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This article is intended to teach you about setting up your eBay business. This is Page 2 of 3 Please leave us comments, questions, or success stories so that we can improve this guide.
As you continue to read these and other articles on the Internet be sure to always:
- Take notes – underline, highlight, make notes in the margins or even in another notebook or on the computer. This is another level of active involvement in the learning process and helps to set concepts into your memory.
- Write down your questions. As you read and listen questions will come to your mind. When they do, write them down as part of your notes, even if you don't have answers at the moment. Writing down your questions will help you remember them, focus your mind to find answers as you go forward and assist you in keeping your learning plan organized and clear.
Take the time to read each article several times. For your learning to be most effective do not go more than 48 hours before reading again. Studies and experience shows that spaced repetition is the most effective way to learn and retain information and building new skills.
So how often should you read or review each article? That will be up to you. In general, plan on two to four times. We have proven that the more you read each lesson the more you will learn and the better your base of information will be to build future knowledge upon.
After you have gone through the first articles and begun to set up your eBay business you are ready to get your education on eBay. Think of these steps as laying a strong business foundation on which you can build for the greatest success.
Many people set up auctions on eBay and are not successful. This doesn't mean that they don't sell something, but that they don't sell to their maximum potential and certainly don't make enough to consider it a business. The reason they are not successful is they did not get the information and education they needed before starting. They just jumped in and did their first auction and it fell flat.
Take time and learn from each and every auction. By allaying your results and testing new strategies, you can increase your conversion rates.
In order for eBay to work for you, you must know how eBay itself works. EBay provides plenty of information and education as to how it works if you have the patience and skills to locate that information on the web page. Still, knowing how eBay works and how to make an eBay business work for you is a little trickier. We will be giving you additional insights and direction as to how to learn more about both. Before we get to that, though, let’s go through the eBay basics.
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