AUTO GENERATED eBay LISTINGS from your WEBSITE Content : eBay Guides

An article to discuss how to raise and elevate your eBay image to reflect your professional status. How to save time by generating corporately branded eBay HTML automatically with unlimited photos and how to integrate eBay with a search engine optimised (SEO), content managed (CMS) website by using RapidSeller.

I have been for many years now a seller on eBay, managing to sell over £500,000 worth of products per year via eBay which has elevated me to Platinum PowerSeller status.

Throughout my eBay 'career' I have continued to maintain my own 'stand alone' website as I have many repeat clients who all know the web address, but as the eBay side of my business grew I found that I was spending longer and longer on 'professional' looking eBay listings to differentiate me from the non-specialist traders which left me less time to keep my 'main' website up to date. I was often giving existing clients eBay auction numbers to see my offerings as I had not had time to update my own site. The obvious solution to me was to find a system where I could enter the item for sale once, (in plain English), and it would update my website and also build my eBay auctions - easy, or so I thought....

Far too much money later, the first incarnation of RapidSeller, (though at that time it did not have a name), was ready for use, which saved me an incredible amount of time. Prior to RapidSeller my whole Sunday used to be given over to the creation of eBay ads, spending hours uploading photos, (I am sure I don't need to tell you, if you sell a lot on eBay you will know all the issues!). Once I started using RapidSeller I was spending less than an hour doing the same listings!

Other eBayer’s started to approach me to find out where they could buy this software - which they could not as it had been created in such a way which made changing and altering anything other than listings very difficult unless it was completely re-written and recoded from scratch.

I discussed this with the software developers, Evesham Solutions, and we decided to form a joint venture company to build and offer for sale RapidSeller V2.0. We spent a further 12 months designing, building and testing it in real life situations until it was fully ready. RapidSeller V2.0 was officially launched on 1st August 2009 as a total solution for shops and for professional eBayers. It is not a solution for everybody but for those sellers who really want to maximise their on-line sales and stand out from the crowd it is an exceptional product which runs on your PC in Windows and is not web-browser based.

The RapidSeller suite of software includes:

RapidBuilder - Content Managed Database - enter the description of your product in plain English, the system turns it into HTML (the language of the web), totally automatically.

RapidPhoto - Image handling programme which takes your photos and inserts them into the RapidBuilder Database - automatically resizing them to suit both your website and eBay auctions. RapidPhoto also integrates with Google’s Picasa so images can be edited easily and quickly. As RapidPhoto works locally there is no waiting for uploads to the internet, all of this happens automatically in the background!

RapidWebsite - A fully Search Engine Optimised dotNET Website - built from the ground up to be very 'Google friendly' using properly name static URLs, quite simply this will get your site found towards the top of all search engines. RapidWebsites are not 'templates', they can be designed to suit your on-line brand image, integrate with eBay by having direct hyperlinks to your eBay auctions and also have a definable 'finder' which has two purposes. The first - so your customers can quickly find what they are searching for, and the second is that it generates many HTML pages for each item for sale increasing your online presence and ranking with search engines.

RapidSeller - Our unique eBay Listing Generator which takes all of the descriptive information that you typed into RapidBuilder, all of the images you edited with Picasa and added to RapidPhoto, your pre-set standard information and your corporate branding and creates stunning professional eBay HTML listings - in seconds!

So, there is now a solution out there for all of you eBayers who find they have no time. Have a look at the 2 minute video on our eBay RapidSeller listing by looking at our items for sale.

Perhaps RapidSeller can help you save time whilst increasing your sales.