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Auctions InformationHere's What I Use to Help my eBay Selling
by:
Brian McGregor
I get many an requests simply about the systems I use in running my own eBay and net
business.
To give you the answer in one place, here is the computer code which I use daily in my own business.
I should point out that more of my own activity is now to do with commercialism digital information via eBay and from websites i.e. ebooks and software, which is why several of the computer code programs I use are concerned with this activity.
General productivity
Shortkeys
This is lovely utility which saves me hours of time each week. It is perfect for those occasions once
you are required to key in information to websites. For example, how often do you key in your name and address, or a username and password, or an email address?
With Shortkeys, you associate 3 or 4 unique keystrokes with a string of oft-times used information. Let's suppose I want to have a shortkey for my email address, and I set this as ##z1 in Shortkeys. Whenever I am required to key in my email address, in Outlook, on web forms, in Word documents etc, I simply type in ##z1 and Shortkeys instantly replaces that with my email address.
There is an dead version called Shortkeys Fatless which has a limit of 30 items. The full version of Shortkeys allows you an unlimited number of items.
You can get it here: http://www.workwinners.com/nlrshortkeys.htm
Download Accelerator
If you on a regular basis
transfer
ebooks or software, and it seems to take forever, you wish find Transfer
Accelerator is a useful addition to your portfolio. Transfer
Accelerator increases transfer
speeds by up to 300%, regardless of the speed of your net
connection. I don't cognize how it makes it, but I guess 89 million users can't be wrong!
You can get Transfer
Accelerator on 14 day test here: http://www.workwinners.com/nlraccelerator.htm
Ebook Creation
Acrobat Adobe
I create all my ebooks in pdf format as this file can be see by anyone with Athlete Reader, and this includes Mac users too. The way I create an ebook is to write it in Microsoft Word first. Once I'm happy that the Word version is exactly how I want it, I use an integrated convertor which takes the Word file and converts it mechanically
into a pdf file. This conversion preserves everything which appeared in the Word document, including headers/footers, page amount and web links.
You can see all simply about Adobe Athlete here: http://www.workwinners.com/nlracrobat.htm
If you are considering developing your own ebooks victimisation Acrobat, the most cost effective way of buying it is to buy online from Adobe's US site, and choice the transfer
option. To buy the transfer
version this is the place to start: http://www.workwinners.com/nlracrobat_dl.htm
At 167 Mb, Athlete is quite a large computer code product. If you would-be therefore prefer to buy the boxed CD version, the cheapest way in the UK is to get it from Amazon. http://www.workwinners.com/nlramacrobat.htm
ebook Covers
It is a fact that showing your ebook in 3D form so it looks like a book actually helps to boost sales. Compact Draw is the computer code I use to create my ebook covers. You can try it for 30 days here: http://www.workwinners.com/nlrcompact.htm
Website production and maintenance
Website design
I use Macromedia's Dreamweaver to design websites, and so
to create eBay auction description pages. Dreamweaver is a premium web design product, and unless you're going to do serious website design I wouldn't advise you to acquire it.
It comes in boxed form, and Macromedia wish channel any UK purchasers to a UK based reseller. The cheapest way in the UK is to get it from Amazon. http://www.workwinners.com/nlramdream.htm
Image Manipulation & Optimising
I use Paint Shop Pro for image manipulation and for optimising. This is important for auction pictures, as eBay have a size limit of 50KB on any images which you want to transfer
to their Image Service.
The authors, JASC, have simply discharged Version 9 of this software. I find Version 8 is utterly
acceptable for everything I want to do, and it's cheaper than Version 9.
You can't now buy Version 8 from the author's USA site, which is unfortunate as this was the cheapest way of buying the product before Version 9 came out.
The nice news is that Version 8 is presently
half cost at the author's UK site, as you can see here: http://www.workwinners.com/nlrpsp.htm
It's accessible for trial at the UK site, and I recommend you test it to see if you can activity with it.
Website upload
Cute FTP is probably the better better-known FTP software. I have used it for several years and have been really satisfied with the software. http://www.workwinners.com/nlrcute.htm
Website hosting
ProWebSpace are superior
and reasonable web hosts which I have now been victimisation for over a year. I transferred to them from another host with whom I was having lots of problems. Now, I have a better service, and it's at one third the price! Of course, you can get web space for nothing from a variety of ISPs. Take a look at http://www.freeisp.com
You only need companies like ProWebSpace if you intend to "go commercial" in your net
activities. If you do, it's important to have a paid service as this gives you the right to kick b**t if ever you experience hosting problems. If you would-be like to cognize the hosting institution who I emotional from, email me. If you think you need professional hosting, this is emphatically wherever
I would-be start. http://www.workwinners.com/nlrpws.htm
Newsletter and else Mailings
As my news report has grown, I've tried various route of managing my mailing lists. I presently
use Press-Manager, and have found their service to be really easy to set-up and to use. It's a web based service, and all mailings are performed from their site. This means there's no computer code to be installed, I can manage my mailings from any PC and my ISP no longer bears the mailing load. http://www.workwinners.com/nlrpm.htm
Autoresponding
You may cognize that the use of autoresponders is one of the keys to marketing on the internet. I use Promasoft, and have found it can easily handle everything I want. http://www.workwinners.com/nlrpsoft.htm
I hope this glimpse into the systems and services I use has been helpful.
Good luck in your own net
business developments and in your eBay selling.
Just simply about THE AUTHOR
Brian McGregor specializes in showing website owners how to do more money from their sites by applying ingenious and innovational use of eBay. For a free copy of ‘The eBay Traffic Funnel’ which shows you how to use the power of eBay to do more money with your website, visit http://www.more-auction-sales.com/websites
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