List your item: ------------------

Develop an auction title with as much compelling information as possible, including a brand, size, color, and brief description. Write a description with a lot of detail, both to give potential buyers as much information as possible and to provide lots of keywords for searches. Include a good quality photograph of item so prospective buyers know what theyre getting.

Set yourself up for repeat sales: ------------------

Ship promptly, and leave feedback for your buyer as soon as they pay you. Then, set yourself up for repeat business by:

* Including a card in your package with a link to your web site, your ebay user name, or other information about you to help them reach you later and to understand at a glance what types of items you sell * Contacting buyer after they should have received your item to see if they are satisfied, and ask if they would like to be contacted when you list new items. Send out updates to all who agree when you do new listings.

Heres where to learn more: ------------------

Make Your Net Auctions Sell! is an excellent guide to everything about online auction selling. You can read more about it by visiting their web site at http://mynas.sitesell.com/ibb.html

You can receive a free 5-day email course called Net Auctions Masters by sending a blank email to mailto:tnamsibb@sitesell.net

New to auctions? Visit ebay at http://www.ebay.com and see what we're talking about! Do a search on anything you can think of, you will be amazed!

For example, here is one I use:

Carol Woods is editor of Work at Home Income, a weekly publication of Income Building Blocks. IBB offers free ideas, information and inspiration for moms who work at home - or want to! For lots of free ideas to help you find a work at home job or start a home based business, visit us at and sign up for Work at Home Income!

Market it: ------------------

There are 2 components to marketing your article.

First, post it to online directories that publishers use to locate articles they can print in their publications. The usual arrangement is that you post your article to a database, and publisher can then reprint your article as long as they include your resource box at bottom.

These are directories I use:

http://www.ezinearticles.com/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aabusiness (if your article is business-related) http://www.goarticles.com/ http://www.authorconnection.com/ http://www.ideamarketers.com http://makingprofit.com/mp/articles/submit.shtml

Second, if you have time - do a search for ezines which you think your target customers might read at cumuli, http://www.cumuli.com/ezines/

Once youve found some appropriate publications, send a copy of your article to publishers of those ezines to see if they would be interested in including it in their ezine or on their web site.

Here's where to learn more: ------------------

Netwriting Masters Course: A free 5-day email course. No matter what you sell on Net... If you want to sell more, write better! Just click and send a blank email to mailto:twmsibb@sitesell.net to receive course.

Information Masters Course: A free 5-day email course on writing and selling your own e-book! Just click and send a blank email to mailto:timsibb@sitesell.net to receive course.

Ezine Announcer has lots of good information on article marketing; visit them at http://www.income-building-blocks.com/MoreSubs.html