series on Ebay, I’m going to give you a few tips
that will save you some time. Ignore these at your own risk as they are extremely important.
Make no mistake about it, running a business is extremely time consuming, especially an Ebay business where you’re dealing with physical products that have to be packaged and shipped. So you want to do as many things as you can to save yourself as much time as possible. Hopefully, the tips in this article will give you the help you need.
The bottom line is, you want to make the most amount of money in the shortest amount of time. In many cases, this simply means streamlining your business.
The easiest way to do this is to sell high ticket items. If you think about it, it makes sense. If you’re going to sell a crate of watches, it doesn’t matter if you’re packing cheap knockoffs or $1000 Rolex watches. It will take just as much time to pack each. So why not maximize your profit for the time you’re spending packing those watches by simply selling expensive watches? The cheaper the things are that you sell, the fewer dollars per hour worked that you make. That is the thing that you have to keep in mind.
Another way to save time is to make sure that your payment collection methods are all automated. You don’t want to have to do anything yourself to collect these payments. So things like PayPal and merchant credit card accounts are the way you want to go. The process is automated, which means it’s hands off for you.
Answering emails can be very time consuming. At first, you won’t be doing a lot of business so it will be easy to respond to each email. But as you grow, this becomes harder. There are ways to cut down on the number of emails you will receive.
The first way is to create very detailed listings for your products. This way, there is less likelihood that your customers will have any questions because everything should be spelled out clearly right in the listing.
Another way is to create an FAQ page. This way, customers can look there to see if their question has already been answered. Make sure you include as many questions and answers there that you can. The more that you include, the less chance of getting an email.
Finally, have stock answers already typed up for your email replies. You will get many of the same questions over and over. Simply type them up and copy and paste them into the email each time that question is asked. At first, it will take some time to put these together. But after a while, you will hardly do any typing for responses at all.
In our next chapter of our series on Ebay, we’ll go over some more time saving tips. We’re pulling into the home stretch with this series, so hang in there.
See you next time.