Update and Edit Your eBay Listings Quickly with Froo! Bulk Revision

No matter how many eBay listings a seller has live on the site or stored, making revisions to the item(s) can be a painstaking task. With Froo! Bulk Revision, eBay sellers can easily and in bulk, change many elements of their eBay listings to attract even more buyers and close the sale.

Froo! Bulk Revision (by Frooition) is an easy to use application allowing eBay sellers to make changes to their live listings in bulk. Sellers can change item titles, descriptions, increase and decrease prices and more!

Change any of the following features within your active and stored eBay listings/inventory:

Find & Replace eBay Item Titles
If an eBay seller needs to change their item titles in bulk (active and stored listings), they can use Froo!’s find and replace title tool. Easily update item titles for enhanced search and strategy.

Find, Replace and Add to eBay Item Descriptions
eBay sellers can search and replace single words or full paragraphs in an eBay item description (active & stored listings) in a fluid manner to keep the listing information current and in adherence to changing eBay policies as needed.

In addition to editing current item descriptions, a seller can also use Froo! Bulk Revision to add important information to the bottom of an eBay item description.

Returns Policy
Update your returns policies on all eBay listings at once! Write a new policy, select the relevant listings and apply the changes in bulk. An especially useful feature if a supplier has changed their shipping or returns policy, thereby affecting the seller.

Start Price
Stay on top of the competition and maintain a competitive edge on eBay by adjusting the starting price on eBay Auctions or modify the selling price on Fixed Price items (within eBay guidelines).
eBay sellers can increase or decrease the Buy It Now price on eBay listings either by setting it to a certain amount, altering by a percentage or adding/subtracting a set amount from many prices in bulk!

Froo! Bulk Revision tool can edit more aspects of an eBay listing. To check out the Froo! Bulk Revision tool and learn more, go to the eBay App Store. A free trial is available.

Frooition is a leading provider of eBay store and listing designs. Frooition provide design services for most other online sales channels as well as website design. Frooition has been working with the eBay platform more than 4 years and has clients in the USA, Canada and Europe.

How to Source Products to Sell on eBay from Multiple Wholesalers by Worldwide Brands

Article by Worldwide Brands - this is a series of 14 blog posts providing information on how to find inventory and products to sell on eBay from wholesalers with Worldwide Brands and their Product Sourcing Tool for eBay.

Blog 13: Handling low inventory for eBay Selling

Once you determine your niche and find a wholesale supplier who will support you selling on eBay, it becomes the responsibility of the seller to check the inventory levels of the supplier before posting a new listing. What do you do when you find that your wholesale supplier is running low on your most popular inventory items – or any item for that matter?

Find Alternative Sources for the Same Wholesale Product
You need to have a backup source of supply. But how do you find other suppliers offering the same brands or products – or suitable substitutes that you can list when you suspend your normal listing. eBay provides help from one of eBay’s Certified Solution Providers: WorldwideBrands.com. You can now purchase access to the Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool in the Selling Manager area of ‘My eBay’. This wholesale database contains the contact details for more than 8,000 certified wholesale suppliers including drop shippers, volume wholesalers, light bulk wholesalers, liquidators and importers who together represent more than 8,000,000 products.

Find an Alternative Wholesale Supplier
You can search the database by product, product category, and brand to find alternative wholesalers who will supply the same product. It is a good practice to open an account with this alternative supplier. It is also a good practice to make a test order from the supplier so that you can verify the quality of the product is to your standards, and test the wholesale supplier’s packaging and shipping methods.

Secure Alternatives before You need Them
Without a Tool like this, you may spend many hours trying to find alternative sources of supply. It’s important to have an established relationship in place with an alternative supplier before you need them. It’s too late to start trying to set up an account with an alternative wholesaler when you have orders in hand and your regular supplier cannot fulfill orders for you.

If drop shipping, make sure to keep some inventory on hand, especially for top selling items.
At some point, you will run into an out of stock situation with a supplier for a particular product, it is strongly recommended that you keep a few items on hand to prevent any delay in shipment to your customer. Any remaining listings can then be turned off to prevent any further orders.

Being an online retailer requires constant attention to product sourcing, right priced buying and delivering excellent buying experiences. Product Sourcing is a continual but easy process when done correctly.

Check out Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool for eBay today! A 7 Day Free Trial is available.

Worldwide Brands is an eBay Certified Service Provider, providing product sourcing access and information for eBay sellers. They are the publishers of an extensive directory of legitimate, fully-verified ecommerce wholesalers and manufacturers.

eBay Sellers Can Find Additional Inventory with Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool

Article by Worldwide Brands - this is a series of 14 blog posts providing information on how to find inventory and products to sell on eBay from wholesalers with Worldwide Brands and their Product Sourcing Tool for eBay.

Article #12 - Multi-Level Product Sourcing

As a new eBay seller becomes more successful with their eBay auction listings and first eBay Store sales, you will be able to fund more growth in your business. You can expand your offerings within your first niche by leveraging additional wholesale suppliers and drop shippers with complimentary products to those you are already selling on eBay.

So how do you select new niches and products, and how can you determine what works best without taking too much risk in inventory?

Market Research is the key. eBay Sellers need to identify products with demand and supply. Not all products can be sold on eBay. Some manufacturers have strict requirements. Start with your existing niche and expand the product choices. For example, tailor your eBay Store brand around your niche. Use the existing traffic to your eBay store to identify new top sellers in your Store.

The Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool in eBay’s Apps Center can be very helpful to eBay sellers looking for additional product sources to help grow their online business. Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool for eBay will research online to establish current demand and pricing on the internet and for testing different products, categories, niches and demand.

Access can be purchased to the Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool. Through use of this tool, eBay Sellers will be able to drill down their options to find wholesale products in demand within a niche. The tool provides the contact details of drop shippers and wholesale suppliers willing to work with eBay sellers.

Drop shipping is most commonly used for testing new product ideas. When you notice an increasing trend in sales for one of the drop ship items, you can then start buying that item in Light Bulk (minimum wholesale orders less than $500). Of all the Light Bulk items, some will sell faster than others. Once you identify those, you can invest in volume inventory at even better wholesale prices allowing you to make more profit per item, or compete more aggressively. This is called multi level product sourcing.

Check out Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool for eBay today! A 7 Day Free Trial is available.

Worldwide Brands is an eBay Certified Service Provider, providing product sourcing access and information for eBay sellers. They are the publishers of an extensive directory of legitimate, fully-verified ecommerce wholesalers and manufacturers.

Tips on How to Create a Great Buying Experience on eBay by Worldwide Brands

Article by Worldwide Brands - this is a series of 14 blog posts providing information on how to find inventory and products to sell on eBay from wholesalers with Worldwide Brands and their Product Sourcing Tool for eBay.

Article #11 - Creating a Great Buyer Experience

Retail success is all about delivering great buyer experiences. For a moment, picture in your mind you are stepping into one of your favorite local retail stores. Why is it your favorite?

A great retail experience in the brick-n-mortar world starts with getting to the store easily and finding convenient parking. From store front to your experience when you walk in the door, what catches your eye? As you advance inside, what captures your attention next? Smart retailers use the power of eye level placement and end caps to draw your eyes to items they want to feature. Then typically you next notice the banners or promotional signs where color, size of print, lighting and price tags may capture your interest.

Online Retailers Must Simulate a Great Walk-in Experience
Successful retailing is more about repeat business than it is about initial sales. The most successful stores are those people want to return to frequently. eBay sellers need to replicate the successful walk-in experience with their online auction listings and eBay Stores. Here are some of the criteria for creating a Great Buying Experience:

Your customers must find you easily. eBay helps by bringing millions of visitors per day to www.ebay.com. It is a powerful selling platform with many sellers all competing for business at the same time. You need to get people to your Auction Listings or eBay Stores easily and quickly. This requires excellent use of keywords in your titles and descriptions as well as an easy-to-remember, relevant and search able eBay Store name. It requires SEO treatments with links back from Facebook, Twitter, Squidoo, YouTube etc linking back to your auction listings and eBay Store.

Your Auction Listings or eBay Store must be Recognizable as You. You need to create a recognizable and consistent brand identity of your own that sets you apart from other eBay Sellers.

Create a Great Experience on Entry. From the time browsers reach your listing or eBay Store, they should feel good. The first visual impression should be great with things that catch the eye and keep people browsing and reading on your listing.

Offer a Great Product Selection. Become known as an online retailer with a flair for what people like and need. Your range and choice of products is very important. Pricing and shipping options are critical. Your ability to find quality and good deals comes from your product research. You can apply all the right processes but if the products you offer for sale are not what people want to buy, or your quality and pricing is undesirable, you will not be successful. eBay now offers some help in this area through the Selling Manager section of ‘My eBay.’ eBay Sellers can now access Worldwide Brands’ renowned Product Sourcing Tool and Wholesale Database. Using this tool eBay Sellers can research buyer demand, seller competition, comparative current pricing across more than 8,000,000 products from within eBay’s Selling Manager or Selling Manager Pro tools.

Create a ‘Touch and Feel’ Experience. The main difference between a brick-n-mortar retail store and an online store is the ‘touch and feel’ experience. In an online store, you cannot pick up the item, feel it and smell it. In an online listing you have to recreate this experience as best you can through compelling product images and descriptions, supporting specifications and ‘use’ information – even video clips. It’s all about creating the desire to own the item.

Then there is the feel of personal attention. Online retailers can provide a phone number for a shopper to call to discuss the item and purchase during normal shopping hours or even a fast email response system.

Create a Selling Funnel. Through the use of linking, matching, color and imagery, lead potential customers to additional items of interest.

Ease of Check-Out. Once the buying decision is made, the shopper must be able to purchase quickly and easily. eBay provides PayPal at the click of a button. If you use a shopping cart and a payment processor, the process must be easy and user friendly.

Fast, Safe Delivery. Its all about speed from the second your customer places the order. Instant order confirmation. Instant alerts to you. Fast turn around of the order to your supplier. Quick and accurate pick, pack and shipping on the part of the wholesaler, fulfillment house or your own inventory handlers. Rapid confirmation of shipments with tracking numbers for your customers.

Ensure Your Customer is Happy with their Purchase. Follow up with your customer and encourage feedback on their experience. Use this feedback to identify areas of your business you can improve or leave alone because they’re working. Make the ‘Returns’ process easy if the customer is not happy about something. Always provide your seller name or eBay store name to help customers know where to return.

A great buying experience with each visit is guaranteed to bring that buyer back to your auction listing or eBay Store multiple times.

The Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool contains a wholesaler database, education modules and education series called: “The Whole $ale.” This series has many chapters to coach eBay Sellers on best practices in working with wholesalers. Sign up for either eBay Selling Manager or eBay Selling Manager Pro and you can then access the Selling Manager Applications directory and the Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool.

Check out Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool for eBay today! A 7 Day Free Trial is available.

Worldwide Brands is an eBay Certified Service Provider, providing product sourcing access and information for eBay sellers. They are the publishers of an extensive directory of legitimate, fully-verified ecommerce wholesalers and manufacturers.

eBay Sellers Can Save Time Updating Live eBay Listings in Bulk with Auctiva's Find and Replace (new to eBay's App Store)

Auctiva's new App for eBay, Find and Replace, allows eBay sellers to bulk edit the descriptions of multiple live eBay listings at once. With Auctiva Find and Replace, a seller can search for words or phrases in their listing descriptions, and replace with new content or updated policies.

Sellers can easily update their listings to employ new listing strategies or make changes per eBay policies.

Features:

• Find and replace text in just 1 listing or 1,000 listings
• Edit live eBay listings within minutes
• Search for text by whole-word or partial words
• Change descriptions in some or all of the targeted listings
• Changes are made in accordance with eBay's policies
• Easily undo find-and-replace changes
• Free 24x7 technical support
• International language support
• Completely FREE!

Auctiva's Find & Replace application now available in “My eBay” as part of Selling Manager Applications. Also known as eBay's App Store.

Check out Auctiva's Find & Replace today!

The Importance of Trial Order Shipments when Testing a new Supplier by Worldwide Brands

Article by Worldwide Brands - this is a series of 14 blog posts providing information on how to find inventory and products to sell on eBay from wholesalers with Worldwide Brands and their Product Sourcing Tool for eBay.

Article #10 - Importance of the Trial Shipment

As a Seller on eBay, whether you are selling in an eBay Auction or through an eBay Store, we strongly recommend you place a ‘Trial Order’ from your wholesale supplier or drop shipper for each product you plan to sell before you put them item up on eBay. This is especially important if you are going to rely on drop shipping. There are many reasons for doing this:

1. You need to check the quality of the product your customers will receive.
2. You need to check the quality of the packaging.
3. You need to check that the wholesaler correctly inserts any marketing materials you are paying them to include with each shipment.
4. You need to check the delivery time for a shipment. [Remember eBay rewards those eBay Sellers who provide the best buying experience. Avoid those low score DSRs buy testing an order first.]

Some sellers may be concerned about ordering a test order. Remember, once you have inspected it for quality, you can repackage it and ship it from your inventory (so long as it has not been used in any way.) You will still be able to recover the cost of the item. If there is ever an out of stock situation, you will also be able to quickly supply the product from your own personal inventory to the customer.

With eBay selling you need to be confident you will provide a great buying experience for your customers. Rather than wait for customer complaints that may affect your DSR ratings with eBay, you should put the wholesaler to the test first.

One of the applications now available in Selling Manager Applications or eBay's App Store (check out your “My eBay" and look for a new tab labeled "Applications") is the Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool.

The Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool contains a wholesaler database, education modules and education series called: “The Whole $ale.” This series has many chapters to coach eBay Sellers on best practices in working with wholesalers. Sign up for either eBay Selling Manager or eBay Selling Manager Pro and you can then access the Selling Manager Applications directory and the Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool.

Check out Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool for eBay today! A 7 Day Free Trial is available.

Worldwide Brands is an eBay Certified Service Provider, providing product sourcing access and information for eBay sellers. They are the publishers of an extensive directory of legitimate, fully-verified ecommerce wholesalers and manufacturers.

eBay Workshop Jan 19th - "Making Shipping Insurance Cheaper, Easier & Faster"

Workshop: Making Shipping Insurance Cheaper, Easier & Faster

Host: inkFrog

Date: Jan 19th, Tuesday

Time: 11AM - Noon PST

Location: eBay Workshop Board

Description: In this workshop, the inkFrog team will show/demo how you can use ShipSaver Insurance (by inkFrog) to insure your packages for less than you are paying to USPS and UPS.

ShipSaver Insurance, by inkFrog, is a discount shipping insurance application now available in “My eBay” as part of Selling Manager Applications, eBay’s App Store. ShipSaver allows eBay sellers to receive great shipping insurance coverage at a discount.

InkFrog is an eBay Certified Solutions Provider and one of the third party providers included in the new eBay Selling Manager Applications, also known as eBay’s App Store .

Visit http://certifiedprovider.ebay.com/ to learn more about eBay Certified Providers and the services and solutions they offer to help eBay sellers.

New! Terapeak Collectibles Application Provides Extensive Research for Antiques and Collectibles

Have you ever cleaned out the attic and wondered what an old collectible is worth?

Have you been to a garage sale and wondered if there is money to be made in antiques?

Now eBay sellers can easily determine the value of antiques and other collectibles items with the new Terapeak Collectibles market research tool.

With just a few simple clicks, users can research multiple years of data to find out how much an item is worth and how best to sell it. The Terapeak Collectibles database accesses both online and live auction houses, and also allows users to view photographs, descriptions, and other antiques and collectibles data.

• Search and browse multiple years of antiques and collectibles data
• Price antiques and collectibles based on what they have sold for in the past
• View data, descriptions and photos from both online and live auction houses
• Access fast, reliable customer support and video tutorials
• Never have to leave your My eBay page!

Terapeak Collectibles is a brand new application allowing users to research antiques and collectibles data from eBay, other online marketplaces, and real-life auction houses. Terapeak has partnered with WorthPoint, whose "Worthopedia" database houses data from more than 10 years of live and online auctions. WorthPoint's database combined with eBay market data by Terapeak, creates an extensive and powerful research tool for antiques and collectibles sellers.

Available only in eBay's App Store, Selling Manager Applications.

To access Terapeak Collectibles (try it free for 7-days), sellers will need to subscribe or currently be subscribed to eBay Selling Manager or Selling Manager Pro. Once subscribed to Selling Manager or Selling Manager Pro, sellers can add Terapeak Collectibles at this link.

How to Contact and Build a Relationship with Wholesale Suppliers by Worldwide Brands

Article by Worldwide Brands - this is a series of 14 blog posts providing information on how to find inventory and products to sell on eBay from wholesalers with Worldwide Brands and their Product Sourcing Tool for eBay.

Article #9 - Make the Call to the Wholesale Supplier

How should your calls to a wholesale supplier be conducted?

Things to Consider Before Calling

• Check the time zone and select a good time
• Have NO distracting noises in the background
• Have a prepared message in case you reach voicemail
• You have 5 seconds to capture the sales representative’s interest
• Remember WIIFM: “What’s In It For Me?” (this is what the wholesale representative is thinking!)
• Get to the point quickly
• Lead with your sales goals and your business information
• Remember that you need them more than they need you
• Remember they are thinking: “WIIFM?”
• Ask what they require from a new retailer?
• Read the suppliers policies and procedures before calling

Remember What You are Looking For

• Agreement to open an account.
• Confidential Price List
• Easy method of uploading products, product information and quality images
• Clear understanding of the purchase process
• Clear understanding of the ship cycle and order processing time frame

How to Build a Relationship with the Wholesale Representative

• Maintain regular contact but don’t repeatedly email or call your wholesale representative with one or two questions. Try to save all your questions for one email or phone call in the week.
• Provide feedback on how your website is doing
• Build a good relationship and your wholesale rep will help you with:

Early announcement of specials

• Early announcement of new product
• Promotions for your current product range
• Ensure suppliers are aware of quick shipping turnaround requirements
• Check inventory levels daily
• Provide feedback to your wholesalers about what is working best for you

For more information on dealing successfully with wholesalers, read the Wholesale Tips provided in eBay’s Certified Provider Blog and consider using the Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool in eBay’s Seller Manager section of “My eBay.”

eBay Educational Support

One of the applications now available in Selling Manager Applications (check out your “My eBay" and look for a new tab labeled "Applications") is the Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool.

The Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool contains a wholesaler database, education modules and education series called: “The Whole $ale.” This series has many chapters to coach eBay Sellers on best practices in working with wholesalers. Sign up for either eBay Selling Manager or eBay Selling Manager Pro and you can then access the Selling Manager Applications directory and the Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool.

Check out Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool for eBay today! A 7 Day Free Trial is available.

Worldwide Brands is an eBay Certified Solution Provider, providing product sourcing access and information for eBay sellers. They are the publishers of an extensive directory of legitimate, fully-verified ecommerce wholesalers and manufacturers.

Understanding and Creating Relationships with Wholesalers for More Profitable Product Sourcing by Worldwide Brands

Article by Worldwide Brands - this is a series of 14 blog posts providing information on how to find inventory and products to sell on eBay from wholesalers with Worldwide Brands and their Product Sourcing Tool for eBay.

Article #8 - Understanding Wholesalers

eBay beginners and PowerSellers who make money from selling products regularly on eBay need to understand wholesalers. To grow your business, you need excellent relationships with wholesalers that support you as an online retailer and understand the requirements of customers, and eBay, in delivering an awesome buying experience.

Like you, wholesalers are in business to make money. They have to take big risks to ensure continuity of product supply. The wholesaler is, of course, not the manufacturer. Manufacturers may sell directly to some huge retail buyers like Wal*Mart, Target, etc...but a manufacturer does not sell directly to a retailer. Manufacturers like to manufacture in large quantities and ship in bulk container loads to a limited number of big volume buyers. Manufacturers select wholesalers in different locations who will buy in bulk from them, store the inventory, and manage the sale of goods to hundreds and thousands of retailers who buy in large, medium and small quantities.

Wholesalers take risks in holding inventory. So how does the wholesaler make money? Wholesalers who beat the following challenges remain in business:

• Fast inventory turn
  Wholesalers who receive inventory and turn it into orders rapidly can make money. The best cash flow option for the wholesaler is to sell the entire inventory of a product and receive payment from retailers before the wholesaler has to pay the manufacturer.
• High volume transactions to build profits
  Typically, wholesalers don’t make a large profit margin per item. So they need to sell a lot of items. With more items sold, cumulatively they make more profit.
• Keep operating costs to a minimum
  Wholesalers need to ship large volumes of product without getting involved in complex handling, packaging, shipping and billing issues. Wholesalers keep staff levels to a minimum so you typically cannot expect wholesaler personnel to spend hours supporting any retailer. Retailers must know what they want, know what they’re doing, must place orders, and get on with selling without making demands on the wholesaler.
• Manage the Manufacturer’s Brands
  Manufacturers require that wholesalers protect the integrity of their brands. If a manufacturer makes a high quality product, with higher prices and good margins, the manufacturer requires its wholesaler to be discriminating about who can sell that brand, and how the wholesaler prices the brand to its retailers. Sometimes a wholesaler is not allowed to sell a brand to an online retailer because of the threat of price wars on the Internet that can drag down the perception of the brand as a quality and expensive range of products.
• Manufacturers have their own Language
  If you want to communicate well with a wholesaler, you need to know their own language – the shorthand of wholesale transactions. Wholesalers use words like: MSRP, FOB, etc. If you are not familiar with these terms, eBay has been running a Blog sequence that explains each one. It’s worth your while to review this series of twenty common wholesale terms.

Why is all this important to eBay Selling?
You need an excellent relationship with your wholesale sales representative. The sales representative can make or break your success selling their brands. eBay Sellers with good relationships have sales representatives tip them off to new products to sell well in eBay Auctions or through eBay Stores. If your wholesale sales representative likes you, and your volume of business, they might tip you off early to special deals with great pricing. If the manufacturer, or wholesaler, decides to offer promotional specials, you need your wholesale sales representative to let you know quickly.

You can only build a relationship like this if you understand how your wholesaler operates. The online retailer must always act swiftly and always in a professional manner.

eBay Educational Support
One of the applications now available in Selling Manager Applications (check out your “My eBay" and look for a new tab labeled "Applications") is the Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool.

The Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool contains a wholesaler database, education modults and education series called: “The Whole $ale.” This series has many chapters to coach eBay Sellers on best practices in working with wholesalers. Sign up for either eBay Selling Manager or eBay Selling Manager Pro and you can then access the Selling Manager Applications directory and the Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool.

Check out Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool for eBay today! A 7 Day Free Trial is available.

Worldwide Brands is an eBay Certified Solution Provider, providing product sourcing access and information for eBay sellers. They are the publishers of an extensive directory of legitimate, fully-verified ecommerce wholesalers and manufacturers.

New to eBay Selling Manager Applications is Research for eBay by Vendio.

New to eBay Selling Manager Applications is Research for eBay, by Vendio.

Selling more profitably is simple with Research for eBay. For nearly 8 years

Research for eBay from Vendio has given smart sellers the upper hand in the eBay Marketplace. Now eBay sellers can access this powerful research tool within their eBay account! Research for eBay is an application sellers can subscribe to and add to their "My eBay" as part of Selling Manager Applications.

With Research for eBay, eBay sellers will know which items to sell, when to list them, how to list them, and which keywords to use in the listing.

Benefits of Research for eBay:

• Know what, when, and how to list items to for the best sales
• Retrieve accurate data from proprietary clustering technology
• Determine which keywords drive the highest amount of traffic to your listings
• Watch your competitors and stay ahead by learning their strategy
• eBay Motors and Parts and Accessories data included at no additional cost

Research for eBay can increase the sales volume of your eBay listings and reduce relisting costs. Know what to sell, how much it may sell for, when to sell it and how to market the item all before you list. Save time and money.

Below are screenshots of Research for eBay in action. Take a look.


An eBay Certified Solutions Provider since 2004, Vendio provides an ecommerce solution for eBay sellers of all sizes. Vendio offers a series of applications which can be installed on a standalone basis or used to extend the functionality of the Vendio's eBay listing and inventory management solution.

Vendio now brings eBay sellers Research for eBay as part of the eBay Selling Manager Applications feature. Checkout Research for eBay!

Save Money on Shipping Insurance with ShipSaver (New App from inkFrog)

Save Money on Shipping Insurance with ShipSaver (New App from inkFrog)

ShipSaver Insurance, a new application just released by inkFrog, can help save eBay sellers time and money on shipping insurance. This new program allows eBay sellers to insure their domestic and international shipments sent through USPS and UPS at a discounted rate.

To protect against any lost or damaged packages, it is recommend for items to be insured when shipped. Shipping problems could arise. eBay sellers can protect their shipped items from loss or damage when in transit with inkFrog’s ShipSaver.

ShipSaver Insurance is a discount shipping insurance application now available in “My eBay” as part of Selling Manager Applications. ShipSaver allows eBay sellers to receive great shipping insurance coverage while using their buying power for a huge discount on the coverage.

Benefits to eBay Sellers:

• Save at least .75c per USPS insured shipment
• Add insurance to items in bulk with a few mouse clicks
• Avoid dealing with the Post Office insurance
• File claims online

ShipSaver Pricing details:

• Usage fee
• Free insurance coverage on your first insured item valued at $25 or less and shipped via USPS
• USPS Domestic Shipments: $0.99 per $100 of coverage
• USPS International Shipments $1.25 per $100 of coverage
• UPS $0.60 per $100 of coverage (after the first $100 already covered by UPS)
  

"We are proud to once again be offering sellers an innovative and easy-to-use tool that will make their businesses run more smoothly" explains Greg Sisung, President of inkFrog. ..."With inkFrog's ShipSaver Insurance application in Selling Manager, sellers can save time, money, have peace of mind, and offer a competitive advantage over sellers who are choosing to go without insurance."

Checkout ShipSaver Insurance today!

Founded in 1999, inkFrog, inc. is an eBay Certified Solutions Provider that helps save online sellers time, money, and sanity through inventory management, eBay listing tools, image hosting, and more.

Preparing to Contact a Wholesaler (What to Do and Expect) - by Worldwide Brands

Article by Worldwide Brands - this is a series of 14 blog posts providing information on how to find inventory and products to sell on eBay from wholesalers with Worldwide Brands and their Product Sourcing Tool for eBay.

Article #7 - Preparing to Call a Wholesaler

If you are new to selling on eBay, you are probably facing that time when you must make your first call to a genuine wholesale supplier. You want to open an account with them. You need to begin a fruitful relationship where you will have a continuous supply of products to sell in eBay Auctions or via your eBay Stores. There are steps Worldwide Brands recommends you should do before making the first call:

What Must You Do Before Contacting a Wholesale Supplier to Open an Account?
It is better to do some homework about the wholesaler BEFORE you make that critical call. For example:

• Have you done your market and product research?
• Do you know what products you are going to sell and why?
• Have you studied the wholesaler’s website?
• Have you read their Terms of Use, Policies and Procedures?

If you haven’t done this research, you can now access information on wholesale suppliers within My eBay! Worldwide Brands has created an application to help eBay sellers find products and wholesalers. This new application is part of the new eBay Selling Manager Applications feature. Sellers can subscribe to the Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool and access supplier, product and trend information. (See our previous Blogs on how to perform rapid product and supplier research.)

Prepare the Flow of the Call
Remember, when you call the wholesale supplier representatives, they are interested only in WIIFM [What’s in it for Me?]. When you make the call, there are a lot of things that you want to know,for example:

• Does the wholesaler allow their products to be sold online specifically on eBay? [If they say no, ask why in an informative way.]
• Do they have support for other online retailers?
• Do they perform single item drop shipping?
• What is included in the drop ship fee?
• Does the supplier offer extended service hours?
• Have they tested how their products sell online?
• Will they open an account for you?
• Will they provide a Confidential Price List?
• How will they provide product images, descriptions and specifications?

Address the Wholesale Representative’s needs first. What interests the wholesale representative?

• What products will you sell?
• To whom will you sell them?
• How many will you sell?
• When will you start selling?
• When will you start ordering?
• In what order volumes?

What will the wholesale representative want from you?

• Business credentials
• Sales Tax ID Number
• Trade References
• Business Credit Card
• Purchase Order

When you start by giving the wholesale representative information they need first, you start building a relationship. If you start by asking a ton of questions about the things that are important to you, you lose the interest of the wholesale representative within seconds.

Following a Positive Call with a Wholesale Supplier, what do you want to receive?

• Account Number
• Confidential Price List
• Purchase Order Process
• Payment Terms
• Digital images
• Product descriptions (not always best for SEO)
• Product details and specs
• Proper packaging
• Customized packaging (if available)
• Video clips (if available)

Benefit from these and many other helpful education modules with tips available from Worldwide Brands.

Check out Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool today! A 7 Day Free Trial is available.

Worldwide Brands is an eBay Certified Solution Provider, providing product sourcing access and information for eBay sellers. They are the publishers of an extensive directory of legitimate, fully-verified ecommerce wholesalers and manufacturers.

eBay Workshop Nov 10th - "Top 5 Last Minute Christmas Research Tips"

Workshop: Top 5 Last Minute Christmas Research Tips

Host: Terapeak

Date: Nov 10th, Tuesday

Time: 11AM - Noon PST

Location: eBay Workshop Board

Description: The busiest shopping days of the year are rapidly approaching (Saturday before Christmas, Black Friday, Cyber Monday…) and you're going to want to be ready to sell! What are the hottest items and opportunities for your eBay business this holiday?

Spend an hour with us and discover how to use research to plan your biggest sales month of the year! We'll review the top five research tips that can help your sales soar.

Join Matt and Denise from Terapeak Marketplace Research to learn about last minute Christmas research. After the material is presented we'll open the board for discussion and questions.

Terapeak is an eBay Certified Service Provider and one of the third party providers included in the new Selling Manager Applications feature.

Visit http://certifiedprovider.ebay.com/ to learn more about eBay Certified Providers and the services and solutions they offer to help eBay sellers.

How to Manage Your Suppliers Information within eBay - by Worldwide Brands

Article by Worldwide Brands - this is a series of 14 blog posts providing information on how to find inventory and products to sell on eBay from wholesalers with Worldwide Brands and their Product Sourcing Tool for eBay.


Article #6 - Managing Your Supplier Information within eBay


How do you get information about genuine wholesale suppliers (not middlemen) who will directly support an online retailer and allow you to sell their products on eBay? How do you keep track of all your product searches and each Supplier's details?


eBay sellers can now subscribe to the Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool for eBay as part of the Selling Manager Applications, also known as eBay's App Store. Everything you need to know about a Supplier before you call them is provided in one easy-to-use location, accessed from within your Selling Manager account.

In order to subscribe/add various selling applications to your eBay account, you will need sign-up for Selling Manager or Selling Manager Pro. Selling Manager is now free! Sign up here.


What Do You Need to Know about a Supplier?
Apart from the Supplier’s name, address, website and contact details, you need to know if they allow the sale of their products on eBay. You need to know what method they will use to ship orders to your customers and you need to understand their fees - especially their drop ship fee if you are going to rely on drop shipping to start eBay selling. You certainly want to have a clear understanding of the wholesale products they carry.


In the video below, you will see an extract of the kind of information now available to eBay Sellers through the Worldwide Brands application in eBay’s Selling Manager.

In addition to what you see in the extract, the eBay Seller can view more details about brand names and the full range of product types carried by each wholesale supplier. To accelerate the process of opening an account, Worldwide Brands provides automated account setup form. The system auto fills the form with the information from your own setup file allowing you to complete the form rapidly and email it from within Selling Manager and get it to the wholesaler before you make that all important first call.

At the press of a button, the system allows you to save each of your preferred wholesalers in the “Suppliers” section of you system so that you can recall their information without repeated searching. There is also a quick reference alphabetic listing of brands and products to help you locate specific items rapidly.

eBay’s focus is to help eBay Sellers reduce the amount of time it takes to find the right products for eBay selling. View this short video to see how it works.

Check out Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool today! 7 Day Free Trial is available.

Worldwide Brands is an eBay Certified Solution Provider, providing product sourcing access and information for eBay sellers. They are the publishers of an extensive directory of legitimate, fully-verified ecommerce wholesalers and manufacturers.

Build Great eBay Listing Titles with Terapeak Keywords (New in Selling Manager Applications)

Terapeak, an eBay Certified Provider and eBay Market Data member, just released a new and completely free app for the eBay Selling Manager Applications - Terapeak Keywords!

Terapeak Keywords is a free tool helping sellers optimize their eBay listing titles. eBay sellers know, the first step to creating a listing is coming up with a title. The first step to creating a great listing? Come up with a great title.

Terapeak Keywords asks a seller to type an item’s name/description into a search field. It then samples 100 recent eBay listings that have also included the specified search term(s), and automatically produces a list of related keywords accompanied by average prices and other metrics.

By clicking the most valuable relevant keywords and adding them to your listing, you can continue to build your title until you have used up all 55 characters… And as any eBay seller should know, every character counts!

"We’re very excited to be able to offer a free application that will benefit anyone who sells on eBay. The app will remain free and independent of any Terapeak subscriptions, so there's no need to create an account. Just add it to SMApps (Selling Manager Applications) and go!" - Terpaeak Team

Below is a sample of Terapeak Keywords for eBay Selling Manager Applications.


Terapeak is an eBay Certified Provider and a member of the eBay Market Data Program. Terapeak 5.0 is a full, web-based solution providing real-time market research and data analytics on eBay. Terapeak 5.0 provides eBay sellers and buyers with two years worth of trending data.

How to Use the Selling Manager Applications Product Sourcing Tool by Worldwide Brands

Article by Worldwide Brands - this is a series of 14 blog posts providing information on how to find inventory and products to sell on eBay from wholesalers with Worldwide Brands and their Product Sourcing Tool for eBay.


Article #5 - Using the Product Research Tool


To sell successfully on eBay you need a regular supply of quality products at the right price from reputable and reliable wholesale suppliers. You also need current information about demand and supply on the Internet. You need to know who you will be competing with; and you certainly need information about competitive prices.


How Do You Perform Product Research Quickly?
You can do keyword searches on Google for hours. You can explore thousands of wholesale websites looking for products to sell. You can call hundreds of wholesalers – even manufacturers – to establish if they will support an online retailer and allow you to sell their products on eBay. Doing it this way takes an enormous amount of time and is a lot of work. But you need to start selling quickly to make money.


eBay sellers can now subscribe to the Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool for eBay as part of the Selling Manager Applications, also known as eBay's App Store. In order to subscribe/add various selling applications to your eBay account, you will need sign-up for Selling Manager or Selling Manager Pro. Selling Manager is now free! Sign up here.


In addition to eBay’s excellent education resources and tools, a number of additional productivity tools are offered for sale by eBay’s Certified Solution Providers. One of these is Worldwidebrand's Product Research Tool and Wholesale Database of more than 8,000 wholesale suppliers including drop shippers, light bulk wholesalers, volume wholesalers, importers and liquidators.


Quick video tour will show you how you can save time with the Product Sourcing tool.

Check out Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool today! 7 Day Free Trial is available.

Worldwide Brands is an eBay Certified Solution Provider, providing product sourcing access and information for eBay sellers. They are the publishers of an extensive directory of legitimate, fully-verified ecommerce wholesalers and manufacturers.

Save Time Answering eBay Buyer Emails with Hosted Support - eBay Certified Provider Spotlight

eBay sellers may find they are spending a large amount of their time answering buyer questions instead of focusing more on listing and strategy. To help sellers reduce the size of their inbox and save time answering redundant questions, Hosted Support (an eBay Certified Solutions Provider) has created a solution that can help, ezSupport for eBay.

ezSupport for eBay is a customer relationship and email management solution automatically responding to buyer emails through a knowledge base the seller has created. Also, sellers can use Hosted Support’s Searchable (Advanced) FAQs in their eBay listings allowing buyers to find their answer and never needing to email the seller.

For example, if a buyer emails or types into the Advanced FAQs, “What happens if the battery doesn't fit my cell phone?”, ezSupport for eBay will instantly email or display that specific seller's answer, such as, “Cell phone batteries may be returned within 14 days of receipt.”

ezSupport not only saves eBay sellers time but also increases the chances the buyer will bid or purchase an item by giving an immediate answer or response. If a buyer has to wait to hear back from an eBay seller, the chances of them bidding or purchasing greatly decreases.

eBay sellers report up to 80% of buyer questions can be handled by automated emails and FAQs.

Consider the customer and email management solution known as ezSupport by Hosted Support for sellers needing to reduce customer contacts and save money and time on customer support.

Key features of ezSupport for eBay:

• Answer 80% of customer email – automatically
• Create an extensive knowledge base
• Auto respond to buyer email from “Ask Seller a Question” link on eBay
• Customizable and Searchable FAQs knowledge base gives buyers immediate answers
• Add, Edit and Delete FAQs at anytime
• Natural Language Search
• Retrieve and archive all eBay messages indefinitely
• Maintain buyer contact records
• POP email importing
• Support multiple logins
• Share knowledge base across multiple ezSupport accounts – Great for eBay sellers with multiple eBay IDs
• Improves feedback and DSR scores
• Responds to buyers who hide their email address
• Adds 24x7 customer support to eBay listings
• Easy 15 minute setup
• Supports Windows and Macintosh
• FREE 30-day trial

ezSupport for eBay with Advanced FAQs can be used FREE for the first 30 days. After the FREE 30-day trial it is priced at $19.95 per month, available on a month-to-month subscription basis.

eBay Sellers that are subscribed to Selling Manager (free) or Selling Manager Pro, can add ezSupport for eBay to their My eBay account with the new Selling Manager Applications. Same functionality and benefits, right in your eBay account.

HostedSupport is a leading provider of affordable customer support automation for web businesses and eBay sellers. Its easy-to-use system can be set up in 15 minutes and eliminates many of the customer support “pains” involved in answering and tracking customer questions, managing the returns process, and resolving customer tickets/cases. Businesses using HostedSupport's products increase their revenues an average of 25% and reduce their manual email workload by 80% or more.

How to Research and Find Profitable Products to Sell on eBay - by Worldwide Brands

Article by Worldwide Brands - this is a series of 14 blog posts providing information on how to find inventory and products to sell on eBay from wholesalers with Worldwide Brands and their Product Sourcing Tool for eBay.

Article #4 - Doing Your Product Research

If you want to make money selling on eBay, you need to select products that people are searching to buy on eBay, or searching the Internet to find. This requires careful initial product research and then ongoing product research. You need to be able to compare profits from drop shipping to profits from wholesale products purchased in volume or Light Bulk Wholesale.

Product Research can be boiled down to two things:

1. Will this product make me money?
2. Will this product fit my current budget?

You can figure this out before you start spending money trying to sell on eBay.

You need to do:

• Keyword Research - How will people find you?
• Competition Research - Who is selling against you? How, and at what price?
• Profit Research - Selling Price – (Wholesale + Advertising + Shipping) = Profit
• Advertising Research - What’s the cost of instant traffic? Which keywords are cheaper?

You need to find your niche. There’s too much competition trying to sell mainstream products. You need to identify a focused group of products that people want to buy that are not being offered by mainstream retailers. For example: Main Category: “Home Décor;” Sub Category: “Floor Items;” but a niche is: “throw rugs.” A niche is three or four levels below a Main Category.

eBay’s main focus is getting Traffic to your offerings and helping you convert browsers to customers. Through PayPal, eBay also helps you manage revenue collection. eBay also focuses on helping eBay Sellers with excellent education and tools to accelerate eBay selling. In the “My eBay” section of eBay.com, eBay Sellers can now start using eBay’s Selling Manager at no cost. Within Selling Manager are paid applications offered by a selection of eBay’s leading Certified Providers and eBay Developers.

In addition to eBay’s excellent education, these Certified Providers offer education associated with their unique and individual applications for eBay.

eBay sellers can now subscribe to the Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool for eBay Selling Manager Applications and have a tool that provides product research, determining your niche, what to sell and where to source it.

From the Member Center in the Worldwide Brands Tool, you can perform the four key research tasks to determine if the products you want to sell will make you money and if it will fit in your budget. There is even education and webinars available that explain simple market research and provide help in identifying niches. You must subscribe to this application within My eBay and the eBay Selling Applications Directory in order to use this resource.

As the screen capture below shows, you can access the market research and product research tool, supplier contact information; and education all through one window and without leaving the Selling Manager section of eBay.

Below are screenshots of the Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool for eBay to give you a visual idea of how the tool works and benefits eBay sellers.

Check out Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool today! 7 Day Free Trial is available.

Worldwide Brands is an eBay Certified Solution Provider, providing product sourcing access and information for eBay sellers. They are the publishers of an extensive directory of legitimate, fully-verified ecommerce wholesalers and manufacturers.

My.ShipRush on eBay Radio - Save Time Shipping Across Mutiple Channels within My eBay

Listen on eBay Radio as ShipRush discusses how their new My.ShipRush for eBay Selling Manager Applications helps eBay sellers save time handling shipping and communications.

Benefits:

• When used in eBay Selling Manager Applications, My.ShipRush is automatically configured to interact with your eBay account
• Supports shipping for multiple carriers
• Print shipping labels (with free shipping plugin)
• Email notifications to the buyer with shipment status and tracking #
• Use existing shipping accounts (in most cases)
• Monitor and manage which items have shipped and which have not
• Look up sales and shipment information from My eBay
• See all ecommerce sales activity across multiple channels in one place, My eBay
• My.ShipRush is free to try and free to use

eBay sellers interested in My.ShipRush or other apps in the "eBay App Store" known as Selling Manager Applications will need to be subscribed to Selling Manager (for free!) or Selling Manager Pro.

Founded in 1992, Z-Firm has been making ShipRush since 1998. The ShipRush mission is to bring big-warehouse shipment automation to small businesses. ShipRush is "FedEx Compatible," "UPS Ready," "UPS OnLine Compatible," and DHL Certified.