Well we are proud to announce the launch of the Easy Pay Rise Tour for 2012 and you’re invited.

If you haven’t seen us before it’s a great opportunity to come along and see the opportunity having an eBay business has to offer.

Find out more from the website below and reserve your free seats right now…

Easy Pay Rise Tour

See you there!

No one ever wants to hear bad news and sadly for the thousands of people employed in Australian retail that’s exactly what they are going to hear in 2012.

The retail sector has had one of the worst Christmas lead ups in years and in fact many Australians are just as wary now about their jobs as they were during the worst of the GFC. CoreData actually predicts that over 100,000 jobs are going to be lost next year in Retail & Tourism.

So what’s the good news?

The good news is that if you’re part of the growing number of people learning how to sell online, especially eBay, then you’re in for a fast growth opportunity. It’s a transitional time right now with how people shop online and the early adopters are already profiting and you could be too.

Don’t be one of the people who looks back in 20 years and says…”Geez I wish I’d got started online 20 years ago when it was really just starting to take off.”

The future belongs to you…seize it now and be in charge of your own financial destiny!

eBay are always looking for new ways to generate income and this time they are helping you as a seller too. As of October, if you have a Fixed Price listing and you offer to ship to the UK or to the world, your listing will automatically appear in the Uk eBay search results.

How cool is that?

What this means is that you can now immediately access another 17 million people…yep nearly the whole population of Australia…simply by ticking the box to ship worldwide. The great news is that the flow on affects could be enormous. Imagine you now have the possibility have getting extra potential shoppers looking at your listings for no extra cost.

The pitfall to look out for would be to make sure you are on top of your correct shipping options and cost’s and also making sure you are aware of the time differences when selling into another market. Remember, it’s all about communicating with your customers and making sure they understand distance and timing. Another thing to be aware of is potential customs duties at their end. Ideally you want to make sure you avoid the customer having to pay import duties on your items as they could be unaware of this and that it could cost them extra money if not sent correctly.

There you have it…even more ways to make money on the worlds largest sales platform!

There’s a new trend of online retail spending after the traditional US Thanksgiving holiday called Cyber Monday. This is where people take advantage of discounts similar to what we see for Boxing Day specials in Australia.
This year amazingly over $1.25 Billion was spent in one day online. This is a combination of individual websites and the usual contributor eBay. This year we can also see the trend of mobile phone spending skyrocketing. In fact 10% of all those sales were made by people using mobile devices like phones and iPads.
What’s even more astonishing is that prior to the Cyber Monday online sales, there was the usual Black Friday spending in traditional stores, the kicker is that the online spending beat traditional spending by 29%.
This is truly a changing of the way people are now choosing to spend their money and once again it makes great inspiration to be selling online.

What are you going to sell today online?

With Halloween in just a few days many of you may have already been scouring eBay for costumes for various “Halloween” parties around. If you’re dressing up a Zombie, The nightmare from Elm Street or anything else fun, be sure to take some photos and share them on eBay’s Facebook page.

Read more on eBay is Getting into the Halloween Spirit..Are You?…

More and more people are now using their mobile phones for eBay related searching and buying and now you can now use it to receive offers on your electonic items directly from eBay as well!

Read more on New Iphone App “Instant Sale” Allows You To Trade In Your Unwanted Electronics…

Exciting things are happening in eBay at the moment. Shortly they will integrate image recognition to its mobile service, opening up new ways people can shop for items that they are looking for.
Read more on eBay Launches New Mobile Feature With Image Recognition…

Australia Post is now riding on the online shopping trend to boost its income and step up it’s services with the growth of online sales.

On Monday, Australia post launched its Future Ready programme which offers parcel services linked with online shopping. The programme was rolled out in response to the 10.9 per cent hike in parcel delivery due to eBay and online sales.

Read more on Australia Post Steps Up Service and Partners With eBay…

Every single day millions of people go to social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and blogs to interact with others who share their interests. When they see something they like, they share it instantly with their friends, who then go ahead and share it with their friends, making it a very fast way to communicate. Stories have been told of how messages have been sent out to hundreds of thousands of people in just hours. So if this is the case why wouldn’t we tap into this powerful network and promote our eBay business?

Read more on How Social Media Can Make You More Sales On eBay!…

All eBay sellers have until the 1st of October to update their listings to remove any links or e-mail addresses.

If your listings don’t comply with the new eBay policy they will fail to post and relist. The 1st of October effective date applies to new listings and re-lists however Good Til Cancelled listings have until early next year to comply.

Read more on eBay Launches New Link Policy…Do Your Listings Comply?…

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