chrage 30% , but I am willing to do it for 10% if you would let me store my inventory in the spare space you have in your outlet.

Now they could sat sorry we need that space, you say fine it’s 30% then. But they may say yeah thats great.

So when you are out and about doing your ebay business and space at home is getting limited, look out for a client with room to spare.

Happy eBaying and to all of you going to eBay live have a great time.

Andrew Milburn (AndyUk)

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News Flash - 1

As many of us who sell on eBay and this question is asked even more to those of use who are eBay Education Specailists. Where do I find that cool Hot product to sell on eBay.

So starting each Friday I will be listing one supplier here in the UK, with complete contact details where I have them. And I will continue to list one a week till I run out of suppliers. So come back each Friday and by 9pm you will see a New Supplier listed.

Now to all my friends over seas, I am sorry at the moment I am unbale to list suppliers as I do not have the resourses to do this. But hey there is a way out of this problem, If you could leave comments after each of my posts with a supplier from your country.

So if I list Baby Clothes one week, if people could leave a supplier from their own country in the comments section then that would build up a massive resource for ebayers all over the world.

Happy Ebaying

Andrew (AndyUk)

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As an eBay Education Specialist one of the top questions that I am asked is “How can I reduce the fees I am paying” I normally answer them the fees that they pay are already cheap………… You should try owning a brick and mortor store.

So I have decided to do some short articles outlining some quick ways you can save money on your ebay listing fees, and by the time this series has finished I hope you will do, and believe me it will both suprise you and help your business go to the next level.

Now I am going to be honest here, unless you understand where your money is being spent in your eBay business you will never have a large successful and profitable business nor will you be able to make savings. For how can you make savings when you do not know what you are already spending?

eBay bless them have once again been ten steps ahead of us and have things in place to help us. If you go along to your seller account, and select your latest eBay invoice and save it to an excel type program.(Excel or Google Spreadsheets or any of the free ones out there Once it has been saved you will then need to sort it via the 4th column (The fourth Column is the fee type.) by sorting by this column you will see straight away what you are spending and if you are over or even under spending.  For example If you are spending extra on a bold listing you need to ask yourself, do I really need these listings? Or if you are not spending anything or very little on lets say featured listing and your niche needs featured listing you need to sit down and work on it.

As Education Specialists we can help you and give you advice, but only you know your business and what works in your business. And only you know your business stats.

Well thats it for today, look out for some money saving tips.

Andrew Milburn - AndyUk

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Top Tips

Use These Top Tips and You Will Make Money.

Did you know there is a big void on eBay, between those who sell on eBay and those who make money on eBay? Sadly it is true and the gap grows bigger by the day. Below I have taken a look at the top sellers on eBay and made up the top Selling Tips list. I believe that if you use all these selling tips in your auctions and store you will have a successful eBay business.
1. Set A Low Starting Price – The first tip is that you should start all your auctions off with a low starting price. Either start at a price cheaper than you bought the item or at the cost price if you do not feel brave yet. Just think about real life auctions, the auction house starts off low and builds up. I myself have done this a few times with items I sell. For instance I sold a marketing course once. I started it off at $0.99 (now this course was worth money and a lot of money around $999.00) was I nervous, yes very, espically as it got to the last few hours and the auction was still very low, from what I can remember around $97.00. Then it went mad and finished off at around $1,000. So the motto is start low.

2. Why use Titles and Descriptions – Use all the words you can in your title and use describe words in your auction description. Although you use pictures, when you describe your item do it, as if the person cannot see the item. Use a bit of hype, but please do not lie to your customers.

3. Concise Information – When you describe your items just use enough words and sentences to sell. If your item is a cheaper item say $20.00 you do not need to go to town on the sales piece, but if you were selling a house or a $10,000 ring then yes you need to spend time on the sales letter.

4. Why You Should Use Good Pictures – Use a good camera. Place the object on a plain back ground. Use good lighting. (If possible take picture outside as this gives better pictures). Try and not use a flash. A picture is far better then words but still remember you need to use words as search engines cannot see pictures.

5. Always Sell Overseas.– If you wish to get more bidders and also a higher price for your item, also list your item as available for sales overseas. The only time you should not do this is if item is way to heavy to send or you are not allowed to export to that country.

6. Sell Your Items In the Right Place – Buyers always search for items by looking through the eBay categories, mainly because it is easy, but also because eBay makes it quicker for them to find what they what. So as a seller make sure you put your item in the right category. Another good tip here is to but your keyords not only in the title but also in the description. This gives you a better chance of being found and selling your item. Also list on more than category.

7.Keep away from mass markets – It is always a good idea not to sell where hundreds or thousands of other people are. Prices will always be low thus profits will always be low. Not good for you or your business. The only exception to this rule is if you can source the real product at a good price which means you can sell and make a good profit.

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Commission Selling

Commission Selling is a quick way

to fill your store with stock…………

From time to time we have all said I just wish we had more stock to fill our shop and auctions with. But sometimes we just do not have the money to buy in stock to re-sell. At this point many people give up and just leave their shops partly full.

Well today I am going to share with two words. Commission Selling. Commission selling is where we go to a shop, a local wholesaler, Charity Shop and ask them how would they like to increase their turnover and profit, by doing very little work. Most places will say why yes, how can you help.

You explain how you will sell on eBay for them for a small commission of around 30%. - ( A side note here, the best places to go to first are those who have a high profit margin)

Once you have a place say yes we will give it a go, you get them to sign an some forms which covers both you and the shop. (You will either take the stock home or leave it in the shop), but you list it as normal, and when it sells you package it up and send it to the buyer. If the shop still has the item, take the paypal invoice to prove it has been sold, show it to the shop, package the item up and send it on it’s way.

Once the buyer is happy and has left feedback that they are happy, you send the payment to the shop via cheque or PayPal less your commission.

This is very simple and makes all sides happy.

Have Fun

Andrew Milburn

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osirockstars

Keywords are one of the important areas you need to learn if you are going to make a go of your eBay business. Also to be honest if you are going to have any business at all either online or offline you need to know what Keywords your customers are using to search for you or people who sell products like you.

Once you have got the hang of keywords and how they can help you increase your business then you will see a marked increase in the visits to your sites, your eBay shop.

Most people turn a pale shade when you mention Keyword research but again it is simple. The tools you need either free or very low cost. Yes it will take time to do, but the time is well spent and you will be paid back many times as you will be targeting the market you want and not going out there and just putting up words your customers would never use.
With Keyword research you need to think like a customer and not as a seller.

Now I could go on and on about keyword Research and what tools to buy and why you should. How to make your lists easy to manage.

But someone else has done this for us, they have aimed it at eBayers and other online retailers. They have put it in easy to understand terms and through the power of online video they show us how.

This person is Janelle Elms . Janelle takes you by the hand and shows you in simple steps how to do Keyword Research.

These two classes come as part of the OSI Rock Stars package. This montly membership site contains over 120 hours of audio and video content and this grows by the week with new classes and courses be added all the time.

As well as the classes you have a very active forum, and the forum grows on a regular basis with new topics  be added as and when. The great thing about the forum is that it has members from all other the world and this means if you have a question that needs answering, you can post it and often within a few hours and in some case a few minutes you can start to see people replying to your question.

The great thing about OSI RockStars is the fact that Janelle and her team of people are all doing eBay or the other online sites. They teach you from what they have learned. OSI is not some site put together by people who do not know what online selling is. It was dreamed up by Janelle who is an active eBayer seller and also takes part in eBay live and other eBay events to train people. And all her other trainers are working their eBay businesses day in and day out.

So go on pop over to OSI RockStars by Clicking here and see how they can help you take your eBay business to the next level.

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osi RockStars

How often have you wanted to learn something about eBay or selling online in general and most of the time have come up against a brick wall. Well I know I have then one day I came accross a site called OSI RockStars. OSI RockStars is a site run by people who are active in the area of selling and buying on eBay on a daily basis.

Janelle Elms has been around eBay for a long time know and regularly takes part in eBay live as a trainer and other eBay events. Janelle then came up with the idea and concept of running a membership site aimed at training site aimed at taking people to that next level in their eBay business either as a seller, Trading Assistant, Education Specialist or consultant.

At present Janelle has over 120 hours of webinars and podcasts teaching you on things such as how to source products, how to work a trade show, how to get key words and the list goes on and on.

Plus Janelle Elms and her team are adding new coment every single week.

As well as these classes there is also a forum where once you are a member you can go and ask and answer questions and as there are people from all areas of the world you can post a question and within minutes you could get an answer back how cool is that.

Membership is a low monthly fee and is worth it’s weight in Gold, pop along today and take a look and see how OSI RockStars can help you in your eBay business.

AndyUk

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Hello and welcome to my eBay Education and Trading Assistant Site. Over the coming weeks and months I shall be adding regular content. If you wish to find out about any of the services we offer, please click on the link above in the tabs or to the left.

Thanks

AndyUk

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