eBay Assisted Selling Example and Test Site: Improve your eBay Sales
An assisted selling site is an important method of income generation we use and recommend at the Online Business Reef. It allows you to easily sell products without huge advertising budgets or having to even stock a single product. It can help generate income 24 hours a day each and every day of the year. Our eBay assisted selling strategies are an integral part of some of our online business reef websites.
See our list of recommended ASSISTED SELLING SITES in another post located here.
In order to show you how to do several things within eBay and test out certain recommendations, claims from other online resources, and our own tips and tricks we have developed a test eBay account.
eBay store URL: http://stores.ebay.com/motomomentum
Current number of listings: 168 all fixed priced
3 Month Sales Average: $587.23
Items Sold 3 Month Average: 10
Average Item Price: $55.99
Current Feedback: 3855 100% Positive
3 Month Fee Average: $102.48
- Increase Listings to 400 nearly double and remeasure 3 month average of sales.
- Do a title test by taking an old title and revamping it on a new auction and testing the two against each other.
- Redo the template to see if that increases conversion.
- Test other online resources tips and tricks on how to sell one eBay.
- Offer free shipping on all new listings.
- Get sales to $2K per month.
- Increase drop ship sales and see if that we can create a more passive income stream.
Hopefully in the end our goal of creating a passive income model through the use of drop ships will still show we can increase our sales and maintain a healthy and viable income stream for us.
CURRENT TESTING:
7-5-2014 – we added over 32 auctions to the site with different titles and free shipping. This brings the total listings to 200.
7-11-2014 – a quick update, since we have started changing titles and updating listings to free shipping we have had 11 sales.
8-1-2014 – currently we have over 256 listings and we should have a report soon for our sales to give a final judgement on this experiment.
Current Stats for Month of July 2014
eBay username: motomomentum
eBay store URL: http://stores.ebay.com/motomomentum
Current number of listings: 272 all fixed priced
July Monthly Sales: $1078.74 and upgrade of 413.8% over June
Items Solds: 28
Average Item Price: $38.53
Current Feedback: 3868 100% Positive
July Fees: $180.27
CONCLUSION
I think I am going to conclude this experiment here. I know we were going to do a 3 month average but I believe we have accomplished enough here with these initial sales reports. We are about 130 listings away from our goal. We have halfway to our sales goal and we may even hit it in the month of August.
So I am willing to concede that this experiment is at the very least plausible and in my opinion confirmed. Check back often as we may update this again after three months.
