Here's What I Use to Help my eBay Selling

I get many requests about the systems I use inWebsite creation and maintenance
running my own eBay and internet business.Website design
To give you the answer in one place, here is theI use Macromedia's Dreamweaver to design
software which I use daily in my own business.websites, and indeed to create eBay auction
I should point out that much of my own activity isdescription pages. Dreamweaver is a premium web
now to do with selling digital information via eBay anddesign product, and unless you're going to do serious
from websites i.e. ebooks and software, which iswebsite design I wouldn't advise you to acquire it.
why some of the software programs I use areIt comes in boxed form, and Macromedia will channel
concerned with this activity.any UK purchasers to a UK based reseller. The
General productivitycheapest way in the UK is to get it from Amazon.
ShortkeysImage Manipulation & Optimising
This is lovely utility which saves me hours of timeI use Paint Shop Pro for picture manipulation and for
each week. It is perfect for those occasions whenoptimising. This is important for auction pictures, as
you are required to key in information to websites.eBay have a size limit of 50KB on any pictures which
For example, how often do you key in your nameyou want to upload to their Picture Service.
and address, or a username and password, or anThe authors, JASC, have just released Version 9 of
email address?this software. I find Version 8 is perfectly acceptable
With Shortkeys, you associate 3 or 4 uniquefor everything I want to do, and it's cheaper than
keystrokes with a string of frequently usedVersion 9.
information. Let's suppose I want to have a shortkeyYou can't now buy Version 8 from the author's USA
for my email address, and I set this as ##z1 insite, which is unfortunate as this was the cheapest
Shortkeys. Whenever I am required to key in myway of buying the product before Version 9 came
email address, in Outlook, on web forms, in Wordout.
documents etc, I just type in ##z1 and ShortkeysThe good news is that Version 8 is currently half
instantly replaces that with my email address.price at the author's UK site, as you can see here:
There is an uncharged version called Shortkeys LiteIt's available for trial at the UK site, and I recommend
which has a limit of 30 items. The full version ofyou test it to see if you can work with it.
Shortkeys allows you an unlimited number of items.Website upload
You can get it here:Cute FTP is probably the best known FTP software.
Download AcceleratorI have used it for several years and have been very
If you regularly download ebooks or software, and itsatisfied with the software.
seems to take forever, you will find DownloadWebsite hosting
Accelerator is a useful addition to your portfolio.ProWebSpace are excellent and reasonable web
Download Accelerator increases download speeds byhosts which I have now been using for over a year. I
up to 300%, regardless of the speed of yourtransferred to them from another host with whom I
internet connection. I don't know how it does it, but Iwas having lots of problems. Now, I have a better
guess 89 million users can't be wrong!service, and it's at one third the price! Of course, you
You can get Download Accelerator on 14 day testcan get web space for nothing from a variety of
here:ISPs. Take a look at
Ebook ProductionYou only need companies like ProWebSpace if you
Acrobat Adobeintend to "go commercial" in your internet activities. If
I create all my ebooks in pdf format as this file canyou do, it's important to have a paid service as this
be read by anyone with Acrobat Reader, and thisgives you the right to kick b**t if ever you
includes Mac users too. The way I create an ebook isexperience hosting problems. If you would like to
to write it in Microsoft Word first. Once I'm happyknow the hosting company who I moved from, email
that the Word version is exactly how I want it, I useme. If you think you need professional hosting, this is
an integrated converter which takes the Word filedefinitely where I would start.
and converts it automatically into a pdf file. ThisNewsletter and other Mailings
conversion preserves everything which appeared inAs my newsletter has grown, I've tried various ways
the Word document, including headers/footers, pageof managing my mailing lists. I currently use
numbers and web links.Press-Manager, and have found their service to be
You can read all about Adobe Acrobat here:very easy to set-up and to use. It's a web based
If you are considering developing your own ebooksservice, and all mailings are performed from their site.
using Acrobat, the most cost effective way ofThis means there's no software to be installed, I can
purchasing it is to buy online from Adobe's US site,manage my mailings from any PC and my ISP no
and select the download option. To buy thelonger bears the mailing load.
download version this is the place to start:Autoresponding
At 167 Mb, Acrobat is quite a large software product.You may know that the use of autoresponders is
If you would therefore prefer to buy the boxed CDone of the keys to marketing on the internet. I use
version, the cheapest way in the UK is to get it fromPromasoft, and have found it can easily handle
Amazon. Coverseverything I want.
It is a fact that showing your ebook in 3D form so itI hope this glimpse into the systems and services I
looks like a book really helps to boost sales. Compactuse has been helpful.
Draw is the software I use to create my ebookGood luck in your own internet business
covers. You can try it for 30 days here:developments and in your eBay selling.