99% of eBay Stores are set up wrong...

How many of you are thinking of starting a website, or already own one for your business?
  
What if I could tell you about a complete e-commerce solution that includes a customized web url, easy to use branding templates, reporting tools, built in automated marketing & retention tools, and simple, effective search engine optimization – all for only $15.95 a month?
  
Welcome to eBay Stores, the best kept secret to marketing your business for pennies.
  

  

Understanding the power of an eBay Store
   

When I teach at eBay University, I ask how many people even know that eBay has stores. Only about 40% of the audience ever raises their hands. Of the Stores that are already open, 99% of them aren’t taking advantage of all of the phenomenal tools and features that eBay provides to let potential buyers know about your business. There are many amazing things you can do with your eBay Store…over the next 10 days you will receive tips and tricks to some of these tools!
  

   

When you purchase a website, you sometimes don’t have control over the URL address...
With an eBay Store, you do!

  

   

With a website, you have to pay a company to host it...
eBay hosts your store for FREE!

   

    

Creating a website takes a lot of your time and/or a lot of money...
An eBay Store can be fully customized and ready for inventory in 15 minutes!

  

   

You must spend time (or pay someone else a lot of $$$$) to constantly update and get your website submitted to search engines…
Once your store is set up correctly, eBay will take care of the submission of your store’s information to major search engines such as MSN, Yahoo and Google!

  

   

When you open your website you have exactly ZERO customers...
Your eBay Stores has access to over 250 million potential customs and 100,000 more coming in every day!
  
Your eBay Store is a website shell. Meaning…your purchase of an eBay Store includes only the site itself. You will then fill it up with inventory. This inventory is of two types: auction-style listings and store inventory.

• Auction style listings run for 1, 3, 5, 7 or 10 days on the main site of eBay. These listings will show up in the core search on the eBay.com website. These same auctions will also show up in your eBay Store.

• Store inventory will run at a fixed-priced, 30 days at a time, listing format. This inventory is listed at a rate of a few cents for those 30 days…and the very important free gallery photo. This cost is per sku number. So if you had 100 “Additional Revenue Products for eBay Education Specialists” cd’s to sell, it would cost you only a few cents to list ALL of them for those 30 days (eBay Store fees). If eBay sees that you still have inventory left in that listing at the end of those 30 days, it will automatically renew that listing for you. 

This feature is called GTC – good till cancelled. It helps automate your processes so you can concentrate on other parts of your business. This GTC item will be listed in your eBay Store, but will not, with rare exception, show up on the eBay.com core search. This fact is one of the most important things you need to realize about opening an eBay Store. I hear over and over again, “I opened a store, but never sold one thing.” I ask how they promoted that store, and the usual response is, “what?” If you opened up a store in the middle of a mall with 500,000 other stores – could you hope for foot traffic in front of your store? Much less, traffic that would stop and come in? Good luck! If you paid that kind of money to open up a brick and mortar store in a mall, you would advertise that you were there in any regular and creative marketing & advertising channel you could. Then you should do the same for this type of store. One of the best place to start marketing your Store is with your auction style listings.

 

Go to eBay Stores NOW to open your eBay Store today!
  
Don’t forget that eBay has a great Store discussions board located at:
http://forums.ebay.com/db2/forum.jspa?forumID=21 
  
Also, you can also sign up for the Stores eBay Group at:
http://groups.ebay.com/forum.jspa?forumID=100005340&
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Coming up:

• Using Auctions to Market your Store – Your auction are powerful advertisements being seen by over 250 million customers. Learn how to take advantage of that insane amount of traffic and send it to your Store.

• Easily promoting your Store – In less than 5 minutes, and with the click of one button, how would you like to provide the opportunity for your customers to sign-up for your newsletter, see your top 5 Store pages, and showcase your main Store Categories in every single auction you have on eBay.

• Promotion Boxes – One of the main questions I get about eBay Stores is how to get people to sign up on THE valuable newsletter list…learn the secret with your Promotion Boxes!

• Search Engines - The top 1% of eBay Stores are being seen on the FIRST PAGES of Google, Yahoo! & MSN for their products for FREE – learn some of these secrets that they know.

• Bonus Tip #6!! (it’s a secret, but one that will save you up to 75% in Final Value Fees!!)