Work Smarter How To Streamline Your Ebay Business

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b>Automating the                really get a high return." In
Processes                   other words, spend your time on
                                having quality content, not on
Imagine a tool that eliminates        what ought to be routine
most of the busy work associated      maintenance. With the right
with running your eBay business.      automation solution you can
According to Dave Cotter, that        simplify the time-consuming
was the idea behind his company,      components of your business:
title="http://Mpire.com"              â€¢ Manage Your Inventory: An
target="_blank">http://Mpire.com<     automated system keeps track of
/a>. After talking to hundreds of     your inventory: how many items
eBay sellers and hearing the same     you have in stock, how many
complaint again and                   you've sold, how many are
againâ€”people were spending too      awaiting payment, how many are
much time running their               awaiting shipping. So you never
e-businessesâ€”Cotter and             again need to worry about selling
co-founder, Greg Harrison, were       more products than you have!
inspired to create a tool to
automate the processes involved.      â€¢ Manage Your Customer Service:
                                      With a good automated system you
4 Advantages to Auction            can customize automatic email
Automation                        templates to send your customers
                                      promotional notifications. You
The point behind automating your      can also set up automatic
business, according to Cotter, is     correspondence to request
that it "really allows you to go      feedback, confirm orders and
in and spend some                     receipt of payments, and notify
time...[writing] your listings.       your customers of their orders'
[That] is where you're going to       shipping status.

                                      how profitable they are.
â€¢ Manage Your Listing Process:
You no longer have to design a        Time is Moneyâ€”Is Your eBiz
listing for each item you put up      Costing You?
for auction. You can simply
choose from a set of                  Many eBay sellers are so bogged
listingsâ€”you only have to put       down with all the details of
in the text. Once you do, your        running their business they don't
listing is automatically moved to     even know whether or not they're
the active section. When it           making a profit! They only know
sells, it's moved to the sold         what's in their PayPal account
section so you can see that it's      versus their checking
awaiting shipment and where it's      accountâ€”they don't have time to
going. And your shipping labels       break it down any further than
print automatically.                  that. Says Cotter, "you will be
                                      shocked at how much more fun you
â€¢ Manage Your Profits: An           have if you start to see your
automated system calculates your      profits increase and ... really
eBay fees, your PayPal fees, your     understand what products sell and
shipping fees. It lets you see        ... how to make smarter choices
not only whether or not you're        about [your] business and about
profitable over all, but which        the things that [you] sell."
products are profiting you and

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