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Four basic E-bay tools for newbie dropshippers

Posted on October 26th, 2011. Written by Susan Turner.

The ease of conducting business from home, high returns and the requirement of no stock in hand are the main attractions of dropshipping business. These attractions are drawing more and more people towards this business. E-bay is an excellent platform for the dropshippers to generate a regular full time income from their dropshipping business.

Many newbie dropshippers know the benefits of trading through E-bay but they still stay away from it because they consider it a difficult task. This is true to some extent! In order to eliminate the fear of newbie dropshippers or other wholesale traders and help them in every step of success, E-bay provides some free tools. Not only E-bay some other third party applications that cost little are also there for the dropshippers to make most out of E-bay.

There are innumerable tools to open and set up an E-bay store and run it successfully. Among them, the four basic tools that every dropshipper must know include:

Turbo Lister:

Turbo Lister is an excellent free listing tool that allows you to create and upload thousands of the items in bulk on E-bay. E-bay introduces the new version of this tool from time to time for the sake of improvement in speed, editing capability and reliability. This tool allows you to design eye catching and professional looking listings, edit them and manage them in bulk. With this tool, you can customize the columns and remove easily fields that you do not use.

E-bay pulse:

Newbie dropshippers use E-bay Pulse to know which products they should deal in, what is in fashion. It shows which products are top selling items these days and who are the biggest suppliers and dropshippers in the category who are trading through E-bay. E-Bay Pulse discloses top ten searches, which people make in all the sub categories and further categories of the products. This tool gives a proper direction to the dropshippers to select right products to deal in.

Tera Peak:

It is the most widely used tool that produces data on top selling products on E-bay, E-bay sales, and the traffic on E-bay for specific periods. Tera Peak is not a free tool; you have to invest a little to have an access on its data. This tool can even provide data for the whole year, which allows you to forecast future buying trends of your target market. It is the most intuitive and easy tool that helps you to run a better business by giving insights on what is selling on E-bay and how much.

Bulk Relister:

Turbo Lister is somehow a complex tool and if dropshippers do not want to waste time with its complexities, Bulk Relister is a better option. It allows you to edit listings in bulk easily at a time. If you want only few listings to be reviewed, it does exactly what it says on the tin. It saves your time because it allows editing and revision in a quick and efficient way. This tool is also not free of cost but the little money spent on it is worth the investment.