Making a Living from Your eBay Business (2nd Edition)

Using eBay's Seller Resources

When it comes to promoting your auctions, the eBay site itself offers a lot of resources for sellers. Most of this help is informational in nature, and almost all of it is free.

A good place to start is eBay's Guide to Seller Resources (pages.ebay.com/help/sell/services.html). This page includes links to all the seller-related tools services offered by eBay, from seller education to global trading advice.

Another good resource is eBay's Seller Central Advanced Selling page (pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/techniques.html). Here is where you'll find links to selling tools of particular interest to eBay businessesinventory sourcing, promotional opportunities, data and research, you name it.

Finally, there's the topic of seller education, in the form of eBay's online workshops. Check out the Workshop Calendar (pages.ebay.com/community/workshopcalendar/current.html) to see what workshops are available in the near future; eBay usually offers three or four different workshops a week, many of them targeted at the professional seller community.

In other words, there's a lot of free advice available directly from eBay on how to improve your online salesand smart sellers always take advantage of free advice.