hey you guys welcome back to my channel
i'm so glad you're here today thank you
for joining me today we're going to talk
all about listing and it's part four in
my series ebay 101 i have the playlist i
will link it here with three previous
videos and then at the end of the video
i will also link it but it's just a way
to help you if you just are brand new to
selling online a way to help you get
started maybe a blueprint for how you
can get your business going but listing
is extremely important and it can be a
little bit daunting especially with ebay
and so many item specifics so we're
going to get into that today there are a
lot of different ways to list and there
are pros and cons to each of them some
people list from their phone some people
create a draft photograph from their
phone and then finish listing on the
computer some people list just from
their desktop i think i've tried all of
those and there are benefits to listing
on your phone i think one of them is you
can list on the go as you're out and
about and that was really handy for me
when i was first starting
when my kids were little i could go to
the park take them to
somewhere like a museum have them play
in the play area and then throw up a few
listings while they were just playing if
it was the splash pad same thing i could
pull up my listings on my phone and just
list real quick
i don't think it's the fastest way i do
think it's really easy but i don't think
it's the fastest way when it comes to
listing on your phone you're kind of
locked in at about five minutes per
listing and
that limits you to 20 listings an hour
and i think that's even generous i think
you can actually list a lot faster than
that with just a desktop and just as a
disclaimer i do use a third-party
software to list my items it only works
for mac and apple products mac macbook
imac so i'm actually going to be doing a
separate video all about how i do that
so stay tuned for that for now this is
going to be the more standard and basic
way to list your items on ebay as
quickly and efficiently as possible ebay
lets you set up templates in your store
like a shipping template a return
settings template i do have those
activated in my store and i can show you
a little bit overview of how those work
so here's my listing method i take all
of my photographs on my phone
and it's just an easy and simple way
again gives me the option if i'm out and
about and i need to throw up a few
listings i can do it from my phone but
it's also really convenient and easy to
then airdrop everything from my phone
again i have an iphone and i use an imac
airdrop everything from my phone to my
mac and then it's all there ready to go
ready for me to list you know i don't
have to mess with sd cards or anything
like that and then once i have
airdropped everything over to my imac
and i'm done listing i can then drag it
all to the garbage and delete it and be
done and then once i am in ebay i will
look up a similar item most of the items
i sell clothing shoes and accessories
have a similar item that was sold i look
up a comp that way i sell similar from
that listing it already populates with a
pretty good title i might tweak it here
and there you upload the pictures i'll
put in the sku the custom label sku that
lets me know which bin it's in tinker
with some item specifics size condition
that kind of thing make sure that i have
my template settings my shipping
settings and my return settings already
in there
although i have found that when you are
selling similar ebay kind of already
populates what you normally do with your
listings so it's pretty simple and if
you have something that's extremely
similar to what you're already selling
you can just go into your own listings
and sell similar from there but i really
do think selling similar is faster and
easier than just starting from scratch
with your own listing you have to pick
the category you have to pick
the title type it all out you have to
put in every single item specific it's
just a little bit tedious of course that
can happen you might have to build a
listing from scratch if you don't have
any comps at all but i rarely come
across that and most of the time i find
a very similar sold comp and i just use
that listing to build off of and then
like i talked about in my previous video
about inventory i already have my
inventory put away i know the bid number
i can list everything from there and
once i'm done with the listing itself
i'm done and i don't have to think about
it anymore so now let me take you to my
computer and
let's go ahead and do some hands-on
examples of how to list and how i think
you can list the most efficient way okay
so here we are on my computer ready to
go with some listings i have some
photographs here on the right hand side
of my screen and these photographs are
ones that i have air dropped over from
my phone that i can now just list on my
desktop and i'll just show you a give an
example you know kind of give an
overview in the video previously to this
let's go ahead and do some examples i
have some keen toddler sandals that i am
selling they are my boys from when they
were little and i'm going to go ahead
and look for something similar so i'm
just going to type that in toddler
sandal size 13 perfect these look like
they're just about
very similar to the ones that i have
i'm going to click on this listing and
then go click on sell now because i have
one very similar
once i do that it will populate
the title for me and then all i have to
do i mean i'm just going to go ahead and
add the photos
because i will tinker with the title a
little bit
i like to always put keen in the size
the brand and the size right away
sandals in the beginning as well
and i'm gonna put waterproof too because
they are
okay
and let's go ahead
check my photos those are fine
pre-owned condition description
i'll put good pre-owned condition
and
just double checking that all of the
item specifics even though i've
populated it and it should be similar
just making sure that they look all
right
really the more item specifics that you
can add the better even if you don't
know all of them you can just continue
to fill them out
just as many as you can and then for the
item description you can just put in the
title again because search does look
through the item description that will
help pull up your search a little bit
more easily for people i've pasted in
for my description the title again
because search does look there as well
as a very generic you know i accept
returns and i photograph my measurements
new items added daily to my store etc
and now i'll just select for my shipping
template
i'll price these at
14.99
i do allow buyers to make best offer
and
i have templates for all of my
items i have a ton of shipping policies
and templates that i've created in ebay
this one right now is just because i'm
having a baby really soon so i have
extended handling time and a very flat
8.99 fee for everything that i have just
to make it simpler for me so
i have this set to handling time
increase you can of course manually edit
any shipping policy that you want
whenever you want to i've just found
it's easy to then select you know if i
have something that's a sweatshirt a
shirt a pant
sweatshirt shirts pants i can go into my
shipping policy select that specific
shipping policy it's got the right price
it's got the right shipping time and the
right packaging package weight package
price and it's just much easier that way
i will show you right after i list this
how to go into your business policies
and edit your shipping templates if you
want to set those up
my payment policy is also i use managed
payments and then i also require
immediate payment
if someone does something like buy it
now however if someone makes an offer
and you accept that offer that doesn't
really apply you can't get immediate
payment from someone by accepting their
offer you just have to wait until they
are ready to pay you which is kind of
annoying but it's just something that
you kind of get used to with ebay i also
don't weigh my items before i list them
again 8.99 will easily cover the cost of
shipping these shoes my shipping policy
that i have highlighted here will cover
again it's 8.99 it will cover the fee to
ship these shoes i don't need to weigh
them because i already know they're
going to be in a padded flat rate or
maybe a little bit less depending on how
heavy they are and my 8.99 fee will
cover my shipping costs so i don't ever
weigh i just weigh at the time of
shipping and that's just again that's
how i do it you can of course weigh
right away if you want to something that
i've noticed though is when i weigh
ahead of time and then i do calculated
shipping it ends up always being more
expensive for the buyer and that can be
a turn off so that's kind of the reason
that i have templates and fees already
structured into those templates because
i know that i can get a better price
than ebay's calculated fee will tell the
buyer and i do that again using pirate
ship usually i do use promoted listings
i'll promote these at five percent i
think that's a good you can boost your
promoted listings a little bit more a
little bit less but i have found that
that's a really easy way to get a few
more sales and now i'm ready to go i
will list this item okay as you can see
that listing is done so if i go into my
ebay and i select business policies
i can see all of my shipping policies
here i could probably delete a bunch of
them i have a ton as you can see here i
have a return policy that says no
returns accepted and that happens when i
have like a really expensive item or
something that's more unique that i
don't want returned for payment i have
managed payments and even though this
payment right here says paypal it
actually does default to managed
payments so i don't even know why that's
there clearly you can see i need to edit
these but there are certain ones that i
use all the time and certain ones that i
don't i use usps priority for shoes so
ten dollars one business day handling
for shoes six dollars for sweaters
long sleeve tops five dollars for shirts
or anything that i think will be a first
class package
and again as you can see pretty much all
of my listings have handling time
increase because again i'm having a baby
so
that's my i have a five day business
handling time there you can also create
like you know a vacation profile for
yourself and then just put all of your
listings on that vacation profile mass
edit them and then you have extended
handling you don't have to shut down
your store you can just increase your
handling time by three to five days and
when you get back you can ship all of
your orders pretty much all of my items
have returns accepted 30-day window i
pay return shipping but again like i
said some have no returns accepted so i
have templates for that so in your
business policies you can edit and
create any templates that you want it
really does make things a little bit
easier
when you are
listing your items you can just select
the policy that you want and move on now
let's go back and look for
something else that we're going to list
so i have the next item here let's pick
something easy
i have those vibram five finger
shoes
women's
size 41 let's see if they pull up here
we go
here we go i have some that look just
like the ones i'm trying to sell
so i'm going to go ahead and click on
that and select sell now and it even has
the same style number so this is great
this will be very easy
i'm just going to fix the title a little
bit all right so i fixed the title a
little bit again i like to put in the
brand name
then the size and then a few more things
about it i'm going to put a good
pre-owned condition
and then add my photos
i just turned that one around so it's a
little easier for the buyer to see
it's a size 9 really
one is a size 41 9 or 10 and then fill
out some additional item specifics
style code is
w356
and then again for the description i'll
just put in the title and then add that
quick description i have in my notes
there you go you guys i hope that helped
you with a really quick and easy listing
method i do think this is the fastest
way you can really knock out a ton of
listings quickly this way especially if
you're really streamlined with your
photographing process you're learning
quickly to air drop them over to your
computer you can find something similar
sell similar the item specifics are
already pre-populated for you
and then you can promote do your own
shipping templates if you want to your
return templates i do find that
templates make my life a lot easier so i
think that it's something if you're not
doing i would recommend again this is
just the way that i list it doesn't mean
it's the way you have to but i do think
it's a really good way if you're just
starting or if you want a really
streamlined and simple way to get things
going thanks again you guys i really am
so glad you were here today thanks for
joining me i appreciate you take care
and i will catch you next time
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