Auction Power Guide

Yes, digital images or photos of your items being posted for sale are not only essential but mandatory, in my opinion.

Have you ever bought anything without seeing the item even though you may have some idea what the item looks like?

You would like to see the condition of the item even though the digital images or photos may not give you a 100% feel of the product that you intend to buy.

It is also important that you are sincere with your photos or digital images and not use photo editing software to beautify your product; e.g. enhance the color or remove scratches on your product. Otherwise, your Buyer would not be happy at all if the color was not what was shown in the photos and there are scratches on the item received, too.

You cannot afford to have negative feedback as you will lose your creditability as you would lose future sales.

In fact, you ought to take photos of your item from different angles; e.g. front view, back vies, side view, inside too if possible. The more you show the item to the Buyer the more comfortable he or she would feel.

This would also lead to zero complaints on the item sold or almost no conflicts in the transaction.

Here ere a few tips on how to take good photos or digital images of your items products:

1. Use natural light instead of flash – try to use light coming in from the windows and minimize any shadows. But do not go out and take your photos directly under the sun.

2. Choose a non-conflicting background – find a white or dark color cloth or cardboard as the base or background so that your item or product stands out; e.g. you would not want to place your item on top of a flowery or multi-color table cloth.

3. Take many photos – since you are using a digital camera, take as many photos as you can and then select the best few for the auction.  Remember to take the photos from different angles to show off how good is your item or product.

4. Remember to re-size your photos or digital images as they do not need to be  too large for the Web else it will affect the downloading time.

Finally, you need not buy an expensive digital camera. An entry level digital camera with 3 mega-pixels is good enough. I am currently using my teenage son’s digital camera which he uses for his school project, a Canon camera.

After a few tries, you will soon be an expert on taking good photos and uploading them for your eBay auction.

Ruby

There are a few basic things that you need or need to do before you can start buying and selling on eBay or any auction.

1. Credit Card

You will need to have a Credit Card to open an account with Pay Pal which is the most acceptable, proven and safe means for payment.

Your Credit Card number will not be revealed during payment.

2. Pay Pal Account

Pay Pal is the safer and easier way to make payment without exposing your credit card or bank account number.

PayPal can be used to buy items on the Internet too and not limited to transactions on eBay. It is widely accepted globally for electronic transactions on the Internet.

For more information and opening an account, you can go to https://www.paypal.com/

3. eBay Account

You can opened an account in your our country as eBay has a few sites like eBay France, eBay Germany, eBay Australia, eBay Singapore, eBay India, eBay Malaysia, eBay Philippines, and so on.

Just fill up the form shown on your PC screen and provide the relevant details required.

For more information and registration, you can go to http://www.ebay.com/

4. Digital Camera (Optional but Recommended)

You should take good photos of items that you are selling as this will enable the Buyers to see what they are buying.

You will have some advantage over those Sellers that do not have photos of similar items on sale.

It is very simple to upload digital photos or images but please remember to re-size them as you do not need a big or very high resolution image for Web.

An entry-level digital camera should be able to get you reasonable digital images required.

5. Items to Sell

Finally, you just need to look around your home for used items that are no longer used but occupying storage space.

As the item has to be sent by post, it has to be of reasonable size and not items like an old chair or 14” portable TV otherwise the delivery cost would be very high.

I would like to suggest that before you post any items for sale, it would be wise to look at similar items that are being auctioned and see how the Sellers do their postings; e.g. how photos are taken from different angles, how an item is thoroughly described.

In fact, you should look for a cheap item that cost only a few dollars and you should have a go at bidding for it. This is to give you a feel of the whole transaction from bidding to settlement to receipt of the item. This experience will benefit you when you start selling your items.

So what are you waiting for?

Go and buy your first item and then make your first sale!

Ruby

A private label membership is like having an arsenal of tools and strategy in a super all-in-one package. To help you use your tools to make the most of your investment, here are some basic guidelines to help you make the most of your private label membership.

Ground Work

Begin by taking a time out and reviewing the instructions and any helpful tips and guidelines provided in the private label membership site you have joined or are considering. Then review what rights you have which should be something along these lines (check with the individual programs to make sure):

With private label rights, you have the right to and need to make the content unique to you by revising or in other ways alter the original content. You can claim authorship after you have altered the original works.

Again, do check with your program to see specific requirements. Some ask you to revise a certain percentage. And others may have additional rules like not selling the packages for under a certain price or on eBay. When in doubt, ask questions so you know what rights you have.
Leg Work

Next break your private label projects up into small action steps, noting them on paper or a document on your computer, then take charge, tackling each step and accomplishing it.
Popular techniques and strategic steps could include:

1. Work on one project at a time. If your membership site gives you more than one ebook package, for example, only work on one at a time until it’s completely finished and loaded, ready for sale, and your marketing materials are in place.

2. Break the processing of your package down into manageable steps and write them out so that you repeat the process with each product package as it comes along for the most efficient handling of everything in your membership. Steps can include:

A. Revise and your product and marketing content: edit for spelling & grammar errors as needed, insert graphics / digital photos, insert other articles or paragraphs, etc. into the content, revise some sentences and paragraphs, after revising the sales copy, insert audio / video links, images, etc. maybe changing chapter order or orders of sections and headings, etc.

B. Brand everything. Add your contact information and especially URL to the product header / footer of each page, the sales copy, articles, autoresponder series, etc.

C. Insert money-making avenues into your product, website and marketing materials as needed: pay-per-click Google ™Adsense ads, affiliate links, banners, product images for back-end sales, sponsor and classified ads, etc.

D. Load everything in place: autoresponder messages and lead capture form code into sales page or as its own web page, main product website, product and bonus download files, audio / video files, etc.

E. Market – -daily! Set up a daily Task in your Outlook or other calendar and spend a little time each day for promotions: submitting articles with your byline & URL, post on forums and send out emails with your URL in your signature (sig) file.

Paul Kleinmeulman, PLR Expert
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/basic-private-label-membership-techniques-and-strategies-127276.html