Automating Your Online Auction Business Automating Your Auction Site If you sell on auction sites, then you know how profitable a small auction business can be. If your products are selling like wildfire and you can't keep up with the demand of organizing your business, here are some tips. ... Blink, Wave, Scream-It's Auction Time Copyright (C) John Lundgren 2002- Permission is granted to reprint this article as long as the resource box is included. Please let me know when you use article by emailing me at: johnl42@yahoo.com ... Reasonably Priced Cars @ Online Car Auctions Reasonably Priced Cars @ Online Car Auctions By: Pradeep Aggarwal What! Waiting for your dream car to arrive? Yes? Don't know where to find it? well the simple answers to these questions is one - Go Online and find them at online auctions. The online ...
5 Reasons Why Playing Music On Your Auctions Is A Bummer Of An Idea
Using background music or sounds, unless you're selling music, is probably a bad idea. If you are going to include music or even an audio product pitch, you are wise to include a command panel that will allow the viewer to listen or not as she pleases. Do not! Do not! Do not! set up your auction listing so that a potential customer is greeted with loud music as soon as they click on your page. Here's why:
1. Potential buyers are there to see your Gucci handbag or Oakley sunglasses, not to be entertained. Making a buying decision is serious business and you to do not want to take their attention away from your merchandise. Instead, the entire focus of your page should be directed at whatever you are selling. Music is simply a distraction.
2. At this time, we cannot count on the quality of audio technology. Buyers have different browsers, different connections and possibly antiquated equipment. Even worse than unwanted music is unwanted music that sounds terrible, that is scratchy, too loud or of awful quality.
3. You will most likely not know what kind of music your perspective buyer wants to hear. If you are selling to teens you can be reasonably certain that they do not want to hear Big Band music. But can you know whether they prefer Eminem or Travis Twitt? Obviously not.
4. Consider the situation of your buyer. He might be prowling eBay while he is at work and is not supposed to be surfing the net. Sudden blaring music as the Vice-President of the company walks by is the last thing he wants. Or a Mom might have just gotten her colicky baby to sleep and when your music wakes up a cranky infant you can be certain you will never get a sale from that irate parent.
5. Audio files take longer to download than text. If your prospective customer has dialup instead of a high-speed connection, they will most likely be gone before your auction page has even loaded.
Ignore the temptation to make your auctions 'more exciting', and instead, concentrate every element on the page on your merchandise. The last thing you want to do is distract a serious buyer who might decide to purchase. Let them find their entertainment elsewhere!
About the Author Learn how to sell on eBay with 16 hours of online instruction taught by a 10 year eBay veteran. Own an eBay business instead of an eBay hobby. http://www.auction-genius-course.com
Extraordinary Art Auctions in Italy for Design, Modern and ... MarketWatch - 7 hours ago Pandolfini Auction House has organized at the new office in Milan (Italy) the auction sessions devoted to Design, Modern and Contemporary Art. MILAN, Italy, ...
Industrial Online Auction Company AssetNation, Inc. Formed MarketWatch - 5 hours ago AssetNation has created a global marketplace that assembles some of the strongest brands in the online auction community, which include SalvageSale, ...
Tepid jewelry auctions show wealthy holding back Reuters - 3 hours ago While one sapphire ring sold for a record $3.5 million, most of the eye candy languished on the auction block and items that did sell fetched prices 20 ...
Galleries wonder whether fair will draw collectors CNNMoney.com - 34 minutes ago Sluggish sales at recent auctions in New York may be a sign that the years where collectors paid exorbitant prices for high art are over. ...
